Adding or replacing a server in a Small business server enviroment.

Can you add or replace servers in a Windows Small business server environment. Can we add a windows standard server to the network? It will just be hosting files, it does not need to be the operations master or anything like that. A member of the forest would be fine. I was told you can not do this in windows SMB server. We want to add, or replace if possible a 2003 SMB server. Any ideas?

 

With early versions of SBS, one of the license limitation was that you could only have one server. If you wanted more servers you had to upgrade to "full" product.

However, this is no longer the case (and hasn't been for quite a few years). You can add a member server to an SBS managed network.

 

So a SMB server 2003 install from 2002 will be able to handle adding another SMB or standard member server?

 

It depends what you mean by an SMB server. If you mean a server using the Server Message Block protocol, then that is basically just a file server - something standard server 2003 does out of the box with the minimum of extra configuration. Adding a standard 2003 server to an SBS network should be fine.

What you would not be able to do is add another SBS server to an SBS network.

 

Yes i did mean a SBS not an SMB server. LOL oops.
Great. Thanks.