With the announcements this week from Microsoft about SBS 2011 and SBS 2011 Essentials, we now know what the US pricing will be for the product. That's’ great so I’m now waiting to see what the Australian Pricing will be. The Australian dollar has been doing VERY well lately compared to the US. Today as I write, the AUD is above parity with the US … [Read more...]
SBS 2011 Finally announced
Microsoft this morning finally announced the proper naming, pricing and availability for the new SBS product family additions. Windows SBS 2011 Essentials is the proper name for the hybrid cloud/on-premise solution that was called SBS Aurora and Microsoft have set an RRP of $545 USD which includes all 25 CALS that the user will need to be correctly license. In fact you can’t … [Read more...]
The SBS Family – Growing and Developing
Today I’m in Las Colinas, TX working with the SBS PSS team. One of the traditions that we have as SBS MVPs is that Susan Bradley loves to get us grown men and women in matching T-shirts… yes it’s a little freaky, but we let her have her way to keep her happy We do it too because it allows us to have a dig at the SBS team in different ways. This year I asked my … [Read more...]
SBS 7 and SBS Aurora Premium Add-on
Last night at the SMB IT Professionals meeting in Sydney, Michael Leworthy presented on the next generations of SBS 7 and ABA Aurora. Michael highlighted about how Microsoft are making things simpler for us with the new version of SBS by not having both Standard and Premium versions of each product. Instead, Microsoft will release an SBS Premium Add-on pack that can … [Read more...]
Microsoft releases public beta of SBSv7
You’ve been waiting for it, and now it’s here. A public preview aka beta of SBS7 the codename for the next version of SBS 2008 has been released today for public beta. You can and SHOULD download it and install it ASAP. You can find out more here Naturally do NOT install this in production environments. … [Read more...]