Trying to improve perfomance of a SBS 2008 Server

My customer has a 2008 Small Biz Server running on an HP Proliant ML 310. This system is somewhere between 4 and 5 years old. The problem is that we have maxed out the physical RAM at 8 GB. When I originally specced out this system, I though that would be
plenty, but time has proved me wrong.
The amount of free memory on the server is often at very close to 0. The MS Exchange store takes a huge amount of RAM. I know that it is designed to do that, but it would be nice if it would leave a little more for other processes.
When I am sitting at the server console doing any kind of work, the performance is very slow. This afternoon, I was trying to install a 2nd backup drive and test it and next thing I know the server console had completely locked down. I could not log off or
even access the task manager to kill whatever offending task was causing the problem. Client PCs could not access shared files or email. Finally, after waiting about 30 minutes, I reluctantly powered the system down. Fortunately, it came back OK.
A couple of weeks ago, I had to do a normal re-boot and it took close to an hour. About 20 minutes to shut down and 30 to come back up.
I have tried to convince the owners of this firm that a new server would be a great thing, but they simply refuse to spend the money. Is there anything I can do to improve this server's performance with its existing hardware? Maybe some services that don't
need to be running that are? I don't have that much running at startup - just McAfee antivirus and an on-line backup program.
Thanks,
Mike

It is normal for exchange to grab RAM and free RAM on a server is wasted RAM but I understand your issue, especially when you are trying to do some tasks on the server. Any chance a BIOS upgrade or something will let the server support more than 8GB
of RAM?
If not, try throttling exchange a bit (not too much):
http://www.bursky.net/index.php/2012/05/limit-exchange-2010-memory-use/ (this works for exchange 2007 but note that page size difference in the calculations)
You can also throttle the SQL databases used for Wsus, Monitoring/Health and Companyweb in the SQL manager. Best to experiment a bit depending upon how much they are used by your users and how much RAM they use (check task manager).
-- Al

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Good Morning,
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Hi,
Based on your description, it seems that you are in a migration process (migrate SBS 2008 to Windows Server
2008 R2). Now, you want to remove Exchange Server and demote server. If anything I misunderstand, please don’t hesitate to let me know.
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I have found myself is a fairly irritating position.
My SBS 2008 server has failed and causing me a whole lot of pain in the process.
There was a fairly comprehensive backup plan in place, Acronis image (Daily), Windows image (Daily) and Bexec.
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Post relates to: Treo 755p (Sprint)

Oh, good. You're almost there then. Does this problem affect other handhelds too? Palm/Versamail or WinMo? If you need additional testers, I can simulate one and connect with a test account.
Is the problem still occurring after a hard reset too? Is it limited to EAS when set to "as items arrive" or does it hang no matter what time increment is chosen?
Was the Sprint Treo 755p 1.07 update already applied?
Once EAS is connected to a good Exchange server, it usually works well. For kicks, did you delete and recreate the ActiveSync virtual folder on the server? Are there any hints to the hanging/freezing in the IIS logs?
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Post relates to: Centro (Sprint)
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I'm having a nightmare trying to connect my Mac Mail to our mail server. We just got a brand new SBS 2008 server put in our office, but my Mac Mail doesn't want to connect.
Every time I try, it does show the Certificate, and when I click accept it trys to connect and gives this eror:
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Obviously the myserver bit isn't the actual server, I just don't want to tell the world our server name.
The server has the required update, it actually has Update Rollup 10 installed as of today.
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I think any poster who replys to their own post with something like, "Actually nevermind, I got it working." and leaves it at that despite requests for help, should be banned from ever posting on or visiting any forum on the internet for the rest of their life.
NoahG - you came here looking for answers, hoping and expecting the community to aid you, but can't be arsed to help out others once you found your own solution. You sir are a leach.

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I have an SBS 2008 server complete with Exchange 2007 in house and have configured Exchange 2007 to use the Exchange Online Protection (EOP) to process mail for malware, etc. This setup has worked great for the last year or so with no issues.
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Hi,
Any update? Would you please let us confirm some questions as Howtodo mentioned. Please feel free to let us
know.
Based on your description, it seems that only the copier can’t send documents via emails. On your SBS 2008
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