So a quick background: I basically have a year experience in a casino enterprise environment as a IT support specialist and that was the majority of my learning besides a several month A+, Net+, MCITP course at local community college (got BA in Philosophy before deciding on IT as a career). I got laid off from the casino and got offered a job with my girlfriend's dad's Burger King franchise company as the sole IT person.
So, there are currently 7 stores that are managed. At the office there are only 4 pcs with Win7 Pro networked already as p2p from a 5 port Netgear switch with a copier/printer and me using my laptop through the wireless linksys router when I'm at the office. They have backup set up off-site through a local computer shop and they use one pc as the host for quickbooks. I am wondering what anyone would recommend as far as if a server is needed and what type. I'm thinking something that can host Quickbooks because that is hosted on one of the pcs currently. Also if I can replace the offsite backup with like Raid 1 on the server or if I should just use a little NAS? Or maybe does it sound like I should just keep it as is? I trying to be useful and if there is a better way this could be configured I'd like to work on it for them. I appreciate any feedback.