tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18357732614678040042011-10-29T02:52:28.601-07:00Windows Essential Business Server blog, ebs, webs, windows ebs, essential business server, grillone, 2008, microsoft, smb, midsize, sbs, small business server, wess, windows essential server solutions, FSE, TMG, TMG MBE, threat management gateway, forefront security, exchange, wss, sharepoint services, subscription, ibm, ibm lotus foundations, ibm foundations, ibm foundation, lotus foundation, lotus, ebs 2008, windows ebs, windows ebs 2008, tco, total cost of ownership, productivityChris Grillonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12611352195093222042noreply@blogger.comBlogger1361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1835773261467804004.post-84309981283303069612009-10-07T13:27:00.000-07:002009-10-07T13:35:14.572-07:00

Hey everyone, I am back in Silicon Valley working for a former employer. I had a great time working with talented people in Redmond and meeting so many entrepreneurial IT professionals from around the world. While I would have preferred setting up Windows EBS at home, I elected for Windows SBS with Windows Home Server. One of these days I will launch my web site, so stand by.Cheers,

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I wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who supported while at Microsoft, both internally and externally, especially customers and partners, and not mention the thousands of readers of this blog.  I have met so many great people in my role at Microsoft.  My decision to leave such a talented group of people was not easy, but I have accepted a product manager position with greater

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Microsoft Essential Business Server team is excited to announce the release of Microsoft IT Environment Health Scanner, the new diagnostic tool designed for administrators of small or medium-sized networks who want to assess the overall health of their network infrastructure. When run from a computer with the proper network access, the tool takes a few minutes to scan your IT environment,

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I am back from a leave of absence and vacation. My apologies for bein off the grid. I will have more news later this week. Partners, I know we are looking forward to seeing you at the Worldwide Partner Conference.

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New in 2009, Virtual Convergence is your online resource for all post-conference materials – and helps us deliver post-conference videos and information to you faster than ever before. Keynote presentations, general sessions and concurrent sessions are all available for viewing online in Windows Media video (WMV) format, so that you can revisit sessions you attended or view them for the first

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Preparation Wizard is great free tool that was developed by Microsoft Essential Business Server team (http://www.microsoft.com/ebs/en/us/overview.aspx ) that scans your network,  identifies various networking problems (DNS, AD replication, AD configuration, configuration of network adapters, etc.) and provides links to knowledge based articles that explain how to correct these issues.  The tool

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Combo of identity, data/access protection at heart of Microsoft plan By John Fontana , Network World , 04/16/2009 "Microsoft Thursday began detailing a security strategy that will see it combine its identity management efforts with its Forefront security products built for clients, servers and the network edge. The company plans to integrate its security and identity products under the

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I am not posting this because I see Mac as a major competitor for Windows EBS, but I am tired of Mac fanatic friends that blindly believe that Macs are designed to be more secure than Windows.  I thought this was an interesting article from the New York Times. April 10, 2009, 5:13 pm Mac Security Part II: It’s a Numbers Game By Riva Richmond Macs were more secure than Windows machines, but

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Free E-Learning course published here on April 7th, 2009.  This module is only 1-hour.  There are a several demos, including the Preparation Wizard. Introduction This one-hour clinic introduces the features of Windows EBS 2008. It also describes the installation and configuration of Windows EBS 2008.   This clinic covers the following topics. Introduction to Windows EBS 2008 Features

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Microsoft expanded its Windows Server family with Windows Server 2008 Foundation, designed and priced for small businesses with 15 or fewer employees. To see if Windows Server 2008 Foundation makes sense for your organization, check out the Compare Features, the Compare Server Roles, and the Differentiated Features charts. Speaking of Windows Server, April is Windows Server 2008 month for

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Akvelon CRM Add-in for Microsoft Essential Business Server (EBS) Akvelon CRM Add-in for Microsoft Essential Business Server (EBS) provides a single place to manage Microsoft Dynamics CRM servers in your Enterprise. The Add-in is tightly integrated into the Microsoft EBS user interface. With this Add-in administrators can save time by performing all Dynamics CRM management activities using the

