Windows Essential Business Server 2008 is an enterprise-class server solution designed and priced for midsize businesses. Windows Essential Business Server 2008 provides a unified Administration Console to manage an integrated IT infrastructure with the latest versions of management, messaging, and security server technologies. By helping to improve IT manageability and reliability, Windows Essential Business Server 2008 turns a midsize IT infrastructure into a strategic asset, boosting productivity and growth. Grow your business with Windows Essential Business Server 2008.
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:
- Simplify your daily activities with a unified 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Available as a Standard and Premium edition, the following image illustrates the difference between versions.
For more information and a comparison with Small Business Server please view the Windows Small Business and Essential Servers (pdf).