Small Business Server 2008 April 20, 2009
Posted by Brian Coventry in Infrastructure.add a comment
Small Business Server 2008 (SBS) is rightfully a great choice for many smaller accounting firms. SBS Premium Edition is all you need for a Practice IQ installation as it includes SQL Server Standard Edition. It also includes a 2nd Windows license to set up a “Line of Business” server to keep your business specific apps separate to the generic office/email apps running on the primary server.
After a couple of PracticeIQ installs on SBS we’ve encountered a few issues that have lead to the following recommendations:
• SQL Server (Database and Analysis Services) should be installed on the Line of Business (2nd) server.
• PracticeIQ website should be installed on the Line of Business (2nd) server.
Following these recommendations results in avoiding global IIS changes on the primary server and also results in a more performant system. It is possible to run PracticeIQ on the primary server but you need to make specific changes to IIS that affect all sites on the server. You can also run the database and analysis services on the primary server but Microsoft strongly recommends that you don’t.
Brian Coventry
