More Server Products for Education

Find out about the many Microsoft server products available for educational institutions. All our server products are reliable, simple to maintain and scalable.

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• Application Center Server 2000
• BizTalk Server 2006
• Microsoft Business Solutions CRM
• Commerce Server 2007
• Content Management Server 2002
• Exchange Server 2007
• Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006
• Microsoft Operations Manager 2005
• SharePoint Portal Server 2007
• SQL Server 2005
• Systems Management Server 2003
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Application Center Server 2000

Microsoft Application Center 2000 is a Windows-based deployment and management tool for high-availability web applications. Application Center 2000 makes managing groups of servers as simple as managing a single computer.

• Works to simplify the management of applications by reducing their complexity.
• Easily increases the capacity of your application by adding extra servers which will ensure that your applications are available at all times, to all users, and that your system is able to withstand and accommodate unexpected software and hardware failures.

In Education

Education is becoming increasingly reliant on secure, reliable and highly available infrastructures. Application Center Server 2000 makes it easy for administrators to deploy and manage server-based applications across their entire data centre, ensuring maximum up-time for applications, resources, data and online access.

• Visit the Microsoft UK support website

BizTalk Server 2006

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 brings together business processes within and between institutions.

• Enables you to integrate internal and external applications.
• Implements your business processes and manages the exchange and transformation of business documents between applications.
• Ensures the highest levels of interoperability and security through support for standards such as XML, EDI, HTTP, public key encryption, digital signatures and encryption.
• Rich graphical tools enable the construction of XML schema, schema transformation, the establishment of trading relationships, plus data tracking / analysis.

In Education

Until recently, educational institutions have concentrated on building administrative applications such as finance and student record systems. The challenge now is how to integrate these applications, often held on different technology platforms, comfortably. BizTalk Server 2006 provides the solution, and also helps drive down costs and improve efficiencies.

• Visit the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 product page (US)

Microsoft Business Solutions CRM

Microsoft Business Solutions CRM (Customer Relationship Management) helps you build more profitable and successful customer relationships. Designed for maximum flexibility and low total cost of ownership, it's easy to set up, customise and use, it's accessible from Microsoft Outlook and the web and it integrates with other systems.

• Helps to improve customer experience, which can lead to increased student recruitment and retention. When integrated with educational administration systems, it delivers customer service efficiency and effectiveness, resulting in more profitable customer relationships and more reliable information.
• Can be set up, customised and maintained efficiently and cost-effectively, with expert support and services from Microsoft Partners.
• Tightly integrated with Microsoft Office desktop productivity tools and integrates easily with Microsoft Business Solutions Financials. Microsoft CRM enables integration with other educational administration application systems (e.g. financial, HR, student record systems) and web services.

In Education

Many educational institutions are struggling to maintain their customer information in an effective manner. Microsoft CRM is user friendly and drives effective communication with students, staff and parents, which increases opportunities for student recruitment and retention. A cost effective, yet highly comprehensive solution, Microsoft CRM can help your institution to deliver successful CRM to overcome low student recruitment numbers and enhance your community's experience.

• Visit the Microsoft Dynamics CRM product page (US)
• Learn about Microsoft's customer relationship management solutions for education

Commerce Server 2007

Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 is the solution for quickly building an effective online business.

• Enables business managers to manage and control online activity on a day-to-day basis.
• Has the advantage of a faster time to market by allowing developers to quickly build and deploy web solutions using a comprehensive set of integrated, pre-built business components.
• One-to-one marketing and targeting attract prospective customers and/or learners, improving ease of use and relevance of content, resulting in a positive and personalised online experience.

In Education

Educational institutions can use Commerce Server 2007 to provide a personalised web experience for both learners and staff. Its targeting functionality can be used to attract and engage prospective learners with specialised, relevant and personalised content.

• Visit the Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 product page (US)

Content Management Server 2002

Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 helps you quickly and cost-effectively build, deploy and maintain dynamic, targeted and personalised Internet, intranet and extranet sites.

• Features a comprehensive system for managing web content and enables content providers to create, manage and publish their own content quickly and easily.
• IT administrators can rapidly deploy scalable, dynamic sites with consistent branding, and deliver dynamic content to multiple audiences and devices across websites.
• The personalised content ensures a positive user experience. It also enables educational institutions to get to market faster with higher quality web content using standardised page templates, automated approval processes and built-in support for multiple languages and devices.

In Education

Educational institutions now see the Internet as an important communications channel to reach prospective learners. This solution enables the content providers across the whole institution to publish and manage their own content, while the IT department maintains system security and manageability.

• Visit the Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 product page

Exchange Server 2007

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is the reliable, easy-to-manage messaging collaboration solution for bringing users and knowledge together.

• Provides an enhanced platform for messaging.
• Offers the unified management of all messaging, collaboration, network capabilities and resources.
• The Web Storage System enables the storage and collaboration of structured and unstructured information, such as Word documents or Excel spreadsheets, in one place.
• The anytime, anywhere communication feature provides a comprehensive communication platform enabling everyone within an educational institution to stay in touch, wherever they are, through web-based access, using any device.

