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	<title>Welcome to the Funcave &#187; mid-market it</title>
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		<title>Exam-A-Palooza</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2010/03/exam-a-palooza.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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This week&#160;kicked off Hell Week, certification-wise,&#160;for me.
Currently I&#8217;ve got a total of&#160;four exams scheduled this week. I&#8217;m&#160;slated to take:

70&#8211;648 TS: Upgrading from Windows Server 2003 MCSA to, Windows Server 2008, Technology Specializations (which I passed this Monday, actually)
70&#8211;646 PRO: Windows Server 2008, Server Administrator
70&#8211;669 TS: Windows Server 2008 R2, Desktop Virtualization (Beta)
70&#8211;624&#160;TS: Deploying and Maintaining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Thoughts About Mid-Market IT</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2010/03/a-few-thoughts-about-mid-market-it.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big thanks to Eric Beehler for inviting me to appear on CS Techcast 110 this week. We talked at length about some of the unique challenges facing mid-market IT.

Although the conversation was&#160;spurred mostly by the news&#160;of Microsoft&#8217;s cancelling Essential Business Server v2, we discussed a wide range of topics, including cloud-based services&#160;(big shock there) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EBS Has Left The Building</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2010/03/ebs-has-left-the-building.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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Instead of&#160;my typically convoluted Funcave windup involving some theoretical physics, Bluetooth&#160;and comic book&#160;lore a la &#8220;The Big Bang Theory,&#8221; I&#8217;ll just come right out and say&#160;what&#8217;s up&#160;this time:
Essential Business Server = DEAD
That&#8217;s officially official as of right now, which&#160;should be&#160;8:00 a.m. Pacific Standard time on March 5th, 2010. So what does that really mean?
In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where I&#8217;ll Be In 2009 Redux</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/04/where-ill-be-in-2009-redux.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
Forget the whirlwind. 2009 now feels like someone just strapped a jetpack to my back and flipped the &#8220;On&#8221; switch without telling me. Problem is&#8230;the person who did that?&#160;Me! 
Here&#8217;s&#160;the latest rundown with relevant links to all the talks, places, and conferences currently on my schedule.
April

14 &#8211; Webcast: Using System Center Essentials&#160;with Essential Business Server [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Getting On The Bus!</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/04/im-getting-on-the-bus.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s officially official&#8230;

