Microsoft unveils plans for Windows Small Business Server

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DAVE KEARNS ON WINDOWS NETWORKING TIPS
09/14/05
Today's focus: Microsoft unveils plans for Windows Small
Business Server

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In this issue:

* Roadmap for Windows Small Business Server
* Links related to Windows Networking Tips
* Featured reader resource
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Today's focus: Microsoft unveils plans for Windows Small
Business Server

By Dave Kearns

In the last two issues, I talked about two beta products
Microsoft released at the end of August: the first release
candidate for Windows Server 2003 R2 and the first beta of the
new Windows file system (WinFS). At the end of August, Microsoft
also released a roadmap for Windows Small Business Server (SBS).

SBS is a bundle of several different server-based products.
Included in the SBS 2003 versions are Windows Server 2003,
Windows SharePoint Services, SQL Server 2000, Exchange Server
2003 and ISA Server 2000. SBS comes in two versions (Standard
and Premium) each with a different mix of services, but both
based on Windows Server 2003.

Since there's a Release 2 of Windows Server 2003 (Win 2003 R2)
due out by year-end, it follows that there'll be an R2 release
of SBS also. This will follow a few months behind the Win 2003
R2 release. Why? I don't know. There doesn't appear to be any
technical reason for doing so. I expect it's a marketing
decision. But whether the decision was made so that more
marketing resources could be devoted to each shipment in turn,
or whether marketing thought that the initial R2 shipment should
be allowed to "settle" before inflicting it on Small Business
customers is anybody's guess. This R2 version of SBS will also
include upgrades to the SQL Server, Sharepoint Server and
Exchange server components.

Microsoft has also committed to rolling out a version of SBS
based on the upcoming Longhorn server release, now scheduled for
late next year. Longhorn SBS should follow sometime in mid 2007.
For those of you in a speculating mood, you might remember that
in the last issue I mentioned that the new WinFS was also
scheduled to ship in mid 2007. Would Microsoft risk the first
shipment of a new file system with its small business product?
You might speculate on that, but I wouldn't want to.

SBS is generally targeted at really small enterprises (or small
self-contained organizations within larger enterprises) with no
more than 50 client PCs. Microsoft believes, though, that
there's a market for a bundled system for organizations with
between 50 and 250 clients and the company is about to roll out
a package aimed squarely at that target. Dubbed the Windows
Midmarket Server and code named Centro, it was announced last
week <http://www.networkworld.com/nlwnt6785> at the Microsoft
Business Summit.

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To contact: Dave Kearns

Dave Kearns is a writer and consultant in Silicon Valley. He's
written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print
"Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Networks." His musings can be
found at Virtual Quill <http://www.vquill.com/>.

Kearns is the author of three Network World Newsletters: Windows
Networking Tips, Novell NetWare Tips, and Identity Management.
Comments about these newsletters should be sent to him at these

respective addresses: <mailto:windows@vquill.com>,
<mailto:netware@vquill.com>, <mailto:identity@vquill.com>.

Kearns provides content services to network vendors: books,
manuals, white papers, lectures and seminars, marketing,
technical marketing and support documents. Virtual Quill
provides "words to sell by..." Find out more by e-mail at
<mailto:info@vquill.com>
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This newsletter is sponsored by HP
FROM THE NETWORK CORE TO THE NETWORK EDGE

Traffic management becomes critical as your network
infrastructure expands to support different types of traffic and
users. Most traffic management solutions have serious
limitations: too expensive, difficult to use, and overly taxing
on bandwidth. However ProCurve Networking by HP addresses these
requirements, overcomes the limitations of other solutions, and
gives you valuable insight into LAN performance.
http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=114169
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