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The Sad End to a Suite of Unattained Potential
03-05-2010 11:24 AM
I was so excited about the product from the minute I heard of it.  In January, 2007 Kevin Beares took me into his office and showed me the three servers running a VERY early alpha (read: dogfood) build of what would eventually be called Microsoft Essential Business Server 2008 .  As he explained the technology I was thrilled… it was what I always hoped... Read More...
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An Open Letter to the EBS Community From an Administrator
09-24-2009 9:21 AM
Although I spend a lot of my ‘MVP time’ talking about other technologies the product that I am actually awarded in is Essential Business Server, a product that I have believed in strongly since the day it was announced.  The following is the text of an e-mail sent by the IT Professional at a company that uses it and loves it. For those of you who have been... Read More...
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EBS Deployment Scripts
11-28-2008 1:41 PM
Over the past few weeks I have been in front of a number of audiences discussing Essential Business Server.  As promised, here are the scripts I discussed to create your WindowsPE to deploy the OS portion of the EBS servers over the network:   call copype.cmd amd64 C:\winpe imagex /mountrw C:\winpe\winpe.wim 1 C:\winpe\mount peimg /inf=C:\drivers\nic... Read More...
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Installing EBS: A Diary
11-01-2008 3:16 PM
So now that I have a day or two to play (and need it up already!), I decided to start installing my Essential Business Server environment today.  This is not my first kick at this can (I have installed eight or nine previous iterations in either beta or RTM Escrow) so I know there are a number of challenges that I can run into.  I am going to diary... Read More...
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A Gotcha to Installing EBS in an Existing Environment
10-26-2008 1:01 PM
I encountered a problem this week-end that baffled me for a while… Here is the infrastructure, the problem, and the solution. This network diagram is a rough sketch of the relevant portions of the network.  At present I have a server (HP DL585 G2) working as my virtualization parent, with my Windows Small Business Server 2008 (SBS) running in a child machine... Read More...
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Essential Business Server - Tell me more!
05-07-2008 1:51 PM
(Note: It has been brought to my attention that I inadvertently named this article the same thing I had named a previous article.  As such I am renaming this article, four hours after the original publication time.  Thanks for understanding.  -M) For the past several years I have been a huge proponent of Microsoft Small Business Server.  I... Read More...
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A Simple Explanation of Microsoft Essential Business Server
04-10-2008 1:25 PM
So what is Essential Business Server (EBS) ?  In simple terms EBS is a complete corporate network for mid-sized companies in a box, or rather in three or four boxes depending on the version.  Let me explain: In the beginning there was the PC.  And of course Microsoft looked up at the PC and said it was good, but did not really do very much. ... Read More...
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Essential Business Server: Coming soon to a mid-sized company near you!
04-08-2008 2:14 PM
For years I have been saying that Small Business Server was the best solution for small businesses that did not have huge IT budgets; it allowed them to take advantage of the same enterprise-level tools such as Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server, and SharePoint Server without having to purchase several servers with tens of thousands of dollars of software... Read More...
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