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2008-11-20
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Microsoft anounced Amy and Oliver as EBS MVPs Mittwoch, 19. November 2008
 | As a little surprise I just got aware that Microsoft switched my (Oliver) MVP Competency from SBS to EBS and also that Amy got switched from Forefront to EBS, which makes the two of us the first Essential Business Server MVPs!
I'd like to take this oportunity to thank all you folks at Microsoft and all my collegues and friends for helping me to make this happen and I feel honored to be one of the worldwide two first EBS MVPs, thank you. weiter ... |
german EBS Webcast Part 1: Slidedeck as PDF and FAQs Dienstag, 18. November 2008
The Small and Midsize Business Server Platform: Which Is Right for Your Customer? Dienstag, 18. November 2008
Windows Essential Server Solutions Have Officially Launched! Freitag, 14. November 2008
| Start selling Windows Essential Server Solutions now! These new products provide help you enable your customers to dream big and thrive in today’s economic environment. Get sales and marketing tools to help you drive demand, and prepare your business to offer these solutions using training and technical resources. Guidance on the recorded launch webcast can help you generate leads. weiter ... |
Get a Discount on Windows Essential Server Solutions Upgrades & Migrations with Solutions Pathway Freitag, 14. November 2008
| Help your customers easily upgrade or migrate from their existing solutions to meet changing business needs. Solutions Pathway, exclusively for Windows Essential Server Solutions, provides tiered savings that enable you to develop new revenue streams when you help customers cost-effectively upgrade or migrate from existing solutions to the latest Windows Essential Server Solutions offerings. Leverage your customers’ existing investments—and help them make the transition to the latest Windows Essential Server Solutions offerings today. Small Business Specialists and Networking Infrastructure Solutions partners receive an additional 10% discount! weiter ... |
german EBS Webcast shifted because of Serverproblems during the show Donnerstag, 13. November 2008
| Todays "introducing EBS" Webcast held by Oliver Sommer had to be shifted to a later date, becasue half way through the Audio connection dropped of and was not able to recover on the Live Meeting server side.
A new appointment will be mad and we'll publish that here as soon as it is available. |
Windows Essential Business Server launched! Mittwoch, 12. November 2008
| As of today November 12th 2008 the Windows Essential Business Server 2008 has been launched by Microsoft!
Microsoft celebrates this launch with an live event at 8-9am PST and you may attend this event by going to this website:
http://thedreamserver.com/
Watch Steven van Roekels speaking about SBS and EBS launching:
Congrats to the EBS product Group ... and keep on rocking!  weiter ... |
German MS TechNet Webcast: EBS 2008 Einführung/Überblick by Oliver Sommer this Thursday Dienstag, 11. November 2008
localized Trial Versions of EBS available for Download Dienstag, 11. November 2008
| Today the localized Trial Versions of EBS became public and are available for download here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/cc184869.aspx
Currently the following languages are available as Wave 1 languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Spanish
If you are located in the US or Canada you may also order an English or French Trial DVD set using the same link above. weiter ... |
Peter and Georg at Teched EMEA 2008 in a self-experiment using Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Samstag, 8. November 2008
EBS Windows SharePoint Services Add-In just went RTM Freitag, 31. Oktober 2008
| See our Add-Ins section for a link to the just released official EBS Sharepoint addin.
This is the second AddIn that went RTM after our own AddIn named CPEdit that went RTM a few days ago and is also available in the AddIn section. |
Introducing Windows Azure Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2008
EBS Addins and WESS Tools available at WESSTools.com Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2008
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| As first publicaly available EBS Addin we present the ConfigurationPartitionEditor (CPEdit) which is a free download at http://WESSTools.com go and visit for other great free and commercial tools for your WESS systems. |
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RemoteApps maidden name Mittwoch, 8. Oktober 2008
| During a training session in Redmond we just got a trivia question about the codename of the cool new feature of Windows Server 2008 now officially called "RemoteApp":
TSRAIL
(Terminal Services Remote Apps Integrated Locally)
So this just reminded me to my birthday present a few days ago:

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Mikael and Oliver: The Wizards of EBS at SMB Nation 2008 Dienstag, 7. Oktober 2008
| Blogging this from the ask the Wizards session at SMB Nation 2008 which Mikael and me are attending as the wizards of EBS on the day after we have had the two double Speaker-Team, double feature EBS sessions here at the Bell Harbour Conference Center in Seattle.
See these smart looking wizard pictures of us during this session:
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Statement upon EBS availablility for Open EDU and Open Charity Licences Freitag, 26. September 2008
 | "EBS will be available in Open, Open Education & Open Charity but not in Select."
has been qualified as valid statement on our request by the MS EBS Productgroup.
