September 2008 - Australian & New Zealand MVPs

Small Business Marketing Unleashed - Review

Body: The Grand Poobar of Search Engine Guide – Jennifer Laycock has posted a summary of the recent Small Business Marketing Unleashed event in Columbus, Ohio. http://www.searchengineguide.com/jennifer-laycock/recapping-fall-small-business-marketing.php Now her view might well be biased by the fact that...

Published Tue, Sep 30 2008 9:25 PM by SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts

Filed under: Conferences

SBS 2008 Deep Dive Training

Body: I’m here in the USA being put through the paces of the internal Microsoft PSS SBS 2008 training course. It’s the first day and I’ve been sitting here for nearly 4 hours now and we’ve not even gotten through the setup process. I feel that I know far more about setup now than I am likely to ever...

Published Mon, Sep 29 2008 2:54 PM by SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts

How to make friends and influence people

Body: Today is Wednesday here in Columbus, Ohio, and I'm sitting here by the pool doing some work after the Small Business Marketing Unleashed conference wrapped up last night. This is the second time I've been to this event, the last time was in Houston in April this year. I decided to come...

Published Wed, Sep 24 2008 11:32 AM by SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts

Filed under: Conferences

Tech.Ed 2008 over

It's been a long time between blog posts. Between a couple of Tech.Eds, being sick with the flu, and a large enterprise System Center Operations Manager 2007 deployment, it's been pretty busy the past month. In addition, handling bathroom and kitchen renovations is consuming pretty much all of...

Published Sat, Sep 20 2008 9:05 AM by Ken Schaefer

Filed under: IIS

I'm on my way....

Body: In a few moments, I board my first of three flights today to get from Sydney, Australia through to Columbus, Ohio. This is the start of a 3 week trip in which I'll be attending 2 conferences and 2 weeks of solid long day training on the new SBS and EBS products. I'm in Ohio for the Small...

Published Thu, Sep 18 2008 10:13 PM by SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts

Filed under: Conferences

I know Vista is slow but....

Body: Picture says a thousand words... Published: 16/09/2008 2:51 PM Attachments: http://blog.sbsfaq.com/Lists/Posts/Attachments/237/image_2.png http://blog.sbsfaq.com/Lists/Posts/Attachments/237/image_thumb.png Read More...

Published Tue, Sep 16 2008 12:51 AM by SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts

SBS2008 Domain Name Wizard Options

Body: SBS 2008 has the ability to automate some of the things that often got customers tied up in knots. One of these is the purchase and management of their public domain name. SBS 2008 allows you via the wizard to purchase and manage a domain name from one of currently three domain name registrars...

Published Sun, Sep 14 2008 7:39 AM by SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts

Filed under: SBS 2008 / Cougar

Brown... Derek Brown... shaken, not stirred..

Body: A little like James Bond in his demeanour, Derek Brown has worked for Microsoft for many years, with stints running the Windows Mobile team, then in 2004 the SBS team and then after that Microsoft Thailand. Derek has always had a focus on community and we here in Sydney were fortunate to have him...

Published Fri, Sep 12 2008 9:52 PM by SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts

GFi WebMonitor causes AV updates to stop

Body: I've got a larger non SBS site and we discovered that a recent upgrade to GFI WebMonitor caused the AV updates to randomly stop to the servers. The site uses Trend Micro's OfficeScan product and we were experiencing an error message during the update cycle that suggested that the AV pattern...

Published Fri, Sep 12 2008 2:32 AM by SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts

Filed under: Software

Hyper-V Virtualisation Announcements

Body: Ok - so it's been a busy day for Microsoft today around the Hyper-V announcements being made here and the launch of a new section of the website here . I know that the SBS and EBS teams are very close now to officially releasing their supported configurations and best practice guides. Here...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2008 9:47 AM by SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts

Susan Bradley for President 08

Body: Well - as if she did not have enough time on her hands... Susan Bradley is now running for president of the USA - Check it out here :-) http://www.inews3.com/topstory.php?id=537573616e7c427261646c6579 She has my vote ;-) I'd love to see how she tackle patch management of the US infrastructure...

Published Mon, Sep 08 2008 10:31 AM by SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts

Small Business Marketing Unleashed Event

Body: Ok - so we all know about Microsoft investing $300M to promote their new products. We in the SMB space don't have that kind of money which is why I'm going to the 2nd Small Business Marketing Unleashed event in 2 weeks time in Columbus, Ohio. I attended this conference in Houston, TX earlier...

Published Mon, Sep 08 2008 10:06 AM by SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts

Filed under: Conferences

Vendors and Phone Support - it's almost non existent today...

Body: Back in the early 90's I worked for a large PC Manufacturer called AST Research here in Australia. AST was at the time the #3 PC manufacturer in the world and here in Australia we did pretty darned well with market share and our fair share of named accounts including Commonwealth Bank, Westpac...

Published Sat, Sep 06 2008 3:22 AM by SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts

Filed under: Business Focus

SBS 2008 / EBS 2008 Training and TechEd Australia

Body: Well guys - it's the end of an insane week this week. TechEd is finally over - well for me at least. I've been preparing for TechEd and the SMB PreDay now for a number of weeks and I think by and large it was successful. I know that there is a lot of great feedback and I'll be going...

Published Fri, Sep 05 2008 12:01 AM by SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts

Filed under: Conferences

A Posse, A Posse, my kingdom for a Posse

Body: Ok, so at the SMB PreDay yesterday, one of our attendees, Greg Lipshitz decided to start a website during the day. He built and pushed live www.techedlive.com whilst sitting up the back in the sessions "listening". Anyway - he decided to do a video interview and somehow came up with the...

Published Tue, Sep 02 2008 11:47 PM by SBSfaq.com Blog Site: Posts

Filed under: Conferences

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Small Business Marketing Unleashed - Review

SBS 2008 Deep Dive Training

How to make friends and influence people

Tech.Ed 2008 over

I'm on my way....

I know Vista is slow but....

SBS2008 Domain Name Wizard Options

Brown... Derek Brown... shaken, not stirred..

GFi WebMonitor causes AV updates to stop

Hyper-V Virtualisation Announcements

Susan Bradley for President 08

Small Business Marketing Unleashed Event

Vendors and Phone Support - it's almost non existent today...

SBS 2008 / EBS 2008 Training and TechEd Australia

A Posse, A Posse, my kingdom for a Posse