08 August 2008
Affordable, Integrated Solution
Windows Small Business Server 2008 is designed for small businesses. It is designed to work with existing technology, build on Microsoft best practices, and delivers a comprehensive network at an affordable price.
Have virtually anytime, anywhere access to your business desktop; including e-mail, files, business applications, and more.
Share resources and equipment, such as Internet access, printers, and fax machines, to get the most value from your technology investments.
Enjoy compatibility and scalability. As your business needs to change, Windows Small Business Server 2008 can change with you--easily add users, servers and applications, or expand into other Microsoft technologies.
Work more efficiently and add more value to your business with an integrated administrative console.
Work confidently with a top performing network based on Windows Server 2008 technologies.
Windows Small Business Server 2008 Premium Edition becomes a second server solution. Standard Edition will run on one hardware server and Premium Edition will run on two hardware servers, with the second server running Windows Server and SQL Server for Line of Business applications.
Windows Small Business Server 2008 will include individual Client Access Licenses (CALs) for Standard and Premium Editions vs. a common CAL for both.
Windows Small Business Server 2008 will include the option to purchase a single CAL (in addition to 5/10/20 CAL Packs) in all channels.
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Protect Your Business Data
Windows Small Business Server 2008 helps protect your vital business information from loss, by automatically backing up the computers and servers in your network and helping enable you to recover accidentally deleted files.
Use anti-virus and anti-spam protection to help protect your information from malicious attacks, viruses, and spam.
Keep your computers and servers current and your network healthy and up to date with the latest updates.
Get better control over your business and business information with daily and weekly reports alerting you on the health and security of your technology. A single administrative console gives you or your IT consultant a daily view of PCs and servers and makes it easier to manage common IT tasks.
Get an at-a-glance snapshot of the security and health of your PCs and servers from a 'green check' report.
See and try for yourself
Now, Microsoft has put up Release Candidate 1 downloads of both on the Microsoft Download Center: Windows SBS 2008 RC1 (19.9GB) and Windows EBS 2008 RC1 (11.1GB). Registration is still required to test the preview versions of both operating systems.
Both business products are still expected to be released on November 12, 2008, leaving plenty of time for an RC2, or even an RC3 release. At launch, software development kits and other resources will be available to software vendors via sources like MSDN, and of course products and software currently compatible with Server 2008 should work just fine with Windows SBS 2008 and Windows ESB 2008.
Because the small and midsize business market is so large and is also growing steadily, Microsoft is putting a lot work into the launch of these two products; in the next year alone, the software giant plans to train more than 25,000 partners in them through events and online tools.