TS2 is basically how MS talks to small to middle size Partners and tells us what is happening and how to sell their stuff. Very similar to a TechNet event but more for Partners and more about sales. They were pushing the entire WESS line and also telling us how to make money on their cloud computing. They were also pushing the Response Point system as well. The TS2 was the one put on my J.J. in Orlando yesterday I think he is doing the one tomorrow in Tampa. He is good, knows enough to say I don't know instead of trying to bluff it out he also knows some of the people to ask. As far as actually doing this no I don't think it is at the point of MS saying this is how you should do it. He was talking a scenario one of the audience wanted to know about but it seemed that it was something they had considered so he did have a response to it. There was an SBS MVP also in the audience and she agreed it would work so I suspect they may be moving in that direction but I don't work for them and may be reading more into it than really is there.
The full scenario was customer purchases SBS Premium but already has "new" hardware. They would be moving from an SBS 2003 Premium to a 2008 Premium. The hardware would support the 2008 and had plenty of RAM. Response was yes use the downloadable 2008 Hyper-V or use the 2008 server license with Hyper-V that comes with LOB server, put it on the existing hardware install SBS 2008 in a virtual machine on that, then use the virtual license that came with the physical license for the LOB to install the LOB on it. That is very condensed but I hope you understand it. Basically when you purchase a license for 2008 server you get to install 2008 on one physical machine and one virtual machine. Premium now comes with the 3 server licenses, one for SBS, one physical/virtual, and one virtual only. You get to play as you want. They have also changed the way CAL's are dealt with which I thought would help clients a lot. you only needed a Premium CAL if the client was going to use the "Premium" portion of the server, so you can now mix SBS standard and premium CAL's and it would recognize that. BTW for those of you that are on the MS Software Assurance program and have SBS 2003 Premium you might want to look into the upgrade even if you don't have the hardware to install it. From what we were told yesterday you might get more than you think and it looked to me to be worth looking at. It also appeared that they were still hoping to sell some more of the SBS 2003 Premium with SA as we were told that that might be some still in the channel but that sales of it would not end until the end of December. Jon On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:58 AM, Graeme Carstairs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Jon, > Just to query whats a TS2 and is virtualising SBS 2008 and official MS > line? > > > Graeme > > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Jon Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I was at a TS2 today and they were talking about virtualizing this beast >> to make recovery easier and faster. They have also put in a lot of new >> changes so you might want to look at the entire thing again. >> >> Jon >> >> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Eric E Eskam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Phillip Partipilo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/13/2008 12:18:43 AM: >>> >>> > I mean for real, you dont see Linux vomiting over certain >>> > requirements, it'll be perfectly happy to install on incredibly, >>> > totally substandard hardware, where it will be doing nothing but swap >>> > the entire time. To be so draconian is really disturbing. >>> >>> >>> On the flip side, look at the market MS is targeting - non-technical >>> users. >>> >>> Now I know it's a little absurd to expect a non-technical person to >>> install SBS, but that is part of their target audience. If MS didn't cut >>> off the requirements somewhere, they could go through the whole "vista >>> capable" fiasco all over again, so they drew a line in the sand and said >>> "here are the requirements". Either way they can't win. Now if they had a >>> way for you to push F6 or something on install and basically acknowledge you >>> knew what you were doing and to turn the sanity checks off, then that would >>> make some folks happy... until some consultant did that in a production >>> environment at a clients demand and then they were subject to complaints >>> about SBS "sucking".... >>> >>> I dunno. Tough call - I don't blame them, though. The 64-bit >>> requirements and the lack of an in place upgrade option aren't putting me in >>> a hurry to upgrade any time soon. That and I'm keeping an eye on: >>> >>> http://www.bilal.ca/ >>> >>> Their appliance has some pretty compelling features - esp for hardware >>> recovery, is cost competitive to SBS (esp. after the 2008 price hike) and >>> with Symphony I could probably eliminate Office for further cost savings. >>> >>> Either way I'm not in a hurry to touch my SBS 2003 installs. >>> >>> Eric Eskam >>> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >>> The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any >>> position of the U.S. Government >>> "The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange >>> protein; it rejects it." >>> - P. B. Medawar >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Carbon credits are a bit like beating someone up on this side of the world > and sponsoring one of those poor starving kids on the other side of the > world to make up for the fact that you're a complete shit at home. > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