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Microsoft to kick off Webcast Series April 14th On April 14, at 9 a.m. PST , Microsoft will kick-off a webcast series on 'How to Invest in the IT Infrastructure You Have While Preparing for Tomorrow.’ Part 1 is titled "One Server Does Not Fit All.”  This webcast will discuss the top ways to save on IT while still advancing the business forward and offer advice on how to pick the best server that

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Does this first article sounds too familiar? How Much Is Conficker Really Impacting Enterprises?By Brian Prince 2009-03-27 Given that Microsoft issued a patch for the flaw targeted by the Conficker worm and the use of strong passwords can prevent much of the spread, it seems odd that enterprises would be hurt by the worm. But sometimes enterprise security isn't all it's cracked up to be

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Microsoft introduces Windows Server 2008 Foundation, a foundation for business growth and the community. REDMOND, Wash. — April 1, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. has expanded its industry-leading Windows Server family of operating systems with the addition of Windows Server 2008 Foundation. Built for small businesses with 15 or fewer users, Windows Server 2008 Foundation puts the reliability, security

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Back on Oct. 23, 2008, Microsoft released a critical security update for Windows: MS08-067. Isolated attacks existed at the time of the bulletin release and in our blog we strongly recommended installing the security update as quickly as possible. Later, a few trojans that exploit this vulnerability were found and a month from the release of the bulletin we blogged again, this time about the

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Despite the $250k bounty to catch the Conficker Worm (virus) authors and the guidance from Microsoft to "patch and clean, patch and clean" to to disinfect and protect computers infected by the Conficker Worm, aka Downadup, how confident are you that your company has updated all patches for Windows-based computers?  The Conficker worm is a computer worm that can infect your computer and spread

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Do more with what you have: Bob Muglia, president of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft, talks about smart ways businesses of all sizes can control IT costs in tough economic times. REDMOND, Wash. — March 30, 2009 — The global business downturn has left many IT decision-makers scrambling to figure out how they can reduce or restrain spending without sacrificing quality of service or

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Layoffs at Google, Microsoft, IBM and other companies, including midsize businesses are very unfortunate, more bluntly, really suck for the employees, former employees and company.  Laid-off workers have my sympathy. Remaining employees are fortunate to keep their jobs.  There have been many stories on NPR and other news outlets about how employees need to maintain or increase productivity with

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“Microsoft SMB Insight Report” forecasts that a majority of small and midsize businesses will maintain or increase IT spending in 2009.   Microsoft Resources: •2009 “Microsoft SMB Insight Report” (.doc) •Microsoft in Small Business Web site REDMOND, Wash. — March 25, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. today released a study of the business challenges and technology priorities that small and midsize

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From the WSSG lab: "We have been busy creating a set of virtual machines for Windows Essential Business Server 2008 for use by the field and other interested internal folks.  These VMs are available today along with a comprehensive setup document that you can use to have EBS up and running in a fraction of the time a full install would take.  I would like to highly encourage your feedback on the

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As IT infrastructure becomes more complex, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) can increase: –Existing environment has different versions of various technologies, time consuming to manage –Achieving interoperability between new IT components with best practices requires integration and time –Upgrade costs increase due to the requirements of new IT components and their licensesThe Preparation

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By Vivian Yeo, ZDNet Asia Thursday, January 29, 2009 01:48 PM "Despite challenging economic times, IT and telecom (IT&T) expenditure by small and midsize businesses (SMBs) in the Asia-Pacific region will reach US$153 billion in 2009, according to a new report." Read the rest of this brief article here on ZDNet Asia.

