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Announcing Previews of Our Simple and Affordable Servers for Small Businesses

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[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Kevin Kean from the SBS Product Team]

Not a week goes by when we don’t get emails asking about the next version of Windows Small Business Server (SBS). When’s it coming? What will it include? What’s the partner opportunity?

I am very pleased to say that today at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, we disclosed that we will issue not one, but TWO, public preview releases for the next version of SBS by the end of our summer in the Pacific Northwest – an update to the standard edition plus a new server that will be our first to deliver both traditional and cloud computing capabilities for small businesses.

If you’re interested in downloading and testing the previews, you can visit www.microsoft.com/sbs and sign-up for the program. You will be notified when the actual bits are available for download.

The offerings we will have for you to try out will be:

  • Windows Small Business Server (SBS) “7” Preview: The next version of Windows Small Business Server will include a richer remote access experience, as well as updates to all of the component software in the suite to the latest versions (Windows Server 2008 R2, Exchange Server 2010 SP1, SharePoint 2010 Foundation, Windows Server Update Services 3.0 and SQL Server 2008 R2). As a result, small business customers will find significant security and management enhancements as well as much richer features for providing file-and-print, email and Internet services to employees. SBS 7 will support up to 75 users.
  • Windows Small Business Server (SBS) Code Name “Aurora” Preview: A new edition of Windows Small Business Server, Aurora is an affordable, easy to use “first server” option for small businesses that will be the company’s first to deliver both traditional and cloud capabilities. With SBS Aurora, customers will be able to better protect their business data through automated backup and restore capabilities, easily organize and access business information from almost anywhere and run a variety of business tools and software. SBS Aurora will support up to 25 users.

In addition, we are announcing the forthcoming release of a Windows Server Solution Software Development Kit (SDK), which will enable developers to build add-ins and write drive integration of new and existing on-line services with SBS Aurora. Developers interested in downloading the SDK should go to https://connect.microsoft.com/sbs.

I know that we are going to create a lot of industry buzz with these offerings, in large part because we’re updating the standard edition with SBS 7 and delivering an easy to use and affordable way through SBS Aurora for small businesses to enjoy important server functionalities like backup of client and server, file and print sharing, run critical applications on-site while at the same time taking advantage of the emerging number of online applications and services on a pay-as-you-go basis to extend the functionality of your server.

We’re also getting a lot of partner interest, particularly around SBS Aurora. In fact, Symantec, Level Platforms and Disk Keeper are all making statements this week around plans to integrate products with SBS Aurora.   HP is not only showing SBS Aurora in their booth at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, but has a sneak peek at https://www.facebook.com/CoffeeCoaching. And you’re sure to hear more as we get closer to releasing the preview.

See what all of the buzz is about. Sign up for the previews today!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Will we be able to add remote apps more easilly to the remote web workplace? I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on this new version of SBS!

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    @DVM it wont be possible as it is not possible to in-place upgrade Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010, a migation will have to be performed to the new SBS

  • Anonymous
    July 12, 2010
    Will we see archive mailboxes in SBS 7?

  • Anonymous
    July 12, 2010
    And also: "I know that we are going to create a lot of industry buzz with these offerings, in large part because we’re updating the standard edition with SBS 7 and delivering an easy to use and affordable way through SBS Aurora for small businesses to enjoy important server functionalities like backup of client and server, file and print sharing, run critical applications on-site while at the same time taking advantage of the emerging number of online applications and services on a pay-as-you-go basis to extend the functionality of your server." Who wrote that?

  • Anonymous
    July 13, 2010
    Will the new SBS allow in-place upgrade from SBS2008?

  • Anonymous
    July 15, 2010
    I very much like the sound of SBS Aurora - something some of our smaller customers would be better suited to. However, Aurora?? How about "Really Small Business Server"?

  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2010
    Is Direct Access feature included to SBS 7?

  • Anonymous
    July 21, 2010
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    July 22, 2010
    2 points:

  1. not allowing in-place upgrades is a bad move. Are you sure that with a little effort in-place updating of exchange would not be possible? Maybe through a mechanism like backup-restore?
  2. will you finally fix all the problems that the shared fax service is having? It worked perfectly under SBS 2003. Now it is a real nightmare (different drivers for XP and Vista/7 clients, a lot of lost faxes, ...). If you are not aware, just do a simple search on the internet and you will find out.
  • Anonymous
    July 24, 2010
    What about Virtualization and RDS, is this now possible on SBS7? These are basic features of W2K8R2 and also necessary for SBS.