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I work in a small office with 6 PCs.

Each PC has office 2010 (no exchange) installed and share files from the main PC.

I am being tasked with improving the system.

Would anyone have any suggestions for this.

I am thinking about getting Office 365 but would it be easy to transfer the emails in the current Outlook accounts over?

Also would this give functionality like the files being on the cloud for everyone to share and simple things like out of office.

Another thing I was looking at was a server.
 
I would go for a server. Something like a Pentium, two 1TB HDDs in RAID and Windows Server 2012 (R2) loaded on which can be found for about £1000 for a copy. This might seem like a lot at first, but for what you get it's worth it if you can afford it

You get effectively a log on server, files synced on the server and such instead of being on the PCs themselves. Make sure everyything is gigabit LAN otherwise logging on takes ages (edit - actually, I'm not 100% sure if this helps with log on speeds :s ), perhaps 128GB SSDs for some of the systems (again if you can afford) and you'll be tickety boo :)
 
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thanks for the replies. All the PCs have Ssd drives, 8gb of ddr 3 and an i3 processor so they are decent for office and the net.

Can anyone spec a server for me.

would the server back up the files and emails also for each user.

Is exchange recommended also to have a shared calendar and out of office notifications.
 
Have you considered something like google apps sync instead? All e-mail addresses, contacts, calendar, tasks etc sync to Google and you can put it on mobile devices, PCs (Outlook) etc. You also get some google drive space.

The server would back up files, it may be possible to do emails also but I've no idea on that.
 
Go with O365, no need for a server if you don't have a domain onsite. Use the money to pay someone to set it all up for you :)

You just need a good internet connection.
 
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