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This is a great deal for customers and partners, don't miss out on getting more for your money. Microsoft is offering the Big Easy 3.0 in the United States until June 26, 2009 and the Big Easy 2.0 in Canada until March 31, 2009, a Partner Subsidy when you purchase EBS under Open Value licensing.  Since I am not a lawyer and this is just my blog, please see the terms & conditions here for the US

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We are hearing about midsize customers, 300 or fewer PCs OR users, approaching their partners and wanting to install EBS before upgrading their line of business application, e.g. Microsoft Dynamics. Midsize customers with line of business applications are likely to have a disparate network infrastructure.  They may have legacy operating systems ready to retire and extra servers ready for

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You can download this tool for free here without any obligation to purchase Windows EBS.  This tool does not change your network, only helping to identify  network problems and opportunities to implement better practices.  Links to relevant, yes relevant, KB articles are provided for the errors identified. IT Pros, this is a simple way to possibly improve your network. Partners, this is a

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On March 13th, 2009, we uploaded the localized RTM version of Extensibility Add-ins for Microsoft SharePoint and SQL Server to download center for international EBS customers. These localized packages will help our international customers get better user experiences and enjoy the values of both add-ins in their mother tongue languages. These came out with lots of cross functionality team

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Wow!  If Sun and IBM merge, there would be only one major competitor to them in the Unix server market, HP. Sun + IBM = 62% Unix server market and 45% overall server market.  IBM takeover Sun, hmm, can they merge cultures? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/technology/companies/19sun.html?_r=1&hp

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This EBS case study, in conjunction with the recent EBS and Which Server to Choose article in the Midmarket Momentum Magazine, are meant to be sales resources to show our customers & partners a real-life Canadian example of the “before and after picture” of EBS.Quotes from the case study:The centre has since reduced help desk calls by 23 per cent, maintenance time by 30 per cent, and is now more

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My schedule is flexible on Thursday and Friday morning at Convergence in New Orleans. Please let me know if you'd like to me to discuss the product or positioning the product. I will start posting again regularly next week, so feel free to let me know if there are topics you want me to blog about. I have a bunch myself, but I want to meet your nedds and interes

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I apologize for not recently posting.  I am out of office (OOF), not laid off.   I am taking this opportunity to promote Windows EBS at Convergence next week in new Orleans.  Do you have questions about EBS?  Do you you want to understand how EBS can help you increase productivity while decreasing costs?  Do you want to ask a customer, the head manger for development, or me questions?  Come to

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Microsoft Partner, the Microsoft Business and Technology Assessment Toolkit includes EBS 2008.  The latest version of the toolkit offers a range of new features: New assessments to evaluate your customers’ server, mobile, desktop, and Exchange needs and to help you identify solutions based on Windows Small Business Server 2008, Windows Essential Business Server 2008, Windows Mobile 6,

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EBS has four sessions at Convergence 2009 in New Orleans during the second week of March: ST07 - Lower TCO and Increase Productivity with Windows Essential Business Server 2008 and Microsoft Dynamics AX Learn how Windows EBS 2008 helps midsize businesses lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and increase productivity of both end-users and IT Professionals.  Measured results from current

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Last re-port for this out of office period. Are you also feeling the squeeze of the credit crunch?  Are you looking to finance EBS, hardware, partner services and other Microsoft software, e.g. Dynamics CRM?  Microsoft is offering a SmartPay promotion.  This promo provides no payments for the first 6 months of the term of the loan.  Please read all the details and legal stuff here.

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While I am out of the office for the rest of the week, I am going to re-post a couple of blogs I noticed received high interest. Green IT & Lower Total Cost of Ownership IBM's latest commercial on Green IT hits the mark on addressing both environmental and total cost of ownership.  Whether you are concerned about the environment and energy dependence, lowering maintenance, repair & operations (

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From the New York Times: Australia announced a $26.5B stimulus package and lowered its benchmark cash arate by a full percentage point to a record low of 3.25 percent.  Japan's central banked announced yesterday a plan to buy up to one trillion yen ($11.1B) of shares that Japanese banks hold in other corporations.  Microsoft lay-offs no longer rumors, Microsoft announced planned lay-offs over

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EBS on HP blade servers. HP is doubling down on EBS. Find out more: www.hp.com/go/winessentialfamily

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  What is driving Green IT or Green Computing?  Probably cost reduction (lower TCO) through virtualization and consolidation, resulting in Green IT.  There were several articles published a year ago as Green IT starting gaining more attention.  Here are a few: Green IT- Corporate Strategies from www.businessweek.com 5 Steps to Green IT from www.eweek.com Top green-IT users and vendors from

