Windows Server - Where to get SBS 2003 R2 Premium trial?

Asked By Tyler Durden

09-Mar-10 01:47 PM

Where to get SBS 2003 R2 Premium trial? if possible, in
Portuguese-Brazilian. Tried TechNet, MSDN, etc...

Thanks.

09-Mar-10 02:11 PM

(or not trial too, just to evaluation purposes)

09-Mar-10 02:18 PM

Are you sure you do not mean SBS 2008?  SBS 2003 has been out of the market
for long enough that you are only going to get a trial by finding someone who
has an old one lying around.  Even then, I am not sure what kind of luck
you will have buying SBS 03 at this late date either.

If you want the SBS 2008 trial, there is a link on the home page
www.microsoft.com/sbs.

09-Mar-10 02:26 PM

That's going to be difficult since they discontinued it a couple of years
ago.

Maybe try Microsoft directly or one of the Brazilian Microsoft User Groups:

Microsoft User mGroups - Brazil
http://www.mugrs.org/

Microsoft
Customer Service and Technical Support:
Gran S?o Paulo: 11 4706 0900
Other Locations: 0800 761 7454

Mais informa??es sobre Atendimento ao Cliente
http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/cu_sc_more_master?ln=pt-br&ws=support#tab1

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Merv  Porter   [SBS-MVP]
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09-Mar-10 04:37 PM

Still shows available on MSDN and an intended use.
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/kj

09-Mar-10 05:04 PM

Please, do you have a direct link to it? because search at MSDN shows me
anything except this.

09-Mar-10 05:09 PM

Believe you need the proper subscription level but

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/securedownloads/default.aspx

takes me right to it.


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/kj

09-Mar-10 05:59 PM

You're quite welcome Tyler!


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/kj

12-Mar-10 09:50 AM

But it is still available from many sources....

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=buy+sbs+2003&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=13807027784543686563&ei=UlSaS6mdNZKcswObxb19&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBgQ8wIwAQ#ps-sellers

12-Mar-10 01:46 PM

The OP is asking about the trial version.

13-Mar-10 11:56 PM

Yes, this is true, the OP was asking for the trial version.

However, while one can still purchase the product from many sources, in the
MS world it has all been replaced by the 2008 product as far as the trial
version goes.

I did find that they still have the virtual labs for the 2003 product
available.

http://techsoeasy.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!AB2725BC5698FCB8!157.entry

and I also found this:

http://www.sbstestdrive.com/

and this:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb539981.aspx

16-Mar-10 07:17 PM

The first two links that I posted are essentially non-starters, as the info
is no longer available.

This link appears to be still functional:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb539981.aspx

31-Mar-10 12:13 AM

Thanks to all of you.