Help with Small Business Server 2003

[Bradmax57]

Currently our SBS server isnt Service packed, we asked the IT company we use about getting it done and they wanted something like £150 an hour for someone to come in and install the service pack, not having any experience with servers I am just presuming it would just be like service packing any os?

The only reason we want it doing is so I can run exchange mail on my desire.

They have said there are 2 difference service packs for sbs2003 and its vital that its the correct one needed, how would I go about finding out and are there any other details I need to know before I attempt to service pack it?

 

[Bradmax57]

some unexpected issue, server down for 2 weeks, engineer on site for 2 days, £1500 and no server for half a month... - is the other senario (all be it not likley)

which is the only bit im the slightest bit concerned with....

 

[Bradmax57]

IIRC there is a whole set of instructions that need to be followed to sp sbs. There are something like 5 updates of which the service pack is the last. Can take a couple of hours.

1. Service Pack 1 for the Windows Server® 2003 operating system
2. Windows SharePoint® Services 2.0 Service Pack 1
3. Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 1
4. Windows XP SP2 for Client Deployment
5. Windows Small Business Server 2003 SP1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...c0-b707-4161-adeb-44f1b756119f&displaylang=en

Important If you are running the Premium Edition of Windows SBS 2003, you can still download the Standard Edition of the service pack. However, you must also order the CD package to install the additional service packs necessary for the Premium Edition.

I believe that microsoft have developed a wrapper that will do the job for you but it's certainly not something you really want to do on a critical server without understanding the process.

150gbp seems a bit excessive - I would charge 75, but i would also have run through it on a test image first so I wasn't wasting clients 'on site' time.

Cheers for the advice