Nicholas King

Changes a foot – Moving to the Official EBS blog

nking — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:26:25 GMT

It’s been a crazy few weeks but as of yesterday I’ll now be blogging on the official EBS blog for EBS. This blog will still have my other techie thoughts, and the occasional EBS post that isn't so suitable for the official blog. :) Why you...(read more)

SBS migration guidelines, training tools and checklist

nking — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:25:52 GMT

Recently I received the feedback that we needed a better way of representing all of the tasks during the SBS 2008 migration process. We spent some time looking at what could be done to support a smoother migration, and came up with this document...(read more)

CRM Addin for EBS by Akvelon

nking — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:43:00 GMT

Own Microsoft CRM and EBS? Looking for a way to manage multiple CRM orgs, or handle day to day tasks from the EBS administration console? Last week I came across this EBS addin developed by a local (Seattle) ISV and had a chance to put it’s trial...(read more)

EBS Technet Demo Videos

nking — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:48:00 GMT

Here’s some demos on Demo Showcase that you should check out. There setup, post setup config and configuring management. Links below. TechNet Video: Setting Up Windows Essential Business Server TechNet Video: Setting Up Windows Essential Business...(read more)

Microsoft Learning Announces courseware

nking — Thu, 28 May 2009 02:39:00 GMT

Microsoft Learning today announced on their born to learn blog the SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 official courseware. This is long awaited news with these directly enabling trainees to get certified following these courses! http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/2009/05/msl-news-sbs-and-ebs-2008-courses-now-available...(read more)

Core IO university EBS Readiness and Interview

nking — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:46:59 GMT

You might recall a few weeks ago I talked about how EBS leverages the Core Infrastructure Optimization model. This week I want to highlight where you can go to get all of the details and training and meet Core IO University , your one stop shop...(read more)

Using Internet Sharing on Windows Mobile 6.1

nking — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:43:45 GMT

As you’ve probably guessed I spend a lot of time traveling meeting partners, customers, and potential future customers (more on that in a later post). One of the tricks that I’ve used for some time (Windows 5.0 had this feature first I believe?)...(read more)

SBS and BPOS – New whitepaper and some cool scenarios

nking — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:47:15 GMT

A few weeks ago we released this whitepaper on how to remove Exchange from SBS and connect up to BPOS . BPOS or the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (now you know why we use acronyms so often ;)) is an online solution from Microsoft...(read more)

EBS interview at TECHED USA 09

nking — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:06:00 GMT

Eric, and Chuck were in LA this week talking about Windows Essential Business Server 2008. Check out their video interview here http://www.msteched.com/online/view.aspx?tid=5e6fb399-fdaa-4ef1-ba30-77df2e1b2ded Microsoft has just released a new product...(read more)

Window 7 Beta and Windows Live Messenger

nking — Sat, 16 May 2009 19:04:00 GMT

Something that had been annoying my while I’ve been on Win7 was that messenger had an abnormal docking behavior. You can see that it shows both my profile pic and the WLM window. Anyway I did some digging and found out the way to solve this is run...(read more)

Reviewers Guides Refreshed

nking — Sat, 16 May 2009 02:20:00 GMT

Many of you received these through the partner program or MVP program, but as we clean house for this financial year we noticed that we hadn’t posted the updated reviewers guides for SBS and EBS . So here you go! SBS RTM Reviewers Guide EBS RTM Reviewers...(read more)

Migrating from SBS 2000 to SBS 2008

nking — Thu, 14 May 2009 02:15:00 GMT

Last week we released a Community supported document on how to migrate from SBS 2000 to SBS 2008. When I say ‘community’ I really mean one of our talented support engineers Edwin Joseph , who is a tech writer in his spare time. This is a great...(read more)

Core Infrastructure Optimization and EBS

nking — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:11:23 GMT

Many of you may be familiar with the concept of a capability and maturity model. EBS is designed to deliver a platform for Core Infrastructure with a level of capability and maturity that many midsized would need to pay significantly more should...(read more)

Server Quest v2.0

nking — Fri, 01 May 2009 07:16:00 GMT

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...(read more)

EBS team Presence at TechED USA

nking — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:06:23 GMT

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/2009/04/28/teched-cutting-costs-with-essential-business-server-featured-at-teched-may-11-15.asp...(read more)