Be careful what you ask for - Part Two:

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re: Be careful what you ask for - Part Two:

kbeares — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 21:39:27 GMT

Given that I am the community lead for the SBS team over here at Microsoft, I find this particular conversation very enlightening. I have always enjoyed reading the insights of people in the blog-o-sphere. What we have come to understand is that there are a lot of people out there who are blogging and a whole lot more who just lurk. The lurkers end up over time picking a few blogs that they find the most affinity to and stick with them, thus lowering the load of stuff they have to sort through. What we want to do on our end is try to feed these uber bloggers data that maybe see as useful. If we provide people like Susan, the uber blogger, and other bloggers like her useful information, they can choose whether or not they want to share this information with the community. Mind you, we would still make sure to post this information in the standard MS locations as well. They, the uber bloggers, know better then us a lot of times, what would be best shared with the masses. This is in no way all of what we are thinking, but we would definitely like to hear your opinions too. I look forward to reading more comments on this topic.
Kevin Beares
SBS Community Lead

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Jim Maher — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:08:15 GMT

We need some independent (of Microsoft)mechanism to organize SBS'ers. There may be a few candidate organizations already in existence, but no concensus to allow any one of them to assume leadership.

Such a group should funnel and consolidate the collective wisdom of SBS'ers. Two important results could be:

1. A recommended Readings List. Which books and papers should every SBSer understand?

2. Vendor guidance. Mostly to MS, but could be to anyone; here's what we want you to Fix and Enhance.

Such a function would be a HUGE undertaking for someone. I am NOT volunteering to lead such an effort, but I'd help where I could.

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Amy — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:39:25 GMT

Please don't organize the world for me. I'll do it myself and if I don't find the right place, I'll ask where the right place is. It doesn't take much effort to filter on your own. Some blogs that others find helpful, I find useless. Ditto for some websites. I'll filter my own world view.

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mark — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:08:49 GMT

As a newcomer to the community, but a long-timer in what Susan calls "Big-Server World", I guess I'm a little overwhelmed with the glut of SBS info.

I'm in the preparation stage of making my plunge from pigeonholed AD guy in $3B corp to working for myself, busting my butt to take extraordinary care of my small but growing customer base.

All I care about is finding the right solutions for my customers. Sometimes that is SBS, and sometimes it isn't. So while I struggle to wade through the tons of information other SBS experts (and those who proclaim to be) have shared publicly, I find myself being wary of getting too deep into the community, where the prevailing thought is that SBS is all there is, the Holy Grail.

Example, is an SBS solution with ISA server better than a basic non-ISA SBS solution combined with a quality dedicated firewall like Astaro or maybe a PIX? Maybe. I think not necessarily. I like having a little breadth in my product line.

So my thought is, blog on Susan. I will continue to read your site every day, as I have been for weeks. sbsdiva.com is a wealth of info. Anything else I need, I'll google.

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Keith Templin — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:39:52 GMT

Keep Blogging to your hearts content! I have found that 75%-80% of your blogs contain technical information about SBS components that are relevant to my customers. The other 25% - 20% is good information about trends in the SBS community.

I actually like your rants for two reasons. 1) It lets me know I am not the only cockroach out here. 2) Sometimes your rants key me on to something that I did not know about. For example I learned that in your "Dear LCS People" rant that if you had SA from SBS 2k you get LCS. This was a starting point for some good research.

So I say blog all you want, it is your site. We have the option to listen. Like my grandfather (He is an old farmer)always said "It might not be good help, but it is fee help, and you get what you pay for"

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Vlad Mazek — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:37:05 GMT

It's Susanne. And its not about picking the topics, it is in approaching them the right way that serves the largest audience possible.

Just my $0.02. My gig with Vladville.com is more about filtering the content I find to my partners that work in the field. From time to time I solve a big problem I see in a form of an article but generally it is all about weeding out the tons of bs software/hardware publishers generate and then amplify through the media.

But hey, I'm insane.

-Vlad