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Blogs

The Essential Business Server Team Blog The Essential Business Server Team Blog
Site to site VPN and Windows Essential Business Server
[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Alok Goyal] My name is Alok Goyal and I am a part of the Essential Business Server (EBS) team. Today, I wanted to talk about a new document I posted on the Microsoft Connect site. The document is titled "Site to site...(read more)... more
Thursday, Nov 5
OWA Address Book "Could not connect to a directory server” errors on EBS
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] When trying to browse through the OWA Address Book on a default EBS configuration, the first page of the address book will load, but attempts to browse to subsequent pages will fail with the error:...(read more)... more
Thursday, Nov 5

Nicholas King’s Blog Nicholas King’s Blog
Changes a foot – Moving to the Official EBS blog
It’s been a crazy few weeks but as of yesterday I’ll now be blogging on the official EBS blog for EBS.  This blog will still have my other techie thoughts, and the occasional EBS post that isn't so suitable for the official blog.  :) Why you...(read more)... more
Tuesday, Jul 7
SBS migration guidelines, training tools and checklist
Recently I received the feedback that we needed a better way of representing all of the tasks during the SBS 2008 migration process.  We spent some time looking at what could be done to support a smoother migration, and came up with this document...(read more)... more
Friday, Jun 26

Essential Business Server FAQ Blog Essential Business Server FAQ Blog
EBSfaq.com blog - a three-act play - Show that you are a Fan of EBS on Facebook!
Many already joined to become a Fan of EBS on Facebook, do so too here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Windows-Essential-Business-Server/107556414738
Tuesday, Jun 30

Kent Compton Kent Compton
The Outlook Connector Part 2
For those of you who want to only download the Outlook Connector you can go to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9A2279B1-DF0A-46E1-AA93-7D4870871ECF&displaylang=en. ... more
Tuesday, Apr 21
THE Outlook Connector
In addition to the product planning I do for Windows Live, I also work with the Microsoft Office Outlook team on the Outlook Connector.  What is the Outlook Connector you ask?  It is a grossly underutilized sync solution for people who are both Hotmail users and who have Outlook 2003 or 20... more
Wednesday, Mar 25
“I’d like to try Hotmail but I already have an existing Email account”
Do you have existing non-Hotmail/Live email account that you’ve had for a number of years?  Are you intrigued by the some of the new features and functionality of Windows Live Hotmail?  Perhaps you’re running into the other provider’s email storage limit?  Tired of having to mark all... more
Thursday, Mar 5

Kevin Beares’ Blog Kevin Beares’ Blog
New! Online Peer Group Benefit for Small Business Specialist and Windows SBS Partners
A little late, but worth the post. Microsoft announces Online Peer Groups, a new benefit for current Small Business Specialist partners that took the Windows SBS 70-282 exam. What are the Online Peer Groups? The online Peer Groups are an opportunity for...(read more)... more
Tuesday, Aug 26
Do you want training on SBS 2008 and EBS 2008. Well, it is here and has already begun
Hey everyone, This is your chance to get your feet wet in the Windows Essesntial Server Solutions suite of products, SBS 2008 and EBS 2008. The team has gone to great lengths to put together the "Windows Essential Server Solutions Launch with Technical...(read more)... more
Thursday, Aug 21
The SBS 2008 Community Survey is closed
Thanks to everyone who responded. We had a lot of responses this year and I appreciate the time and energy that a lot of you spent in sharing your thoughts on the SBS Community. I plan to share the findings here and hopefully everyone will gain a better...(read more)... more
Monday, Jul 14

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