Windows Essential Business Server (Code name Centro) is a big brother
to SBS 2008. They are both members if he Windows
Essential Server Solutions family.
Windows Essential Business Server (EBS)
will support up to 300 users/devices. It will have ISA (Now called Forefront
Threat Management gateway) and a 120 day trial of URL Malware scanning.
EBS will look and feel the
same as SBS with almost all of the same features and similar wizards.
SharePoint Services 3 will
not be installed by default as this allows people to choose to install
SharePoint Portal.
EBS will use one console to
manage three servers. System Centre Essentials (SCE) is very important to
EBS in the way it monitors and reports on your network.
EBS will essentially be 3 x
64 Bit servers, an ISA server (With Dual NICs) and I would recommend you
build an EBS for speed as it is for a larger type of consumer. I would be
using RAID 5 over as many disk spindles as possible and using a 1 Gb
backbone wherever I could.
EBS was designed specifically for
the unique needs of IT Administrators in Midsize Businesses.
There will be two versions: Standard and Premium.
The Standard
Edition includes Windows Server 2008, Exchange Server 2007, Forefront
Security for Exchange Server, System Center Essentials, and ISA Server code
name "Nitrogen". The Premium Edition includes everything in the Standard
Edition plus SQL Server 2008. Essential Business Server will have a single
Client Access License (user and/or device) for all included products and
those CALs will be managed on the licensing tab/page in the Essential
Business Server Administration Console.
EBS's
Integrated Security
Many defense-in-depth multi-level security features with integrated security
workloads
Pre-configured and optimized protection from common threats
Integrated and automated setup limiting vulnerabilities during and arising
from installation
Centralized security feature management with a consolidated view of your
security state across your systems – integrating both Microsoft and
third-party applications
More automated patching and update processes make it easier for you to keep
systems up
and running
EBS will show case Less Complexity, More Control
A centralized administration console enables you to proactively manage your
customers’ IT
environment from a single location while leveraging the included product's
consoles for advanced tasks
The integrated setup reduces installation steps to ~5 hours!
A single server license and Client Access License for all included products
greatly simplifies licensing
EBS will be a Predictable Platform, Designed for Midsize Businesses
Architected for extensibility to easily “plug in” other applications
Remote Web Workplace, an out-of-the-box feature, enables IT to easily set up
secure
remote access
More efficient to manage, maintain, and control, and more affordable to own
than
stand-alone products
EBS is the next step from SBS 2008.
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