Microsoft plans to release four editions of Windows Server 2012: Datacenter, Standard, Essentials and Foundation. The latter two editions, Essentials and Foundation, are aimed at small business ...

When buying Essentials R2 as a server role, it's available with the Standard or Datacenter editions of Windows Server 2012 R2. Microsoft has published "datasheet" and "white paper" publications ...

One big benefit of Essentials is Microsoft's promise that organizations can perform an in-place upgrade to Windows Server 2012 Standard, without losing support for features. The Standard version of ...

And you don't need to worry about which version of Windows Server you're getting; all the features are in both the Standard and Datacenter ... were a single system. Microsoft has described Windows ...

Microsoft is making available the release ... Other editions include Windows Server 2016 Standard, Essentials, MultiPoint Premium Server, Storage Server, and Hyper-V Server. Nano Server is one ...

Microsoft released an upgrade option to SBS 2011 Standard and SBS 2011 Essentials called "SBS 2011 Premium Add-on." This Microsoft-supplied add-on enables capabilities such as SQL Server ...

seamless integration with Microsoft Online Services, and system health monitoring. In Windows Server 2022, the Essentials edition can be activated through a product key for the Standard edition.