Small Business Server 2008

We will start off by briefly introducing you to SBS 2008, just in case you have never worked with it before. We will then look at how it can be implemented with Hyper-V.

Introducing SBS 2008

SBS has been one of Microsoft's most successful products and has gone through a number of versions. The current release is SBS 2008. This solution provides a single-server solution that includes the following:

  • A Windows Server 2008 machine with Active Directory
  • All the usual Windows Server 2008 Standard edition features, such as file sharing
  • Exchange 2007 Standard edition
  • Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
  • Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
  • Supports up to 75 users

The setup is a packaged routine, installing and configuring each ...

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