I recently ran into an issue where I was expecting to be able to download the Open/Volume License Media for SBS 2011 and was surprised to find out that Microsoft does not allow you to download it, they force you to have the physical media sent to you via the mail.

I’m happy to announce that if you just head over and download the trial media, that the Volume License key works and you can use the Trial media, and Volume key to get your SBS 2011 server up and running. You can download the trial media for SBS here.