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The PAL is dead...long live the PAL
Today, June 30, marks the official end of my tenure as the SBSC PAL for Australia, and it's been quite a year. I'm not going to go into huge detail because, well, quite frankly I'm sure you've got more important things to read but for...
Published
Tue, Jul 01 2008 1:08 AM
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calvert
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SBSC
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Community
Small Business Server 2008 World Wide Community Survey
Passing on an email from Kevin Beares ... Microsoft community leader extraordinaire The Windows Small Business Server 2008 WW Community Survey is live This is the third year we have published an SBS WW Community Survey to the SBS Community. We have learned...
Published
Wed, May 28 2008 10:57 AM
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calvert
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SBS User Group
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Community
Going to meet with Trend Micro next week
This is a copy of an email I sent to the Adelaide SBS User Group a few minutes ago and consider this worthwhile posting to the wider world. "I’ve got a meeting with Trend Micro next week with one of the top people in the company who’s travelling...
Published
Thu, May 08 2008 12:17 PM
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calvert
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Security
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SBS User Group
SBS2008 is coming...
It's my last day in Seattle having been here for over a week to attend MVP Summit 2008. Whilst here we've learned a LOT more about SBS2008, Essential Business Server and of course how little sleep we can survive on! Just stumbled across this this...
Published
Sat, Apr 19 2008 2:16 AM
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calvert
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MVP Stuff
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SBS2008
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Community
There's a whole world outside the USA...
<Rant mode on> Microsoft - why can you not realise there is a whole world outside of the United States when it comes to setting up and MAINTAINING operating systems? I have lost count of the number of times I've setup a system, telling it to...
Published
Wed, Sep 19 2007 1:34 AM
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calvert
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Musings
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Microsoft general
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Rant
SBS Technical Training now in Canberra
Nick's just blogged this: http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmayhew/archive/2007/09/14/sbs-partner-training-now-with-a-date-in-canberra.aspx This follows on from my last post about the training for SBSers. If you're in Canberra please take advantage of...
Published
Fri, Sep 14 2007 1:27 PM
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calvert
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SBS Technical
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SBS User Group
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Microsoft general
Microsoft SBS technical training for Australia
I've received an email from Microsoft with the following information in it regarding the next round of technical training sessions coming up. If you're working with Small Business Server then make sure you register for these events being held...
Published
Tue, Sep 04 2007 2:58 PM
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calvert
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SBS Technical
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SBSC
Calling all network manager type people
Put this onto your radar: http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/essentials/default.mspx Had a meeting with some bodies here at the MS Australian partner conference just a while ago, in particular the lovely Frederique Dennison (Product Marketing Manager...
Published
Fri, Aug 31 2007 7:36 PM
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calvert
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SBS Technical
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Windows Server Technical
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SBS User Group
Aussies - add this to your RSS feed
Sitting in the key note this morning at the MS Australia partner conference. Nick Mayhew just announced this URL to keep an eye on (or subscribe to with RSS): http://blogs.msdn.com/ridethe2008wave/
Published
Fri, Aug 31 2007 11:35 AM
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calvert
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Microsoft general
I thought I should crow about this one...
I'm at the Microsoft Australian partner conference, being held on Hamilton Island. There are 633 Microsoft partners here and around 140-150 Microsoft staff, together with 23 exhibitors including Trend, Kaseya, Wacom, ProCurve etc. Anyway, Friday night...
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Thu, Aug 30 2007 1:35 PM
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calvert
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Business
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Microsoft general
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SBSC
SBSC Get Together Today
I'm at the Microsoft Australian Partner Conference, being held on Hamilton Island in the Whitsunday Islands, just off the mid-north Queensland coast. Weather is not too bad - lots of cloud but we're getting bursts of sunlight which keep us awake...
Published
Thu, Aug 30 2007 12:34 PM
by
calvert
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Eric Ligman just posted on the SBSC PALs too...
see http://blogs.msdn.com/mssmallbiz/archive/2007/07/31/4144618.aspx for Eric's post which also gives contact details for the PALs around the world. My mailbox is protected by Exchange Defender too so take care if sending me any mail. BTW - Ben Walton...
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Wed, Aug 01 2007 12:53 AM
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calvert
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Small Business Specialist Community Partner Area Lead
So there's been a lot of noise around the place lately about the SBSC PALs that have been "appointed" by Microsoft. There's not yet been an official announcement yet - I believe this will be coming around September. I figured it was...
Published
Tue, Jul 31 2007 11:54 PM
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calvert
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SBSC
Products coming to end of support life
Got an email from John, my MS partner account manager. He was forwarding on a newsletter called the " Microsoft Support Lifecycle Customer Informational Update". Some relevant (SBS-ised) inclusions are: SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3a — Support...
Published
Tue, Jul 31 2007 11:42 PM
by
calvert
Filed under:
Microsoft general
LegacyDN to the rescue
Continuing with the swing migration from the last post, all continued to go exceptionally well with the process. We kicked off an Exchange backup remotly prior to heading to site so there was less waiting around. (I use RDP to manage servers just about...
Published
Sat, May 12 2007 12:55 PM
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calvert
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SBS Technical
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Exchange Technical
Is your SWING not being TRUSTED?
We all know that SBS cannot have a trust relationship with another domain - that's a given. But SBS sometimes doesn't seem to know this. We encountered this just now in performing a swing migration for a client. The FSMO roles had been seized...
Published
Thu, May 10 2007 5:07 PM
by
calvert
Filed under:
SBS Technical
Feel like a good laugh?
Got this link through earlier today from a mate. You just have to take a look... http://bigpicture.typepad.com/writing/2007/01/try_not_to_laug.html If you're have a tough day then you need to look at this video. If you're have a great day then watch this...
Published
Sat, Mar 03 2007 8:54 AM
by
calvert
Filed under:
Musings
Watch your bindings order
Just got back from installing an additional NIC in an ISA2004 firewall. The ole network bindings order gotcha hit me yet again so I thought it was time to write this down to remind me - and hopefully save you from this grief. When adding a new network...
Published
Thu, Feb 22 2007 8:16 PM
by
calvert
Filed under:
SBS Technical
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Windows Server Technical
Stymied by RWW & RDP 6?
We've had a few cases where RWW won't work on machines where they've had RDP 6 installed. The resolution when this happens is to uninstall RDP 6 as it appears there is a problem between the full RDP 6 client and the RDP 5.2 ActiveX component that RWW...
Published
Thu, Feb 22 2007 1:43 PM
by
calvert
Filed under:
SBS Technical
The dawn of an era...
Monday morning just about all of us in the office were suffering "Jimlag", trying to remember what we'd learned the previous week & put it into practice. Ian (our implementer) was off in the bowels of north western Queensland so was...
Published
Wed, Oct 25 2006 9:34 PM
by
calvert
Filed under:
Business
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