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Localized Partner Training on EBS should be available in early March in French, Germany, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Brazilian Portuguese. Partner Tools and Training for Windows EBS can be found on the MSPP.  Resources support: Migration from SBS to EBS Windows EBS Jumpstart Online Kit Market Ready Customer Campaigns Additional Information and Resources:

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Whether or not you try or buy EBS, you can download and use the Windows Essential Business Server Planning & Preparation to identify issues in your current network environment.  The Preparation Wizard scans your network environment and identifies issues that you need to correct to be able to deploy Windows EBS. The tool runs about 100 environment checks and provides data and documentation (KBRs)

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Sun is delivering EBS virtualized onto one sever. This speaks to the solution, HW cost savings, energy savings (green IT) and their Try and Buy promotion where you get up to a 40% discount.

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I am inviting a few current customers to blog about their experience with Windows EBS.  Please remember that comments to blogs are not moderated, so please fee free to ask them questions.  Ask about cost benefits and how EBS lowered their infrastructure TCO and increased productivity.  EBS enabled some customers to take 100% of their employees to Windows Mobile like Collegiate Housing in this

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Windows EBS 2008 is available for download on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/default.aspx?pv=36:347

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Sun Microsystems is marketing Windows EBS Standard as virtualized on one physical server.  Sun Microsystems has published a Sun for Windows EBS Solution Brief and Microsoft Windows EBS on Sun Microsystems x64 Systems Hardware Requirements. From Sun's Place for Small and Medium Businesses site:   Our Solution: EBS on Sun Instead of the three servers required by other platforms, Sun enables you

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I am seeing EBS gaining traction in the market.  I expected sales to pick-up in January and February, following the holiday season and at the beginning of many fiscal years.  Whether credit is opening up in some markets or customers are leveraging SmartPay promotion from Microsoft or other credit offered by Microsoft Finance for software, hardware and services, I am optimistic that the first full

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This quick, impromptu, 5-minutes video informally discusses a few myths of Windows Essential Business Server (EBS). Please let me know topics you may be interested in and who you want me to interview in the future. First thing Monday morning without coffee, ugh.

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Amy Babinchak (US) and Oliver Sommer (Germany) are the first two EBS MVPs. Congratulations!

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Midmarket IT Pros are more familiar with EBS 2008 than Hyper-V in the U.S. and China.  These midmarket IT Pros were interviewed as part of a Microsoft Dynamics study published internal to Microsoft in December 2008.  These findings are decent, considering EBS's time in market, marketing budget & resources (Where are EBS robot ads?) and interest in virtualization.  Since more than 1/3 of the IT

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If you are a Microsoft employee, I posted valuable EBS messaging information on my internal blog.  A recent study in the U.S., U.K. and Germany verifies IT Pro pain points, but also includes an unexpected takeaway. MS Partners may find some of this information valuable for business development, so if you are interested, please contact your local Microsoft subsidiary.  They should be able to

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  Windows Server 2008: Windows also rises While Vista crashed and burned, Microsoft's new server OS became the upgrade Windows shops can't refuse By Doug Dineley December 26, 2008 "The advances beyond Windows Server 2003 seem too numerous to count."

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In response to the economic indicators and/or loss of revenue, some companies first started cutting capital expenses, then operating expenses including employees.  While budgets are reviewed constantly, budgets are typically reallocated upon reducing operating expenses to maintain productivity and revenue with reduced resources.  Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) can assist businesses in

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I will be working throughout this holiday season, taking a couple of days off here and there.  Wishing you a safe and peaceful holiday season.

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I understand many markets desire local case studies, but I suspect you can translate a majority of the business value across the world.  The challenge for any market and business is to decide on the ROI for their specific market, their segment and individual business; however, the reduced costs and increase productivity should translate to any market.  Microsoft subsidiaries are working on local

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Solutions Pathway provides additional discounts/credits for current SBS, Windows Server 2008 and Exchange 2007.  If you are looking to lower your Total Cost of Ownership with EBS and/or expecting to outgrow the 75 limit user limit for SBS, check out the additional discounts you may qualify for.  The site has a lot of information, possibly too much, so please contact your Microsoft partner with

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I use to work at General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems modeling information systems reliability and lifecycle costs, hence TCO.  The government recognizes from historical data and modeling that greater than 60% of the cost of systems (TCO) occurs following initial acquisition and deployment. While lowering costs, most businesses want to ensure they maintain, or even increase, their

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Although this is my personal blog, I can't legally guarantee that EBS will save your company money and increase your company's productivity, so you will need to rely on the documented results of our EBS customers.  Plus you wouldn't believe me anyway.  Real-world results are far more convincing.

