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Microsoft’s Guy Haycock discusses the SMB Announcements at WPC 2010

By on July 16, 2010 in Cloud Services, News, Windows SBS 2011 Essentials

The discussion about this week’s Aurora and Small Business Server v7 announcements continues over at Varvid.tv where Guy Haycock, Product Planner in the Home and Small Business Server Team and Dave Sobel from Evolve Technologies share their thoughts on the opportunites arising from the new platforms.

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Aaron Booker from Varvid talks with Dave Sobel, CEO of Evolve Technologies, and asks Dave what he thinks is the biggest announcement happening at WPC 2010.  Dave talks about Microsoft’s new product in the small business server line with the code name Aurora–which Dave says is that perfect first server for a customer to get them started.  Aaron and Dave discuss the specs of Aurora and all the benefits it provides for the SBS user.

Varvid’s Aaron Booker chats with Guy Haycock, product planner in the Windows service business atMicrosoft who specializes in the servers of the SMB segment. Guy talks about the three major announcements made by Microsoft: (1) a preview of Small Business Server Seven, (2) a new server edition called Aurora, which is a hybrid product (some parts are on premise and some are in the cloud) and (3) a preview of a software development kit that can be used to extend Aurora to the cloud. Guy  explains how these products will work and the reasons why customers will love them.

More: Varvid.tv (Via: SBS Diva)


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  • JohnCz

    I'm most interested in hearing details about the Aurora "companion" but optional online service, BPOS. The fact they haven't talked about it much tells me they might have a new BPOS offering targetted for this segment. Although InTune with Windows 7 upgrade licensing rights sounds interesting, I'd prefer they offer Office subscription model…so I never have to make purchasing decision again…I can use the latest and greatest version of Office. And it would make alot of sense so users could fully leverage BPOS's Exchange 2010 and SharePoint 2010 capabilities.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/boggy4062 boggy4062

    Question: What would prevent WHS v2 to use these cloud services? MS marketing folks are inventing names to confuse their customers and charge more. Why don't they simply have a single product with a tiered client licenses (10, 25, 50….)? It would simplify, get more customers, get more love for a great platform. Does anybody at MSFT know/remember the basics of K.I.S.S. rule?

  • http://varvid.tv Aaron Booker

    I would submit that Microsoft Partners already WERE doing this. And they still can… The advantage of Aurora is that you have Active Directory – so it's vastly easier to manage larger numbers of users and keep passwords synchronized, etc.

    I know a number of VARs and MSPs that were using Home Server (in sub 10 person firms) with hosted Exchange to provide a GREAT solution to Small Businesses. And with Aurora, that story is even better…