What is EBS 2008

Microsoft, released Essential Business Server 2008, in November 2008. I have been playing with it since the time it had released and finally have now implemented it in a production environment.

Over the next few days, I will mention about the trouble I had in deployment, errors recieved and how I fixed those to finally get to a production environment. But a lot of people recently asked me, what really is EBS 2008, and how different it is from SBS 2003.

SBS was one of my favourite programs when it came to small companies looking at a Microsoft based deployment. A single server edition worked as your Active Directory server, your Exchange server, and in case you wanted a Database, also your Database Server (If you had premium edition).

The limitation with SBS 2003, was that you could not have more than 75 client machines. Now the limitation is gone. EBS ships in two variants, EBS Standard (Limited to 75 Clients) and EBS Premium (Limited to 300 Clients)



To know the differences between editions, click here

For Microsoft website on Essential Business Server, click here

A great resource on EBS FAQ's, EBSFAQ.COM