Windows Server on Desktop Hardware?

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Re: Windows Server on Desktop Hardware?

Postposted on Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:24 pm

spitfire650 wrote:For Quickbooks, you don't actually need to install the full-blown software package on the server - there's a small app you can install from the CD that'll just share the directory with the database, and make sure multiple people can open it at the same time.

And yeah, SBS 2011 Essentials is a good place to look, for a place that small.

Correct, QB installs a QuickBooksDB## service to facilitate multi user mode. For whatever reason though, back in the day, this wasn't a supported install on a SBS box. Kind of odd considering it was just a service.
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Re: Windows Server on Desktop Hardware?

Postposted on Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:57 pm

SBS on Desktop hardware? horrible idea. end of subject. SBS is a system hog on any single CPU server and you want to put it on desktop hardware? Really bad idea.
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