In Education

The unified messaging and collaboration platform provided by Exchange Server 2007 consolidates email services (including web-based access and support for mobile devices) enabling consistent communication. Exchange Server 2007 provides group calendars and comprehensive scheduling functions.

• Visit the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 product page (US)

Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server is an extensible firewall and caching server that delivers powerful security and fast web-access.

• Gives comprehensive control over online access and allows you to monitor usage according to your security policy.
• Maximises performance and makes bandwidth savings by storing and serving content locally.
• The combination of firewall and web caching provides a single point-of-access and management policy for both inbound and outbound traffic. It is built on extensible, open platform standards for easy interoperability and cross platform compatibility, and is supported by a large number of third-party developers.

In Education

Broadband access is increasingly common, but demand still exceeds availability. Caching is therefore a high priority for users looking to optimise their bandwidth. ISA Server delivers a superior caching device and, as security is equally important to the education sector, an industry-leading firewall. ISA Server is integrated with Windows Server 2003 Active Directory, enabling Internet access to be controlled and managed. The caching capability allows content to be pre-loaded in preparation for lessons, while the firewall features deliver comprehensive security based upon your institution's Internet policy.

• Visit the Microsoft ISA Server product page (US)

Microsoft Operations Manager 2005

Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 delivers enterprise-class performance management for Windows-based environments, ensuring enhanced operational reliability for all educational institutions.

• Provides comprehensive server and application operations management.
• Works seamlessly with Microsoft Systems Management Server and built-in Windows technologies.
• Easy to install and offers flexible scalability with standard events, alerts, reports and extensive expertise, providing a quick return on investment.

In Education

Institutions are often required to deploy a distributed computing infrastructure, e.g. a university deploying a SQL Server database in a remote campus. Often there are few technical resources available in the distributed location. Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 provides an event and alerting facility to support IT administrators in centrally-managed educational institutions.

• Visit the Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 product page (US)

SharePoint Portal Server 2007

Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2007 makes it possible for you to connect your users and share knowledge so that they can find the information they need to work more efficiently.

• Quickly and easily build intranet sites that give educators and learners access to key content from a broad range of information resources.
• Through the use of digital dashboards and web-parts, SharePoint integrates your line-of-business applications, enabling the creation of portals with personalised content.
• Document management facilities help manage your documents through version control and publishing. These facilities are fully integrated with tools that help you create and manage content such as Office, Visio and Project.
• Provides scalable search facilities, letting you index your content repositories such as shared drives, intranet and internet sites, Exchange public folders and the SharePoint document management repository.

In Education

SharePoint Portal Server 2007 helps educators and learners collaborate by building portals that support collaboration services, such as document sharing and publishing, news and bulletins, announcements, research and report hosting. It also provides search facilities across SharePoint, file shares, Exchange public folders and websites.

• Visit the Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2007 product page

SQL Server 2005

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is the next-generation database and analysis solution for administrative applications, data storage and management information systems.

• In addition to supporting administrative applications, such as student records and finance applications, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 provides a comprehensive data storage solution.
• Data warehouses provide important management information using online analytical processing (OLAP). SQL Server 2005 includes integrated analysis services, data mining and language query capabilities.
• Provides the tools and functionality required to create and maintain database-powered applications and is widely recognised for its industry-leading performance, reliability and scalability.

In Education

SQL Server 2005 supports your administrative applications, such as student records, finance and curriculum delivery systems. Data analysis and reporting capabilities increase management and administration efficiencies and enable the delivery of accurate information.

• Visit the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 product page (US)

Systems Management Server 2003

Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 is the most scalable way to reduce the cost of change and configuration management for Windows-based desktop and server systems.

• Lowers the cost of management through best-of-breed tools.
• Enables centralised software distribution, provides diagnostic tools and features software inventory control.
• A scalable management solution meeting the needs of all educational institutions by offering WAS-aware tools, support for remote users, granular security and integration with other tools and environments.
• Delivers the most comprehensive management of desktops and servers running Windows, through a complete set of tools and the tightest integration with the Windows environment.

In Education

The need to manage a complex distributed computing environment is the challenge facing many educational institutions. Systems Management Server 2003 provides a comprehensive set of tools to deploy, audit and manage software applications across the institution e.g. deploying the Office suite across a complex multi-site campus.

• Visit the Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 product page

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How to Buy

You can buy Microsoft server products through our network of Education Partners.

• Find an Education Partner to help you find the right server solution to meet your needs

Microsoft has developed a range of licences and agreements especially for educational organisations. Find out more about educational licensing, whether you qualify, where you can buy and licensing compliance.

• Learn about licensing

Microsoft Servers

Microsoft offers a range of server solutions that are reliable, simple to maintain and scalable. All our products have in-built flexibility to help you respond quickly to changing needs.

• Visit the main UK Microsoft Server page