What you would be looking for would be the Server 2012 Essentials product (new name for SBS 2011 Essentials). This would be one server on one site doing the AD/Office 365 Integration ‘Lite’ and then you should be able to use a foundation or essentials server at each site using a remote access technology.
Bearing in mind that the feature set has not been fully announced you might even be able to do Direct Access rather than dedicated VPN site-to-site for file access, sharing and permissions, and the only issue might be a delay in an on-premise password change replicating to the cloud hosted exchange. If they go beyond 25 users then they would simply upgrade to Server Standard 2012 and keep the ‘integration component’. If you want on-premise exchange then you can still go with SBS2011 and there should be an upgrade path to Server 2012 with full exchange on the same box – but the details of this without virtualising bits is still a bit sketchy. Mike From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 23 July 2012 15:39 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Speaking of Office 365 Thanks. Does that mean that a single SBS2011 Essentials server will support all that connectivity vs. 3 or 4 other servers? Don K ________________________________ From: James Hill <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 5:35 PM Subject: RE: Speaking of Office 365 For this sized environment you are much better off using SBS 2011 Essentials as it has Office 365 single sign on integration. It’s a plugin that keeps the local account and o365 account passwords in sync. SBS 2011E will cover your storage requirements as well. James. From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> Sent: Saturday, 21 July 2012 3:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Speaking of Office 365 Hi folks. Just fishing for input here. I've quoted a solution to client with two options. One is to purchase a new server/storage platform and have their email and file sharing services local - eg SBS (currently on SBS 2008). They are small - 25 users, 4 locations. I also quoted Office 365 on the E1 or E3 plan, leaving some local storage at each site with a logon DC. However, from what I read, if we want to use 365 with AD FS to allow single sign on and internal/external domain sync, we would need to build up to 4 additional servers(see below) to allow this. 1) Computer to run AD sync tool 2) 2 AD FS servers for load balancing (or use existing DC) 3) AD FS Proxy 1 to 3 servers in an extranet Is that the only way to implement 365 by adding more servers and dedicating them to these roles, or do you not use the AD FS to allow single sign on, etc. ? Thanks for any input. Don K ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
