Faxing with Win2003 Server

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John Wright

I have to develop a program that will send faxes, a lot of faxes (up to 300
per day). We are currently using a faxing device from another company that
has four lines and is very old. Will the fax server in Windows 2003 server
handle multiple fax devices? We are looking at the brooktrout card to send
faxes as well. Does anyone have experience with this card? The other
option is to buy 4 fax cards and put them in the server. Any suggestions
would be great.

John
 
Hello John:
You wrote in conference microsoft.public.win2000.fax on Thu, 8 Jul 2004
15:51:38 -0600:

JW> I have to develop a program that will send faxes, a lot of faxes (up to
JW> 300 per day). We are currently using a faxing device from another
JW> company that has four lines and is very old. Will the fax server in
JW> Windows 2003 server handle multiple fax devices? We are looking at the
JW> brooktrout card to send faxes as well. Does anyone have experience
JW> with this card? The other option is to buy 4 fax cards and put them in
JW> the server. Any suggestions would be great.

why not winfax?

I was just trying various solutions for faxing. Tried GFI Faxmaker, and
GSFax - each cost hundreds of dollars. Neither was able to send the fax with
ECM or anything higher than MH compression; so faxing one text page took
about 40-50 seconds after handshaking. Winfax on the same cheap modem sent
with ECM and MMR, transmission took 5-10 seconds. I tried two different
modems with the same result. You can buy several modems $10 each, plus
winfax for under $100, and it will work better than these megabucks
solutions.

Vadim
 
Because according to the Winfax website Winfax pro only supports up to two
devices. I need at least four devices.
 
Windows Server 2003, Server & Embedded SKUs support up to 4 fax devices. The
Enterprise & Data Center versions have no limit on the number of devices. I
think Brooktrout cards should behave well with Windows Fax though I don't
have any experience as such.

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