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Small Business Server 2000 Product Overview

Small Business Server 2000 is an integrated, network solution designed to help small businesses with up to 50 computers to take advantage of the Internet, to manage and grow customer relationships, and to enhance your company's overall productivity.

Small Business Server 2000 includes the highly reliable and manageable Microsoft Windows 2000 Server network operating system, plus Windows 2000 server-based solutions for e-mail, fax, database, and secure, shared Internet access. It is integrated for single, unified setup and centralized management across all of the applications referenced below, setting new standards for ease of installation, use, and administration. With Small Business Server, you have many component applications and useful tools with which to work�for one exceptional price.

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Internet-Enable Your Business
Provide company-wide, shared Internet access that's fast and secure, with Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000. Access your network remotely from any device that's hooked up to the Internet, using a secure virtual private network (VPN). And with Web services, you can build, stage, and/or host your own Internet presence using Microsoft FrontPage 2000 and Microsoft Internet Information Service (IIS) 5.0. This gives customers all-hours access to your business. You can also manage your employee Web access policy.

Manage and Grow Customer Relationships
Great communications tools help you keep in touch with current customers through direct, personalized e-mail, and to reach new customers with automated e-mail or fax mailings.

With flexible customer management capabilities, you can track customers with a shared contact database using Microsoft Outlook 2000 and Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server public folders. You can also assign individual e-mail aliases to employees for direct, personalized customer communications. In addition, you are able to provide constant access to information about your company, through your own Web site.


Enhance Company Productivity
Help users to easily share files, computer equipment, and business applications on the secure, reliable Windows 2000 platform. With Small Business Server 2000, your users are able to access important files and e-mail anytime and from anywhere.

Connect people with knowledge. Use Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server and Outlook 2000 to streamline communications in sending and receiving e-mail and faxes, scheduling meetings, and holding real-time Internet meetings from your desktops.

Run your business more effectively with one, or many, of the thousands of available line-of-business applications�compatible with Windows 2000 Server, SQL Server 2000, and/or Exchange 2000 Server. With Small Business Server 2000, you can also develop database solutions that are tailored to specific businesses.

Small Business Server saves your organization time and money. For example, you'll spend less time on maintenance calls, control desktops with minimal impact to individual employees, buy fewer modems, and lease fewer phone lines.