Windows Small Business Server Documentation

Now that Windows SBS has morphed into Windows Server Essentials and is now a full member of Windows Server, it is time to retire this blog. You can continue to get up-to-date information about WSBS and WSE at the Windows Server Essentials and Small Business...

The Windows Server Solutions Sustained Engineering and Product Support teams are pleased to announce the availability of Update 2 for the WSS BPA. This update includes the following: 44 new rules for Windows SBS 2011 Standard 13 new rules for...

Hey everyone! The Windows Server Solutions Sustained Engineering team has just released UR2 for the subject products. This is great news, and is the largest UR to date. It includes a number of features and code fixes, including the Office 365 Integration...

After a popular and successful beta program, the Office 365 Integration Module (OIM) for Windows SBS 2011 Essentials is now available to download. This FREE add-in for the Windows SBS 2011 Essentials Dashboard enables you to subscribe to, monitor, and...

The highly anticipated Microsoft Office 365 Integration Module for Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials is now available for download . This module extends the features of the Windows SBS 2011 Dashboard by providing seamless integration with...

The Windows SBS Sustaining Engineering team has just released an update to the Migration Preparation Tool. This tool is run on the migration source server (for example, a computer that is running Windows Small Business Server 2003 or Windows Small Business...

The Windows Server Solutions Sustained Engineering team has announced availability of a handfull of Update Rollups (UR's) that address known issues. The updates are available from Windows Update . For detailed information about the updates, see the following...

The Windows SBS Sustained Engineering team contributed the following articles. We hope you find them useful! How to repair certificate issues in Windows Small Business Server 2011, Windows Home Server 2011 and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials...

Over the past few years, we've received a lot of customer feedback about the availability, applicability, and discoverability of SBS Migration information. In the past, this kind of information has been published in various forms and made available in...

Windows SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Home Server 2011 will soon be available from your favorite retailer or channel provider. And to help you understand the changes and new features in the products, we have just published two online help sites that...

As promised, we have just published additional migration guides to help you migrate to Windows SBS 2011 Standard. The following guides are available: Migrate to Windows Small Business Server 2011 from Windows Small Business Server 2008 Describes...

To help you get a jump on your future server migration, we have just published a downloadable and printable copy of " Migrate to Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard from Windows Small Business Server 2003 "! This guide describes the migration...

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We are very pleased to let you know that we have achieved a major milestone in getting the next version of Windows SBS into the hands of customers. We signed-off on the RTM software, which will become available to the general public early next year. Windows...

Hi Everyone, The Small Business Server team has been heads down for many months now conjuring up the latest offering of our all-in-one solution server. We are now very pleased to announce that Windows Small Business Server "7" Preview is now available...

A huge "Thank you!" to Susan Bradley and others who pointed out a significant discrepancy with Step 10 of the the newly published "Step-by-Step Guide to Migrating from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 on a server...

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Windows SharePoint Services is now Microsoft SharePoint Foundation. Maybe you knew this, and maybe you didn't. In either case, we can shed some light on the path to upgrading your existing CompanyWeb site (and any other Windows SharePoint...

I’ve noticed an interesting convergence of themes at the TechEd North America 2010 conference in New Orleans. The TechEd sessions here are combined with the Microsoft BI conference, sometimes held separately. So what does a conference for a bunch...

Great live band music and a Windows 7 Phone t-shirt cannon at 8:30 in the morning? OK, you have to be at TechEd North America in person to experience those – and enjoy the excitement of mingling, meeting, and networking with more than 10,000 IT...

Me too! It's going to be a blast, and I'm looking forward to meeting as many of you as possible. Dan Lepow and I will be on duty at the Windows Server iX booth in the TLC on Monday from 12-3, Tuesday from 3-5, and on Thursday from 10:30-1pm. We'll be...

... Tweet together! Are you a member of the ever-growing flock of folks who use Twitter to find and share information? If so, be sure and check out these fine feathered friends: WindowsSBS - Official Twitter account for the Windows SBS product...

The next time you visit a Microsoft TechNet site like the Windows SBS TechCenter , enjoy the freshly redesigned TechCenter pages and other improved features. We think it’s a great improvement in the experience. Some comments from around our team: ...

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File this one under Cool Tools ! Package This is a neat little program that enables you to select topics from the Table of Contents in either the TechNet Library or the MSDN Library, and build the selected content into Help (.chm and .hxs) files. This...

Have an opinion on the SBS migration process or content? We know many of you do - and we need your help. We're looking for a few courageous people in the community to help us improve our SBS migration content. Specifically, we'd like to establish a...