Welcome to the EBS 2008 Public Newsgroup Page

If you would like to read and browse (cannot ask questions) the new EBS 2008 Public newsgroup...

It can be reached via the web here: EBS 2008 Public Newsgroup 

If you would like to participate and ask a question to the EBS 2008 Public Newsgroup or setup your favorite NNTP Newsgroup Reader....

Step 1: Join the Public Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Connection here on MS Connect. Click here to join.

Step 2: Setup your favorit NNTP Newsgroup Reader (Detailed instructions here):

• If you have already registered for other connections on MS Connect, you can simply refresh your newsgroups list and you should see the the microsoft.connect.windows.server.ebs08 newsgroup in your reader.
• The NNTP / News Server is connectnews.microsoft.com (betanews.microsoft.com will work as well)
• If you have not setup a NNTP Newsgroup Account on MS Connect before do the following 2 things;

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   1. Go to the following URL to setup your credentials: Set Newsgroup Password (Credentials can take up to 4 hours to replicate for NNTP Readers)
   2. Go to the following URL for instructions on how to setup your reader: Configure NNTP Reader

Thanks for using our new Public Newsgroups hosted on MS Connect. We hope the registration process is acceptable. We chose to go with this new NNTP Server to help address issues with not having authentication on MSNews.Microsoft.com.