Windows SBS 2011 Essentials End-to-End Demonstration
45 minutes |
This end-to-end demonstration of Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials (SBS 2011 Essentials) includes: adding a user account, connecting the user’s PC to the SBS environment, managing the user’s PC to ensure its health and security, protecting the server and PC’s data, adding server storage capacity, and using Remote Web Access. |
| Windows SBS 2011 Essentials Technical Hands-On Labs Overview |
Six hands-on labs that are designed to provide you with the technical knowledge and skills you need to install, configure, administer and troubleshoot a Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials infrastructure. The course focuses on deployment, configuration, and administration using the SBS 2011 Essentials server, Management Dashboard, and add-in extensions. |
| Windows SBS Essentials Technical Hands-On Labs: Module 1 |
Preparing for Deployment. This module highlights the ways in which the Windows SBS 2011 Installation Wizard helps users quickly and easily install and configure a server. In this module, users fill out a planning document. Users then boot from the DVD to start the first part of installation by selecting the hard drive and providing a key. During the next phase of the module, users revert to a snapshot to skip the waiting period of installation. This snapshot boots into the final phase of installation, where users set the server and business name and select other security settings. |
| Windows SBS Essentials Technical Hands-On Labs: Module 2 |
Server Configuration. This module highlights the ways in which the SBS 2011 Dashboard Getting Started tasks list simplifies the process of finalizing server configuration and enabling important features that would otherwise require more effort and knowledge of Windows technologies. Primarily, the module walks users through initially configuring automatic updates and other SBS 2011 features including updates, server backups, remote access, shared folders, and email notification. |
| Windows SBS Essentials Technical Hands-On Labs: Module 3 |
Server Management and Monitoring. This module shows the benefits the SBS Dashboard offers as a centralized solution for server configuration and monitoring. The module reviews server settings in the SBS 2011 Dashboard. Specifically, in this module, users review detailed configuration settings for domain members, local storage, server backup settings, and time/location. Users also review server health via warnings and alerts. |
| Windows SBS Essentials Technical Hands-On Labs: Module 4 |
User and Client and Computer Management. This module focuses on using the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials Dashboard to manage users and clients and using the SBS 2011 Essentials Connect site to join a computer to the SBS domain. |
| Windows SBS Essentials Technical Hands-On Labs: Module 5 |
Client Experience. This module walks users through using the client Launchpad and the Remote Web Workplace. Once installed, the Launchpad provides quick links for managing backups, browsing shared folders, and accessing the Remote Web Workplace and the SBS Dashboard. The Remote Web Workplace is a website that users can log into anytime from any Internet-enabled computer to access domain resources such as email and file shares as well as RDP into workstations. |
| Windows SBS Essentials Technical Hands-On Labs: Module 6 |
Cloud Services and Add-ins. In this lab, users explore how easy it is to install Windows SBS 2011 Essentials add-ins from client workstations and manage them even when working remotely. |
Windows SBS 2011 Essentials Technical Training: Overview
40 minutes |
Module 1 of 6: Overview of SBS 2011 server solutions, focusing on SBS 2011 Essentials—the easy-to-use first server solution for small businesses with up to 25 users. Includes an overview of its features, functionality, and system requirements. |
SBS 2011 Essentials Technical Training: Installing and Configuring
30 minutes |
Module 2 of 6: Overview of streamlined server setup and deployment tools in SBS 2011 Essentials, including the Getting Started wizard for initial server and client configuration, the customizable list for post-installation tasks, the Connect Computer wizard, and Remote Web Access configuration. |
SBS 2011 Essentials Technical Training: Server Management and Monitoring
25 minutes |
Module 3 of 6: Overview of simplified management and monitoring features in SBS 2011 Essentials, including server and client computer monitoring, server backup and restore, server storage management, and server shared folder creation. |
SBS 2011 Essentials Technical Training: User and Computer Management
20 minutes |
Module 4 of 6: Overview of simplified user and computer management features in SBS 2011 Essentials, including the Add User wizard for creating and editing user accounts, the Client Connector for joining and updating computers in the SBS 2011 Essentials environment, deploying and managing client computers, and troubleshooting client deployment. |
SBS 2011 Essentials Technical Training: Client Experience
15 minutes |
Module 5 of 6: Overview of the new Client Launchpad in SBS 2011 Essentials, using server shared folders to access the server, and using Remote Web Access. |
SBS 2011 Essentials Technical Training: Add-ins
40 minutes |
Module 6 of 6: Overview of available add-ins and how they are used and how SBS 2011 Essentials provides a platform for cloud services integration. |
Which Server to Choose?
.zip 13.2 MB 1 hour |
This 200-level technical discussion covers the full range of Microsoft general purpose servers. Get the technical knowledge you need to recommend the server products that meet your customers' needs. It includes a handy chart to compare server operating systems. |
Windows SBS 2011 Essentials Product and OPK Deep Dive
.zip 15.8 MB 1 hour |
View a demonstration of new functionality in the preview version of SBS 2011 Essentials. See how to use the OEM Preinstallation Kit (OPK) to build and customize installation of the SBS 2011 Essentials operating system. |