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SBS will now be on the CBS Early Show on December 20th, instead of tomorrow.

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SBS will be demonstrated on CBS's Saturday edition of the Early Show this Saturday as part of a "green initiative" story.  EBS is delivers much greener ROI, more significant server consolidation and greater impact on mobile workers, i.e. working on the road or from home.  EBS has stronger green customer evidence posted in this blog and could have used the coverage as a brand new product.

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While speaking to a Microsoft MVP, Gold Certified Partner yesterday at a meeting, I was hoping to gain his insight into the value EBS brings to his business and his customers. Instead he proceeded to talk about EBS as a bundled solution, and how he hasn't heard about the value EBS brings to him and his customers.There was an interesting interview, The 'Buyology' Behind The Way We Shop, yesterday

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IBM's latest commercial on Green IT hits the mark on addressing both environmental and total cost of ownership.  Whether you are concerned about the environment and energy dependence, lowering maintenance, repair & operations (MRO) costs, or all of the above, you want Green IT.   Don't be fooled by Greenwashing though. BusinessWeek discusses Green IT in this article.  eWeek.com discusses 5

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Are feeling the squeeze of the credit crunch?  Are you looking to finance EBS, hardware, partner services and other Microsoft software, e.g. Dynamics CRM?  Microsoft is offering a SmartPay promotion.  This promo provides no payments for the first 6 months of the term of the loan.  Please read all the details and legal stuff here. Microsoft Finance and this promotion are valid in: North

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An excerpt from the Level Platforms press release: Level Platforms announces immediate delivery of comprehensive best practices monitoring and management for the next wave of Microsoft products for small and midsize businesses. Level Platforms Partners can now deploy comprehensive remote monitoring, management and reporting for SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 in minutes by downloading and applying the

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The Preparation Wizard scans the existing network environment for any potential health issues to assure a proper and valid setup of Windows Essential Business Server. The tool runs about 100 environment checks and provides data and documentation links to address the issues found. The Windows Essential Business Server Preparation and Planning Wizards are FREE!  While I hope you will want to

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Links updated Trend Micro Inc. Latest Version of Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security Protects Windows Essential Server Solutions SonicWALL Announces Security Solutions for Windows Essential Business Server and Windows Small Business Server Mimosa Systems Gears Up for Big Opportunities With Windows Essential Business Server 2008 N-able Technologies Announces Leading Edge

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Availability of the Microsoft Dynamics Administration Console Add-in for Windows Essential Business Server was announced last week at Convergence EMEA. Proactively monitor and manage Microsoft Dynamics from the unified Administration Console can help lower TCO and increase uptime for Dynamics: Displays server information, user information, and batch information.Tasks launch to specific Microsoft

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The final four languages were released to manufacturing (RTM) this past Friday:Chinese (Traditional) Chinese (Simplified) Korean Brazilian (Portuguese)Two weeks prior, the following languages RTM'd:German Italian French Japanese Russian (STD only)

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I am currently heading back home from Convergence EMEA. I will respond quicker to your inquiries next week once I am home. John Elmer from Rodgers & Hammerstein can definitely speak well about the value of EBS, and the value of EBS + Dynamics.

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The EBS was promoted in Kirill Tatarinov's Partner keynote and Customer at Convergence EMEA 2008. Kirill Tatarinov is the corporate vice president of Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) at Microsoft Corp. and oversees the MBS business, with responsibility for sales and marketing, R&D and operations. EBS was also promoted in the Dynamics AX keynote to partners.