MS Learning picked me as one of the six winners of a free trip to Tech-Ed 2009! Not only that, but I&#8217;m taking the road trip option. That&#8217;s right&#8230;cross-country via bus. Atlanta to L.A. in 11 days, with tons of stops in-between.
Here&#8217;s the current itinerary for the Career Express tour, straight from&#160;MS Learning&#8217;s&#160;kickass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Froggy Evening</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/04/one-froggy-evening.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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Well, the presentation on System Center Essentials and Essential Business Server went off pretty smoothly, all things considered.
I was coughing like a 3 pack a day smoker, had just barely gotten my demo environment stood up in time, and (in the interest of full disclosure) was still about 3 slides from finished when it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Make-Or-Break Feature Of Essential Business Server</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/04/the-make-or-break-feature-of-essential-business-server.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/04/the-make-or-break-feature-of-essential-business-server.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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Tomorrow night I&#8217;ll be delivering a webcast to the EBSUserGroup titled &#8220;Using System Center Essentials&#160;With Windows Essential Business Server.&#8221; This is a pretty bold statement, but&#160;I personally think SCE is&#160;THE make-or-break feature of EBS for anyone who wants to use, support, or otherwise make EBS a part of their business.
We&#8217;ll talk about why that is, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where I&#8217;ll Be In 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/04/where-ill-be-in-2009.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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2009 quickly turned into a whirlwind, and in the pit of my stomach I feel like a cowboy who&#8217;s just about to hop on&#160;and try to&#160;ride that cyclone. Here&#8217;s a quick rundown with relevant links to all the talks, places, and conferences currently on my schedule.
April
14 &#8211; Webcast: Using System Center Essentials&#160;with Essential Business Server [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slam Dunking The Mid-Market, 5W/50 Style!</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/04/slam-dunking-the-mid-market-5w50-style.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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Last Friday I gave a webcast as part of the 5W/50 Series for Microsoft Partners. Titled &#8220;Adding Windows Essential Business Server to Your Infrastructure Practice,&#8221; the talk was almost completely focused on the business value of Essential Business Server, including why EBS should matter to both mid-market businesses and why you, as a Partner, might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Essential Business Server Matters</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/04/why-essential-business-server-matters.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/04/why-essential-business-server-matters.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Never sure what the optimal time for announcing this stuff is, but I&#8217;ve tended to find that the closer to time the better, strangely enough.
I&#8217;ll be delivering a webcast for the 5W/50 series tomorrow titled &#8220;Adding Essential Business Server to Your Infrastructure Practice.&#8221; The webcast, which is free for Microsoft Partners, will start at 9:00a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come Get Your Mid-Market On</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/01/come-get-your-mid-market-on.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/01/come-get-your-mid-market-on.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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Anybody who&#8217;s interested in Essential Business Server from a technical or business perspective should run, not walk, over to YahooGroups.com and sign up for the EBS Virtual UserGroup AKA EBSUserGroup.
Founded by Amy Babinchak, this virtual user group focuses on (surprisingly enough) Essential Business Server and all the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious goodness it includes.
Right now, there&#8217;s a live [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Webcasts For The Price Of One! Tonight!</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/01/two-webcasts-for-the-price-of-one-tonight.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick heads-up here&#8230;

Amy Babinchak and I will be presenting a free&#160;webcast to the Fresno SMBTN user group tonight. Amy will be talking about Calyptix and SBS 2008, while I&#8217;ll be talking about the technical capabilities of Essential Business Server from a business value perspective.
As usual, if you haven&#8217;t updated LiveMeeting in a while, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never Slap A Customer With A Fish</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2009/01/never-slap-a-customer-with-a-fish.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
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About a week ago I received notice that I&#8217;d been shifted from being an MVP for Small Business Server to one of the first five Essential Business Server MVPs.
So what does that mean in practical terms? For those of you stopping by, there will be a whole heaping lot more focus on mid-market topics here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Irish Pub In Winter</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/12/an-irish-pub-in-winter.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
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Is there anything more awesome than that?
CiNPA AKA Cincinnati Network Professional Association&#160;put together&#160;a &#8220;Twas The Night Before The Night Before Christmas&#8221; get-together on the 23rd of December.
It&#8217;s happening at Molly Malone&#8217;s, just over on the bluegrass side of the Ohio River.

Since it&#8217;s Tuesday, there will be live Irish music, and Texas Hold&#8217;em (starting at 9p) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EBS Installation Finalizes Exchange Server Deployment</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/11/ebs-installation-finalizes-exchange-server-deployment.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When installing Exchange Server 2007 as a regular old standalone&#160;product,&#160;opening the Exchange Management console for the first time presents&#160;you with this&#160;gem of a task list&#8230;

There&#8217;s quite a bit of stuff&#160;on that Finalize Deployment list, some of which is required to actually get your deployment to a point where it can be considered complete AKA functional. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will The Real EBS 2008 Exam Please Stand Up?</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/11/will-the-real-ebs-2008-exam-please-stand-up.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re trying to book either the EBS 2008 or SBS 2008 exam and get&#160;a bit confused when looking at the Prometric registration site, don&#8217;t feel bad. Here&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll see&#160;right now:

Word of advice: I always go by exam number, rather than titles, when I&#8217;m booking my exams.
Notice how 70&#8211;653 and 70&#8211;654 both show&#160;with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DNS Settings The Essential Business Server Way</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/11/dns-settings-the-essential-business-server-way.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As every good admin knows, a healthy DNS infrastructure is the second most-important&#160;aspect&#160;of a reliable network.&#160;Based on my own experience in the field,&#160;DNS has to be the least understood, and most commonly misconfigured service, on any given network.
And if DNS is wrong, then&#160;that network&#160;will have problems. No argument about that.

