Windows Essential Business Server Team Blog

EBS Management Server setup fails to complete

s.sullivan1 — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:19:48 GMT

[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...(read more)

Reminder that December is the last month to order the Windows Essential Business Server Migration Kit

s.sullivan1 — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:09:25 GMT

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...(read more)

Are your client machines getting errors such as “Network Path Not Found” or “The Specified Network Name Is No Longer Available” when connecting to a Windows 2008 Server share?

s.sullivan1 — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:15:16 GMT

[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...(read more)

Exchange Certificate Expiration in EBS 2008

s.sullivan1 — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:51:08 GMT

[ 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...(read more)

Backup/Restore Methods for Essential Business Server 2008 in a Virtual Machine Environment

s.sullivan1 — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:36:00 GMT

[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...(read more)

How to Maintain and Reduce the Amount of Data Stored in the Systems Center Essentials Databases

s.sullivan1 — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:56:00 GMT

[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...(read more)

Our Technical Findings While Developing EBS v2

s.sullivan1 — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:30:00 GMT

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Alireza Farhangi] During the development of EBS v2, we tackled quite a few challenges in integrating Microsoft server technologies. We developed solutions and workarounds, proved them through exhaustive testing, and...(read more)

New IT Trends Bring Change to Mid-Market Product Line

s.sullivan1 — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:00:00 GMT

Four years ago, we committed to building an infrastructure solution for the mid-market. Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) which was the first of its kind to meet the unique needs of mid-market IT pros. Since that time the market landscape has naturally...(read more)

We need your help to plan and communicate useful information

s.sullivan1 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:55:00 GMT

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...(read more)

How to recover EBS 2008 Messaging server objects after an accidental Active Directory server object deletion

s.sullivan1 — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:32:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Replacing Network Adapter on Security Server may cause inbound/outbound email queuing up on Edge Transport Server

s.sullivan1 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:26:00 GMT

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Ping Xu] S ymptoms: Replacing a network adapter on the Essential Business Server 2008 Security Server may cause inbound and outbound email to queue and not be delivered. Confirm this by checking the message queue...(read more)

Follow the Essential Business Server blog on Twitter

s.sullivan1 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:29:00 GMT

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. ...(read more)

2 New Important Updates for Windows Server 2008 R2 Domains

s.sullivan1 — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:50:00 GMT

[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...(read more)

How to install FSE SP2 on EBS

s.sullivan1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:20:00 GMT

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server with Service Pack 2 (FSE SP2) is now available. This is an optional but recommended update for FSE customers, including EBS customers. The download...(read more)

Best Group Policy Manager in the 2009 Redmond Reader’s Choice Awards for Windows Essential Business Server!

s.sullivan1 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:45:00 GMT

In the Redmond Reader’s Choice Awards newly expanded 2009 survey, Windows Essential Business Server 2008 won Best Group Policy Manager honors in a field of 22 products. Although new to the category, Windows Essential Business Server 2008 came out on top...(read more)

Installing Security Server behind existing firewall in Windows Essential Business Server

s.sullivan1 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:29:00 GMT

While Windows Essential Business Server 2008 ( Windows EBS) Security Server can be installed as the single perimeter security solution it is common to have it coexist with existing security solutions like hardware firewall on the perimeter. In this configuration...(read more)

Using the Check Out Feature with WSS Behind TMG

s.sullivan1 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] When trying to use the Check Out (or Check In) feature of Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 published behind TMG in a default EBS installation, checkout fails with the error below: Error Code: 500...(read more)

Gatherer Event 2436 Logged Every 5 Minutes on EBS Management Server

s.sullivan1 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:05:00 GMT

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] On EBS Management Servers with the Windows Essential Business Server SharePoint Add-in installed, you may see the an event similar to the one below in the Application Log in Event Viewer every 5 minutes...(read more)

Site to site VPN and Windows Essential Business Server

s.sullivan1 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:12:00 GMT

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Alok Goyal] My name is Alok Goyal and I am a part of the Essential Business Server (EBS) team. Today, I wanted to talk about a new document I posted on the Microsoft Connect site. The document is titled "Site...(read more)

OWA Address Book "Could not connect to a directory server” errors on EBS

s.sullivan1 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:47:00 GMT

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] When trying to browse through the OWA Address Book on a default EBS configuration, the first page of the address book will load, but attempts to browse to subsequent pages will fail with the error:...(read more)

How to Enable Exchange 2007 Autodiscover in EBS 2008

s.sullivan1 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:45:00 GMT

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan] [Updated Content on 7/8/2010] The Autodiscover service, which allows Outlook 2007 and Windows Mobile 6.1 ActiveSync clients to obtain mailbox connection settings with little user intervention, is not...(read more)

EBS, SCE, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7

s.sullivan1 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:11:00 GMT

[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...(read more)

Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Preparation Wizard/IT Environment Health Scanner fail with DNS WMI Provider error

s.sullivan1 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:00:00 GMT

[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...(read more)

How to run the IT Environment Health Scanner in an EBS Environment

s.sullivan1 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:05:00 GMT

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] By default, TMG disallows WMI traffic as part of its security hardening. However, the Microsoft IT Environment Health Scanner ( direct download ) requires WMI to collect data for its analysis...(read more)

Understanding Essential Business Server Client Licensing

s.sullivan1 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:42:00 GMT

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] We get a fair number of queries about CAL enforcement in Essential Business Server (EBS) support, so I’d like to try to clear up some of the common questions that our partners have. Because EBS enforces...(read more)