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Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 Standard Edition is a comprehensive, secure web gateway that helps protect organisations from web-based threats. It also delivers simple, unified perimeter security with integrated firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, malware inspection, and URL filtering.

The Microsoft website lists a number of features of Forefront TMG — such as URL filtering and protection from spam and viruses — that require a subscription to Forefront TMG Web Protection Service to keep definitions current. Subscriptions are not currently donated and cannot be purchased from Microsoft through the Open Licence programme.

Forefront TMG builds on the technologies of Internet Security and Acceleration Server, which Microsoft no longer offers. Organisations with licences for ISA whose Software Assurance was current at the time of Forefront TMG's release can obtain it through their Software Assurance benefit.

Licencing: This product is licensed under the processor licensing model, with a license required for each physical or virtual processor accessed by an operating system environment running a TMG server. This license does not require any device or user CALs.

Acquiring the Installation Media: To activate this product, you might need a volume licence key or setup code.

This enterprise device client access license (CAL) can be used only in conjunction with a standard Office Communications Server device CAL. It authorizes one computer to access certain Office Communications Server features, regardless of the number of users (for example, on a shared workstation).

The features licensed through the enterprise Office Communications Server device CAL include web conferencing, voice over IP, and application sharing.

User CALs are also available. A user CAL allows one user to access Exchange Server's additional features on any number of computers or other devices (for example, when an employee accesses the server from a computer at work and another at home).

Note: This license does not require media.

Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 Enterprise Edition is a comprehensive, secure web gateway that helps protect organisations from web-based threats. It also delivers simple, unified perimeter security with integrated firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, malware inspection, and URL filtering.

The Enterprise Edition provides increased scalability, access to a central management console, and complete support for virtual environments.

The Microsoft website lists a number of features of Forefront TMG — such as URL filtering and protection from spam and viruses — that require a subscription to Forefront TMG Web Protection Service to keep definitions current. Subscriptions are not currently donated and cannot be purchased from Microsoft through the Open License programme.

Forefront TMG builds on the technologies of Internet Security and Acceleration Server, which Microsoft no longer offers. Organisations with licences for ISA whose Software Assurance was current at the time of Forefront TMG's release can obtain it through their Software Assurance benefit.

Licensing: This product is licensed under the processor licensing model, with a license required for each physical or virtual processor accessed by an operating system environment running a TMG server. This license does not require any device or user CALs.

Acquiring the Installation Media: To activate this product, you might need a volume licence key or setup code.

Office Communications Server 2007 facilitates, unifies, and moderates real-time communication by a variety of methods. Office Communications Server supports instant messaging (IM), presence information, Web conferencing, and telephony, all utilizing pre-existing software and technology in an office environment.

This offering is the enterprise edition, which can support unlimited users and allows individual components to be deployed on dedicated servers. The enterprise edition requires a dedicated back end SQL database on a separate server. The standard edition, also available from TechSoup Stock, runs on a single server and can support up to 5000 users.

Additional processor licences can be acquired through Microsoft's Charity Open Licencing programme.

Office Communications Server can serve as a hub for all live communications within an organisation and with people outside the organisation. Users connected to Office Communications Server can participate in IM and voice conversations and share Office documents. Meetings can be requested and launched through a special menu in Outlook or through a Web interface.

Office Communications Server's IM functionality works with Office Communicator and Microsoft Live Meeting. Additionally, it provides access through a Web-based interface and most popular IM clients, allowing constituents and associates outside of the office to communicate conveniently. When a third user is invited to a conversation, the IM Conferencing Server relays messages among participants regardless of what IM clients the participants are using. The transition to a multiple-user conference is automatic with no cosmetic changes.

Office Communications Server can manage both voice over IP (VoIP) and traditional (PSTN) telephony. Participants may use any combination of physical phones and Office Communicator's voice interface. By adhering to industry telephony standards, Office Communications Server can work within the confines of an organisation's existing telephone and PBX systems.