So Open Education (as Charity is not available in e.g. Germany afaik) will be pricy way to license EBS for non profit organisation that qualifiy for those licensing programs. |
EBS environments for rent! Freitag, 26. September 2008
new official MS Footware at Redmond Campus Mittwoch, 17. September 2008
 | On my last trip to the Redmond Campus I meet a guy in Building 43 (SBS, EBS and Homeserver) who has already been equiped with the new official Microsoft® Footware for Corp. FTE while on campus. :) |
Essential Business Server 2008 Release To Manufacture (RTM) Dienstag, 16. September 2008
Listen to Bjorn talking about migrating to EBS and RTM Montag, 15. September 2008
MS Hyper-V Server SKU fist time public show off Sonntag, 14. September 2008
Partner Readiness Training Webcast Series on EBS starting today! Donnerstag, 4. September 2008
Get a free domain admin acount and WIN a HOMESERVER Dienstag, 2. September 2008
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Get a free domain admin acount for the fully functional EBS environment on intranet.EBSfaq.com and win a Windows HomeServer!
Anyone who is a registered user on our virtualized EBSfaq.com environment by the end of September can be a winner.
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We have some really interesting and valuable prices to spend including Packs of Windows HomeServers. BTW: This also includes the about 70 users that are already registered on the virtualized environment.
Starting now we will (until that 300 user limit of EBS is reached) also have random drawings as soon as some more of you registered to the site, so being early pays!
Registering to the virtualized intranet.EBSfaq.com EBS site is as easy as sending me an Email to o.sommer@trinitycomputer.de or o.sommer@EBSfaq.com as already shown in the "I WANT YOU" blog postings below. |
Be among the first EBS certified professionals! Take the new EBS Exam for FREE. Dienstag, 5. August 2008
| Up to the 12th August you have the one time chance to take the upcoming MS EBS Exam 70-654 for absoutly nothing, for free and with no charge at all. :)
I already toke this exam last week and encourage you to also get up and try it.
Just register to the http://www.register.prometric.com/ClientInformation.asp Website and use the Promotion code "EBS08" to make it free of charge. weiter ... |
EBS article by Paul written with support of our virtualized environment intranet.EBSfaq.com Freitag, 25. Juli 2008
| Paul wrote an interesting basics article on APCMAGPRO about EBS.
Before publishing this article he contacted me to ask for access to our virtualized EBS demo environment on intranet.EBSfaq.com to techcheck his article. He has been provided with a domain admin account by EBSfaq.com and managed to publish this article on time. :)
That said: Anyone who needs an domai nadmi naccount to the environment shall just send me an email and I'll be more than happy to setup those accounts.
Keep heads up there might be another interesting anouncement regard those intranet.EBSfaq.com accounts during the next days.... :) weiter ... |
Launch video for EBS and SBS 2008 Launch of Release Candidate 1 (RC1) with Oliver participating Samstag, 19. Juli 2008
Excactly this is how it feels to become a Microsoft MVP! :) Freitag, 18. Juli 2008
Wrap up of EBS announcements from WPC08 Donnerstag, 17. Juli 2008
Oliver has been interviewed at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston, Texas Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2008
We are officially on RC1! Montag, 7. Juli 2008
Essential Business Server 2008 launch date published as 12th November 2008 Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008
| Microsoft just anounced the official release date of EBS to be the 12th November of this year.
more details on this soon. |
First non-MS Windows Essential Business Server Add-In reached beta milestone Donnerstag, 26. Juni 2008
issue running virtualized EBS on Hyper-V RC1 Freitag, 20. Juni 2008
| If you are running into issues with virtualized EBS running on the Release Candidate 1 of Hyper-V (the one that you'll get streamed down by Microsoft Update by now), then you should use the leagacy (older) Networkadapters at least for the EBS Security server (both internal and external).
Both other EBS servers may use the VMBus aware synthetic networkadapters of Hyper-V, but the RC version of Forefront Thread Management Gateway (TMG | exISA) seems to have an issue with those new network adapters, although it worked in former RCs of Hyper-V. |
First 'Microsoft Update' Patch for Essential Business Server 2008 Dienstag, 17. Juni 2008
| Oliver Sommer 
The Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article number 953258 describes a known issue with the EBS administration console where keyboard navigation is not working properly and points to a patch for this issue using Microsoft Update. |
Watch this: Extreme Makeover | Server Room Edition :) Samstag, 7. Juni 2008
| Myths are telling that this project has essentially become Centro which was the prerelease Codename of Essential Business Server 2008 as we know:
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Let's get it even more interesting! | Giving away free EBS Domain-Admin Accounts for EVERYONE! Freitag, 6. Juni 2008
| Oliver Sommer 
Well we have more then 40 accounts on the virtualized environment intranet.EBSfaq.com by now, how exciting is that!? :)
But I still wanne have MORE!!
So as I did with all account by now withouit writing it here:
I will now give anyone a free EBS Domain-Admin Account to fully testdrive and demo EBS on his own behalf using our virtualized environment.
If you wanne have it demoed at a customer and are worried about availablilita of the environment (it still is a testing environment!) please drop me a mail and I will make sure it will we available during your demo timeframe.
For a FREE Domain-Admin Account drop me a mail to:
o.sommer@trinitycomputer.de weiter ... |
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