May 2008 - Posts

Fri, May 30 2008 2:19

SBS 2008 Community Survey

Body: Kevin Beares is the Community lead inside the Microsoft Server Group in the US. He's been conducting a yearly survey of the community for the past 3 years now and it's that time of year again. Please support the community by taking a few...
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Thu, May 29 2008 7:04

SBS 2008 Public Beta now available

Body: Finally - SBS 2008 is available for the wider public audience to download and start to test in your own environments. Having been part of the SBS 2008 beta now for nearly 2 years, it's interesting to see where the product has come from and where...
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Thu, May 29 2008 6:59

SBS 2008 & EBS 2008 Training around Australia

Body: Woohooo... Today SBS 2008 went public with the beta which means I can now talk more freely about this product and what's cool about it. Robbie Upcroft the SBS/SBSC Product Manager here in Australia, is keen to ensure that we get some advance...
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Sat, May 24 2008 2:07

Free security software from Scorpion Software

Body: Yes - you heard right, CEO of Scorpion Software, Dana Epp has released a free security tool to help address one of the often raised security concerns about the Remote Web Workplace in Small Business Server 2003. By default SBS 2003 allows all users...
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Tue, May 20 2008 3:07

Small Business Events in Australia this week

Body: I didn't know about it until today, but the New South Wales government have labelled this week as Home Based Business week and they are running a host of seminars all around the state all related to home based and small business. Looking through...
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Mon, May 19 2008 17:24

Funny view on what Microsoft does conveyed by children

Body: Microsoft Australia are doing a cute viral marketing campaign which is aimed to raise awareness of it's Office 2007 product and at the same time donate money to charity. They have said they will donate up to $100,000 to charity based on this...
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Mon, May 19 2008 7:19

Microsoft learns from their mistakes with the SBSCs

Body: In a great example of Microsoft listening to the SBSC partners and learning from their mistakes, Robbie has advised that they are marketing to our SMB customers. http://blogs.technet.com/sbsaustralia/archive/2008/05/15/microsoft-smb-customer-profiling...
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Sun, May 18 2008 14:18

New Small Business Specialist Partner (SBSC) Area Lead (PAL) for Australia - Hilton Travis

Body: Now I really don't think Microsoft know what they are in for with this announcement. Late last night, Robbie Upcroft - the Microsoft Australia dude covering the SBSC program and the SBS/EBS product range, made the following announcement to the...
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Tue, May 13 2008 16:39

SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 Pricing Released

Body: Microsoft have today released the US pricing for Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008. The official announcement is here . In addition, they have announced changes in how they will deal with Client Access Licenses (CALs...
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Mon, May 12 2008 7:48

USB Flash Drive not working on Windows Vista?

Body: I picked up a 16G Corsair Flash Voyager when I was in the US last month from Frys. It worked fine on my laptop but refused to work on my desktop. Instead I got the dialog box on below requesting drivers for it. Naturally I didn't have drivers...
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Sat, May 10 2008 16:28

SBS2008 - Information on Backup

Body: It seems that this week is going to be a big week in SBS circles. At the SBSmigrations conference in New Orleans, the Microsoft SBS team are making a few announcements about changes to the SBS product. One of the key ones is that the famed Windows...
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Wed, May 7 2008 16:05

How to make friends and influence people on Twitter

Body: I'm still not sure about twitter as a business tool. For the moment, I'm seeing it more as a live discussion tool that I liken to overhearing conversations at a party, you hear scraps of it from the people next to you, but you don't...
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Mon, May 5 2008 22:44

Trend Training coming to a city near you.

Body: This only applies for my Australian and New Zealand readers, but if you've not gotten the email from Trend already, check out below for training coming to a city near you. This includes training on the upcoming CSM for SMB v5.0 (aka WFBS v5...
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Thu, May 1 2008 20:36

Baby Born on Twitter - a first?

Body: Ok - so congratulations to Vlad and Katie Mazek on the birth last night of their first baby Tim Mazek :-) For those that don't know him, Vlad is the CEO for Own Web Now - a Florida based company that has done heaps to aid SMB resellers worldwide...
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