Do you plan to start a business, or know someone who does / is, perhaps even a customer? Well, Susanne Dansey often makes for interesting reading with her views on life in the IT world. She also just posted a link to some areas worth looking at, so click on UK SMB Girl » Starting a business? to find...
I was browsing Vijay's blog and notices a link to Sean Daniel's blog discussing Cougar. While there are many details of Cougar still to be released and some I would imagine still to be decided, here are some of the most interesting things he said: There will be a migration too that will take...
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on Sun, Jun 10 2007
Filed under: Security, beta, Backup, Small business, x64, ISA Server, Partner, SBS Cougar, Windows Server 2008
I get asked about this quite a lot - so Microsoft has this thing, the "TAT". I've looked at it and it is just a bunch of questions. Yep, but you can change the questions and all the results are stored and if you know what you are doing, you can use it to build an IT strategy for your customers...
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on Fri, Jun 8 2007
Filed under: SBS 2003, Support and Tools, Business, SBSC, SBS 2003 R2, Documentation, Small business, Partner, If you only read one post today
I saw this at http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/products/wowpc/CompareWindows.aspx and thought this would be a great sales tool. While Vista has many new and unique features people often want to discuss how it compares to previous versions - this is a good place to start to go down that list. ttfn...
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on Tue, Jun 5 2007
Filed under: Windows 7, Vista and XP, Support and Tools, Business, Windows Client, Windows XP, Documentation, Tips, Small business, Partner
I saw this on the Small Business site in the US and thought it was an excellent tool as to what has changed between the versions of Office from XP through to Office 2007. Simply go to http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/products/wowpc/CompareOffice.aspx and click out the tabs to get the details. Ttfn...
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on Tue, Jun 5 2007
Filed under: Office System, Support and Tools, Business, Office 2007, Documentation, Tips, Small business, Partner, Office 2003
A couple of years back Microsoft realised that it needed a specialised group of partners that it could recommend to small business customers, invest time and effort into helping succeed and help elevate themselves above the 33,000 other partners in the UK. From these desires the SBSC program was born...
Tim Kimber the UK Office live product manager sent me these links and they are pretty good: bCentral Office Live SB+ webcast (requires sign-in) - http://www.microsoft.com/uk/businesscentral/small-business-plus/sign-up.aspx?xid=sbplus_ol_bcban Flash demo : http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0703/29661/UK...
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on Mon, May 14 2007
Filed under: Support and Tools, Business, Windows SharePoint Services, Developer, Office Live, Tips, Small business