Microsoft has released a preview of the next version of its integrated package for small organizations, Windows Small Business Server 2011.
This new edition updates the core Microsoft products in the SBS package, as well as streamlines employee remote access and the deployment process.
SBS is a bundle of integrated Microsoft enterprise software aimed to ease IT operations for small organizations.
Built on Windows Server 2008 release 2, it includes programs and services to manage worker e-mail, calendars and file sharing. For the administrator, it includes the ability to manage security, Windows updates and access to the Internet. It also includes a database and the ability to host business applications.
With this release, Microsoft has simplified the installation process, the company claims. The package offers guidance on how to set up the server, as well as validation tools to assure the successful migration of data and settings from the previous edition. Users can now set up their own PCs networks without administrator help.
Remote access has also been strengthened. Users can access their e-mail inboxes from afar, using Outlook Web Access. They can also access their files from a personalized website.
SBS 2011 will come in two editions, a "Standard" edition, which can be licensed up to 75 users, and an "Essentials" edition, which can be used by up to 25 employees.
The Standard edition includes the latest version of Microsoft Exchange Server for internal e-mail management, while the Essentials version is integrated with a Microsoft hosted e-mail service. The standard edition will feature the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Services 2010, which is the latest version of that collaboration package.
The Standard edition can back up business data on the server, while the Essentials version can back up data from user PCs.
The Windows SBS 2011 release candidate beta preview is now available for download. Microsoft did not reveal when the full release would be available. This will be the first full release of the package since the Windows Small Business Server 2008, released in 2008.
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February 18, 2011
Microsoft's Executive Revolving Door Keeps Spinning
Last month I wrote about the impending departure of Bob Muglia as president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business. When Bob leaves this summer, he'll be going out at the top of a very difficult game: STB covers both the Microsoft Server crown jewels and the Azure cloud future, as well as SQL Server and Visual Studio. And it's making a ton of money -- more than $15 billion a year.
Yesterday Steve Ballmer announced he was replacing Bob Muglia with Satya Nadella. In the same email he announced the (highly unexpected) departure of Amitabh Srivastava. That move strikes me as bizarre in a multitude of ways.
Although Nadella obviously has talent beyond the search engine, he is known as "Mr. Bing" to many in and around Redmond in his capacity as senior vice president in charge of engineering for the Online Services Division, where Bing is the stellar performer. Ballmer's assessment: "In his role in the Online Services Division, [Nadella] led the overall R&D efforts for some of the largest online services and drove the technical vision and strategy for several important milestones, including the critical launch of Bing, new releases of MSN, Yahoo integration across Bing and adCenter, and much more."
Like I said, Mr. Bing.
Two years ago Ballmer passed over Nadella (who has an M.S. in Computer Science and an MBA) and named Qi Lu president of the Online Services Division. Two years later Nadella is tapped to lead a much, much larger and more profitable division.
Now consider the pedigree of the departing Srivastava, who is currently senior vice president of Server and Cloud, which is Bob Muglia's (and STB's) largest and most important component. For the past two years Srivastava has been in charge of both Windows Server and Azure.
More than that, though, Srivastava came to lead the Server and Azure effort when Ballmer combined the Windows Server and Azure organizations two years ago. Srivastava's roots are in Azure -- the future of STB. He's a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer, with a legend that dates back to the days of Brian Valentine and Jim Allchin and the rescue of Longhorn. He worked with Ray Ozzie on Project Red Dog, which became Azure. He's been living in the cloud since 2006. He's been leading Bob Muglia's #1 division for the past two years.
And he lost out to Mr. Bing.
Bloomberg Businessweek, quoting unnamed sources, claims that Ballmer is in the process of a management shake-up "aimed at adding senior product executives with an engineering background." That may be the intent, but the execution speaks differently.
In the ongoing battle between the geeks and the suits -- er, the executives with a technical background (typified by Mr. Gates) and those with a business/management background (Mr. Ballmer's gene pool) -- it seems to me two very senior techies are on their way out, replaced by a guy with stellar Yahoo integration skills.
I just don't get it.
Yesterday Steve Ballmer announced he was replacing Bob Muglia with Satya Nadella. In the same email he announced the (highly unexpected) departure of Amitabh Srivastava. That move strikes me as bizarre in a multitude of ways.
Although Nadella obviously has talent beyond the search engine, he is known as "Mr. Bing" to many in and around Redmond in his capacity as senior vice president in charge of engineering for the Online Services Division, where Bing is the stellar performer. Ballmer's assessment: "In his role in the Online Services Division, [Nadella] led the overall R&D efforts for some of the largest online services and drove the technical vision and strategy for several important milestones, including the critical launch of Bing, new releases of MSN, Yahoo integration across Bing and adCenter, and much more."
Like I said, Mr. Bing.
Two years ago Ballmer passed over Nadella (who has an M.S. in Computer Science and an MBA) and named Qi Lu president of the Online Services Division. Two years later Nadella is tapped to lead a much, much larger and more profitable division.
Now consider the pedigree of the departing Srivastava, who is currently senior vice president of Server and Cloud, which is Bob Muglia's (and STB's) largest and most important component. For the past two years Srivastava has been in charge of both Windows Server and Azure.
More than that, though, Srivastava came to lead the Server and Azure effort when Ballmer combined the Windows Server and Azure organizations two years ago. Srivastava's roots are in Azure -- the future of STB. He's a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer, with a legend that dates back to the days of Brian Valentine and Jim Allchin and the rescue of Longhorn. He worked with Ray Ozzie on Project Red Dog, which became Azure. He's been living in the cloud since 2006. He's been leading Bob Muglia's #1 division for the past two years.
And he lost out to Mr. Bing.
Bloomberg Businessweek, quoting unnamed sources, claims that Ballmer is in the process of a management shake-up "aimed at adding senior product executives with an engineering background." That may be the intent, but the execution speaks differently.
In the ongoing battle between the geeks and the suits -- er, the executives with a technical background (typified by Mr. Gates) and those with a business/management background (Mr. Ballmer's gene pool) -- it seems to me two very senior techies are on their way out, replaced by a guy with stellar Yahoo integration skills.
I just don't get it.
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