The easiest way to mess up an SBS installation is to launch into it without your network properly configured. A large poster guides you through the setup process, which is fairly painless if you know how your Internet connection and network are configured. SBS may be purchased on its own or preinstalled on servers from vendors such as Dell and HP. Anyone with a basic knowledge of servers can be up and running within a few hours of opening the box. During our tests, we discovered that SBS 2003 is not quite do-it-yourself simple, but it isn't all that difficult, either. The goal of Small Business Server 2003 is simple: to provide small businesses with the same technology employed by the big boys without requiring an IT army. But SBS is competitively priced, more tightly integrated, and offers more out of the box. If all you need are simple mail, print, and file services, you can also find competing solutions for Linux and the Mac OS. For a little more, you get better security and the ability to run line-of-business applications on SQL Server 2000.
The package, which costs about $100 per desktop, includes e-mail and collaboration services, Internet access with firewall, Web and intranet servers, protected data storage, and printing and faxing. Microsoft's Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 is the company's attempt to make its server software both attractive and accessible to small businesses with little IT support.
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