I have a situation with 4 Branch Offices and I home Office, where 3 of the branch offices and Home office have SBS 2003 std servers installed.  All is working fine and there are endpoint VPN's connecting the offices for some file sharing on NAS units.

 

The Sarbanes Oxley act will now come into play due to their growth bringing them into the email archiving requirements.

   1.   I need to bring the email inhouse on the Home office server and set up the 45 users with email boxes.

         a.   Do I need CALs for each email user?

         b.   Can I set up the Exchange server at a branch office as a backup email server?

 

   2.   What programs has anyone found to work well to meet the compliance regulations of SOX?

 

Thanks,

 

Greg

Hi Greg,

 

You can't connect several SBS servers to each other, as there can only be one SBS server in a domain. Every user or device (depending on the fact if you have User or Device CALs) that is authenticating to the SBS server, will need a CAL.