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Microsoft® Windows
®
Essential Business Server 2008
for Dell™ PowerEdge™ Systems
Important Information
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Notes and Cautions
NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of
your computer.
CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates potential damage to hardware or loss of data if
instructions are not followed.
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CAUTION: To help prevent the possibility of viruses infecting your system, it is
recommended that you use Windows Update during the setup and configuration as
directed by the Microsoft
wizards.
NOTE: Dell supports EBS on server platforms that are Certified for Windows
Server™ 2008. For more information, see the Microsoft Windows Server Catalog
website at windowsservercatalog.com and the Dell website at dell.com.
This document provides important information about EBS for Dell™
PowerEdge™ systems. This product is based on Microsoft Windows Server
2008 x64. For additional information on minimum supported BIOS, system
firmware, and RAID controller driver versions, see Microsoft Windows Server
®
Windows® Essential Business Server 2008 (EBS)
®
®
2008 for Dell™ PowerEdge™ Systems – Important Information on the Dell
Support website at support.dell.com.
NOTE: Issues listed in the Windows Server 2008 for Dell PowerEdge Systems -
Important Information apply to EBS unless stated otherwise.
EBS includes a full year of Forefront Security for Exchange (FSE) and
Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) subscriptions. An alert is
generated before the subscription expires in System Center Essentials (SCE).
To renew the subscription, see the Dell Download Store website at
downloadstore.dell.com\ForefrontRenew.
Known Issues
SCE operating system information in Health Report lists Vista SP1
Dell Ref: 75097
In the default System Center Essentials Health Report, the operating system
for EBS servers is listed as Vista SP1.
This is a cosmetic issue and may be fixed in a future Microsoft update.
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