http://www.ebsfaq.deMicrosoft’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.demail@osommer.de Video: WPC Video 10 - Oliver Sommer on VARvid.com Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=141http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=141 Joel Sider talks about the press announcements they made during WPC08 in Houston surrounding Small Business Server and Essential Business Server. Wrap up of SBS/EBS announcements from World Wide Partner Conference Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=144http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=144 Video: I Feel Great! - MVP The MVP Video by the way is a Remake of this Kellogs Nutri-Grain Commercial: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=142http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=142 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=143http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=143 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 the...Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=147http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=147 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. Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=154http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=154 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. 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...Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=165http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=165 Microsoft begins a eight parts long series of technical Webcasts about the EBS and its features starting today and continuing during the next days. Mikael Nystrom and Oliver Sommer of EBSfaq.com will take part at session number 1 and number 2 sharing their TAP customer experiences with the listening Microsoft Partners and employees. All Parts will be available as recordings, but are only accessible by Partners and Microsoft employees following this link: https://training.partner.microsoft.com/p...Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=166http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=166 First Look: Hyper-V Server Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=171http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=171 EBS migration interview and RTM Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=170http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=170 The product group just anounced the RTM of EBS about 2 hours ago: http://blogs.technet.com/essentialbusinessserver/archive/2008/09/15/windows-essential-business-server-2008-rtm.aspx Very soon (maybe next week) we will switch our EBSfaq.com test environment to that milestone release of EBS and give you first inside views to the product. So register and still WIN! (See blogposts below) Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=169http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=169 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. :) Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=178http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=178 As one of the first if not the first company worldwide 3can.de started to offer virtualized EBS environments during their hosting services campaign. 3can also offers virtualized Small Business Server environments and is one of the few hosting providers offering those hosted environments since years and with optional professional managed services: http://dnn.3can.de/Produkte/VirtualEBSServer/tabid/1840/language/de-DE/Default.aspx Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=191http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=191 "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. Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=192http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=192 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: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=194http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=194 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: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=195http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=195 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. Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=252http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=252 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 Es...Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=254http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=254 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. Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=253http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=253There is a Webcast for Microsoft Partners available to help you choose beetween the various suite of Windows Essential Server Solutions: https://training.partner.microsoft.com/plc/details.aspx?systemid=1821427 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=257http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=257 Todays german EBS webcast just finished and here are Slidedeck and the FAQs: http://ebsfaq.com/Usergroups/TrainingsandWebcasts/GermanEBSWebcastSeries/tabid/1992/language/de-DE/Default.aspx Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=256http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=256 http://www.microsoft.com/germany/events/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=1032397606 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=285http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=285 http://www.microsoft.com/germany/events/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=1032397611 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=283http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=283 Microsoft just anounced Amy and me (Oliver) as the first two 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. Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=260http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=260 We just started a german Wikipedia article (english already available http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Essential_Business_Server ): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Essential_Business_Server Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=288http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=288 MVP collegue Brad Dinerman toke his economy based layoff as a chance to start over again: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=301http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=301Internet Explorer 8 has been announced a minute ago at MIX09 at the Venetian in Las Vegas. IE8 has the mission to be the new web browser that offers the best solution for how people use the web today. Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of the Internet Explorer, just announced the availability of Windows Internet Explorer 8 in his keynote. You can watch the keynote and other happenings live at MIX09 by visiting: http://live.visitmix.com/Default.aspx The IE8 RTW download will be available in 25 la...Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=314http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=314 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=337http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=337 Microsoft recently announced that Win7 and Server 2008 R2 are going to be RTM at the second half of July and will be be generally available at Oktober 22th (22.10.2009). This has been anounced by Steve Guggenheimer during in a Keynote at Computex: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=348http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=348Many already joined to become a Fan of EBS on Facebook, do so too here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Windows-Essential-Business-Server/107556414738 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=351http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=351 A new blogsite for small and midsized business IT related content is online: [SMB blog .com] You already find some interesting content on this site you might wanne link to your RSS feed subscriptions. Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=407http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=407 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! So I started to take some pictured and...Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=107http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=107 Oliver Sommer 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, where Outlook and mobile devices are asking for credenti...Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=106http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=106 Oliver Sommer 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 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=105http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=105 Oliver Sommer Fellow MVP mates Wayne and Dean have just made some very cool and explaining video clips and put them on YouTube. Hockey Pants Manuals SBS vs EBS - The Spanking Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=113http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=113 Oliver Sommer 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 Microsoft employeed he becam...Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=115http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=115 Oliver Sommer Being here in Redmond at a EBS TAP (technical adaptors program) 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. Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=118http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=118 Oliver Sommer 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 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=121http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=121 Oliver Sommer 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 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=124http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=124 Oliver Sommer 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 gives most companys a chance to safe ahugh...Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=123http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=123 Oliver Sommer 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 . Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=122http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=122 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. Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=126http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=126 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!! So for that I'd like to invide anyone who want's to have an user account on that boxes to p...Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=127http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=127 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!...Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=131http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=131 Myths are telling that this project has essentially become Centro which was the prerelease Codename of Essential Business Server 2008 as we know: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=133http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=133 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 . Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=136http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=136 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 adapter...Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=138http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=138 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 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=137http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=137 Microsoft just anounced the official release date of EBS to be the 12th November of this year. more details on this soon. Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=139http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=139 Today Microsoft Product Manager Eric Watson publically shows first bits of EBS RC1 version at the World Wide partner Conference in Houston which Microsoft invited me, too. (Thanks for that again btw.) During the SMB Keynote of today preconference SMB sessions Eric and Michael Risse unveiled the EBS RC1 bits: http://blogs.technet.com/essentialbusinessserver/archive/2008/07/07/ebs-release-candidate-1-unveiled-live-from-wpc.aspx Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=140http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=140 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. Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=203http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=203 Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=202http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=202 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. Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=204http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=204 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=243http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=243 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. Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=249http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=249 Oliver is presenting the first Webcast of a Series about the Essential Business Server 2008 which is gonne be launched tomorrow the 12th November. This webcast series is gonne be presented in German only, sorry not simultane transation this time! :) Register here: http://www.microsoft.com/germany/events/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=1032394897 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=246http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=246 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! Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=248http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=248After some long weeks of waiting the localized versions of the EBS Sharepoint Add-in got released today. By now we have the german, french, chinese (2x), korean, japanese, portugese, italian, russian and spanish version available on the Add-In site. So with them it's possible now to install WSS into EBS with that cool integration into the EBS managment console the english version ever had. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=34FD138A-F3E9-4EA0-AE60-DAD4B8DAB7EC&displaylang=e...Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=313http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=313 Beeing named by me as a constant stream of white noise at SEATAC airport one time I am very sorry for those having to suffering his presents for days on that bus ride, thast Chris Rue is coming to be on that bus to TechEd: http://blogs.technet.com/mslcommunity/archive/2009/04/23/who-s-on-the-bus-rider-8-chris-rue-atlanta-to-los-angeles.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage Be sure to follow my guidelines I added to the blogs comment section. Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=325http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=325 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=347http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=347 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:43:53 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=375http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=375 http://www.conference2010.sbsmigration.com/ Memorial Day Weekend May 27-30, 2010. - Attendee early-bird is "last year's price" at $395 until Feb 1. - Attendee price then goes to $495 from Feb 1 until. - Guest registration fees have similar options, price rises $50 on Feb 1. Conference Topic - Optimize: Get Better Reality This year we focus the session content on what we have learned recently and can apply on how to optimize work process, products, and business approach. With economic downturns ...Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMThttp://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=404http://www.ebsfaq.de/Imprint/OliverSommer/tabid/1212/language/en-US/Default.aspx?ItemId=404