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Is it even worth it upgrading to sbs 2011 in 2014?
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Is it even worth it upgrading to sbs 2011 in 2014?

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You can't. &nbsp;Unless you find a third party still selling a retail version... SBS 2011 was pulled from sale last month (and even then it was only available via OEM, meaning pre-installed on hardware. &nbsp;It was pulled from Volume and Retail in June of 2013.
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You can't.  Unless you find a third party still selling a retail version... SBS 2011 was pulled from sale last month (and even then it was only available via OEM, meaning pre-installed on hardware.  It was pulled from Volume and Retail in June of 2013.

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I have decided to go with Server 2012 Essentials and hosted Exchange. Do I need to virtualize and why?
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I have decided to go with Server 2012 Essentials and hosted Exchange. Do I need to virtualize and why?

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Entire books have been written on virtualization and its benefits and drawbacks. There is NO way to answer that question in a simple post.
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Entire books have been written on virtualization and its benefits and drawbacks. There is NO way to answer that question in a simple post.

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Hi All<br />
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I need help with options for upgrading from SBS 2008. I understand that SBS 2008 is reaching EOF and I need advice on what the upgrade paths are like for small businesses like ours. We have 6 users, we require mostly exchange and office including ms access. We have a very simple accounting package which is server based. <br />
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We have an adsl line but sometimes our bandwidth is not the greatest so I am not too keen cloud computing.
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Hi All

I need help with options for upgrading from SBS 2008. I understand that SBS 2008 is reaching EOF and I need advice on what the upgrade paths are like for small businesses like ours. We have 6 users, we require mostly exchange and office including ms access. We have a very simple accounting package which is server based. 

We have an adsl line but sometimes our bandwidth is not the greatest so I am not too keen cloud computing.

Upgrade route from SBS 2008

Small Business Server (SBS) is a line of server operating systems targeted at small businesses by bundling the operating system with a number of other Microsoft products that would normally need to be purchased or licensed separately. The most notable inclusions are Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and ISA/TMG (Microsoft's firewall and proxy server).

Office 365 is a group of software plus services subscriptions that provides productivity software and related services to its subscribers. Office 365 allows the use of Microsoft Office apps on Windows and OS X, provides storage space on Microsoft's cloud storage service OneDrive, and grants 60 Skype minutes per month. Office 365 includes e-mail and social networking services through hosted versions of Exchange Server, Skype for Business Server, SharePoint and Office Online, integration with Yammer, as well as access to the Office software. All of Office 365's components can be managed and configured through an online portal; users can be added manually, imported from a CSV file, or Office 365 can be set up for single sign-on with a local Active Directory using Active Directory Federation Services.

Microsoft 365

Cloud computing, also known as on-demand computing, is a kind of Internet-based computing where shared resources and information are provided to computers and other devices. It is a model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. Cloud computing and storage solutions provide users and enterprises with various capabilities to store and process their data in third-party data centers, relying on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economies of scale.