EBS well received at SMB summit

The EBS Planning Wizard

The Official Blog of the SBS "Diva" — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:17:00 GMT

http://blogs.technet.com/essentialbusinessserver/archive/2008/04/19/ebs-well-received-at-smb-summit.aspx

The EBS Planning Wizard

MVPs — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:06:06 GMT

http://blogs.technet.com/essentialbusinessserver/archive/2008/04/19/ebs-well-received-at-smb-summit.aspx

re: EBS well received at SMB summit

bday — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:59:07 GMT

What backup mechanism will SBS & EBS 2008 be using for backups of Exchange Server 2007 since Windows Server Backup 2008 is not Exchange aware like NTBackup was for years? Is some sort of "DPM Light" being included as well so customers will not have to purchase 3rd party solutions or the full blow DPM itself?

Please make WSB2K8 Exchange Aware again. We need it. Thank you very much.

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/03/05/448338.aspx

http://www.shudnow.net/2008/02/07/server-2008s-windows-server-backup-will-not-be-exchange-aware/

re: EBS well received at SMB summit

Dirk — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:14:07 GMT

Great news, but two questions popped up in my head:

How come SharePoint Server is not included?

And why is there no word of taking advantage of Hyper-V for virtualisation of server applications and/or SAN setups?

Sharepoint & virtualization

EssentialBloggers — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:31:43 GMT

Hi Dirk,

two great questions.

Yes, Sharepoint (WSS) will be included and installed with EBS. It's not in the RC0 build that just went public today, but it will be soon.

We will support Hyper-V virtualization. We are currently testing different configurations so we can release best practices and supported configurations with the right hardware guidance to make the experience great.

-Eric Watson, EBS GPM