Comments on: Aurora Announced – Vail on Steroids

By: Ari

Ari — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:06:18 +0000

I also signed in….and am enrolled, but no downloads available yet….am I looking in the wrong place? a Beta program with no Beta content?? *confused*

By: Bob Crook

Bob Crook — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:17:58 +0000

I am thinking that the big news here maybe that the entry level of the new SBS (capped at 25 users) holds incredible potential for small businesses as the possibility is here that offsite computers/laptops might be backed up every night over the Internet. This will be a big seller especially for non-profits. I signed in for the beta so maybe the option has been closed for now.

By: mr-data

mr-data — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:13:08 +0000

This seems to confirm the rumors saying there would a “Professional Edition” of WHS “Vail”; which I believe is a good idea, as home-users and pro-user (small-business) does not need the exact same functionality.

Wheter or not using AD is benefitial to a company with less than 5 – 10 users, is very much dependent on the type of company. In my small company, we are 6 employees (including me who owns the company), and has at various times in our office, or servicing customers at the counter (we sell various parts and tool to prof. and priv. users from a warehouse; and some is served remotely (i.e. phone or internet), other directly by the counter). And thus, AD would managing users on our (currently) 8 computers much easier.

By: TheBeagle

TheBeagle — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:48:29 +0000

It seems that the Windows SBS web site is not quite ready to sign up beta testers just yet. Could you please let us know when that sign up site becomes active, since I would very much like to participate in that endeavor. Best regards. TheBeagle

By: JohnCz

JohnCz — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:01:13 +0000

For my very small business <5 users, the benefit of using Active Directory isn't obvious. However, it is my understanding that there will be some online mail/collaborative services aligned with this. That could be very interesting for us.