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...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Justin Crosby] When Windows 2008 Essential Business Server is installed, your current DNS servers are stored in Active Directory.  EBS uses this data to configure the DNS settings on a server during a replacement...

My name is Michael Goulding and I'm a Software Design Engineer on the Essential Business Server team.  I'd like to explain what the WER (Windows Error Reporting) and CEIP (Customer Experience Improvement Program) components of EBS are, and how they...

Thank you to all who attended the live webcast and launch event for the Windows Essential Server Solutions product line! The event was a great success, and we keep hearing how excited everyone is that SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 are finally out in the market...

Hi all, Joel Sider here, PR manager for Home Server, SBS and EBS. I saw this today in SMB Nation and thought I'd share: The world's first EBS-branded car, courtesy of Trinity Computer in Germany.

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...

So up until now we’ve really focused on all of the underlying technology of EBS, and have covered each of the server roles – Management, Messaging and Security.  Now we’re going to look into how the administration works within EBS and how we’ve designed...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Becky Lymberis] For many midsize businesses, a day in the IT department is often about putting out fires and running to users’ desktops to troubleshoot issues. Problems like this are not uncommon; with fewer resources...

It’s summer, so it’s time for the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC).   During this annual event, Microsoft and the Windows Server Solutions Group share strategies and visions for addressing the challenging economy, saving customers money...

[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...

There is an incentives program in the US and Canada called “The Big Easy”. The great news is that EBS is one of the products that is included in this program. From the web site “ For every qualifying product you purchase, Microsoft pays you partner subsidy...

Part of evaluating Windows Essential Business Server 2008 is about understanding how it all fits together.  As you hopefully know by now Essential Business Server 2008 runs on three Servers.  Today we’re going to cover what is actually installed...

Are you interested in hearing about how other IT pros are reacting to economic conditions and where they’re investing? Do you have questions about Microsoft’s efforts to help IT be more cost effective and deliver new solutions to business? Is there...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Bj ö rn Levidow] SMB Summit 2008 is the first time EBS has been part of SMB Summit and my first time attending. The first thing that impressed me was the technical depth of our partners here. They had great...

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...

If you haven't seen it yet, be sure to catch the video of program manager Bjorn Levidow discussing and demonstrating EBS management on TechNet Edge . Joel

Hi, I’m John Endter, president of E Squared C LLC , a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and Small Business Specialist located out of Minden, Nevada. In today’s economy, organizations are spending money wisely. Investment in virtualization, mobility...

[ 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...

So you've set up your EBS environment and now you want to change the public facing interface on your Security Server.  Perhaps you've removed your old firewall or you simply have had an environment change.  As you can probably guess it's not...

The Worldwide Partner Conference wrapped up today with 4 days of great info for thousands of Microsoft Partners (mostly VARs & VAPs).  Essential Business Server was demoed and referred to throughout the conference.  For people who weren...

[ 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 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:  ...

Yesterday Windows Essential Business Server was included in the Intel Keynote at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. Tom Kilroy the Vice President, General Manager for Digital Enterprise Group presented on solutions that enable Intel channel partners to...

This is a continuation of a previous post where I spoke about the role of Windows Error Reporting (WER) in Essential Business Server (EBS). Today, I'll be discussing Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) in EBS.  Before working at Microsoft...

The EBS team wants to extend a HUGE thank you to our MVPs that provided their presence, support and insight at the EBS booth at TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles, CA. From custom buttons, informational card handouts, discussions with hundreds of attendees about...