Small Business Server 7 Beta Due This Month

Microsoft's trio of small business servers (codenamed Small Business Server 7) is set to go to public beta by the end of September, according to this ZDNet report. Also noted in the report is that SBS 7 will be the latest version of Microsoft’s on-premises small-business bundle, built around the 64-bit version of the Windows Server 2008 R2 core.

"SBS 7 also will include Exchange 2010 Service Pack (SP) 1, SharePoint 2010 Foundation and Windows Server Update Services 3.0. Microsoft will make available for an additional (so far, unspecified) fee an add-on with SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition for Small Business. Microsoft is touting as SBS 7’s biggest new feature its support for Office Web Apps, as a result of the inclusion of SharePoint 2010 in the bundle.

"Microsoft execs aren’t ready to say whether there will be an on-premises SBS 8, or whether Microsoft plans to make SBS a hybrid-only offering, like Aurora. Aurora is comprised of a small on-premises Server core, supplemented by a number of cloud services, starting with Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), plus some as-yet-unspecified others."

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