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

steveb — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:20:00 GMT

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 in on how it goes. The HP "Shorty" is a cool system and Essential Business Server is definitely worth your attention for the sites on the upper edge and over the edge of SBS' 75 user limit. EBS is much more complex than SBS. Our company has been working with Microsoft on two customer EBS TAP sites over the past year, and believe me, EBS is great, but if you are expecting the follow the wizard life of SBS, you'll be in for a surprise. There is too much going on in this system to just deploy and run without preparing yourself by training up on the components, so get yourself familiar with it if BEFORE you go out and deploy it. Greg's presentation (and SMB Nation's conference) are a great place to start! - Steve

From: Harry Brelsford

Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:22 PM

To: Steven Banks; Ken Shafer; Bob Romney; Jasminder Rai

Subject: Update: HP Blade University open to public => Essential Business Server deep dive with Greg Starks from HP Houston (Next Friday in Seattle)

Hey guys – this is now complimentary and open to the public…and it’s GREG STARKS who is one of us and amazing!

This your invitation to the HP c3000 and Windows EBS event in Seattle on October 3, 2008. We have a few seats still available and are extending this invitation to you once more. Visit www.EBSandC3000.com now to register. Remember, our limited seating goes to the first 50 people who register!

In this interactive and entertaining day, you’ll discover a perfect fit: HP BladeSystem c3000 and Windows EBS. You’ll learn how to prospect for business, how to make quick and compelling executive presentations, and why this is the solution your customers have been waiting for.

Who should attend?

Qualified attendees are sales professionals, senior management, and presales engineers interested in learning more about HP BladeSystem c3000 and Microsoft EBS and the strategies required for effective solution selling.

Register Now!

Enroll right away because there are only a few seats left! Visit www.EBSandC3000.com now! (Note: Walk-in registration will not be permitted at this event because of limited seating).

Event Details:

Held on Friday, October 3, 2008 the day before SMB Nation begins, this program runs from 9:00 am until 4:00 pm. Registration opens at 8:30 am with breakfast. Lunch will be provided. The event is at the Seattle Marriott Waterfront hotel, adjacent to the SMB Nation venue.

Cancellations

We will allow you to substitute another colleague from your company. If you cannot make the session, please let us know so that we can invite someone from the waiting list.

Register now at www.EBSandC3000.com before you forget!

Thanks and see you soon,

Your EBS and C3000 Team

Harry Brelsford | CEO | SMB Nation, Inc. | www.smbnation.com

Please attend our SMB Nation 2008 fall conference, October 4-6, 2008

Read Harry's SMB Dude Blog here

Download your copy of SMB PC magazine here

Error 0x80070057 returned from call to Adding routers IP address to the intranet zone().

steveb — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:17:00 GMT

Added note: In the heat of frustration the evening I first posted this I neglected to mention the initial issue was CEICW failing EVERY time I would run it on the initial installation of the HP ML370. I even did a repair install since I had a Eula.txt error I told it to ignore during setup. When if failed after that repair installation I started digging for answers and came across the issue below:

HP, I really like your products, but this time you've blown it. Why in the world are you removing the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains registry key in SmartStart? Doesn't make it so smart! :-( Here I was rolling on the install of SBS 2003 onto an ML 370 G5 and you have blown the evening for me and cost me a couple hours of troubleshooting and taken away time I could be home with my family on a Friday evening. Not good guys and gals.

Tonight is one of those nights when I am so thankful for the awesome community we have out there around Small Business Server. All of you who participate in the SBS newsgroups and forums rock! Have I told you that lately?

Thank you to Mariette Knap for your work and passion. Smallbizserver is a tremendous part of the SBS Community and I thank you for all you and Marina do.

Thank you Cory for your contribution in the Microsoft Public Newsgroups (and thank you Google for putting them out there and doing such an awesome job of indexing and allowing us to search them).

Thank you Microsoft for KB259493. Although you still are missing the boat. Without Cory and Mariette around, we'd have to be thinking outside the box a bit as they were to get the solution. If you update the KB or do one similar to KB875421 then you'll be back on track. If I've missed it (hard to though, I did Google site:microsoft.com for the error and didn't find it) you can comment with the KB number and I'll be happy to stand corrected.

Thank you to all whose posts I'm sure I've missed with the answer to this solution. You are all Rock Stars in my book. Greg Starks, please get on the Proliant team and get them away from playing Guitar Hero and back to work on cleaning up that SmartStart hassle, or at least modify those rock stickers you showed us at WPC on the side of the servers telling us you are going to mess with our boxes like that! ;-)

And if any of you get the error Error 0x80070057 returned from call to Adding routers IP address to the intranet zone(). and didn't check out the links above, add the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains back in that HP pulled out and you'll be on track to make it home before the family goes to bed.

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

Error 0x80070057 returned from call to Adding routers IP address to the intranet zone().