[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Ed Walters] System Center Essentials 2007 (SCE) is a unified management solution that is included with the Essential Business Server package. The application is installed on the Management Server and is designed to give the network administrator the ability to proactively...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] System Center Essentials 2007 SP1 (SCE 2007) included with Essential Business Server 2008 now fully supports Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 clients, but there are a few manual steps that must be performed before these clients can be managed from...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby and Mark Stanfill] Symptoms The EBS Administration Console may crash if illegal characters are  present in devices reported back to WSUS and SCE.  The symptoms are that the console will fail to launch, and C:\Program Files\Windows Essential...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] The EBS Administration Console may crash if the IIS application pool default is configured to allow 32-bit applications. The SCE console will also crash with a distinct error: System.InvalidOperationException: Client found response content...

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...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] EBS Hotfix KB 957755 is now available and being offered to all EBS Management Servers through Microsoft Update. This hotfix resolves an issue where the SCE Administration Console shows an error when you click on the Reporting node after installing...

John Joyner, a Microsoft MVP for Operations Manager and Senior Architect at ClearPointe, will be including Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (EBS) in the following presentation at Microsoft Tech · Ed North America 2009 : VIR306 Using Microsoft System Center Tools to Deliver Virtualization...

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...

One of our EBS MVPs, Chris Rue is putting on a Live Meeting today. Really try to attend this meeting if you can. Even if you are not an EBS user today, this is a great opportunity to understand how SCE is integrated into the EBS platform. You can read a really great review on System Center Essentials...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff] When the Management server is configured in Windows Essential Business Server 2008, 2 group policies are configured as part of the System Center Essentials (SCE) deployment. These policies allow the Management server to deploy the SCE agent and...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] By default, EBS configures SCE to use the domain administrator account used during setup as the Default Action Account and also as the Data Warehouse account.  These accounts are used to accomplish monitoring activities, such as executing a monitor...

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....