Partner Area Lead – 2012

Last week there was a blog post on the official Microsoft UK SBSC blog announcing the SMB Partner Area Leads for 2012. They are Robert Gibbons of Think4 IT Solutions Guy Gregory from The Final Step me! So the first question most people ask is…”What is a PAL”? There is a really good description on

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Book Review: Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard, Configuring (70-169) Certification Guide

The very nice people at Packt asked me to take a look at this book Co-authored by Drew Hills who is an active contributor to the SMB IT Professional community in Australia and Robert Crane of the excellent CIAOPS blog and “Need to Know Podcast”. Having read the book I think it’s a title that’s

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Refreshed and Recharged

It was around this time last year I wrote about being burnt out (I’ve just re-read that post – I’m still quite pleased with it!) so following my own advice I’ve just got back from two weeks off work. As with last year I enabled my out of office auto-reply and the world didn’t end

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