Windows Essential Business Server 2008

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Windows Essential Business Server is Microsoft's Server Suite for Small and Medium Enterprises.

The operating system was completed by Microsoft on September 16, 2008 and released two months later. The setting of the sale of 30 June 2010 it was announced on March 5 of that year.

Overview

Microsoft offers two editions Standard and Premium, both based on Windows Server 2008. The Standard Edition includes licenses for three Windows Server 2008 x64 Standard Server instances. On these three server instances ( physical or virtual ), the following server products are integrated, which are installed by a common installation routine: Microsoft Exchange 2007, Microsoft System Center Essentials, Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server and Forefront Threat Management Gateway ( TMG) Medium Business Edition, successor of the previous product Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server.

In addition to all components of the Standard Edition, the Premium version includes an additional license for a physical or virtual instance of Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition and the standard database software Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

The Essential Business Server can be managed by a centralized and extensible administrative console. He offers experienced administrators but also direct access to all the standard management tools such as the Exchange 2007 management console that can be accessed via the EBS Administration Console. The ways in which the Windows 2008 Server Terminal technologies are used by the management tools of remote computers in part as a so-called streamed applications from the EBS Administration Console are called out. In addition, this panel has the ability to monitor the computer of the network. For this, the software uses the monitoring data from Microsoft System Center Essentials.

The console can be extended by third parties by an upside available from Microsoft SDK. Essential Business Server also includes the Remote Web Workplace, a web-based solution for remote access to e- mail via Outlook Web Access, SharePoint, and the ability of the computer on the internal network via a secure, authenticated connection via Remote Desktop Protocol ( RDP) access. This RDP connections are made via the Terminal Services Gateway and therefore require only the default SSL port TCP/443 to make a connection. Is also only this port is required for all other services of the remote web workplace.

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