The purpose of this guide is to help you find the Small Business Server or Essential Business Server edition and licenses appropriate to your organization's needs.

Small Business Server is an "all-in-one" server solution, bundling server operating systems with relevant applications and services. It provides organizations with application server technologies like folder and printer sharing, an email server, tools to manage Internet access, internal websites (intranets), remote access, support for mobile devices, and backup/restore tools.

When someone refers to a server, what are they talking about? Put most simply, a server is a piece of software or hardware that provides resources to one or more computers on a network. The word “server” causes some confusion because it’s used as a catch-all term for several distinct things.