Powerfully productive - for the life of your technology and the good of your business
Technology is the foundation of business productivity. Microsoft Windows® Small Business Server 2011 and HP ProLiant bring together the leading server hardware and software, applications, tools and services to help you manage, protect and grow your business and run with confidence.
Designed and priced for small businesses, Windows Small Business Server is an affordable, all-in-one solution for networking, centralized data storage and backup, security, advanced e-mail and calendar capabilities, database and line-of-business support, and document and printer sharing.
Built upon the foundation of Windows Small Business Server solutions to reduce complexity and increase manageability of server technology in a small business environment, SBS 2011 enables you to deploy a simplified server solution to help your business run more efficiently.
Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard - A complete, on premise solution to small business IT needs
Windows SBS 2011 Standard delivers enterprise-class server technology in an affordable, all-in-one solution. It helps protect your business' information from loss by performing automatic daily backups and allows them to be more productive by providing features like e-mail, Internet connectivity, internal Web sites, remote access, and file and printer sharing.
Benefits of Windows SBS 2011 Standard include:
Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials - Everything a small business needs in a server, nothing it doesn't
Windows SBS 2011 Essentials provides a cost-effective and easy-to-use solution to help protect data, organize and access business information from virtually anywhere, support the applications needed to run a business, and quickly connect to online services for e-mail, collaboration and CRM.
Benefits of Windows SBS 2011 Essentials includes:
Ideal for...
Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard
Designed and priced especially for small businesses with up to 75 users, SBS 2011 Standard continues to be an ideal first server solution that includes key workloads that small businesses need to be productive and competitive.
SBS 2011 Standard is designed to provide a range of solutions tailored to meet the needs of small business customers at various stages of growth.
Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials
Ideal as a first server for small businesses with up to 25 users, SBS 2011 Essentials provides a simple, easy-to-use solution to help protect your business data with daily backup features for your computers and servers, organize and access business documents from virtually anywhere with centralized storage, and provides the ability to grow and extend as the business grows.
| Essentials Edition | Standard Edition | Premium Edition | |
| Processor | Minimum One 1.4 GHz (x64) or faster 2 sockets (maximum) | Minimum Quad core 2 GHz (x64) or faster (4 sockets maximum) | --- |
| RAM | Minimum: 2 GB Recommended: 4 GB Maximum: 32 GB |
Minimum 8 GB Recommended 10 GB Maximum 32GB |
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| Hard-Disk Space | Minimum One 160 GB disk drive | 120GB | ---- |
| Windows Server technologies | Yes | Yes | Yes (along with a second Windows Server) |
| Remote Web Access | Yes | Yes | |
| Simplified integration with the cloud | Yes | ||
| Add-ins | Yes | ||
| Microsoft Exchange | Yes | ||
| Microsoft SharePoint | Yes | ||
| Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 | Yes | ||
| Premium add-on available | Yes | Yes |
| Q1. | What's new in Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard Edition compared to the current product? |
| A1. |
Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard includes updated versions of all of the component software in the latest suite versions. As a result, small business customers will find significant security and management enhancements, as well as much richer features for providing file-and-print, e-mail, and Internet services like online collaboration to employees. For example, one feature enhancement is the ability for employees to access and share online versions of Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint, and Word over the Internet. This is enabled by the addition of Office Web Apps to SharePoint Foundation 2010, which is a low-cost, entry-level solution for secure, Web-based collaboration. SBS 2011 Standard users may also notice improvements to Outlook Web Access (OWA), a Web mail service that allows employees to use a browser to access Microsoft Exchange mailboxes from any computer with an Internet connection. OWA now includes many of the great features found in Microsoft Outlook 2010, such as the ability to receive voicemail in inboxes with text previews and view threaded conversations. |
| Q2. | What is Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials? |
| A2. |
A new edition of Windows Small Business Server, SBS 2011 Essentials is an affordable, easy-to-use first server option for small businesses. Customers will be able to use this cross-premise server offering to better protect their business data through SBS 2011 Essential's automated backup and restore capabilities. Users can also easily organize and access business information from almost anywhere, and run a variety of business tools and software either on premises or from the cloud. SBS 2011 Essentials helps protect vital business information from loss by backing up the data on the network, and recover accidentally deleted files. SBS 2011 Essentials also enables you to recover data on your network in the event of disaster. As your business needs change, SBS 2011 Essentials enables you to easily add users, servers, and applications; supports your critical line-of- business applications; and is designed to integrate with your existing Microsoft technology. |
| Q3. | Which benefits do the Premium Add-on brings to my business? |
| A3. |
Premium Add-on is an optional supplement to this underlying product and will help you to fully integrate your business applications and deploy custom applications with the added functionality of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition for Small Business and additional instance of WS 2008 R2 Standard technologies; for SQL or line-of-business applications. You will also enjoy the flexibility of virtualization that allows you to deploy essentials and the premium add-on virtually on one large physical server. |
| Q4. | What applications can I run on SBS 2011? |
| A4. |
Any Windows Server 2008 R2 application should run on both editions of SBS 2011. In addition to both editions, we have also introduced a copy of Windows Server 2008 R2 in the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Premium Add-On, which provides a platform for other products and avoids some of the support limitations of the first server(s). Products supported on the Windows Server 2008 R2 platform should be supported on the Premium Add-On server. |
| Q5. | What is a Windows Small Business Server Client Access Licenses (CAL)? |
| A5. |
The Windows Small Business Server CAL gives you the right for a device or user to access the server software. A user CAL permits one user (using any device) to access the server software. A device CAL permits one device (used by any user) to access the server software. Both types are offered to allow customers cost-effective licensing options. For example, per-user CALs are most effective when an employee uses several devices to access the server, such as a work computer and a home computer. Per-device CALs are most effective when several employees use the same device to access the server, such as rotating shifts in a call center. |
| 6. | What ProLiant products are supported under Windows Small Business Server 2011? |
| A6. |
ProLiant server products that have been certified by Microsoft are listed at the Windows Support and Certification Matrix page. Please review the white paper available on our product page to learn more about implementing Windows Small Business Server 2011 on ProLiant products. |
| Q7. | How can I purchase Windows Small Business Server 2011 from HP? |
| A7. |
HP sells OEM licenses for Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard and Premium Add-on for ProLiant servers in various languages worldwide. The OEM license must be purchased with the ProLiant server. Review the QuickSpecs for the complete product offering.
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