Q1. What is Windows Small Business Server 2008 and its features?
A1. Windows Small Business Server 2008 is designed and priced especially for small businesses, so you can improve productivity and help protect your vital business information. For details see: Windows Small Business Server Overview.  

Q2. Why should I choose Windows Small Business Server 2008?
A2. Windows Small Business Server 2008 offers a range of new features and capabilities, giving organizations with up to 75 PCs a comprehensive way to protect business data, expand business productivity and present a more professional image to customers.

Overview

Windows SBS 2008 minimizes the time that you need to acquire and deploy a single server solution, because it is easier to deploy and because it combines several server technologies under one Microsoft license. With Windows SBS 2008, you do not need to identify, purchase, or license multiple server technologies, and you do not need to match the technologies to appropriate hardware. You also benefit from an integrated deployment experience—one that fully integrates the configurations of all underlying server technologies into a single installation wizard.

Benefits of Using Windows Small Business Server
2008 Windows SBS 2008 provides you with a simplified installation and management experience, making the transition from peer-to-peer networks to server-based technology virtually painless. It also helps keep your data and systems—including e-mail and documents—highly secure from malicious attacks, disasters, and technology failures.

Main Features

• Simplified Setup and Management.   Windows SBS 2008 brings multiple server technologies together into a fully integrated single-server installation and management experience, so you do not need to identify, purchase, install, or manage multiple products or technologies. If you are apprehensive about server technology, the simplified installation and the easy-to-use management tools help ease concerns about adding a new server to your business.
  
  
• An Integrated Setup Experience.   The deployment wizard integrates the setup and configuration of all workloads in Windows SBS 2008. The administrator performs Getting Started Tasks that configure Windows SBS 2008 to the business’s organizational needs. Compared with the installation and configuration of the standalone Microsoft product technologies, the setup wizards significantly decrease deployment times.
  
  You can also migrate earlier versions of Windows Small Business Server to Windows SBS 2008. For more information about migrating to Windows SBS 2008, see the “Migrate to Windows Small Business Server 2008 from Windows Small Business Server 2003” at the Microsoft Web site.
  
  
• Simplified Management.   Windows SBS 2008 reduces operating system complexities by using an intuitive management console. The console presents the administrator with relevant system information and a matching set of streamlined tasks. These tasks are the ones that administrators need most commonly. Tasks that may take hours to complete with standalone product technologies become very simple, efficient, and effective, and a non-technical person can perform them.
  
  
• Network-Wide Protection.   The volume of business data and the increased reliance on communication tools such as e-mail, line-of-business applications, and remote access require that businesses of all sizes protect these assets. Whether you are protecting against viruses in e-mail or are backing up critical data, Windows SBS 2008 integrates leading-edge protection technologies that help guard your network and your data. Windows SBS 2008 provides you with immediate visibility into the status of your network. Windows SBS 2008 includes real-time status icons, daily health reports, automatic updating of signature files for integrated antivirus and malicious software technologies, automated data backups, and centralized update deployment.
  
  Management tools also extend beyond the server that is running Windows SBS 2008. You can easily determine which client computers are missing critical protection technologies, and you can help prevent the client computers from joining the domain until the necessary requirements are met. The ability to monitor and manage client computers extends the reach of the administrator without requiring advanced knowledge or troubleshooting skills.
  
  
• E-Mail Protection.   Windows SBS 2008 helps protect against threats and attacks that try to enter your network through e-mail. Advanced protection is provided by Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server, which is an enterprise-class antivirus and anti-spam server technology. It provides “always-on” protection, delivering robust and aggressive e-mail filtering to small businesses.
  
  
• Server Protection.   Windows SBS 2008 helps protect your server and keeps your key services running.
  
  
• Client Computer Protection.   Windows SBS 2008 monitors your desktop clients for antivirus status, update compliance, and overall security health. This gives you a quick view into the overall status of your client computers, and it helps you address issues before they arise.
  
  
• Simplified Backup for Business Data.   Backups of the server are extended to include external drives. You can easily back up data to external drives, and you can rotate the drives to offsite storage locations. This simplifies your ability to secure your data and to keep it safe.
  
  
• Enhanced Business Productivity.   Windows SBS 2008 provides a solid foundation for business workloads and provides big business technology at an affordable price. These technologies help you enhance employee productivity and gain a competitive advantage.
  
  
• Access with Remote Web Workplace.   Remote Web Workplace is a Web site that is dynamically updated and that provides a single, simple, and consolidated entry point into a small business network, including a fully-configured internal Web site that is managed by Windows SharePoint Services. Employees or partners can gain access to e-mail, files, or even a desktop computer through Remote Web Workplace. From a deployment perspective, you run a wizard, and then Windows SBS 2008 automates the entire installation and configuration of the underlying technologies.
  
  
• Desktop Synergies with Windows Vista and Office 2007.   If you invest in Windows Vista and in the Microsoft Office Professional 2007 productivity and content management tools and if you add them to the server functionality of Windows SBS 2008, you will have the foundation you need to work fast, smart, and together, to take it on the road, and to help protect all of your business data—from the inside out.
  
  
• Mobile Device Support.   Windows SBS 2008 offers enhanced support for SmartPhones that are enabled for Windows Mobile 6.0. These devices let highly mobile employees, such as sales staff or field personnel, access e-mail, contact lists, calendars, and documents that are stored on the company Web site. You can administer mobile devices as if they were on the local network, installing certificates or remotely wiping devices for security purposes.
  
  
• Internet Business Presence.   Windows SBS 2008 integrates with Microsoft Office Live Small Business, which is an Internet-based set of tools that help you quickly and easily create a professional Web presence. You can your Web presence to stay in touch with customers and to easily access company information from one location.