We currently have a single sbs2003 server. Can i install another server with 2000 or 2003 and set it up as a terminal server. The only reason I ask, I remember reading some time ago that sbs was designed to run as a single box solution.
Yes, you can install another Windows Server in the SBS domain and run Terminal Services on it in Application mode. You can't turn on Application mode on the SBS server itself, so adding another server is the way to do it. I would just avoid making that second server a DC, for security reasons.
A dual-core and a couple gig of RAM would be plenty.
I actually ran a Windows 2000 server with 700mb of RAM on an 800mHz proc for a couple of years with five users running Office and a couple of other apps and had no performance complaints.
If you watch the performance graphs on a normal user workstation, you will notice that they barely utilize the hardware in front of them.
Doing RDP connections directly to an SBS server for the users to do work is a security risk, and is the reason why you can't install Terminal Services on SBS 2003.
It's also a resource hog.
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You also can't install Outlook easily on an Exchange server without breaking it. If you want to run Terminal Server on your SBS box, you can always install VMWARE on your SBS box and run Windows 2003 Standard on it, set up for Application Terminal Services. But since there is already some freed-up hardware available, it would be better to just use that.
If they don't, then you could also deploy a terminal server for just a few users right on the same machine as your SBS using Virtual Server 2005. This may prove to be more cost effective by just increasing the capacity of that machine instead of getting a new one. See
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