Coming Soon: Windows Essential Business Server

A New Server Solution for Midsize Businesses

Announcing Windows Essential Business Server (previously code-named “Centro”), a new integrated multiserver solution designed for midsize businesses with sophisticated IT needs. It provides the essential technology needed for a more secure and reliable infrastructure.

Powered by Windows Server 2008 technology, Windows Essential Business Server combines software for management, messaging and security features into one integrated server solution that dramatically reduces IT complexity and improves efficiency across the business, putting IT in control. Windows Essential Business Server is an all-in-one server solution designed to transform businesses by helping save time and money and significantly increase productivity.

Windows Essential Business Server will be available in two editions: Standard and Premium.

Integrated Security

Layered protection helps keep your system up and running and better protected from threats:

• In-depth multilevel security features with integrated security workloads
• Preconfigured and optimized to help deliver protection from common threats
• Integrated and automated setup, limiting vulnerabilities during and arising from setup
• Centralized security feature management with a consolidated view of security state across systems — integrating both Microsoft and third-party applications
• More automated patching and update processes to make it easier to keep systems up and running

Less Complexity, More Control

Integrated tools help you proactively manage your IT environment and save time and money:

• Centralized administration console that allows you to proactively manage your IT environment from a single location
• Simplified and integrated setup that reduces installation steps by 75 percent
• A single server license and client access license for all included products to simplify licensing for you and your users

Predictable Platform, Designed for Midsize Businesses

The combination of multiple Microsoft technologies into one integrated server solution is designed to offer an ideal platform for midsize businesses:

• Architected for extensibility to easily plug in other applications.
• Remote Web Workplace, an out-of-the-box feature that enables IT to easily set up security-enhanced remote access
• More efficient to manage, maintain and control, and more affordable to own than stand-alone products

Note: These screenshots are representative of the product, not taken from the final Windows Essential Business Server build.