[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] Updated 10/14/2009 with additional steps for Security Server. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services Service Pack 3 (KB955706) fails to install on the EBS Management Server...

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...

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...

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...

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...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Stephen Li] If you are using Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Japanese version, you may notice garbled text when connecting to TS RemoteApp applications from the Management Server Administration Console:  ...

Are you coming to Teched LA in May to learn about Windows Server, Exchange, System Center Essentials, Threat Management Gateway, Forefront for Exchange? I will be giving talks on Essential Business Server there and hanging out in the expo area with other...

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...

Read about Microsoft released a critical security update for Windows ( MS08-067 ) at MSRT Released on 13JAN09 Addressing Conficker and Banload Read how EBS helps to protect against viruses and malware with Forefront Security for Exchange and Threat Management...

[Today's post come to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] You may receive multiple prompts for authentication from Outlook clients connected to an EBS Messaging Server at roughly 5 minute intervals.  Both local and Outlook Anywhere clients can encounter...

  [Today's post comes to us courtesy of John Bay] Summary When Windows Essential Business Server installs, setup will generate a self-signed certificate name based on the name of you specify during installation.  The certificate name will always...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Ashish Sukhija] You may run into problems where some of the Windows Essential Business Server Wizards may fail to function correctly or when some of the binaries may have been accidentally deleted or corrupted on...

The Windows Virtualization team has blogged about a certificate error that can occur resulting in the inability to start or connect to virtual machines running on Windows Server 2008 or Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 using vmconnect. Read more about it...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre, Damian Leibaschoff, Chris Puckett, and Justin Crosby] Microsoft recently published a hotfix for resource exhaustion in the TDI interface of Windows 2008 in KB 961775. This resource exhaustion may...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan, Wayne McIntyre, Mark Stanfill, and Chris Puckett] When installing Microsoft Windows Essential Business Server in Hyper-V setup may fail due to issues caused by time zone settings. EBS setup does...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] EBS controls access to RWW through membership in the Remote Web Workplace Users group.  For most installations this should be a unique object.  For domains that have been migrated from...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Kunal Ghotge and Mark Stanfill] EBS setup disables all network cards except for the LAN NIC during installation (the Security Server will enable its external NIC during setup). Hence, a data volume on an iSCSI drive...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan] If EBS setup encounters a fatal error and cannot continue, you will be presented with the following window once you cancel: Figure 1: Installation not finished Note the warning: Do not manually delete...

EBS will be at four sessions at Convergence 2009 in a few weeks.  For details visit: http://windows-essential-business-server.blogspot.com/2009/02/windows-ebs-at-convergence-us.html . Chris

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Manish Kapoor] Today we are going to throw some light on the way FSMO roles are placed/transferred from one server to another for each of the deployment scenarios. You could be either migrating to or doing a...

[ Today's post comes to us courtesy of Jim Holtzman] Continuing the saga of virtualizing EBS at home. This weekend, I assembled all the parts and installed them in the case. A brief summary of my experience: Having a big case is an advantage...

[ Today's post comes to us courtesy of Jim Holtzman] Continuing the saga of virtualizing EBS at home. Step 1: Set a budget for dating EBS. This is coming out of my pocket so I set a hard limit of $2000. Done. Step 2: Determine hardware requirements...

[ Today's post comes to us courtesy of Jim Holtzman] Greetings. I'm a technical writer on the EBS/SBS User Assistance team. I want to learn EBS well so I can write about it with some product knowledge. I currently run SBS2003 at home. I love SBS. Really...

[ Today's post comes to us courtesy of Chris Puckett] After one day, you may find your Windows 2008 DNS Server is unable to resolve names in certain top level domains (tld’s) like .co.uk, .cn, and .br when it is configured to use root hints. It may...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Chris Puckett] During the installation of each of the EBS 2008 servers, you will have two update phases, one is required and the other one depends on wh ether you select the option “Download and install optional...