Since the configuration of EBS is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Essential Business Server Premium Carries Downgrade Rights</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/11/essential-business-server-premium-carries-downgrade-rights.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/11/essential-business-server-premium-carries-downgrade-rights.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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OK, this is something that people have been freaking out about, and with good reason.
Essential Business Server 2008 Premium Edition includes an extra server. As in, an extra license of Windows Server 2008 Standard and a license for SQL Server 2008 Standard. Although this extra server can be used to hold a variety of roles, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change The Login Account Used By SCE On EBS</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/11/change-the-login-account-used-by-sce-on-ebs.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/11/change-the-login-account-used-by-sce-on-ebs.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
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Thanks to the efforts of Mark &#8220;Mr. Roboto&#8221; Stanfill, the official Essential Business Server blog&#160;just posted&#160;arguably its best article to date.
http://blogs.technet.com/essentialbusinessserver/archive/2008/11/18/how-to-change-the-sce-run-as-and-data-warehouse-accounts-in-ebs.aspx

Changing the service account SCE uses&#160;from the default of Administrator is prolly one of the first steps that should be taken with every new EBS installation. Mainly because doing that totally&#160;avoids the whole &#8220;Holy crap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Essential Business Server Speedrun</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/11/the-essential-business-server-speedrun.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
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With the number of times I&#8217;ve installed and re-installed the various builds of Essential Business Server over the last year, I&#8217;ve compiled a list of install notes and various shortcuts that have shaved my install time considerably.
All of these have been used for a lab environment only, inside Hyper-V. Installing EBS in a production environment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Palm Treo Pro Giveaway For Microsoft Partners</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/11/the-great-palm-treo-pro-giveaway-for-microsoft-partners.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/11/the-great-palm-treo-pro-giveaway-for-microsoft-partners.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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Maybe you also attended the virtual launch event for The Family Von WESS AKA Windows Essential Server Solutions AKA Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008 last week.
Interesting though it was, I got a slightly creeped out feeling during the event. Like I was starring in one of those old Twilight Zone episodes&#160;as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Money For Small Business Specialists</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/11/free-money-for-small-business-specialists.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, so&#160;this isn&#8217;t real money, but free CALs. Which is&#160;better than Monopoly money. And waaaaaaay better than a now worthless gift card from a failed retailer.
To coincide with the October release of the Action Pack, Microsoft also pushed a new version of the SBSC Add-On Pack. That&#8217;s a special edition of extra Action Pack goodness&#160;only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Essential Servers Come To Action Pack</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/11/windows-essential-servers-come-to-action-pack.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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The long anticipated October Action Pack arrived a week or so ago, and I have to say that this is one of the most valuable Action Pack shipments in a long long time.
Both Small Business Server 2008 Standard and Essential Business Server 2008 Standard are included in the October Action Pack.&#160;Action Pack also includes a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deploying Windows Mobile 6 With EBS 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/11/deploying-windows-mobile-6-with-ebs-2008.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
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Microsoft just&#160;released an official deployment guide for implementing Windows Mobile 6 devices in an Essential Business Server 2008 environment.
Download details: Windows EBS2008 w/WM6 Deployment Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=69d1b397-86fc-46ed-afb3-b2882d324650&#38;displaylang=en&#38;tm
This document provides step-by-step instructions for deploying devices powered with Windows Mobile&#174; 6 in an IT infrastructure that is based on the Windows&#174; Essential Business Server 2008 (Windows EBS 2008) server [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Essential Business Server With A Side of SharePoint</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/10/essential-business-server-with-a-side-of-sharepoint.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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The official SharePoint Services Add-In for Essential Business Server was just released.
Not only does it install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1, it also integrates SharePoint managment into EBS&#8217; fantabulous Administration Console
Here are a couple things to keep in mind when installing:

