Well – Microsoft have now released a public beta for Windows Server 2012 Essentials. Now you can try it out for yourself and find out if it’s going to do everything you need to do for your clients. Joe Nalewabau, the Group Program Manager for the Windows Server Essentials team announced the beta here Over the next few weeks I’ll be publishing a number of articles … [Read more...]
Windows Server 2012 Essentials–the way it should have been done.
I’m hoping that Microsoft has learnt a few things over the last week from the announcement of the phase out of SBS as we know it and the introduction of Windows Server 2012 Essentials into the market place. I’ve done a few blog posts on the subject as you can see below. What is Windows Server 2012 Essentials What’s next for SBS and SBS customers and resellers? What’s … [Read more...]
Windows Server 2012 Essentials – I’d like that in writing please – from Microsoft
There’s lots of clarifications being sought right now because there’s a lot of confusion around Windows Server 2012 Essentials, and what it really means to the market/resellers/end users. Dave Seibert is one of the US based PALs and he’s been having meetings with various people at the Worldwide Partner Conference. David’s reported back to a number of us about his … [Read more...]
What’s in the box of Windows Server 2012 Essentials?
Ok – with all the announcements last week about the death of SBS as we know it, there’s a few things that have been missed. I really feel that Microsoft could have done a better job of highlighting them so that people would have an understanding of just what was included in Windows Server 2012 Essentials. Here’s my summary of what’s in the box. From the Windows … [Read more...]
What’s next for SBS and SBS customers and resellers?
Well as announced this last week, SBS as we know it is dead. Understandably, resellers are up in arms over being blindsided by Microsoft with this discontinuation of the SBS product (with up to 75 users) as we have known it for years. But were they really blindsided or did they fail to read the signs? There’s a few things that I want to focus on in this blog … [Read more...]