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IE7 RC1 is brilliant

Gareth — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:24:54 GMT

Well I'm certainly very impressed!

The new IE7 RC1 is far better than the previous betas, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/ check the downloads area for the most upto date links.

Then go across to Seth McLaughlin's Blog, http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/ and find the Quick Reference Sheet, which was here, http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/attachment/715071.ashx, when I looked last.

And, yes the new Partner Website (great job too) supports IE7 - so now there's no reason not to check it out.

Cheers, Gareth

Re: Unwell SBS Server :(

Gareth — Wed, 24 May 2006 11:30:40 GMT

Joe hi,

If it's a clean server without data etc, go for a re-install (nothing to loose) but if the machine is in production, I'd await the memory being delivered.

We recently had a workstation PC which wouldn't switch on the windows firewall (XP) - turned out to be a faulty motherboard / cpu - I think it's too easy to point to the os / software, in my experience problems like this don't develop without the help of failing hardware.

Re: Unwell SBS Server :(

Gareth — Thu, 11 May 2006 18:26:35 GMT

I'd be really suprised if this wasn't a memory fault.

There is a boot disc (floppy LINUX) I can dig out if you like which tests the memory doesn't use the HDDs but these days memory is so cheap - can you change all the memory on the box?

Let us know how you get on.

Cheers, G

Re: SBS 2003 Migration to new hardware

Gareth — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:57:09 GMT

Richarde:

Ricard00

I overcome this by not selling hardware (or software). I specify it, source it and then get the customer to pay for it direct (usually to dell with whom I can usually negotiate a good deal). I then charge the customer my time for doing that, plus, of course the time to setup and administer their network.

I find that this gives me as much profit as the (tiny) margins on hardware would provide, and it is always 'someone elses box' so if things are wrong with the hardware you don't get quite so tarnished.

It's an approach which has worked for me for the last five years, and I have never had a customer question it. It is also a nice feeling that all the money that drops through your letter box belongs to you (and the taxman) and not a load of creditors.

Rich hi, we do the same for clients with credit reports that don't quite make the mark. Making the sale is the skill, the delivery (and payment) is (usually?) more simple.

But certainly make a charge for the time & effort. G

Re: Data Migration tools for CRM

Gareth — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:12:45 GMT

Are there migration tools to move (to and) from ACT! ?

I'd guess around 30% of our clients have some CRM (of some description) in ACT! format. We have a tool to export ACT! to Excel, but it loses the Notes / History tables.

Re: SBS 2003 Migration to new hardware

Gareth — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:52:29 GMT

And of course if you're not sure there's the usual 180 day eval on the download.

It's really a no brianer!