March 2008 - Posts

Monday, March 31, 2008 7:01 AM

So I've made up my mind... I'm going to buy OWN WEB NOW

Body: Yup - it's April 1st and I figure that today is as good a day as any to make it known, that I've decided to buy Vlads company Own Web Now. I figure that if you can't beat him, join him... or buy him out and make him do your bidding for...
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 4:46 PM

Stopping to smell the roses

Body: Have you recently gone AWOL without any form of communication for a few days? I have to say I've not done this in many many years. I've always had a mobile phone within reach, or an Internet connection handy - even if it is just GPRS. This...
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Saturday, March 22, 2008 9:22 AM

Trend Taiwan - Day 5

Body: Ok - so I'm posting this a day late :-) Friday was my last day at Trend. It was a week that I really enjoyed. I met lots of new people and got the unique chance to express directly to these people about all the things that matter to us in the...
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Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:06 PM

Trend Taiwan - Day 4

Body: Well - today I spend time with the QA department. Kind funny really because last night the team released the external beta of WFBS v5.0 (aka CSM 5.0). Max and Eric from the QA team walked me through the development cycle from a QA perspective. I...
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Thursday, March 20, 2008 3:01 AM

SBS 2003 Book on the shelves @ Trend Taipei

Body: I thought I had seen all the SBS books on the market, but here in the R&D department of Trend, I found this one on the shelves. They team tell me the name of the guy and I've never heard of him - but he's got an MVP label on the book...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008 5:59 PM

Business Blogs I read - Pt 2

Body: Another round of blogs that I read focused on the business side of SMB IT consulting. Some of these are not direct answers to your business problems, but ideas for future directions you might want to take. BlogStorm Online Marketing is one of those...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008 5:37 PM

SBS 2008 Backup Interview with Sean Daniel

Body: Sean is one of the longer serving members of the SBS team in Redmond and he recently did an interview and showed of the SBS 2008 Backup and gave an overview of the SBS console. Check it out here http://edge.technet.com/Media/683/ Category: SBS 2008...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008 5:21 AM

Trend Taiwan - Day 3

Body: Ok - so today is the day I spend with the Research and Development team. I arrived at the office to find that the lead for the team has pulled an all nighter and only left at 7am - I guess this is the real world now huh :-) So Jonas is my lead today...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:24 AM

Trend Taiwan - Day 2

Body: Today I spent time with the User Interface team talking to them about how the product looks and how they expose features of the product to us. I've seen some very cool previews of things to come and taken a lot of the feedback that people have...
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Monday, March 17, 2008 6:47 PM

Business Blogs I read

Body: I get asked from time to time by many SMB IT consultants about which business blogs to read. Here's a few that have interesting stuff on them this week. I'd recommend you take a look and see for yourself if they strike a chord with you....
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Monday, March 17, 2008 6:33 PM

Outlook 2007 & BCM - Performance Issues?

Body: I run Office 2007 Ultimate and Business Contact Manager 2007. I use BCM to track all my contacts, do marketing campaigns, and manage projects. It works pretty well... except... PERFORMANCE SUCKS. I didn't notice it at first, just found that...
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Monday, March 17, 2008 8:10 AM

Trend Taiwan - Day 1

Body: So today I started my one week work with Trend here in Taipei. I arrived last night after a long flight from Sydney via Hong Kong and finally got into my room around midnight. Unfortunately the guy and gal next door were not ready to go to bed and...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:47 PM

Firewall Dashboard being retired

Body: Dana has had to make the hard decision to discontinue his excellent Firewall Dashboard product that he designed for the SMB market space - specifically SBS 2003 Premium. His announcement here is to me a major example of the SMB community NOT supporting...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:29 AM

Jeff and HarryB webcast this Friday

Body: The leader Swinger - Jeff Middleton in conjunction with SMBNation and HP will be doing a webcast this Friday (US time). If you want to know more about what's going on with migration to SBS 2008 then check it out. Registration: Event - Friday...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:26 AM

Microsoft finally fix SP2 Network issues

Body: SBS, ISA, Exchange, Windows Server - are all products that have experienced some major communications issues if you have installed Windows 2003 Service Pack 2. I've blogged about it before with some of the issues that I've personally had...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 5:14 PM

Beaten by Rob Crane - Sharepoint Blog that is :-)

Body: Rob Crane showed me last night that he's already upgraded his blog to use the recently released Community Blog kit from Microsoft. I am planning to upgrade my blog in the next few weeks, but Robert has done it already. Just look at the differences...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:13 PM

SBS 2008 can up up to 75 users or devices - not 50

Body: Microsoft you are really confusing people right now. SBS 2003 has always supported up to 75 users or devices. SBS 2008 ALSO supports up to 75 users or devices, HOWEVER you are telling people that it's designed for up to 50 users or devices when...
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Monday, March 10, 2008 5:50 AM

Off to work for Trend in Taiwan

Body: Yes - those that know me know that I am a big fan of Trend Micro products in the SMB Space. I've used their products for our clients for about 5 or so years now and have been pretty happy with not only the product, but the company and the people...
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Sunday, March 09, 2008 4:08 PM

Vodafone blow it in the SMB Reseller channel

Body: Well - it does look like Vodafone are blowing their chance in the SMB Reseller channel here in Australia. Let's look at some of the issues that I've heard of / experienced over the last 3 months. First they provide wrong information to the...
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Saturday, March 08, 2008 4:18 AM

Fuzzy Blogs

Body: Those that know my business partner, Ryan "Fuzzy" Spillane will know he's a man of many talents. He's just started his own blog (after much pressure encouragement from many people). Check it out here http://fuzzyau.blogspot.com...
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