sbs 2003

[burnside]

hi,

have looked for the answer to this but cant find a definative answer.
we are looking at hosting our own email.
we have 150 mailboxes.
if i went the small business server 2003 route how many mailboxes can sbs support or would i need the proper version of exchange?
i understand that sbs comes with 5 cals - the more i buy the more people can get their email at the same time?

 

[burnside]

....i have been told by one person the max individual mailboxes you can create is 75?
someone else said that is not the case.

please help - im going mad

 

[people3]

HI Burnside

From what i have read there is a 75 user limit in SBS 2003, This appears to be limited by the number of CALS that can be installed on the server.

SBS does come with 5 Cals but you can by 25 Cal Versions which can work out cheeper in the long term.


Hope this helps

 

[burnside]

thanks v much,

the whole reason to host our own email is to stop
porn being sent attached to the messages
but i dont think this is possible without disrupting
users general work.

nb. also shared calendars would be useful

 

[people3]

Depending how you send a recive email at moment a good program is VPOP3.

This will collect mail from a pop source or smtp and can filter SPAM or attachments eg MPEG or Jpegs.

You can also download a trial version.

This would mean VPOP3 downloads all the mail, and the client PC collect the mail from

 

[burnside]

just to confirm - if i have 150 individual mailboxes i would need 150 CAL licences
there is no way to do this with SBS i would need full version of exchange.
even using OWA?

 

[dkediger]

When you say "mailbox," do you actually mean "mail address" or "mail profile"?

Actually, you can create as many users/mail profiles in SBS as you can with regular Windows Server/Exchange. You just can't have more than 75 users connected at the same time.

If you mean "mail address," as in joe.blow@domain.com, you can assign many different addresses to a user's mail profile - you could also have:
[ul]
[li]jblow@domain.com[/li]
[li]joeb@domain.com[/li]
[li]support@domain.com[/li]
[li]luser@domain.com[/li]
[/ul]
All tied to Joe Blow's AD account/Mail Profile and not requiring any additional CAL beyond his network signon.

 

[burnside]

i have 150 people each with there own jblow@domain.com
account.
to start off i just want each person to use OWA to get there mail.
so if i only have the 5 cals that come with sbs will only 5 people be able to logon to OWA at a time.
they would then have to close there OWA page to let other people look at their mail?

i will be setting this server as a domain controller
but wont be getting people to logon to domain yet.
i understand that for each person on domain will need a cal.

 

[dkediger]

With that many unique users, you need Standard Windows Server and Exchange. OWA access counts the same as logging in to a locally attached workstation.

Even if you never had more than 75 connecting at any one time, Microsoft's licensing states that a user CAL is per named user and can't be permanently re-assigned unless that user is no longer with your organization.

If you've already purchased your SBS, I would look into exchanging/returning if possible or purchasing the SBS Transition Packs which will convert your SBS to standard Server/Exchange.