Here’s the cool stuff that they don’t even bother to tell you.

Not only do you get all of these products at a 70% discount, but the setup is a snap. For example, I’ve setup Exchange email servers many times and I can tell you it’s not simple.

With Small Business Server 2003 there is nothing to it. Click through the installation wizards and that’s it -- You’re receiving email … You’re email works!

That’s how it is for the whole SBS 2003 product. If you bought the enterprise version of each product separately you could implement all of the cool extra features that come standard and automatic with SBS, but it would take a lot of time and hassle to get it all right.

In my professional opinion you’ll also save about 70% on the setup and installation of the product.

My favorite feature of SBS, by far is the Remote Access. This is what Remote Access means in SBS …

You can get your email, your schedule and your tasks from a full featured web version of Outlook from any browser anywhere in the world – for example, an Internet Kiosk in an airport, from an Internet Café in Nepal, from a client’s PC while you’re on a sales call.

But that’s not all, you can also access your work computer’s desktop from any browser anywhere in the world in a totally secure way. Let me repeat that – In a totally secure way.

If you’ve ever used PCAnywhere or GoToMyPC or some other Remote Access program you know what a hassle they are. Not to mention the security issues …

Well, Microsoft has done it again with their Remote Desktop Protocol (included free). This is how good it is …

This is a true story. I was logged into a desktop computer at a client’s network from my laptop. I was using a standard SBC DSL Internet connection and I forgot to log off over the weekend. I sat down at my laptop the following Monday and it took me a full minute to figure out what was wrong with my laptop. It wasn’t my laptop. It was a desktop computer at the client site. I had forgotten that I was logged in.

The response times and screen redraws of Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) are that good. Sure if I tried to view a video file or something like that it would look rather ‘grainy,’ but for normal office stuff, like document editing, spreadsheets and even custom database applications RDP is awesome.

How many trips to the office do you think that’s going to save you? Or what if you’re on a business trip and you forget something on your PC? Or at a client site and you forget your presentation on the PC at the office? That actually happened to me…

Oh, and did I mention the setup of RDP over the Internet is even easier than setting up Exchange.

It goes on …

How about automatically synchronizing your PDA or Smartphone with your email, schedule and tasks? Done.

And on …