It was a mistake to get Win7 home considering what you desire to do.
What level of network wiring do you have? Cat5e hopefully?
Here is what would be recommended;
Hire a network administrator to set this up.
2008 SBS which includes exchange for email [and calendars/etc]
New server hardware with mirrored hard drives and 4-6gigs ram
Tape backup unit attached to the server with enough tapes to do 5 day a week full backups for two weeks. One weeks worth would be stored off site for disaster recovery.
5 Win7 pro installs so you can join all pcs to the server domain.
Gigabit switch with a gigabit card in the server. Have to assume all the pcs have gig capable cards in them. Just comes down to if the wiring supports gig.
You would want to get a business domain name so your ISP could redirect email [mx record] to your email server. This way your email is [email protected]
All the rest concerning shares and folders would be setup by the admin you hire to set all of this up.
What level of network wiring do you have? Cat5e hopefully?
Here is what would be recommended;
Hire a network administrator to set this up.
2008 SBS which includes exchange for email [and calendars/etc]
New server hardware with mirrored hard drives and 4-6gigs ram
Tape backup unit attached to the server with enough tapes to do 5 day a week full backups for two weeks. One weeks worth would be stored off site for disaster recovery.
5 Win7 pro installs so you can join all pcs to the server domain.
Gigabit switch with a gigabit card in the server. Have to assume all the pcs have gig capable cards in them. Just comes down to if the wiring supports gig.
You would want to get a business domain name so your ISP could redirect email [mx record] to your email server. This way your email is [email protected]
All the rest concerning shares and folders would be setup by the admin you hire to set all of this up.