I'm working on all this. Partitioning an E drive on the SSD that is only 256G to start with might not get me much. It may be time to get my IT guy involved.
Bert: Medware has changed in the last year or two --- whenever they got bought out by Sage. It isn't the same program, and it doesn't just run on anything anymore. Plus, the "help" person said it "hasn't been tested on SBS Essentials, and we won't help you with it." If I sign in as a standard user (no Admin privileges) it won't run.
I am still figuring out a lot of this AC program -- but a separate hard drive in the main server box for backup makes sense, because most of the time the only thing that will fry is the main drive. The backup should remain intact, barring fire, theft, malicious intrusion, etc. Of course, I always use some external backup as well. The thing about AC's backup program is that it doesn't overwrite the previous backup -- it just adds it to the previous backups, and at 3GB a pop, it fills up a drive pretty fast. I frequently have to go in and manually delete a lot of old backups.
Bert and Sandeep: Seems to me that SBS Essentials is a completely different program from Small Business Server -- it really seems to run like Win 7. (Without FreeCell)
