
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] When trying to use the Check Out (or Check In) feature of Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 published behind TMG in a default EBS installation, checkout fails with the error below: Error Code: 500...(read more)

Windows Essential Business Server Congratulations to Windows Essential Business Server for winning Best Group Policy Manager in the 2009 Redmond Magazine Reader's Choice Awards. EBS won the top honors out of a field of 22 products. If that’s not enough good news, Windows EBS also came in third for Best Storage-Management Product. Congratulations to all of the Redmond Magazine Reader's Choice Awards winners!
Source: redmondmag.com
After introducing the Triple Crown last year, Redmond knocks one out of the park in 2009 by honoring winners of four consecutive Reader's Choice Awards in the same category.

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] On EBS Management Servers with the Windows Essential Business Server SharePoint Add-in installed, you may see the an event similar to the one below in the Application Log in Event Viewer every 5 minutes:...(read more)

[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)

[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)

[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)

[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)

[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)

[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)

Windows Essential Business Server EBS 2008 Demand Triggers - Listening for EBS opportunities.
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A quick overview of demand triggers for Windows Essential Business Server 2008.

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EBS 2008: Thumbs up or Down?
We're going to go with thumbs up on this one. It's obvious that the EBS development team held true to its path: The primary goal was to provide a better experience to midsize businesses, and EBS has done that. Better consoles; more tools; more flexibility over SBS; a tremendous lineup of ser...vers including Exchange, SQL, System Center Essentials, Forefront; and the list goes on. EBS really is a cornucopia of necessary software for the midsize business, and it includes a solid set of admin tools that allow the IT administrator to work strategically, not just reactively.Read More
We're going to go with thumbs up on this one. It's obvious that the EBS development team held true to its path: The primary goal was to provide a better experience to midsize businesses, and EBS has done that. Better consoles; more tools; more flexibility over SBS; a tremendous lineup of ser...vers including Exchange, SQL, System Center Essentials, Forefront; and the list goes on. EBS really is a cornucopia of necessary software for the midsize business, and it includes a solid set of admin tools that allow the IT administrator to work strategically, not just reactively.Read More
Source: redmondmag.com
New, all-in-one tool handles core-computing chores without fuss.

Windows Essential Business Server
EBS 2008 Virtualization
A brief overview of virtualizing Windows Essential Business Server 2008
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A brief overview of virtualizing Windows Essential Business Server 2008

[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)

Jason Buffington
If you storing all of your data within Windows EBS - who are you backing it up with?
New whitepaper from Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager on backing up EBS 2008.
Source: www.microsoft.com
How to Protect Essential Business Server (EBS) 2008 and Small Business Server (SBS) 2008 with System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 sp1
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