TS Server Usage

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I'm just about to dip my toe into Terminal Services for the first time and
have got just a couple of basic questions.

I've got a spare Dell Poweredge 700 (2.8ghz & 2Gb ram) running Windows
Server 2003 R2 and I was wondering:

a) if this would be a suitable box to become a Terminal Server?
b) how many clients could it reasonably be expected to handle?

In the main, the box will be used by a remote office for Outlook and an SQL
client application (the application itself is on another box). It will be a
member server of a 7 user SBS 2003 network.

Waggers
 
Re: TS Server Usage

Waggers wrote:
> I'm just about to dip my toe into Terminal Services for the first time and
> have got just a couple of basic questions.
>
> I've got a spare Dell Poweredge 700 (2.8ghz & 2Gb ram) running Windows
> Server 2003 R2 and I was wondering:
>
> a) if this would be a suitable box to become a Terminal Server?
This seems suitable enough.

> b) how many clients could it reasonably be expected to handle?
About 25-30 low-usage users and about 15-20 high usage users. For the
high usage users, I would plop another 2Gb RAM in there.

I had a HP TC4100 PIII 1.4Ghz & 4Gb RAM hosting 20 medium-high usage
users. Worked out OK. Sometimes it would drag at peak usage but nothing
that the users could would complain about.

>
> In the main, the box will be used by a remote office for Outlook and an SQL
> client application (the application itself is on another box). It will be a
> member server of a 7 user SBS 2003 network.

Server seems just fine for this type of network.

moncho
 
Re: TS Server Usage

Many thanks indeed Moncho


"moncho" <moncho@NOspmanywhere.com> wrote in message
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> Waggers wrote:
>> I'm just about to dip my toe into Terminal Services for the first time
>> and have got just a couple of basic questions.
>>
>> I've got a spare Dell Poweredge 700 (2.8ghz & 2Gb ram) running Windows
>> Server 2003 R2 and I was wondering:
>>
>> a) if this would be a suitable box to become a Terminal Server?
> This seems suitable enough.
>
>> b) how many clients could it reasonably be expected to handle?
> About 25-30 low-usage users and about 15-20 high usage users. For the
> high usage users, I would plop another 2Gb RAM in there.
>
> I had a HP TC4100 PIII 1.4Ghz & 4Gb RAM hosting 20 medium-high usage
> users. Worked out OK. Sometimes it would drag at peak usage but nothing
> that the users could would complain about.
>
>>
>> In the main, the box will be used by a remote office for Outlook and an
>> SQL client application (the application itself is on another box). It
>> will be a member server of a 7 user SBS 2003 network.
>
> Server seems just fine for this type of network.
>
> moncho
>
 
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