Exchange Certificate Expiration in EBS 2008
[ Today?s post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan] In EBS 2008, the Hub Transport server role on the Messaging Server is installed with a self-signed Exchange certificate to secure EdgeSync and SMTP communication with Edge Transport role on the Security...(read more)
Backup/Restore Methods for Essential Business Server 2008 in a Virtual Machine Environment
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan] There is a common misunderstanding as to what a proper backup and restore procedure should be for an EBS 2008 Management or Messaging server running as a virtual machine. We see many customers...(read more)
How to Maintain and Reduce the Amount of Data Stored in the Systems Center Essentials Databases
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Ed Walters] System Center Essentials 2007 (SCE) is a unified management solution that is included with the Essential Business Server package. The application is installed on the Management Server and is designed to...(read more)
Our Technical Findings While Developing EBS v2
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Alireza Farhangi] During the development of EBS v2, we tackled quite a few challenges in integrating Microsoft server technologies. We developed solutions and workarounds, proved them through exhaustive testing, and...(read more)
New IT Trends Bring Change to Mid-Market Product Line
Four years ago, we committed to building an infrastructure solution for the mid-market. Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) which was the first of its kind to meet the unique needs of mid-market IT pros. Since that time the market landscape has naturally...(read more)
We need your help to plan and communicate useful information
The EBS team is conducting a survey to learn how to better provide information to our partners and customers. We’d like to learn a little more about you and about the EBS resources you find helpful. Please take our short survey! We’ll use the information...(read more)
How to recover EBS 2008 Messaging server objects after an accidental Active Directory server object deletion
Problem Scenario: From Customer Support feedback, we have learned that some customers facing a disaster on one of the Essential Business Serve r 2008 servers will naturally attempt to clean the servers' residue from Active Directory before starting a...(read more)
Replacing Network Adapter on Security Server may cause inbound/outbound email queuing up on Edge Transport Server
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Ping Xu] S ymptoms: Replacing a network adapter on the Essential Business Server 2008 Security Server may cause inbound and outbound email to queue and not be delivered. Confirm this by checking the message queue...(read more)
Follow the Essential Business Server blog on Twitter
Special thanks to Susan Bradley for creating a new feed on Twitter for the blog. You can now follow http://twitter.com/EBSblog and receive tweets any time the blog is updated. ...(read more)
2 New Important Updates for Windows Server 2008 R2 Domains
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] Two new updates are available that allow Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (EBS 2008) to be installed into domains with existing Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain Controllers (DCs). 977193...(read more)
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