Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (EBS) –Part 1

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What is Windows Essential Business Server?

Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) offers an integrated business solution for midsize businesses. Those of you are familiar with Windows Small Server (SBS) can easily relate to Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) as the big brother of SBS. Unlike in SBS, EBS allows you to install entire solution/software (Active Directory, Exchange 2007, System Center Essentials, etc) on multiple servers. Let's take a look at the primary business goals of the EBS solution;

Designed and Priced for Midsize Businesses

  • Simplify your daily activities with a Centralized Administration Console that gives you a single point of access to your IT environment.
  • Enjoy significant costs savings compared to stand-alone products.
  • Be productive while working both in and away from the office with remote access, anti-spam, and antivirus protection, and improved messaging technologies.

Less Complexity, More Control

  • Automate your routine tasks and proactively manage your IT environment—all from a single point of access.
  • Reduce installation steps from days to hours with an integrated setup that includes workloads optimized out of the box for enhanced security, performance, and reliability.
  • Simplify your licensing with a single server license and Client Access for all included products.

Integrated and Predictable Platform

  • Enjoy easy plug-ins of your line-of-business applications. View, deploy, manage, and administer your third-party applications all from one starting point.
  • Help reduce your vulnerabilities that often create havoc with an infrastructure set up to Microsoft Best Practices.
  • Help proactively manage and address security concerns from a dedicated security page in the administration console.

Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) comes in two editions. In part 2, I plan to highlight solution and feature comparisons.

Thanks,

Indy