Ok this is definitely a little dorky but it kept me occupied for a good 20 minutes. Server Quest reminds me of Leisure Suit Larry without the need to hit ctrl+shift+s to skip the questions only my parents knew.. You should check this out. it does a good...

The EBS engineering team are going to be at TechED USA this year.  They just blogged about their involvement.  Unfortunately I won’t be there this year, so have a beer for me. :) http://blogs.technet.com/essentialbusinessserver/archive/2009...

More announcements from the SBS documentation team today. How to repair Exchange http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd728006.aspx Reinstall the Client Access Role in Windows Small Business Server 2008 Reinstall the Hub Transport Role in Windows...

Chris Rue, Essential Business Server MVP, says he’ll be joining the MS Learning crew as they travel on a coast-to-coast tour across the United States starting May 1 st . The Career Express Tour, as it’s called, will be making a ton of stops here and there...

Check out our SBS and EBS snack. A short introduction to SBS and EBS. http://www.microsoft.com/learning/_silverlight/learningsnacks/EBS/snack01/Default.html This Learning Snack describes how the Windows Essential Server Solutions products—Windows...

Wanting to customize your SharePoint sites?  Office SharePoint Designer is now free to download.  So what can you use this for?  Customizing SharePoint of course – logos, workflows, and a ton more. You can read the Q&A here Download...

Two more documents live last week!  First up how to deploy ISA 2006 with SBS 2008.  For those of you that miss having ISA as part of the SBS solution, Eriq Neale one of our MVPs has contributed this whitepaper Deploying Microsoft Internet Security...

This week we announced the release of the course Collection 6955AE: What’s New in Microsoft ® Windows ® Small Business Server 2008 and Microsoft ® Windows ® Essential Business Server 2008 This two-hour collection provides you with an overview of the...

Some of you may have noticed a recent announcement from Microsoft Learning about the release of the Windows Essential Business Server 2008 – Administrators companion .  Very very exciting – and a big thanks to JC Mackin and Charlie Russell for putting...

MSL is about to do something to support all you SBS’ers out there.  http://blogs.technet.com/mslcommunity/archive/2009/04/09/free-e-book-offer-is-back-for-april-april-15-22.aspx For a very short time the SBS admin companion will be available for...

Tonight Chris Rue will be delivering a webcast to the EBSUserGroup titled “Using System Center Essentials With Windows Essential Business Server.” Chris has made the bold statement that, in his opinion, SCE is THE make-or-break feature of EBS for anyone...

This week I’ve been over in the UK, meeting with SMB customers and partners for researching future versions of our products and spending two days with the UK subsidiary. Research You might be wondering what goes on when we research products?  Well...

Many of you might know of David Overton AKA UKSBS guy .  Well he’s been busy writing a book focusing on Windows SBS.  Very soon this book will be ready to purchase.  You can preorder it here http://www.packtpub.com/small-business-server...

Have an Exchange environment that you want to test?  Check out the Remote Connectivity Analyzer.  Checking everything from Exchange ActiveSync, Autodiscovery, Outlook Autodiscovery, Exchange 2003 and 2007 and inbound email.  Sound cool...

Every so often the research teams put together a vision for the future to showcase just where technology could take us in 10 years time.  There are several but this one from the Office team is my favorite.  

Steve Holland from our UA team (User Assistance) pointed me to some information on Windows Server 2008 Foundation on TechNet.  Including info on locks and limits and some additional information about language packs and a licensing manger string that...

This one snuck past my radar :)  Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Beta is the downloadable Hypervisor that offers virtualization.  Why this is especially interesting is when you look at the features this supports. Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Server 2008 R2 is...

Today we entered a new product into market for small businesses and those customers that only have a need for a server that supports 15 users with Windows Server 2008 Foundation.  Foundation has some unique benefits to the other members of the Windows...