Sean Daniel has some public information regarding Cougar which is the next version of our beloved SBS 2003. Some interesting things in it such as no support for tape for backups and the single NIC mode install behind a firewall will be the only option.
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by vijay on Sunday, June 10th, 2007
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June 10th, 2007 at 2:37 am
Wow, probably the two topics that generate most discussion on the SBS lists are “tape vs. disk backup” and “ISA vs. external firewall”. It seems that Microsoft is hitting them both in Cougar! That’s guaranteed to generate a lot of flame wars - I hope Microsoft gets the product mix right.
June 10th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Sean Daniel on “Where’s my next version of SBS?” - Cougar as was known…
I was browsing Vijay's blog and notices a link to Sean Daniel's blog discussing Cougar. While…
June 10th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
In terms of tape based backup, I think there is a clear trend away from this. That’s not to say tape will disappear overnight, it certainly won’t. So, I believe this is a reasonable thing for the SBS Product Team to do.