It is time to become a rounding error, SA is making sense
Well in the past Susan liked to call folks like me (and herself) who saw the advantange of Software Assurance a rounding error, because there were so few of us.
But with this announcement of what you will get if you have SA on SBS R2, it is a no brainer. Are you a trusted advisor? Making this kind of recomendation is just the thing to build some of that trust, you stand to save them around a thousand dollars (assumes premium version), if they buy in now!
| SBS 2003 R2 Component Product | Upgrade Path |
| FrontPage 2003* | SharePoint Designer 2007 |
| Outlook 2003 | Outlook 2007 |
| For Mac Users: Entourage 2004 | For Mac Users: Entourage 2008 |
| Internet Security Acceleration Server (ISA) 2004* | ISA 2006 + separate copy of Windows Server 2003 R2 **Until such time ISA successor product, Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010, is released upon which, a TMG 2010 license will be granted. *** |
*Premium Edition ** ISA 2006 does not run on Windows Server 2008 *** Version number subject to market availability
Note: Customers will have to purchase SA separately (independent of SA for SBS) in order to receive future upgrades of the granted components as part of ongoing SA entitlement, except in the case of the ISA, where SA does not have to be attached to ISA 2006 in order to get TMG 2010 (I.e. SA attachment to SBS 2003 R2 entitles customer to TMG 2010).
Also note: SBS 2003 R2 CALs with SA will upgrade to SBS 2008 CAL Suite or SBS 2008 CAL Suite for Premium Users or Devices, depending on which edition of SBS server software your SA rights entitle you to.