{"id":3493,"date":"2008-02-20T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/windowsserver\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/"},"modified":"2020-12-22T14:47:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T22:47:45","slug":"introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Windows Essential Server Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"
As we head into the big Heroes launch next week, Microsoft today introduced the Windows Essential Server Solutions<\/a><\/span>\u00a0family of products.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Available later this year, Essential Server Solutions \u2013 Windows Small Business Server 2008<\/a><\/span> and Windows Essential Business Server 2008<\/a><\/span> \u2013 will be the ideal way for small and midsized companies to realize the benefits of Windows Server 2008, Exchange Server 2007, SQL Server 2008 and other new Microsoft server technologies and services.\u00a0 The goal is to make the benefits of enterprise-class IT accessible, affordable and simpler for smaller organizations.\u00a0 One of our main purposes for presenting these two products within a family is to clarify for customers and partners that these are indeed integrated, \u201call-in-one\u201d solutions, versus scaled down versions of Windows Server, or just various products packaged together.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
In our announcement today, we unveiled details about Small Business Server 2008 (official name!), including the technologies and services that are integrated\u00a0with it. A couple of the notable advancements for customers and partners (among many, outlined in the press release<\/a><\/span>) are:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
SBS 2008 Premium Edition is now a two-box solution, including a second copy of Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server Standard Edition, making it an ideal platform for a world of third-party business applications.\u00a0 Great news for software vendors and solution providers.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
SBS 2008 integrates a number of new Microsoft-hosted services, such as Office Live Small Business, Windows Live OneCare for Server and Forefront Security for Exchange Small Business Edition, as well as Windows Server Update Services. In this way, SBS 2008 represents the company\u2019s expanding software-plus-services strategy of giving customers the right combinations of hosted services and on-premise software.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
We revealed details about Essential Business Server<\/a><\/span> (formerly known as \u201cCentro\u201d) in November.\u00a0 Both products will be demonstrated at the Heroes launch in L.A. next week.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Joel Sider<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we head into the big Heroes launch next week, Microsoft today introduced the Windows Essential Server Solutions\u00a0family of products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":685,"featured_media":20655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"msxcm_post_with_no_image":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","footnotes":""},"post_tag":[],"product":[],"content-type":[],"solution":[],"coauthors":[926],"class_list":["post-3493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","review-flag-new-1593580246-692","review-flag-on-pr-1593580815-286"],"yoast_head":"\nIntroducing Windows Essential Server Solutions | Microsoft Windows Server Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Introducing Windows Essential Server Solutions | Microsoft Windows Server Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As we head into the big Heroes launch next week, Microsoft today introduced the Windows Essential Server Solutions\u00a0family of products.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Microsoft Windows Server Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WindowsServer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-02-20T11:15:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-12-22T22:47:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Person-working-on-a-Surface-laptop-2.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1170\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Microsoft Windows Server Team\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@WindowsServer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@WindowsServer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Microsoft Windows Server Team\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 min read\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/\"},\"author\":[{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/author\/microsoft-windows-server-team\/\",\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@name\":\"Microsoft Windows Server Team\"}],\"headline\":\"Introducing Windows Essential Server Solutions\",\"datePublished\":\"2008-02-20T11:15:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-12-22T22:47:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/\"},\"wordCount\":295,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Person-working-on-a-Surface-laptop-2.webp\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/\",\"name\":\"Introducing Windows Essential Server Solutions | Microsoft Windows Server Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Person-working-on-a-Surface-laptop-2.webp\",\"datePublished\":\"2008-02-20T11:15:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-12-22T22:47:45+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Person-working-on-a-Surface-laptop-2.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Person-working-on-a-Surface-laptop-2.webp\",\"width\":1170,\"height\":640,\"caption\":\"a woman sitting at a table using a laptop computer\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Introducing Windows Essential Server Solutions\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Microsoft Windows Server Blog\",\"description\":\"Your Guide to the Latest Windows Server Product Information\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Microsoft Windows Server Blog\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Microsoft-Logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Microsoft-Logo.png\",\"width\":1,\"height\":1,\"caption\":\"Microsoft Windows Server Blog\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WindowsServer\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/WindowsServer\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/showcase\/microsoft-cloud-platform\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/MSCloudOS\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Introducing Windows Essential Server Solutions | Microsoft Windows Server Blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Introducing Windows Essential Server Solutions | Microsoft Windows Server Blog","og_description":"As we head into the big Heroes launch next week, Microsoft today introduced the Windows Essential Server Solutions\u00a0family of products.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/","og_site_name":"Microsoft Windows Server Blog","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WindowsServer","article_published_time":"2008-02-20T11:15:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-12-22T22:47:45+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1170,"height":640,"url":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Person-working-on-a-Surface-laptop-2.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Microsoft Windows Server Team","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@WindowsServer","twitter_site":"@WindowsServer","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Microsoft Windows Server Team","Est. reading time":"1 min read"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/"},"author":[{"@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/author\/microsoft-windows-server-team\/","@type":"Person","@name":"Microsoft Windows Server Team"}],"headline":"Introducing Windows Essential Server Solutions","datePublished":"2008-02-20T11:15:00+00:00","dateModified":"2020-12-22T22:47:45+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/"},"wordCount":295,"commentCount":1,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Person-working-on-a-Surface-laptop-2.webp","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/","url":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/","name":"Introducing Windows Essential Server Solutions | Microsoft Windows Server Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Person-working-on-a-Surface-laptop-2.webp","datePublished":"2008-02-20T11:15:00+00:00","dateModified":"2020-12-22T22:47:45+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Person-working-on-a-Surface-laptop-2.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Person-working-on-a-Surface-laptop-2.webp","width":1170,"height":640,"caption":"a woman sitting at a table using a laptop computer"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/introducing-windows-essential-server-solutions\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Introducing Windows Essential Server Solutions"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/","name":"Microsoft Windows Server Blog","description":"Your Guide to the Latest Windows Server Product Information","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/#organization","name":"Microsoft Windows Server Blog","url":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Microsoft-Logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Microsoft-Logo.png","width":1,"height":1,"caption":"Microsoft Windows Server Blog"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WindowsServer","https:\/\/x.com\/WindowsServer","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/showcase\/microsoft-cloud-platform\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/MSCloudOS"]}]}},"word_count":290,"msxcm_display_generated_audio":false,"msxcm_animated_featured_image":null,"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Microsoft Windows Server Blog","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/685"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_tag?post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"solution","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/solution?post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}