Just set the price of SBS to the difference between the base Server (that is acting as host) and what the SBS/EBS suite costs. Then lock down the host server version of Hyper-V so that it will only allow for one guest for SBS or 4 guests for EBS. In essence you are licensing the SBS/EBS Server instance as a standby server. Tim
From: Steve Ens [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 11:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: EBS (Essential Business Server) is Dead Oh yeah? That is interesting. That means one extra license in each deployment. Or do you have them all hosted on a datacenter server somewhere? On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I deploy my SBS customers now as a VM. They don't know the difference - but I sure do. :) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 12:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: EBS (Essential Business Server) is Dead If Microsoft was really on the ball, they would have taken the EBS 4 server product model and virtualized the whole build. That way an organization could go from their one SBS server to a single EBS server when the time came. There is really no reason for SBS and EBS to be sold as DVDs in a package, they should be VMs that are loaded onto a host. Just my opinion though, Tim From: Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 11:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: EBS (Essential Business Server) is Dead In this economy I was wondering how long before it would die. Too many medium size businesses seem to be either downsizing or just closing shop. Add virtualization to the mix and it was kill for the product. It was a great idea though. Jon On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Tim Vander Kooi <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Great idea...Decent product...10 years too late. RIP Tim From: David Baca [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 10:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: EBS (Essential Business Server) is Dead wow .. that did not last very long. ________________________________ From: Michael B. Smith <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Fri, March 5, 2010 8:19:15 AM Subject: EBS (Essential Business Server) is Dead http://www.microsoft.com/ebs/en/us/default.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/essentialbusinessserver/archive/2010/03/05/new-it-trends-bring-change-to-mid-market-product-line.aspx http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2010/03/ebs-has-left-the-building.html Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com<http://theessentialexchange.com/> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
