[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS. Size indeed matters not.] Wow to some, horrors to others - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA"
Mon, May 12 2008 1:52 bradley

Wow to some, horrors to others

The earlier post that Mark Crall made about client backup being out of SBS has a few folks looking at the 2008 lineup of products.

One person questioned if the removal of client backup was big thing, or a small thing.  The funny thing is when I first mentioned about how folks used the Home Server to backup desktops, someone I know was so very much "ho hum" about that piece it wasn't funny.  In his eyes it was a liability ... that if you had such unique stuff on a workstation that it had to be backed up, perhaps one should rethink the deployment of the network in the first place. 

As many in the room who indicated that the reason that they don't deploy SharePoint is that they don't feel comfortable with it's backup and restore in v2, the v3 is much better.  If you don't see the possibility for workflow change in your clients businesses you are probably not looking hard enough. 

Like it or not 2008 is here.  Get ready.

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# re: Wow to some, horrors to others

Monday, May 12, 2008 9:16 AM by Mark

Post Susan mentioned: sbsc.techcareteam.com/.../210

# re: Wow to some, horrors to others

Monday, May 12, 2008 9:59 AM by JamesB

Not including the WHS image backup just shows Microsoft is less and less interested in "WOW"'ing us. Feature for feature SBS08 as discussed in public has no WOW. Few if any Microsoft products have any WOW anymore.

What we need is a product we can walk into any business and says "this is going to change the way you work, make you more productive, reduce your cost and in general provide your business with the leverage you need to go to the next level." SBS03 did this, Win2K/XP did this to a degree. Vista doesn't in my book, Server 08/SBS08 doesn't or won't. Without the WOW the products don't sell themselves and frankly I see little reason to "sell" Vista/Server08/SBS08 to customers on fully supported, fully functional systems.

I want WOW. Microsoft stop chasing Google and give me my WOW by getting back to what you do.

# re: Wow to some, horrors to others

Monday, May 12, 2008 10:14 AM by Kevin Royalty

Here is a good example from a client of mine that will benefit from home server backing up their "key" workstations.

They have a specialized PC that contains software that is difficult to setup and configure that controls manufacturing equipment in their plant.  If that PC goes down, they lose money and part of the plant shuts down.  By backing that PC up with home server (it's an SBS network there btw), I can bring that PC back if it fails within an hour or so.  To give you some perspective, I had to rebuild that Pc in november due to a failed hard drive.  It took 12 hours total to get the system back up to what it was with all the specialized software and configuration necessary.