[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Vikramjit Singh, Stephen Li, and Mark Stanfill] Updated 10/29/2009 to reflect IT Environment Health Scanner information. If you are preparing to install EBS 2008 in an environment with Windows 2000 DNS servers, you may receive the following error while running the...

As you may have picked up earlier this month we announced a tool that can help you support your IT network by discovering network issues and reporting how to resolve them.  Before you download it from here check out the video below.  Thanks to David F our Technical Product Manager for putting...

Microsoft Essential Business Server team is excited to announce the release of Microsoft IT Environment Health Scanner, the new diagnostic tool designed for administrators of small or medium-sized networks who want to assess the overall health of their network infrastructure. When run from a computer...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Stephen Li] Windows Essential Business Server 2008 & Preparation and Planning Wizards Update Rollup 1 have been released. Update Rollup 1 for Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (KB961448) addresses the following issues: Issue 1 You cannot install Management...

A new TechEd tech talk interview, a 10 minute product overview on Windows Essential Business Server 2008, is now live -- New Windows Infrastructure Solution for Midsized Companies . Interviewed is Eric Watson, Principal Group Program Manager for EBS. Microsoft has just released a new product suite...

A Cutting Costs with Windows Essential Business Server 2008 session will be featured at Microsoft Tech · Ed North America 2009 , May 11-15 in Los Angeles. Eric Watson , Group Program Manager on the EBS team, will be presenting. You’ll hear updated details on how EBS 2008 can assist you in cutting...

Here is a new tidbit on the Preparation Wizard J . Since we announced it back in July , we have a lot of Microsoft IT Pros go check it out. Please spread the word if you can if you find this tool valuable. Provide a link back to this article or any of the other follow on articles we have done on the...

For those of you who are new to these tools, we’ve talked about the Preparation and Planning Wizards before on our blog . We also have a dedicated page for it here . As well, the team over at TechNet Edge did an article on the tools . These tools are not just for customers with Essential...

We have just released two new components of the EBS server setup and installation process. We added a first step to setup – a downloadable tool that scans the existing environment looking for the top (91) configuration issues and server health issues that affect successful setup of new server roles....