The add-in can only manage an instance of SharePoint&#160;that has been installed&#160;on the Management Server. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Essential Business Server Beta Exam Scores Finally Posted</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/10/essential-business-server-beta-exam-scores-finally-posted.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/10/essential-business-server-beta-exam-scores-finally-posted.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 05:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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If you took the beta version of the 70&#8211;654 exam,&#160;Configuring Essential Business Server 2008,&#160;earlier this year, you might want to check your transcript. The scores have finally posted for that exam.
If you passed, congratulations! EBS is probably the most complex bundled product MS has ever produced, encompassing all of the following products&#8230;

Windows Server 2008 Standard
Exchange [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hyper-G Wants To Pimp Your Infrastructure</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/09/hyper-g-wants-to-pimp-your-infrastructure.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/09/hyper-g-wants-to-pimp-your-infrastructure.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
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If you liked the video below with HP&#8217;s smokingly badass customized c3000&#160;ROK edition AKA &#8220;Shorty,&#8221; you&#8217;ll love this!
HP, Microsoft, and AMD&#160;are sponsoring an official&#160;Pimp My Infrastructure contest.
Full details at the link above, but there are 2 prizes, one built around SBS ($16K value) and another built around EBS ($36K value). Winners have their business pimped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Essentials Remain The Same</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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Just saw today that SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 will both be included in the Action Pack shipment for October. Which means the whole Windows Essentials family becomes available for what amounts to pocket change for Partners.
That rocks harder than Led Zeppelin (or Paige&#160;Boesen, seen below)&#160;for a couple of reasons.

First and foremost, the fact that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>31 Servers, The EBS Way</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/09/31-servers-the-ebs-way.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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Ever wonder how many servers can exist in an Essential Business Server environment?
To be honest, as many as you want. The sky&#8217;s the limit&#8230;until you start talking about actually managing those servers using EBS and SCE.
Since SCE requires a server management license AKA SML for each server OS instance it manages, that imposes a hard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Essential Server Family Training Webcasts</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/08/windows-essential-server-family-training-webcasts.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/08/windows-essential-server-family-training-webcasts.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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Starting September 4, Microsoft will be offering an 8&#8211;part&#160;series&#160;of 1 hour webcasts covering Essential Business Server 2008, their new offering for mid-sized businesses.
If you&#8217;d like to attend live,&#160;here&#8217;s a list of&#160;registration links for each webcast&#8230;

WES10PAL: 5W/50 Series &#8211; Windows Essential Business Server 2008, Part 1 of 8: Introduction September 04, 2008 from 10-11AM (US &#38; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Voucher For Essential Business Server Exam Beta</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/08/free-voucher-for-essential-business-server-exam-beta.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
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For anyone interested in Essential Business Server, the EBS team is offering a limited amount of free exam vouchers to sit the&#160;071-654 &#8211; Windows Essential Business Server 2008, Configuring exam.
Here&#8217;s what you need to do to get in on the action&#8230;


Navigate to http://www.prometric.com/Microsoft/default.htm
Select Schedule/Reschedule 
Schedule an appointment 
Select your location 
Select Microsoft, and then the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Pretty Servers</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/06/three-pretty-servers.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK&#8230;

So this is really just a tease shot, yes.
Instead, think of it as a whetting of your appetite.
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		<title>Essential Business Funcave</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/06/essential-business-funcave.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s officially unofficial&#8230;

My primary focus is shifting to Essential Business Server.
Well, not that SBS was ever really a focus for me. Still don&#8217;t know how that happened.
But it doesn&#8217;t take a badge to push information that matters, right?
First up&#8230;
Virtualizing Essential Business Server (posts tomorrow)
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