New and Enhanced Features in Windows SBS 2011 Standard

re: New and Enhanced Features in Windows SBS 2011 Standard

Lyle Epstein - Kortek Solutions — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 07:41:36 GMT

Hi Nathan. First it depends if you are running SBS 2003 or SBS 2008. If it is 2003, then chances are you have hardware that won't support 64 bit and 8GB of RAM, which in that case you would migrate to a new server with new hardware. If you are running SBS 2008 and it is not running as a VM, you would need to first convert the existing installed OS to a Virtual Machine. Once done, you can reformat the server and setup the converted Virtual Machine on top of the Hyper-Visor. Then you can create a second Virtual Machine running SBS 2011 and perform a migration. Once complete you can remove the old SBS 2008 Virtual Machine. One of the main reasons you can't do an inplace upgrade is Exchange does not support or allow this. You also can do a swing migration which would require a 3rd server (can be Virtual as well). A website that is well supported on this is at http://www.sbsmigration.com/ which is run by Jeff Middleton, SBS - MVP. If you have more questions on this you can visit my blog and send me a message blog.korteksolutions.com

re: New and Enhanced Features in Windows SBS 2011 Standard

Anna, CloudBerry Lab — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:17:26 GMT

If you want to protect your assets on SBS 2011 Essentials even further and back up your data to cloud storage powered by Windows Azure and Amazon S3, check out CloudBerry Backup add-on for SBS 2011 Essentials (code name Aurora). www.cloudberrylab.com/default.aspx . It is one time fee and the rest what you pay for Azure or Amazon S3. Besides, there is no proprietary data format and you can access your data using other Amazon s3 and Azure tools.

re: New and Enhanced Features in Windows SBS 2011 Standard

Tod K — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:53:47 GMT

Is there a resource available for how to migrate an existing server to SBS 2011, but on the same machine? The migration materials reference the source server and destination server, but what happens when an office wants to simply "upgrade" an existing server machine? I have seen a few web pages refer to using a virtual machine, but I'm not sure on how to go about doing that, and there doesn't seem to be much guidance to go that route.

re: New and Enhanced Features in Windows SBS 2011 Standard

Some SBS Guy — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:35:19 GMT

Great! Looking forward to upgrading!

re: New and Enhanced Features in Windows SBS 2011 Standard

Joseph — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 20:40:08 GMT

You mentioned it being available for purchase... but I can't find a place to buy it from. I'm getting ready to purchase an entire rack of servers that I would love to run SBS 2011 on. Thanks!

re: New and Enhanced Features in Windows SBS 2011 Standard

Just Another SBS Guy — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 03:35:25 GMT

Golly, the new features are pretty light on. Honestly, "Run compatible business software and applications" is a feature?

Updated versions of SharePoint and Exchange are good, but other than a rename of RWW and (the welcome) migration enhancement to the installer, there doesn't seem to be much.

I only have one or two clients left on SBS 2003. It's pretty unlikely I can get my SBS 2008 customers to upgrade!

re: New and Enhanced Features in Windows SBS 2011 Standard

Rob — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:04:46 GMT

Thanks for the article Michael. You say that it's fully available for deployment, but I don't see anyone reselling it just yet. Do you know where I can purchase the license? I am currently running SBS 2011 as a beta as my mail server and it's set to expire 1/10/11. But I don't see anywhere that it's available to buy. Thanks.

re: New and Enhanced Features in Windows SBS 2011 Standard

lux44 — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 12:45:21 GMT

Does Windows SBS 2011 Standard include Hyper-V?

Can Hyper-V be installed on Windows SBS 2011 Standard without additional licenses (except for guest OS-es)?

re: New and Enhanced Features in Windows SBS 2011 Standard

pperry803 — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:54:35 GMT

Thank you SO MUCH for posting this! This gives me something to work with when promoting SBS2011 to my current SBS2003 and SBS2008 customers.

Pete