Introducing the Windows Essential Server Solutions Family of Products

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The Essential Business Server Team Blog — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:18:52 GMT

Windows Essential Business Server is a new product and information is just becoming available. Many people

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Brian — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:19:51 GMT

Tom, It looks like EBS 2008 and SBS 2008 are separate products, and SBS 2008 has no mention of ISA. By the comments and lack of reply, there is no one from MS monitoring this to answer the question either.

Lack of ISA destroys the viability of SBS for my customers, and EBS's iron requirments (3 server minimum) and cost are not viable either to truly small business customers.

SBS Premium was VERY easy to sell as included ISA provided a high quality firewall for a reasonable "upgrade" or "premium" cost. While there appears to be some nice improvements to SBS with regard to business wide backup and native 64 bit capability, the lack of ISA is a deal killer.

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Bob's Nieuws — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:43:40 GMT

Bron: webwereld.nl Microsoft heeft afgelopen week een vijandig bod uitgebracht op de aandelen van Yahoo

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Tom — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:19:04 GMT

Why is everyone asking about ISA?

Windows Essential Business Server 2008 is built upon Windows Server 2008 and includes:

Exchange Server 2007

Forefront Security for Exchange Server

System Center Essentials 2007

Next version of Internet Security and Acceleration Server

It is part of SBS 2008. It's the part that says "Next version of Internet Security and Acceleration Server"

Premium will only add SQL 2008, but it is on a separate server so you also get Windows Server 2008 to run SQL on.

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Exchange — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:10:27 GMT

Does the exchange in SBS support UM unified messaging.

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Randy S — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:31:26 GMT

What about those that need to upgrade now, or need a new installation now? Will there be any sort of "Buy it now, get SA (for free) and upgrade when the new version comes out" deal available?

I certainly hope so....

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Stefano Colasanti — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:20:08 GMT

What is going to happen to company whch bought SBS 2003 Premium Edition with SA? I understand that we will get SBS 2008 Premium Edition but between the loss of ISA and the elapsed time between the release of SBS 2003 and SBS 2008 made our choice to invest in SA a bad and costly investmment. Any idea if and when a public Beta will be available? I have already allocated the fionancial resources to buy a new server but being able to test SBS 2008 would b very helpful.

TIA

Stefano

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Phil — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:50:08 GMT

can you migrate from SBS 2003 P to Windows Essential Business Server . If so, I wonder the head aches involved? Can Windows Essential Business Server sit on the edge of the network with two NICs since it has ISA simimlar to what SBS 2003 P does now.

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Gwen Zierdt — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:31:29 GMT

Microsoft has announced the Essentials 2007 will not be part of Cougar (SBS 2008) http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/gzierdt/archive/2008/02/21/essentials-2007-no-longer-part-of-cougar-release.aspx

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Jeff Dempsey — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:36:33 GMT

32 or 64 bit?: It is 64 bit only. Exchange 2007 requires 64 bits.

SBS Premium 2003 -> 2008 From what I heard, if you have SA, then you get the ISA as well

Upgrade? There is not (nor has there ever been) an in-place upgrade from 32 bit to 64 bit operating systems. You can't do it with XP32->XP64 or Vista32->Vista64, nor can you with Server32. There is a migration path, however.

50 or 75? SBS will support 75 users, but once you have 50, it is time to look at WEBS. Think of it as a way to upsell. If you have a client with 45 users, and they are planning to grow, go with WEBS. If you have a client with 30 users and the growth curve is flatter, go with SBS, knowing that when they get to 60+ users, they need to start looking at WEBS.