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Exchange Hanging on your SBS or EBS 2008?

Published Mon, Aug 3 2009 9:38 | steveb

If you are running VSS snapshot backups of Exchange 2007, thank the folks over at StorageCraft and Microsoft for working together to come up with a fix. I'd recommend you get it installed sooner than later if you have had your Exchange Server hanging...

Filed under: EBS, SBS 2008, StorageCraft, ShadowProtect, DPM

EBS Prep and Planning Tools REALLY need a bypass switch for Greenfield deployments.

Published Mon, Apr 20 2009 15:36 | steveb

With all due respect to the Essential Business Server team and the awesome job they have done with EBS, I would really like a bypass switch on the Planning and Preparation Wizard for fresh installs. Thank you Nicholas for your Blog post on how to get...

Filed under: EBS

EBS Console freezing or needing to restart SBS 2008 once a week or so? Look here for your answer.

Published Thu, Feb 12 2009 8:58 | steveb

Thanks to Chris Puckett and his team for working on this to get a resolution. We have seen this primarily with Trend Micro (our primary anti-virus product) but it is happening with any product using TDI, so if you are getting similar behavior from your...

Filed under: EBS, SBS 2008, Trend Micro

A newly created recipient may not receive e-mail messages for up to 4 hours

Published Wed, Jan 7 2009 13:42 | steveb

Thanks to Susan Bradley for bringing my attention to this Microsoft KB. It looks like in Essential Business Server 2008 if you create a new recipient and attempt to send them mail, it can take up to four hours for the Exchange Edge Server to synch up...

Filed under: Exchange, EBS, Edge Server

TechNet's EBS 2008 Technical FAQ Page

Published Tue, Dec 9 2008 12:07 | steveb

Check out the Essential Business Server 2008 FAQ page at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/ebs/dd183189.aspx for your questions about TMG (like do you need to install it in EBS) and the like.

Filed under: EBS

How to get IMAPS configured on your EBS network (as in BlackBerry Storm)

Published Thu, Dec 4 2008 3:54 | steveb

Okay, I got a phone call that the owner's son at a customer site has picked up a BlackBerry Storm and is traveling across the country tomorrow and needs it configured. How do you do it? Like this: All you need to do to get IMAPS (TCP Port 993) to...

Filed under: EBS, IMAPS, BlackBerry BIS

SCE issue with upgrades from SBS to EBS

Published Thu, Oct 9 2008 11:51 | steveb

SBS Group Policy is set to have clients check WSUS once an hour. SCE/WSUS on EBS defaults to once a day, so you'll need to remove the SBS WSUS Group Policy from your migration in order to keep the database size more manageable.

Filed under: SBS 2003, EBS

EBS 2008 - Company Profile; Type your company information

Published Wed, Oct 8 2008 13:14 | steveb

EBS setup alert: Under the Company Profile section of setup, when you get to the "Type your company information" screen, watch what you place in your entries for Company name , Name of certificate issuer , and Administrator's name (optional...

Filed under: EBS

Migration from SBS 2003 to EBS 2008

Published Wed, Oct 8 2008 12:26 | steveb

When migrating over to EBS from SBS 2003 there are couple pre-migration steps that will save you a lot of trouble. First: Change the IP address of your SBS LAN IP. This will allow you to point mail to it during the installation process. If you do not...

Filed under: ISA, EBS

EBS Edge Server Message Routing

Published Wed, Oct 8 2008 11:45 | steveb

EBS 2008 Edge Server Message Routing Two send connectors are created – one to send mail to the Messaging Server and on to send mail to Internet. We are being told that mail will queue during setup so don't leave a production network hanging...

Filed under: EBS, Edge Server, Security Server

Thinking of EBS? Here's a rough cost estimate and some caution for you to consider.

Published Wed, Oct 8 2008 10:10 | steveb

If you are thinking of going with Essential Business Server 2008, here are some numbers to think of while considering it. These are quick "guesstimates" a few of us came up with while discussing it. $5,000 for the base EBS license 150 x $81...

Filed under: EBS

Curious how to disable IPv6?

Published Wed, Oct 8 2008 10:03 | steveb

This will work on Vista & Windows 2008 boxes and disable IPv6 if you need to (as in System Center Essentials!). Change the registry entry and restart the machine to apply to the local machine. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6...

Filed under: Vista, EBS, IPv6, SCE

EBS Virtualized Installs - ALWAYS use PST Time Zone

Published Tue, Oct 7 2008 20:26 | steveb

Hot off the press from training here with in Issaquah with Mark Stanfill and the SBS MVPs. If you are installing Essential Business Server (EBS) 2008 you are going to need to set the BIOS time zone on the Host. "The EBS setup, like all Windows Server...

Filed under: EBS, Time Zones

EBS and HP Blade Server Session by Greg Starks in Seattle on October 3rd, 2008

Published Fri, Sep 26 2008 7:20 | steveb

Interrupting this blog for a non-paid non-political announcement. ;-) For those of you in the Northwest, you should get yourself over to Greg's presentation. I'm already booked for that Friday across town so if you go you will need to fill me...

Filed under: EBS, HP, SMB Nation

The Essential Business Server (EBS) Team sharing the love with their new prep wizard!

Published Thu, Jul 24 2008 0:14 | steveb

Looking for a cool way to check the health of your current network(s)? Well here's a free, yes that's right, free, download compliments of Eric Watson and the Essential Business Server team over at Microsoft. A few of us ran into Eric at lunch...

Filed under: EBS

Essential Business Server (EBS) RC1 announced today at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference!

Published Mon, Jul 7 2008 17:46 | steveb

Eric Watson demo'd EBS RC1 today live at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston, Texas. Check out his blog post for screen shots and more details! Steve

Filed under: EBS

Where did my old friend the SBS Console go in SBS 2008 (and EBS 2008)?

Published Fri, May 30 2008 18:26 | steveb

I requested of both the SBS and EBS development teams for them to add back into their respective Start Menus their Server Administrative Consoles. They are on the desktop of SBS 2008 (and EBS 2008 Management Server) but not in the menu. Instead there...

Filed under: SBS, EBS

How to turn off screen savers during EBS installations

Published Fri, May 30 2008 1:54 | steveb

At the time of this writing, Essential Business Server 2008 has a default screen saver time out of 10 minutes and locks the server. This can be highly annoying during setup when you are watching the progress from across the room as each server runs its...

Filed under: Centro, EBS

Hey Dave and Yuri, it's EBS, not WEBS. ;-)

Published Tue, May 27 2008 21:57 | steveb

Looks like the Essential Business Server folks need to let the Forefront Team Blog crew know the correct acronym for the product they are bundling TMG in. For a look at the Blog post Yuri Diogenes put together on it along with screen shots and another...

Filed under: EBS, TMG

Setup logs location in Microsoft's Essential Business Server 2008 (EBS)

Published Fri, May 23 2008 11:05 | steveb

If you are working with EBS, a good location to know about is where the setup logs are stored. They are on each server under C:\Program Files\Windows Mid-Market Server\Logs if you are looking for them.

Filed under: EBS