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Coexistence with SBS 2011 Essentials? Connector?

We have an office network with Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and are running out of storage space. I am considering adding a DX4000. 

Does anyone have experience with adding a DX4000 to a network with SBS Essentials running as the Domain Controller?

In particular, I am wondering about the software connector. SBS 2011 already required all clients to install a connector. Right now clients are backed up by that server. Does the DX4000 connector, which looks quite similar, replace the previous connector or does it augment it? Which should users install? 

Also, should I point remote web access users to the SBS or to the DX4000?

Are there any other potential complexities to be aware of?

Thanks.

I did, I only installed the software in one computer and added the drive as a network storage, was able to backup all the computers in the domain.

It is the same connector.

I have not encounter any issue, so far.

 The special thing about the Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials software is that you can add the DX4000 to a domain, I have this running on a server 2003 domain. You can not add users from the DX4000’s Dashboard, it gets populated with the users from the domain for a maximum of 25 users. Then you can give those users permissions to the shares.

Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials also contains the Silverlight Media Web stuff that a SBS-E 2011 does not. So if you use the DX4000 Remote Access Web Page, you will have that.

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