Problem Scenario: From Customer Support feedback, we have learned that some customers facing a disaster on one of the Essential Business Serve r 2008 servers will naturally attempt to clean the servers' residue from Active Directory before starting...

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....

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 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:  ...

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...

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...

[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...

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 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 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...

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...

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...

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...

Please join us tomorrow, June 23rd from 10:30am - 11:00am (PDT) for a teleconference with Bob Kelly , corporate VP of Infrastructure Server Marketing. Feel free to submit questions for the QA session following the presentation over the phone, or via...

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...

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...

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...

The EBS team is conducting a survey to learn how to better provide information to our partners and customers. We’d like to learn a little more about you and about the EBS resources you find helpful. Please take our short survey! We’ll use the information...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill]   Updated 3/4/2010 to recommend a reboot.   Two new updates are available that allow Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (EBS 2008) to be installed into domains with existing Windows Server...

Special thanks to Susan Bradley for creating a new feed on Twitter for the blog.  You can now follow http://twitter.com/EBSblog and receive tweets any time the blog is updated.  

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan] There is a common misunderstanding as to what a proper backup and restore procedure should be for an EBS 2008 Management or Messaging server running as a virtual machine. We see many customers...

[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan and Justin Crosby] ** This post has been re-written on 8/25/2011 to cover a wider range of scenarios that have been generating an increasing amount of traffic recently. The EBS 2008 Messaging Server...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Robert Paige from the Windows Server Partner Ecosystem Team] We wanted to resurface a continuing support issue with deployments that we first commented on back in December of 2009 , and again in a March post on the...

Earlier this year we announced that we would discontinue future development of Windows Essential Business Server (EBS). To help customers with this transition, we made available at no cost the EBS Migration Kit. The EBS Migration Kit helps customers migrate...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Damian Leibaschoff from Commercial Technical Support and Chris Puckett from Product Quality] Setup of the Windows Essential Business Server Management server fails while installing Microsoft System Center Essentials...