{"id":921,"date":"2011-03-24T21:55:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T21:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/?p=921"},"modified":"2011-03-24T22:55:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T22:55:30","slug":"sbs-2011most-important-sbs-release-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/24\/sbs-2011most-important-sbs-release-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"SBS 2011&ndash;Most important SBS release ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/sbs\/archive\/2011\/03\/17\/get-windows-small-business-server-2011-standard-now.aspx\">Microsoft announced about a week ago<\/a> that SBS 2011 standard is now fully available from volume licensing through to OEM. I think this latest release of Small Business Server is a significant one for many reasons. <\/p>\n<p>Lets go back a few years and a couple of versions and you\u2019ll find working with Small Business Server 2003 was great. Aimed at between 5 and 75 user small businesses the standard and premium editions of the software were affordable and would run on pretty much on any decent bit of server kit you could find making them really easy to sell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/829711\" class=\"broken_link\">Microsoft <strong>recommended<\/strong> hardware requirements<\/a> for <strong><u>SBS Premium<\/u> <\/strong>(if you want a shock follow that link \u2013 and look at the minimum requirements)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A Pentium III 550-MHz-or-compatible processor <\/li>\n<li>512 MB of RAM (maximum RAM supported is 4 GB) <\/li>\n<li>Two or more mirrored 5-GB hard disks <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even though we all know these recommended requirements generally need bumping up a bit, a server with a dual or quad core processor, 4GB of RAM and at least one RAID array was still generally affordable for just about any small business.<\/p>\n<p>SBS 2008 was released and <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc527594(WS.10).aspx\">the hardware bar jumped up.<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Processor:<\/strong> 2 GHz 64-bit (x64) <\/li>\n<li><strong>RAM:<\/strong> Minimum: 4 GB Recommended: 6 to 8 GB <\/li>\n<li><strong>Disk space<\/strong>: 60 GB <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Again these specs generally need bumping up and it\u2019s not uncommon to see a dual core processor, 8-10GB RAM and a couple of RAID arrays as a starting point for reasonable performance.<\/p>\n<p>At this stage we started to the see the price start to get out of the reach of businesses in the 5-10 user range as the hardware costs began to rise. You could run SBS 2008 on lesser hardware but performance wouldn\u2019t be great.<\/p>\n<p>If you were putting together a hardware specification for a \u201ccheaper\u201d server such as a HP ML110 by the time you\u2019d put enough RAM and disks in to get decent performance you weren\u2019t that far off the price for a one of the servers higher up in the range such as the ML350. All this made the price creep up.<\/p>\n<p>To get around this lots of IT providers started to get creative with things like Home Server and Foundation Server and SBS 2008 shifted to start at around 10-15 users. (I know I\u2019m generalising quiet a bit here though)<\/p>\n<p>Which brings us up to the latest release <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/gg491249.aspx\">and these are the hardware requirements<\/a> for SBS 2011 Standard. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Processor: <\/b>Minimum Quad core 2 GHz 64-bit (x64) or faster for 1 socket <\/li>\n<li><b>Memory: <\/b>Minimum: 8 GB Recommended: 10 GB <\/li>\n<li><b>Disk Space: <\/b>Minimum: 120 GB <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See those processor requirements? That\u2019s a quad core as a <u>minimum<\/u> and if it\u2019s anything like SBS 2008 that recommended amount of RAM is probably better as your minimum amount meaning a larger outlay on server hardware again. <\/p>\n<p>So as well as SBS 2011 Standard we now have SBS 2011 Essentials.<\/p>\n<p>Built around the home server technology this brings most of the benefits of SBS 2011 Standard but without Exchange server (as one of the main standout differences), which is a part of the high hardware requirements, as well as no need for client access licenses.<\/p>\n<p>What does Essentials need in terms of hardware?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Processor: <\/b>One 1.4 GHz (x64 processor)&#160; Or, one 1.3 GHz dual-core <\/li>\n<li><b>Memory: <\/b>Minimum: 2 GB&#160; Recommended: 4 GB <\/li>\n<li><b>Disk Space: <\/b>Minimum: 160 GB <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nothing too taxing and would work really well on a something like the <a href=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/24\/hp-proliant-microserver-first-impressions\/\">HP Proliant Microserver that I mentioned recently.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll notice I haven\u2019t mentioned the cloud at all here. Everything I\u2019ve mentioned above is still applicable whether you\u2019re moving applications to the cloud or not. Whether you should is another discussion altogether and a lively one based on sessions I\u2019ve been a part of at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amitpro.org\" class=\"broken_link\">AMITPRO<\/a>. <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile\" alt=\"Smile\" src=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wlEmoticon-smile3.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So what\u2019s my point? Well right at the start I said this that is an important release for the SBS range. <\/p>\n<p>Now that we have a two very distinctively different editions in the Standard Edition and the Essentials Edition I imagine the sales figures will determine the future of the product range. <\/p>\n<p>It may very well be that we\u2019ll eventually see Exchange server disappear from the SBS range and we could quite possibly go back down to just a single edition of the server.<\/p>\n<p>The only other thing that I\u2019ve been thinking about is the migration path as a small business grows.<\/p>\n<p>It used to be really simple. Start with SBS (2003\/2008) and you could stay with it until you grew past 75 users and you moved onto the \u201cregular\u201d server range.<\/p>\n<p>Now there is a bit of a weird overlap.<\/p>\n<p>A small business can start with SBS 2011 Essentials. If they outgrow Essentials where do they move to? <\/p>\n<p>You\u2019d expect the natural answer to be SBS 2011 Standard which allows up to 75 users but what about email?<\/p>\n<p>Since Essentials doesn\u2019t have Exchange server, email will be provided by a hosted\/cloud service.<\/p>\n<p>If you then move to SBS 2011 Standard you\u2019ll be bringing e-mail back in-house. What if you\u2019re quite happy with your hosted email service? Sure you could just not use the Exchange part of SBS 2011 but look at the hardware muscle you\u2019ll need to pay for just to run an Exchange server you\u2019re not going to use.<\/p>\n<p>Does that mean you\u2019d just jump over SBS Standard to the \u201cregular\u201d range (including the need for client access licenses \u2013 that\u2019ll scare them <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile\" alt=\"Winking smile\" src=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile1.png\" \/>) <\/p>\n<p>If this happens, SBS Standard suddenly only fits a specific niche at the higher end of the market which is unlikely to need a server to work in the 25-75 user range as their first server\u2026..doesn\u2019t that sound a little like EBS? (on a massively over simplified basis)<\/p>\n<p>This post isn\u2019t intended to give SBS a hard time, I\u2019m still a huge SBS fanboy and I\u2019m really looking forward to working with both editions of the product. I\u2019m just interested in where we\u2019re be going over the next few years and the conversations I\u2019ll be having with clients and other SBSC partners.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Really very interested on any thoughts you might have on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announced about a week ago that SBS 2011 standard is now fully available from volume licensing through to OEM. I think this latest release of Small Business Server is a significant one for many reasons. 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