Ask Slashdot: Uses For a Small Office Server?

Posted by timothy on Friday June 3, 2011 @12:32PM from the networked-games-obvious-choice dept.

ragnvaldr writes "I'm the 'IT guy' for an office of about a dozen people. And when I say IT guy, I mean I'm the only one here who can use google well enough to figure out how to make things work. We have a 500GB Mac server with a Drobo with 6TB of storage attached. So far all this server does is back up data, and I want to make it a little more useful. We also have a Filemaker server on it, which I have yet to learn how to use at all, let alone efficiently. Any suggestions to make this machine a little more useful?"

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Please Mod This Up by causality · 2011-06-03 15:38 · Score: 4, Interesting

It's rare to see such a combination of technical experience, and familiarity with the realities of implementing a solution in a small business environment.
Usually you can only get one or the other from any particular individual. This is solid advice and a good starting point. It should be modded up.

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