Server 2019 Essentials Coming Soon...

[freedomit]

As the title says Server 2019 Essentials has been announced but it’s bad news. The new version has no Office365 integration, no client backup and no remote access feature, In fact the essentials role has been removed completely. With this in mind it’s expected this will be the last SBS/Essentials edition to be released.

RIP SBS/Essentials...keeping small business servers running since Windows NT

 

[marley1]

Honestly it was junk
Better add roles needed or standard
Better to push toward cloud

 

[Slaters Kustum Machines]

As the title says Server 2019 Essentials has been announced but it’s bad news. The new version has no Office365 integration, no client backup and no remote access feature, In fact the essentials role has been removed completely. With this in mind it’s expected this will be the last SBS/Essentials edition to be released.

RIP SBS/Essentials...keeping small business servers running since Windows NT

That sucks.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Honestly it was junk
Better add roles needed or standard
Better to push toward cloud

I have to agree, all of the SBS editions were and remain too much trouble. I preferred foundation, simpler. Just use Standard...

All I need is the discounting on the OS, give me 25 users in CALs on a single instance for $400 and I'm good.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

The end of an era!
I was one of the few that really loved SBS. We made HUGE amounts of money from SBS installs/migrations, it was so much fun taking a small workgroup network and bringing in SBS and giving the office staff that "big corporate feel" of having real email with Outlook/Exchange, and remote access via the RWW portal, and shared faxing from desktop, and all that neat stuff!

We did tons and tons of SBS installs, really loved it. Had no issues with it either, but we went for higher horsepower, real SCSI drives, proper hardware RAID, and it ran like a champ for our clients. I've had many also run heavy SQL right there on it, networks of 50 and 60 even 70 users...running great, for years and years until migrated to newer. I think a lot of people that had negative experiences installed it on those underpowered budget glorified desktop servers with SATA drives and not enough RAM.

It grew up pretty nicely from the old Microsoft Back Office 4.5 (based on NT 4).

Ah well...we'll see what the new '19 has..haven't played with it yet.
And much as I loved the remote access web portal, I'm starting to do that less and less, and shifting clients over to VPNs. Or just TSGateway.

 

[SAFCasper]

SBS on SATA disks was just awful. Always remember rebooting a clients during their lunch hour and forgot it had Windows Updates pending. Nearly 2.5 hours later it came back up. Later discovered it was running the entire system on a single WD Green.

We used to upgrade them to the 10K WD Velociraptors. One large for the data/OS and one small just for the exchange DB and logs. Pair this with 24GB+ of RAM and they actually ran really well. We still have two or three in production and running well. Still looking forward to replacing them though!

 

[freedomit]

We still have two or three in production and running well. Still looking forward to replacing them though!

Same but thankfully Exchange (migrated to O365), Sharepoint and WSUS are all disabled now so they are just basic file/print servers and much simpler to maintain.

 

[Slaters Kustum Machines]

Well this isn't what I want on a server. The other option is never.

 

[fencepost]

Does it come with default power options to go to sleep after 30 minutes idle?