{"id":674,"date":"2010-03-05T21:10:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T21:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/05\/bye-bye-ebs\/"},"modified":"2010-03-05T21:10:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T21:10:22","slug":"bye-bye-ebs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/05\/bye-bye-ebs\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye Bye EBS!"},"content":{"rendered":"

You\u2019ve more than likely heard that Microsoft are ending development of EBS with immediate effect. If you browse to the website you\u2019ll see this<\/p>\n

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(eventually\u2026I got this and the regular product page randomly on each page load)<\/em><\/p>\n

There is also an an announcement on the official SBS blog<\/p>\n

\u201cNew IT Trends Bring Change to Mid-Market Product Line<\/a>\u201d<\/h4>\n

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This didn\u2019t exactly come as a massive surprise. If you work in the SME market hands up who sold lots of EBS?<\/p>\n

When the product was initially announced it sounded like an interesting proposition but I had a few problems making it \u201cfit\u201d<\/p>\n

Comparisons to SBS are bound to happen so that\u2019s where I\u2019ll start!<\/p>\n

SBS works because it fits really well into a couple of scenarios that met a need for small businesses<\/p>\n

New company, first network, first server<\/strong><\/p>\n

Obvious really. New company, buying infrastructure to get started. Decides to do it right from the offset and goes for SBS <\/p>\n

Existing company, existing network, first server<\/strong><\/p>\n

A company that\u2019s grown and needs to go from that peer to peer network to their first server<\/p>\n

Existing Company, existing network, replacement server<\/strong><\/p>\n

You know the type. They\u2019re using a \u201cbeefed up" PC as a central storage area for their files or they have been sold sold a more expensive "big daddy\u201d Windows Server for sharing files and have no other functionality <\/p>\n

As a side note Windows Foundation with some hosted services thrown in could easily swap out for SBS depending on the size of the company<\/em><\/p>\n

So where in comparisons does EBS fit?<\/p>\n

That was my problem.<\/p>\n

Business that were generally large enough to look at EBS don\u2019t really fit any of the above<\/p>\n

New companies generally don\u2019t start out needing to support 50+ users straight away<\/p>\n

Existing companies that have grown to that size do so for a reason and they\u2019ve usually made their IT mistakes and got something in that fits well. Usually \u201cbig daddy\u201d Windows server but they pay enterprise prices because there isn\u2019t a product specifically for them. Hence the introduction of EBS!<\/p>\n

Since most existing companies like this generally have decent enough networks running it\u2019s difficult to justify ripping the whole thing out and starting again. <\/p>\n

So the other scenario I see is the businesses reaching the upper limits of SBS<\/p>\n

I actually have this exact scenario going on at the moment with one of my clients and have agonised over EBS vs the regular server products<\/p>\n

One of the issues I had was with the \u201cSecurity Server\u201d<\/p>\n

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The client in question had already made investments in protecting themselves at the gateway with a dedicated hardware firewall so had no need for Forefront Threat Management Gateway and were already covered by a message hygiene solution so no need for the Exchange Edge role so what exactly were they going to use this server for?<\/p>\n

If you are doing it the traditional way then it\u2019s a whole physical server you just don\u2019t need. Obviously you could virtualise it but it\u2019s \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You\u2019ve more than likely heard that Microsoft are ending development of EBS with immediate effect. If you browse to the website you\u2019ll see this (eventually\u2026I got this and the regular product page randomly on each page load) There is also an an announcement on the official SBS blog \u201cNew IT Trends Bring Change to Mid-Market<\/p>\n

<\/span>Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,10,79,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andys-opinion","category-ebs","category-foundation-server","category-sbs"],"yoast_head":"\nBye Bye EBS! - Andy's Techie Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/05\/bye-bye-ebs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bye Bye EBS! - Andy's Techie Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"You\u2019ve more than likely heard that Microsoft are ending development of EBS with immediate effect. 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