It was marketed during the 1990s and early 2000s for use in branch operations and for small businesses to run their back office operations.

The small business edition of BackOffice Server was released for versions 4.0 and 4.5.

In 2000 it was spun off from the "BackOffice" brand, becoming a variant of Windows Server branded as Windows Small Business Server.

The "Small Business" editions omitted SNA Server and SMS.

It required 2 GB minimum hard drive space, a minimum processor type of Pentium Pro 200 MHz, and a minimum RAM size of 128 MB.