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John Elmer from Rodgers and Hammerstein (R&H) will be presenting with me at Convergence EMEA on Thursday at 3:30 in Auditorium 11. R&H installed the RTM version of EBS along with the Microsoft Dynamics AX Add-in for EBS. John will be discussing the instant business value of EBS and the value of the Dynamics Add-in. In his role as the VP of Finance and Information Systems, John is both the

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NETWORLD article discussing SBS and EBS. When reading the article, please remember that EBS is a solution, not a bundle. EBS includes features and functionality exclusive to EBS, hence unique value.

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Wow, launch day was very busy. We received much higher than expected launch day attendance of the Virtual Tradeshow. While the booths will not be staffed by live people, I believe you can still chat with other attendees, asking quesitons and networking, so if you fond the Virtual Tradeshow useful, please spread the word.I will be presenting the Business Value of EBS along with the value of EBS +

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I asked David about booth attendance, attendee questions and his webcast during the virtual tradeshow.

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How often can you chat live and directly to the EBS product team? Visit the WESS booth at the virtual tradeshow by 4pm PST today to speak with us live.

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There are 468 attendees, not staff, at the virtual tradeshow. This is a great opportunity to chat with Microsoft product teams, partners and other attendees.

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Nick and Chris behind the scenes prior to the live webcast.

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●Predictable infrastructure platform●Lower infrastructure TCO●Reallocate budget toward services and line of business (LOB) applications, such as Microsoft Dynamics●Focus on core business application strategy●Increased productivity with add-in to Administrative Console“The combination of Windows Essential Business Server and the new Microsoft Dynamics Administration Console Add-In for Windows

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This is my first video for the blog, definitely not rehearsed. My videos can only get better, I promise. :)

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Follow EBS_2008 on twitter.com, especially on launch day.

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The Windows Essential Business Server 2008 trial software is available for download here in the following languages:EnglishFrenchGermanItalianJapaneseRussianSpanish

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Free up your IT Professional to support the core business functions. What would you do if you could lower your IT infrastructure total cost of ownership? “Our administrative workload is one-tenth of what it was before. This is the largest step forward, in terms of our ability to focus on real business needs, that we have ever seen.” - Sumeeth Evans, Director of IT, Collegiate Housing Services

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Stay tuned for EBS promotions through Windows Mobile. We will be releasing a variety of offers with various mobile phone OEMs and service providers.

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In conjunction with The Dream Server virtual launch on November 12th, Microsoft and its partners are sponsoring a virtual tradeshow that includes both webcasts and exhibits. Please register here early and help promote this broadly!On November 12th, Microsoft and its premier partners are launching Windows Essential Server Solutions, a new family of integrated server solutions that address the

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One of the many benefits of EBS is server consolidation. Fewer servers typically results in lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by lowering the following costs: server acquisition, maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) and lower carbon footprint. View a video here of Tim Dreylin and Trevor Coop from WASSER Studios discuss their server consolidation experience with EBS .Do you have any

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The following languages RTM'd last Friday and will be available to download on TechNet on November 12th with English: GermanFrenchItalianSpanishJapaneseRussian (Standard edition only)Please note the link should auto-direct to the locale setting in your IE.

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This video discuss the business value of Windows EBS, including end user benefits. The President of Lee Company, Bill Lee, discusses the value of EBS along with his Human Resources Manager and a Project Manager. Bill Lee is the grandson of the founder of this family-owned business. L. Leon Lee Company began as a one-man residentail air conditioner services business and grew into a regional 550

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Today's economics uncertainty is causing many buiness to examine the total costs with a microscope, including the fixed cost from IT, and make tough decisions on remaining competitive. Business are also continuing evaluate how can increase productivity while reducing costs.Help lower the total cost of ownership of both your infrastruture and line of business applications with Add-ins to the

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Can your business leverage Windows Mobile and Remote Web Workplace (RWW) to increase productivity and help gain a competitive edge?“Windows Essential Business Server has enabled us to go from 15 percent of our workforce with mobile devices to 100 percent.” - Sumeeth Evans, Director of IT, Collegiate Housing Services“As a very conservative estimate, I would say 75 remote employees, each saving 15

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Lee CompanyHeating, cooling, plumbing, construction, and facilities maintenance services to businesses and homeowners Family owned since 1944HQ in Franklin, Tennessee550 Employees with 225 devicesMicrosoft Dynamics SL customer Results and Benefits:Foundation for new business capabilitiesHigher staff productivityEnhanced competitivenessLower costs from reducing 12 servers to 4 and saving U.S.

