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Small Business Server 2003 and Windows XP Pro
1/10/05
I've just installed new server (DELL Poweredge 2600 with dual 3 Ghz processors, 2 MB memory and dual 15 k SCSI hard drives arrayed as RAID 1) on my network. The server is running Small Business Server 2003 Standard Edition with SP2 and my business program runs on SQL 2000 SP3a (with various SQL optimizations suggested by my business software company).
I also installed 5 new Windows XP Pro workstations with DELL Dimension 4700 machines at 3 GHz, 512 k Ram. I kept 2 'legacy' machines that were considerably slower but ran Windows 2000 Pro.
The legacy Win 2000 Pro machines are very quick and have given me no problems. The 'high power' XP Pro machines are struggling.
It should be noted that with the 'old server' the new and old clients were not perceptibly different. Now the new machines are much slower and the old machines much faster with the new server.
I've tinkered with the system and suspect it's related to securities or firewall issues as the Win 2000 Pro machines don't have some of the securities tabs that XP Pro does (just my uneducated guess so it's FWIW).
I know that I noticed a similar problem when I upgraded a client machine to Win XP Home. Was told (by my business software company) that the problem would be solved if I upgraded to XP Pro. Just migrated back to 2000 Pro and forgot about it until recent problems.
BTW, my business software vendor has not seen this problem before--again, SQL based software so I would think there would be others whe MIGHT have experienced similar slowdowns even though not using my particular software.
Thanks,
David Stricklin
