Migrating from Windows Small Business Server

So I finally made the jump to an intel based MAC a couple months ago and have loved every minute of it. I am now in a position to move our office to a completely MAC office but I had some questions first.
Currently we are running Windows Small Business Server and have 3 desktops in the office. The server is basically for file sharing. However all of us work from home as well and use Remote Desktop to get into our computers at work and work remotely from home. The main reason we need to dial into the office is to get to our Quickbooks accounting file and create invoices remotely.
My questions are:
1. If I were to go with and Apple server and Apple desktops is there a way for me to dial in remotely and access my computers at work similar to Remote Desktop?
2. Can both MACs and PCs dial in to the Apple Server?
3. Is anyone out there using a better solution to access a company Quickbooks file on the server? Our current setup is that we have to remote connect to a computer in the office that is networked to the server. Is there some sort of VPN solution that apple offers so the remote computers can dial directly into the server?
Your help is appreciated. I am really looking forward to making my office and all MAC office!
Mac Book Pro 17" Mac OS X (10.4.6) Intel Dual Core

OS X Server has a VPN server built-in, it's doing both PPTP and L2TP, it's compatible with both Mac and Windows clients IF you have the server connected to directly Internet using a public IP or use PPTP.
There is no "dial-in" support that let's you use POTS (standard telephone) modems built-in.
The Remote Desktop client in every OS X (Panther/Tiger) machine can accept remote control from a (free) VNC application (like Chicken Of the VNC - you connect through the VPN first).
But the fastest remote control setup (most responsive screen updates) would be controlling a Windows XP pro machine by using Microsofts Remote Desktop Client sw (free -or is it? You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/mac/) from either a Mac or another Windows XP client.

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OSX 10.9 compatibility with Windows Small Business Server 2011?

Hi
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It's really frustrating.
And I hope nobody does insist I use Windows... please... I'd have to leave....
EDIT - "We"?? - Do you work for them!?

Warning: Palm OS Treos and Windows Small Business Server 2008

If you use a Treo smartphone with the Palm operating system, beware: it does not work with Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008.
Palm acknowledges this failure and has no intention of fixing it.
There are at least two problems:
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Here's the transcript of my chat w/tech support. After this, I spent a few hours on the phone and got the same answers.
[12:35 AM] Gary says: Hello.
[12:35 AM] Handoff connection active (1/5140).
[12:35 AM] x says: Hi. Please see the question sent earlier.
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[12:37 AM] x says: Our Palms will not talk to Exchange Server 2007 unless all its security
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[12:38 AM] Gary says: Yes, that is true. I am sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused.
[12:38 AM] Gary says: I am very sorry to inform you that currently we do not have any information on this.
[12:39 AM] x says: Apology accepted and appreciated. But when will this be fixed?
[12:40 AM] Gary says: Unfortunately we do not have any sort of update on this. I suggest you to post the
feedback in the Palm Website.
[12:41 AM] x says: Okay, next question: Every AutoSync locks up the Palm, so we have to turn
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[12:42 AM] Gary says: I understand your concern. Is it happening with all the Palm devices?
[12:42 AM] x says: Yes.
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[12:43 AM] x says: No.
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[12:46 AM] x says: No
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[12:46 AM] Gary says: Am I correct?
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I suggest you to get in touch with the Voice Support and I am sure they will fix the issue.
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I will provide you a Service Request, when contacting the Voice Support, provide this Service Request Id and you will get a free Technical Support.
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[12:54 AM] Gary says: Thank you for providing all the information.I need 5 minutes to register the device and create a Service Request.
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How can I connect 10.4 Mac to Windows Small Business Server 2003?

I have seen some other discussions touching on this topic and have tried the various solutions but am getting nowhere. I can't connect my iBook, which is running Tiger, to our office's server, a Windows Small Business Server 2003. I am the only Mac user and as a Mac devotee actually spent my own hard cash for the iBook. (I work for a non-profit with low funds.) Previously, when our office had a different server and I had Panther, I could access the server. Then it was purely an academic exercise, since I had no need to access the shared files. Now I have a project that requires this, and I am stumped. Our part-time IT consultant is also stumped. We have tried a lot of the suggestions from other posts, to no avail. I suggested to the IT guy that there could be a problem regarding the encryption of my password, and I think he tried that. We have tried various versions of the domain name. The server comes up in the list when I follow the "go--connect to server--browse" path, but we come up empty. We've gotten error message -36, a message that we are trying to connect an alias to something that can't be found, and a message that we don't have enough information to go any further (something like that). I am writing from my eMac at home, so I can't reconstruct the situation right now. I have found in my extensive internet search that Thursby has something called ADmitMac that is pretty expensive software ($119 for one person) that I could install on the iBook and could help me access the Windows Small Business Server 2003 without doing anything else to the server. Does anyone know if that would that work? Any suggestions would be so appreciated!
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Connecting to Windows Small Business Server

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Hi:
Read the warning at the end of this and be sure you follow it.
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Larry Struckmeyer[SBS-MVP] If your question is answered, please mark the response as the answer so that others can benefit.

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Post Author: craig.engelbrecht
CA Forum: .NET
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Ran into an issue on the server after the power loss.
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