Nicholas King : SBS 2008

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)

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)

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)

SBS Exchange Repair Documentation Live Today

nking — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:25:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Snack of SBS and EBS

nking — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:21:00 GMT

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 Small...(read more)

David F talks about training, P&P tool and more

nking — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:54:01 GMT

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Office SharePoint Designer Free download

nking — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:18:55 GMT

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...(read more)

New content for SBS on TECHNET

nking — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:04:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Free e-Learning online now

nking — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:52:00 GMT

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 key...(read more)

Windows Small Business Server 2008 – Admin companion free download April 15-22

nking — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)

SBS 2008, Installation, migration and configuration – David Overton

nking — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:07:00 GMT

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-2008-installation-migration-configuration/book...(read more)

Wanting to test your exchange connection? Meet Exchange Remote Connectivity analyzer

nking — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:02:00 GMT

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? ...(read more)

Microsoft SMB study

nking — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:08:00 GMT

Yesterday we released a report that investigated what are the trends in SMB IT. The crux of the research pointed out some interesting factors – especially when considered in today’s more complex economy. Spend your IT money wisely <snip> http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/mar09/03-25SMBTechnologyPR.mspx...(read more)

Windows Mobile + SBS & EBS Partner Training

nking — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:08:09 GMT

Two fresh courses came out yesterday, both focusing around Windows Mobile and SBS and EBS. They should take about 20 minutes to complete and at the end you’ll be able to deploy Windows Mobile (and iPhone) devices with SBS and EBS. Title PLC Registration...(read more)