Thursday, September 18, 2008

EBS Languages

Languages expected to be released soon for EBS:
  1. English (RTM'd)
  2. Italian
  3. German
  4. French
  5. Spanish
  6. Japanese
  7. Russian
  8. Chinese Simplified
  9. Chinese Traditional
  10. Korean
  11. Brazilian Portuguese

Monday, September 15, 2008

Friday, September 12, 2008

New EBS stie @ www.microsoft.com/ebs

Check out the new EBS site at www.microsoft.com/ebs. What do you think? Are we missing something? Feedback is appreciated.

Thank you,

Chris

Friday, September 5, 2008

Forefront Threat Management Gateway

Forefront Threat Management Gateway is the evolution of ISA Server, and delivers new antimalware content filtering capabilities on top of a solid and secure Windows Server 2008 platform

Forefront TMG Medium Business Edition is designed to be an integral part of Essential Business Server, and implements a key protection layer for a comprehensive SMB solution

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Dynamics and EBS

The EBS team is working with the Dynamics team to deliver an add-in in time for our launch, no promises. I am hoping to have EBS with Dynamics evidence from a Technology Adoption Program customer by Convergence. EBS provides the core infrastructure for Dynamics. The EBS Adminstration Console provides a unified console where the IT professional monitor add-in applications and typically launch into add-in consoles for further details and troubleshooting.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

SMB Server Opportunities



Steven VanRoekel speaks at WPC 2008 about SMB Server Opportunities.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Positive review from ComputerWorld

Review: Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Release Candidate 1
By Jonathan Hassell
ComputerWorld

-“Overall, I like EBS a lot. I think it serves a definite market need and helps administrators who are overworked and completely reactive to problems to set up an environment where they can gain control and freedom to enhance their businesses rather than just being problem-solvers."
-“With mail, management, security and (in the premium edition) database needs in one box, it's hard to argue with the value the suite approach brings to a midmarket business. It will be interesting to track this product to release, but at this point, it's looking good.”
-"EBS allows you to manage these licenses through the integrated administration console, so you always know what you have. Kudos to Microsoft for clearing up a big burden that, to be fair, it imposed on its customers."
-"The team at Microsoft analyzed records of customer support calls and looked for ways to, in an automated fashion, identify these issues and offer best practices advice in correcting them. One bonus of all of this: You don't need to be considering EBS, or purchase EBS, to use these tools. They're free for everyone, so if you're just looking for a better environment, you, too, can take advantage of the guidance from these "automated assistants." You can find these tools here."