August 2008 - Posts

Friday, August 29, 2008 6:51 PM

Rollup Rollup - the show is about to start.

Body: No - I'm not talking about the fabulous SMBPreday at TechEd Australia (but hey it's only a few days away now). What I'm talking about is the one and only Harry Brelsfords SMBNation which is in October in Seattle. Harry could easily be...
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 2:17 AM

Trend WFBS 5.1 Beta coming - SBS/EBS support

Body: Trend have just released the beta for the 5.1 release of Worry-Free Business Security. The major components of this release are; What’s new in Worry-Free Business Security™ v5.1? Additional Microsoft Operating System support: Microsoft Small Business...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 4:50 PM

Microsoft takes community seriously with SBS and EBS launch

Body: I've been working at Microsoft now for a few days over the last two weeks. My first day was last Wednesday and it was right into a team meeting around the WESS family launch here in Australia. Now having been an outsider for so long, I've...
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 3:31 PM

SBS 2008 RTMs - Available Early October

Body: Today SBS 2008 was RTM'd - aka Release To Manufacturing. This means it's done, baked ready to come out of the oven and onto the production lines as CD's. It's been a long beta for this product and finally it's done! This direct...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:53 PM

Moving over to the dark side.. :-)

Body: To the sounds of evil laughter, I've swallowed the blue pill :-) Well almost. Today I started working with Microsoft Australia. My role here will be Tech Specialist on SBS and EBS and I'll be helping very much with the launch of SBS 2008...
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Saturday, August 16, 2008 2:49 AM

Marketing your Small Business cheaper and smarter!

Body: One of the things that we all face in the SMB market is the way in which we attract new customers. Most of the business we get is via word of mouth, but what about customers that you do not know, or markets that you do not yet have a contact in...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 6:25 AM

Strange folder names during SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration?

Body: I was doing an SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 Migration last week and had something very strange happened. I had a directory called Network Data that literally disappeared. Below you can see the Windows Explorer view shows no trace of the Network Data directory...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 5:58 AM

Pay peanuts - you get monkeys....

Body: So I'm trying to help promote the SMB Pre Day for TechEd Australia on September 2nd and I thought I'd reach out to two community leaders Susan Bradley and Vlad Mazek for some extra help in getting the message out. My request - simple - help...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 6:00 PM

OfficeDevCon Australia - one more event you need to be at

Body: Graham Seach - local MS Access MVP and all round nice guy is running Australia's 2nd OfficeDevCon event. He's just launched the website and is keen to drive attendance. The event will cover all manner of things relating to the Microsoft...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 2:25 AM

21 Days to go - will you miss out?

Body: Yes - that's right there are only 21 days to go now before TechEd Australia kicks off, that means that you have to make up your mind NOW if you want to register for the SMB Preday which will really kick ass with international guest speakers...
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 7:36 PM

Planes, Helicopters and Geeks

Body: Well - it's the final day here at the Microsoft Australian Partner Conference and there has been a lot of interest in the new versions of SBS 2008 and the new EBS 2008 due out on November 12th. As one of the fun things for the event, Robbie...
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 11:09 PM

Thank you Steve Cooper!

Body: Steve Cooper is the local Aussie Director for PSS, and for years I've been berating... err suggesting to him that here needs to be a better way for us to get a hotfix than to call Microsoft all the time. Well there is - and has been for some...
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 11:05 PM

Exchange 2003 mail getting lost???

Body: I've had an ongoing scenario on my SBS 2003 server that I've never fully investigated in which mail to some yahoogroups gets "lost". You check the SMTP queues and it's not there so you believe it's gone out. Then later...
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