The Microsoft EBS Team Blog

Site to site VPN and Windows Essential Business Server

EssentialBloggers — 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 to site...(read more)

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

EssentialBloggers — 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

EssentialBloggers — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:45:00 GMT

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan] 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 configured by default in EBS...(read more)

EBS, SCE, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7

EssentialBloggers — 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

EssentialBloggers — 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

EssentialBloggers — 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 EBS Client Licensing

EssentialBloggers — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:42:00 GMT

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

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (KB951847) Fails to install on EBS Servers

EssentialBloggers — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:57:00 GMT

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill and Chris Puckett] Updated 10/12/2009 – new version of script linked. You may see installation failures of Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (KB951847) on the 3 EBS Standard Edition Servers. ...(read more)

Top 3 Ways to Get More Out of Exchange with Windows Essential Business Server 2008

Moira Whidby — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:32:00 GMT

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of David Fabritius] Midsize businesses interested in upgrading to Exchange Server 2007 should consider Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) 2008. EBS 2008 is an integrated software suite that is designed and priced...(read more)

Upgrading Your Servers? Consider Essential Business Server 2008.

Moira Whidby — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:16:00 GMT

[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...(read more)

IT Health Scanner Fails on Data Collection

EssentialBloggers — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:48:54 GMT

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre] During the data collection phase of the IT Health Scanner, you may receive an error as shown below. “ A list of servers could not be collected from Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). Ensure...(read more)

New feature : Adjust the level of protection provided by Security Server in Windows Essential Business Server 2008

Kevin Beares — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:57:00 GMT

Security is of paramount importance in organization any size; it is no surprise that strong security solutions are deployed to protect various assets that provide the competitive advantage in the ever so challenging medium-sized business (up to 300 users/devices)...(read more)

How to Install Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 on Windows Essential Business Server 2008

EssentialBloggers — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:29:00 GMT

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Stephen Li] Recently Microsoft Exchange 2007 released Service Pack 2. This SP2 enables customers to increase their operational efficiency and it sets the foundation for the transition to Exchange Server 2010. Enhanced...(read more)

Error “The CAL product key entered is not valid for this operating system” when you try to install licenses on the EBS Management Server

EssentialBloggers — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:13:00 GMT

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Vikramjit Singh and Mark Stanfill] You may receive the following error after you add the 25-character alpha-numeric product key using the “Add Cal Pack Keys Wizard” on the EBS console Licensing tab. Error Adding CAL. ...(read more)

IT Network Health Scanner Demo powered by EBS

EssentialBloggers — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:43:27 GMT

As you may have picked up earlier this month we announced a tool that can help you support your IT network by discovering network issues and reporting how to resolve them. Before you download it from here check out the video below. Thanks...(read more)