The biggest change between the beta and the RC is, of course, the removal of Drive Extender.
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SBS Essentials 2011 takes Home Server's simplicity (and the option to quickly deploy it as a headless server managed from a remote console or in the browser), building on top of Windows Server 2008 R2 with a simplified Active Directory management platform. The original Windows Home Server delivered a lot of that, but was missing one big piece: Active Directory support. Tasks are simple and, wherever possible, wizard driven SBS 2011 Essentials is designed to be run headless, using a remote dashboard on a client PC. Those changes mean, at least according to Microsoft, that there's a market opportunity for a server that can automatically manage backups and basic system management for a small network, with centralised storage and simple tools for working with federated identity services - meaning that users only need to sign on once, and still get secure access to the cloud. But storage demands and user requirements have changed, especially with the arrival of a new generation of cloud services. SBS Essentials 2011, which supports up to 25 users, is intended for very small offices and branch offices - where in the past businesses would have just deployed a Windows workgroup and perhaps a small NAS for backup and shared storage. For one thing, Microsoft controversially pulled the new version of its Drive Extender storage fabric from the entire 'Colorado' family of servers (the codenames for the second generation Home Server-derived servers were all Colorado place names) - the one technology that differentiated them from more conventional server platforms. Microsoft's new server for very small businesses has seen some changes since last year's beta.
Microsoft recently unveiled a release candidate for Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, the name it's chosen for the server codenamed Aurora.
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