rethinking the need for server smb

tdiddy

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I had gotten help here a few months ago and was nearly ready to implement a small server.

I'm starting a small medical clinic (two physicians, 3 exam rooms, one shared office and receptionist. Our EMR Is cloud based, and we are on office 365. Nothing of importance will be stored locally. My partner and I are now thinking of using a few mobile devices (ie 2 surface pro 3) + the receptionists PC instead of desktops in each room. There may be one more PC as a kiosk that doesn’t need any network resources.


We were thinking a scanner hooked up to receptionists PC and a couple of networked printers that probably doesn’t need a print server.

In Canada there is no explicit law enforcing domain networks (no Hippa). Obviously I'd like a secure system but for 3 PCs do I really need a domain network? It's not so much the upfront costs it's the ongoing IT/support and one more thing that could break/ cripple the setup which we may not need.

Thoughts? Appreciate the help!






















 
Solution
You dont really have the need for a domain server. If you had many employees and needed to regulate their privleges and perform tasks on the server to filter down to the other PCs then a domain server would make sense.

If the Recpetionist is the only windows PC in the building I would just put another hard drive in it to have it backup to, and set up a share drive if you have any files that you want to share locally on the network.

Make sure that any financial software or any templates, forms, and business douments are backed up to the cloud or a seperate hard drive and you should be good to go.
You dont really have the need for a domain server. If you had many employees and needed to regulate their privleges and perform tasks on the server to filter down to the other PCs then a domain server would make sense.

If the Recpetionist is the only windows PC in the building I would just put another hard drive in it to have it backup to, and set up a share drive if you have any files that you want to share locally on the network.

Make sure that any financial software or any templates, forms, and business douments are backed up to the cloud or a seperate hard drive and you should be good to go.
 
Solution
No problem, if you need any backup solutions, what I use for my small business clients is syncback (they have a free but SE is worth the $35 because of saving previous versions and encryption capabilities) to do incrimental file backups and then use macrium free to do complete hard drive backups. With these two working together, if a windows crash or hard drive failure occus, a computer can go be up and running to where it was at a day ago in about 45min to an hour.