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 install EBS for all of the value I blogged about and knowing that more than just these best practices are included with EBS, you can download the wizards and check your environment even if you do not install EBS. Our latest TAP customer had a very robust system with the latest Microsoft technologies, e.g., System Center Essentials, Dynamics AX 2009, Windows Server 2008, etc., supported by a partner. The preparation wizard identified issues carried forward from their Windows NT days. The customer always wondered why some email accounts took a bit longer to process email and discovered some Active Directory issues which were not obvious. The preparation wizards not only identifies issues, but identifies the Microsoft Knowledge Based Article for that issue.
- Preparation Wizard Run the Preparation Wizard to scan your network environment and identify issues that you need to correct to be able to deploy Windows EBS.
- Planning Wizard After you complete the Preparation Wizard, run the Planning Wizard to collect information about the network settings that you will need to install Windows EBS.
The Preparation Wizard scans and verifies the following:
- Configuration of sites in Active Directory
- Configuration of subnets in Active Directory
- Replication of Active Directory
- Replication of the file system and administration of the SYSVOL shared folders
- Name resolution by DNS
- Configuration of the network adapters of all servers in the network
- Health of the domain controllers
- Configuration of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) for all domain controllers
- Configuration of Exchange Server
- Configuration of the network
- Entries in the Event Log that could indicate installation issues
- Readiness of the environment to install Windows EBS
The Windows Essential Business Server Preparation and Planning Wizards is on the download center. It may be access from the Product Documentation page under Technical Resources on microsoft.com/ebs. Just click TechNet TechCenter: Windows Essential Business Server 2008 then under Featured Resources click on Download and run the Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Planning and Preparation Tool.
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