Essential Business Server 2008

Well, as promised some more info on EBS2008. I took the beta exam this afternoon. It wasn’t a very easy exam, although not the most difficult one I did this year either (the 70-238 exam is a lot harder). The difficulty is in this exam can be found in the wealth of subject matter Microsoft has for this exam:

• Windows Server 2008
• Exchange Server 2007
• TMG
• System Center Essentials 2007
• SQL Server 2008
• Forefront Client Security for Exchange
• Outlook connectivity and mail access
• Migration scenarios such as from SBS2003
• EBS 2008 system requirements
• Installation and configuration
• Backup and recovery
• General networking techniques such as DNS, DHCP and IP configurations
• Monitoring and configuration of client computers and servers
• Deploying applications and updates
• Licensing

If you study for these items, the exam shouldn’t be too difficult to pass. I do wonder though how big the Training Kit for this exam will be, considering the number of programs EBS 2008 contains. But I never read the SBS2003 book, or took the 70-282 exam, so I don’t know how well the various parts of SBS2003 were covered in comparison to this.

If all goes as planned, I will receive my (passing?) score in about 8 weeks, although it could take longer. I’ll post it when I get it of course.