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EBS is competitively priced for midsiaze businesses and provides simpler CAL purchasing and management.“Just the upfront cost savings from Windows Essential Business Server are significant. The combined licenses will help us reduce our license cost by 30 percent – down from $40,000 to $28,000.” - Paul Champane, IT Manager, Air Botswana (160 users)

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If you are looking for a more technical content on EBS, please visit the EBS Team blog where EBS program managers and developers post more technical updates and news to EBS.

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The Administration Console provides the IT Professional a unified view of the network and its status to more efficiently manage the IT infrastructure and focus on core business activities, e.g. such as line of business applications (ERP/CRM/etc.).“We do a lot less logging into systems and client-side visits. We’ve reduced this effort by 70 percent, which is a huge savings. Instead of three people

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In today's economic times, investing in your IT infrastructure can help you keep your competitive edge, increase productivity, and reduce total cost of ownwership of your IT infrastructure, hence decrease your fixed costs. Yesterday I kicked off publishing business value evidence from Windows EBS customers. I will be publishing more business value posts and evidence as the official EBS launch on

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“Deploying Windows Essential Business Server not only results in an infrastructure that has best practices built in, but also an infrastructure that is very well documented.”Paul Champane, IT Manager, Air Botswana Air Botswana is the national airline with 160 users.“Windows Essential Business Server is the best solution to our problems, and it fits a business of our size well.”– Paul Champane, IT

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Microsoft offers free Hyper-V stand-alone versionVirtualize EBS with the FREE Hyper-V stand-alone version.Now that Microsoft Hyper-V Server has been released and is freely available on the web, let’s remove the DRM and recap exactly what Microsoft Hyper-V Server is. There is still some confusion out there so let’s recap.Don’t be confused, Microsoft Hyper-V Server and Windows Server 2008 w/

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Designed for midsize businessesWindows Essential Business Server 2008 takes the guessworkout of selecting software for your network. EBS 2008brings together the Microsoft product technologies thatmidsized businesses need most into a single solution withadditional features and capabilities unique to EBS 2008.These technologies are integrated into one product makingEBS 2008 easy for you to install

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“We knew we needed to upgrade out messaging infrastructure, our server operating system, our connectivity, and our remote services.”Tom Goddard, Director of Information Technology, Lee CompanyDifferent Components:●Email Servers●Exchange 2000, 2003, 2007●SMTP Servers●Name Servers●DNS●AD 2000, 2003, 2008●Firewalls●ISA 2003, 2006●Cisco PIX, Sonicwall●OS, Print & Share●Windows Server® 2000, 2003,

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http://www.microsoft.com/ebs/en/us/subscription.aspxWindows Essential Business Server 2008 includes one-year trial subscriptions for Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server and Forefront Threat Management Gateway, Medium Business Edition.As these trials end, find out how you can renew your subscriptions.Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server Microsoft Forefront Security for

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Not only does EBS include Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server and edge security (firewall) with Threat Management Gateway, Medium Business Edition, but EBS includes the security from Windows Server 2008 technologies.

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EBS experts from Microsoft Headquarters will be at Tech-Ed IT Pro in Barcelona, 3-7NOV08.The following HQ representatives will be there:Gary Purchase, EBS Dev LeadNick King, SBS & EBS Technical Product ManagerChris Grillone (me), EBS Product ManagerThere are two EBS sessions:Windows Essential Server Solutions Windows Essential Server Solutions is a new product family created to develop targeted

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Lower your TCO with Hyper-V, a Windows Server 2008 Technology, which is included in EBS 2008. Our TAP customer to be featured during our upcoming launch virtualized EBS. We will be releasing a written case study and a video which will both include virtualization.Please learn more about how you can help the environment, while lowering your TCO with Windows Server 2008.VideoWhite

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