![]() SBS (All versions) was created for the small VAR's to sell in to SME's that Microsoft use as a vehicle to get as many people to consume their products as possible. The exchange and sharepoint integration is as delicate as a snowflake and if you mess with it, it will break. It really doesnt work with anything less that 8Gb of RAM, is a rats nest of components and if you try and do anything other than a default installation will bite you like a hungry shark. SBS2011 is a great product and works fine for me and all of the clients I have installed it for however. ![]() ![]() So what I really want to know is whether SBS 2008 R2 is as slow, bloated and unsupported as SBS 2011, or whether 2008 would be a better choice on a more modest machine? I could not get it to recognise my HP RDX drive, (and HP do not provide 2011 specific drivers), whilst Retrospect also failed to work properly. I had understood that anything which worked with 2008 R2 should also work with 2011, but this was not my experience. (I have to say, my converstation with the helpline person at Microsoft on this matter did nothing to endear me to the oganisation.) Is it possible to select which elements are installed at installation, as the problem with 2011 seemed to be that absolutely everything was installed and activated, whether we wanted it or not. Does anyone have experience of this on anything less than a megaserver? (We only have a 3.1 GHz quad core Xeon and 8 GB of RAM, which was clearly not enough for 2011.)įrom what I see it will run on 4 GB of RAM, rather than the 8GB minimum reccomended for 2011. I am therefore considering 2008 R2 SBS Standard (rather than 2011 SBS). (This is all despite the machine more than meeting Microsoft's reccomended specifications.) All in all I felt as if it had been written by the Vista team.Ī second installation was no better, so we have reverted to the 2008 R2 trial for now. Upload and download speeds were also much slower at about 20 MB/second over gigabit etehrnet, compared with around 80 MB/second on Server 2008 R2. ![]() However, we installed 2011 SBS Standard at the weekend, which reduced it to a crawl, and was very unstable, with individual windows flickering on and off for a minute or so after opening them, and sometimes just hanging altogether. ![]() I have been running a trial of 2008 R2 Standard (not SBS) for the past two weeks, and it has been flying along. Following on from another thread we recently replaced our old Dell PE 1600SC server with a new Fujitsu Tx100 S3 machine, which works very well. ![]()
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