Through close integration with other Microsoft Office products, Office Communications Server supports multiple venues for collaboration and application-sharing. PowerPoint presentations can be utilised and distributed within a Web conference and Office documents can be edited in real time by local and remote participants.

Office Communications Server also accommodates live audio and video conferencing among multiple users. Office Communications Server is compatible with Microsoft RoundTable or any device adherent to RTP or RTCP protocols.

The R2 release adds desktop sharing capabilities, on-premise audio conferencing, and extended Communicator Mobile functionality for remote and mobile users.

Licence Requirements: This product includes only the licence for a server running Office Communications Server. Each user or device that accesses the IM or presence capabilities of Office Communications Server must have an Office Communications Server standard user or device client access licence (CAL) or be covered by a standard external connector (EC) licence.

In addition to the standard CAL or EC licence, each user or device that accesses the web conferencing, telephony, and application sharing capabilities must have an Office Communications Server enterprise user or device CAL or be covered by an enterprise EC licence.

Acquiring the Installation Media and Licence Key: Installing this product requires installation media and a licence key. Installation media will be shipped to you free of charge.

The licence key allows you to use the installation media to install the product on as many computers as you have received donations for. This quantity is specified in the donation email sent to your organisation email address after your eligibility has been verified and your administrative fee has been received.

This enterprise user client access license (CAL) can be used only in conjunction with a standard Office Communications Server user CAL. It allows one user to access certain Office Communications Server features such as web conferencing, voice over IP, and application sharing on any number of computers or other devices (for example, when an employee accesses the server from a computer at work and another at home).

Device CALs are also available. A device CAL authorizes one computer to access Exchange Server's additional features, regardless of the number of users (for example, on a shared workstation).

Note: This license does not require media.

Small Business Server 2008 Premium Edition includes the technologies of SBS 2008 Standard Edition as well as software to run on a second server that is dedicated to supporting a number of line-of-business (LOB) applications. It provides small organisations with many of the features used by large organisations — file and printer sharing, an email server, tools to manage Internet access, internal Web sites (intranets), remote access, support for mobile devices, backup/restore tools, and online transaction processing (OLTP) and business intelligence (BI) applications — in an integrated product that supports up to 75 users.

Small Business Server 2008 is only available as a 64-bit operating system and can only be installed on a server with a 64-bit processor. However, the second server supporting line-of-business applications can have a 32- or 64-bit processor.

Included Technologies: Small Business Server 2008 Premium combines several Windows server technologies and works best when used with two hardware servers. The first server hosts the following technologies included in SBS 2008 Standard:

• The core Windows Server 2008 technologies, including network tools and network security; file, print, and application sharing; and firewall protection (but not including technologies appropriate only to medium-to-large enterprises)
• SharePoint Services for an internal Web site
• Exchange Server 2007 for email, messaging, personal information management, and shared calendaring
• Server Update Services for automated network-wide patch and update management
• Shared Fax Service

The second server hosts the following technologies only included in SBS 2008 Premium:

• Windows Server 2008 Standard technologies for SBS Premium
• SQL Server 2008 Standard for Small Business for integrated data management and reporting (a copy of SQL Server 2005 Standard is included for customers using applications that are not yet certified for use on SQL Server 2008)

Note: You can install SQL Server on either server. If you install SQL Server on the hardware server hosting Standard Edition technologies, the SQL Server management tools cannot be installed on that server but must be installed on another computer on the domain.

Licences Included: This product includes two types of licences:
A server licence
Five premium client access licences (CALs) that can be used for either users or devices

These CALs can also be used to access instances of Exchange Server 2007, SQL Server 2008, or any other Windows servers within the Windows Small Business Server 2008 domain.

Acquiring the Installation Media and Licence Key: Installing this product requires installation media and a licence key.   Instructions for obtaining the licence key will be sent to your organisation email address after your eligibility has been verified and your administrative fee has been received.