Overview

Windows Essential Business Server is an integrated and affordable solution that offers the Microsoft software that midsize businesses require—preconfigured, integrated, and manageable from a single administrative console, and at a significant discount compared to stand-alone products.

Designed and Priced for Midsize Businesses

Designed specifically for midsize businesses with a focus on your IT needs and priced to give you substantial cost savings over stand-alone products. Find out how you can:

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• 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

Tools to help proactively manage your environment, reduce your IT complexity, and help give you back control of your systems.

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• 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

Help increase the predictability and reliability of your systems and reduce typical errors that can occur when stand-alone products are deployed.

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• 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.

Editions Overview

Windows Essential Business Server comes in two editions—Standard and Premium.

A single Client Access License (CAL) for all included products simplifies license management. Discover the differences, and determine which version makes the most sense for your business.

¹ While Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is not shipped with EBS 2008, a step as part of the setup process is provided to download Windows.

² One-year Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server subscription included in the product.

³ One-year Web Antimalware Subscription for Forefront Threat Management Gateway, Medium Business Edition included in product.

⁴ Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard is available as an alternative version in place of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Standard until December 31, 2009.

⁵ Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard is available as an alternative version in place of Windows Server 2008 Standard until December 31, 2009.

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