It's finally here! The long awaited 2008 Small Business Server has now been officially released as of November 12th. Prior to SBS 2008 the most recent release was SBS 2003 R2 which was out in the fall of 2006. The Small Business Server has played a major role in how many Small Businesses do business. Small Business Server has made technology available to the small business where in the past it was only available to the corporate world.
Key Features are:
1. Remote Access to Email and your desktop at the office from any computer in the world with an internet connection.
2. Awesome disaster recovery and backup functionality. Not something the non-IT person will see or use but it makes a huge difference for us who support it. It's easier to manage and more reliable.
3. SharePoint or company intranet is the most underused piece of Small Business Server. They've made some huge improvements to the version released with SBS 2008 which makes it even more attractive. Now any small business can have their own company intranet... so what can the intranet do for you? It provides you a means to improve inner office collaboration.
For example you can have calendars, forums, pictures, a place for HR docs that everyone can access with out nagging HR, company announcements, etc... There are many possibilities.
For more info you can check it out at http://www.microsoft.com/sbs/en/us/default.aspx
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