http://dnn.ebsfaq.comMicrosoft’s infrastructure solution for midsize businesses, code-named “Centro” is now Microsoft Windows Essential Business Serveren-US©2007 EBSfaq.com. All rights reserved.This is not a Microsoft site,it's community. Hosted by 3can.deo.sommer@trinitycomputer.de The first Windows Essential Business Server Add-In not developed by Microsoft has reached it's beta milestone release: http://dnn.ebsfaq.com/AddIns/ConfigurationPartitionEditor/tabid/1704/language/de-DE/Default.aspx It will be downloadable for your own beta testing soon. http://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspxWed, 25 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMThttp://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=137 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 adapt...http://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspxThu, 19 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMThttp://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=138 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 . http://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspxMon, 16 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMThttp://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=136 Myth are telling that this project has essentially become Centro which was the prerelease Codename of Essential Business Server 2008 as we know: http://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspxFri, 06 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMThttp://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=133 Well we have more then 40 accounts on the virtualized environment intranet.EBSfaq.com by now, 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 Domain-admin Account to fully testdrive and demo EBS on his own behalf. 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 availabl...http://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspxThu, 05 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMThttp://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=131 Oliver Sommer   Ok, I have a challenge to anounce. I wonder if we can stress our virtualized showcase EBS running on https://intranet.ebsfaq.com a little more as if this would be a productional maschine.  (I think we never could make that much workload on it as on a really productional machine, but maybe just a little more.) This is also a... heads up to everyone how want's to get in touch or showcase EBS!! ...http://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspxSat, 17 May 2008 22:00:00 GMThttp://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=127 Oliver Sommer   We just moved our EBS beta 2 deployment to EBS RC0. It mostly went very smoth with just one or two minor fixes needed offside from the how-to-path we got. Thanks to the EBS product group and our POD, you guys rock. http://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspxFri, 16 May 2008 22:00:00 GMThttp://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=126 Oliver Sommer   2008-05-14 Yesterday Microsoft anounced the public availability of the Essential Business Server 2008 Release Candidate 0 . Today I got aware of the actual download link:  http://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/evalcenter/cc184869(en-us).aspx By now it is only available in english and you need to logon using your Live/Passport account.  Be aware that EBS RC0 is a more than 10 GB Download . http://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspxTue, 13 May 2008 22:00:00 GMThttp://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=122 Oliver Sommer   2008-05-14 Microsoft just published prices for United Staates in US $ for the Essential Business Server 2008 Standard and Premium Suites and Client Access Licenses (CAL). All EBS Suites will be available through Open not as full packaged product (FPP), I don't know about OEM and other option by now. You do not need to buy Premium  CAL for Users in a Premium EBS environment that do not access the Premium features (namely the SQL Standard Server), this giv...http://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspxTue, 13 May 2008 22:00:00 GMThttp://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=123 Oliver Sommer   2008-05-14 Microsoft just setup a public newsgroup for Essential Business Server 2008 and that is gonne be the place we will refer to be the one point of public discusion around EBS: https://connect.microsoft.com/ebs08/community/discussion/richui/default.aspx If you need assistence in accessing the EBS NG please go here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/essential/ebs/community.mspx http://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspxTue, 13 May 2008 22:00:00 GMThttp://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=124 Oliver Sommer   2008-05-01 On that EBS TAP event here in Redmond we went out to an amazing billard cafè (sponsored by HP and AMD) to have some fun. Mike published some more pictures of that here:  http://mikelangowski.com/?p=16 http://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspxWed, 30 Apr 2008 22:00:00 GMThttp://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=121 Oliver Sommer   2008-04-29 Beeing here in REdmond at a EBS TAP (technical early adaptors) event some of the best bugging TAPs have been given a electrical guitar signed by EBS PG team members for there engagement during the beta phase of the EBS program. Mikael Nystrom who also writes on this site has been awarded as the best bugging TAP: http://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspxMon, 28 Apr 2008 22:00:00 GMThttp://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=118 Oliver Sommer   2008-04-23 On my way back from MVP Summit last sunday I found a horribly bad advice to disable the Firewall and other stuff on Chicago's O'Hare Airports Wireless Network Website ( http://www.flychicago.com/ohare/concessionsohare/pdf/NewWiFiBrochure.pdf ) and send it to an email list we simply call the SBSFamily list, because there are SBS friendly people on it. Somehow this email made it's way to Jesper Johanson a well known security expert and as he is no longer ...http://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspxMon, 21 Apr 2008 22:00:00 GMThttp://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=115 Oliver Sommer   2008-04-18 Fellow MVP mates Wayne and Dean have just made a very cool and explaining video clip and put it on YouTube on that topic. http://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspxThu, 17 Apr 2008 22:00:00 GMThttp://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=113 Fellow collegue Robert Adie published a short how to on his blog that deals with standard Exchange public folder migration from Exchange versions prior to 2007 to EBS Exchange server 2007: http://constantlyconnected.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!8F56349B10A270D4!167.entry   http://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspxSun, 30 Mar 2008 22:00:00 GMThttp://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=105 Oliver Sommer   2008-01-02 Since December 15th we (my company Trinity Computer ) are using the Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) Beta version in production. That means we run our business on EBS not any more on the SBS2003 environment we migrated from. Management Server Preinstall Checks At first: EBS is doing quite well and honestly far better than I expected. So far we only have one little but somehow anoing issue with Exchange authentication, whe...http://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspxTue, 01 Jan 2008 23:00:00 GMThttp://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=106 Oliver Sommer   2007-11-12 I made it to TechEd IT Forum Barcelona this year again attended the Keynote as usuall and just decided after that and some networking to have a look at my working place for the next 4 days. So I went to meet the guys at the Windows Essential Business Server booth which is Station number 49 btw. Luckily I just came in time to see them installing the version we will be demoing on the next days of TechEd. And guess what...it's Beta 2! S...http://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspxSun, 11 Nov 2007 23:00:00 GMThttp://dnn.ebsfaq.com/HomeBlog/tabid/664/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=107