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Last Call for SBS 2003 SP1/ISA 2004 Media Kits

Body: Yup - that's right. This is the last call for anyone that has not yet picked up their SBS 2003 SP1/ISA 2004 Media Kits. December 31, 2007 is the end date for Microsoft to supply these and if you have not yet ordered your kit then you need to...
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SBS2003 R2 SQL 2000 and SQL 2005 Downgrade Rights

SBS 2003 R2 is in beta now and the Premium Edition contains SQL 2005 Workgroup Edition which is nice. It will give forward looking customers the chance to get all the great features of SQL 2005... that is once their application vendor supports it. What...
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Patching - needs to be even simpler please Microsoft

Today we had an interesting issue on a client site - the client runs SBS 2003 - they sent out an email blast to 60 of THEIR customers but they mistakenly put everyone in the cc line instead of the bcc line. What then happened was a deluge of emails that...
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Media Centre PC for home - LCD TV selection.

My wife and I have been planning to redecorate our formal lounge / dining room - we don't use it for these functions, but instead we're using it as a home office / library. Now we want to add another function to it and at the same time redecorate. With...
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Darwin Special MS Partner / End User Presentation

I've just returned from a quick trip to Darwin - my first visit there. Man was it hot... we landed at 10:35pm at night and it was still 30c outside and sticky. I was asked to be involved with Microsoft in presenting to the reseller community in Darwin...
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"Redmond, we have a green light on SBS2003 Service Pack 1 Beta"

In scenes reminiscent of the space shuttle launch, the SBS Dev team this morning had their release meeting for the Beta of SBS2003 Service Pack 1. The managers from the Dev/Test/Program management team and the user education managers Lead program managers...
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When is a virus not a virus???

OK - yesterday was one of those days that I'd like to do over again. It started with a very late night before when I went to the airport to pickup my in-laws and their flight was delayed a few hours - ultimately I got home in the early hours of the morning...
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SBS2000 to 2003 Upgrades - a few considerations...

Ok - my preference for installations of SBS2003 is to do a totally fresh installation. However there are times when this is not possible due to budget contraints or time limitations. I've had two such customer scenarios this week that needed to have the...
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