Office 365 is a great tool for small businesses, but many still need local servers and joint cloud/on-premises administration With its pulling of the plug on Small Business Server (SBS) in 2011, ...

The small business Windows server suite from Microsoft. Designed to integrate with Office 365 and Internet backup such as Windows Azure, Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials supports up to 25 users and ...

Today, Microsoft announced the "general availability" (GA) of Windows Server 2016 Essentials. It's the server edition that's aimed at small businesses, with support for 25 users and 50 devices maximum ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced plans to release a Windows Server 2019 Essentials edition for small businesses sometime later this year, but it might the last Essentials edition it'll ship. "There is ...

Microsoft has released the small-business version of Windows Server 2016, meant for up to 25 users and 50 devices. It's called Windows Server 2016 Essentials, and Microsoft announced its general ...

A preview version of Windows Server 2012 R2 is now out, complete with a nag feature aimed at administrators. The new preview pushes related Microsoft services at SMBs via a dashboard that will “remind ...

Windows Storage Server Essentials has the ease of Windows Home Server but supports more users, offers more capabilities, and comes on better hardware Earlier this month, I highlighted the Windows Home ...

Microsoft has released a preview of the next version of its integrated package for small organizations, Windows Small Business Server 2011. This new edition updates the core Microsoft products in the ...

In the 2012 edition, Enterprise and Small Business Server are both going away. Four new versions of Windows Server remain with the new release, which could be released to manufacturing real soon now.

Back in February, Microsoft announced two new Windows Essential Server Solutions (all-in-one IT solutions designed for small and midsize businesses) built on Windows Server 2008: Windows Small ...

Microsoft has released to testers builds of its next version of Windows Small Business Server (code-named "Cougar") and its first release of Windows Midmarket Server (code-named "Centro"), company ...