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
Author: Andy Parkes
Andy Parkes is Technical Director at Coventry based IT support company IBIT Solutions. Formerly, coordinator of AMITPRO and Microsoft Partner Area Lead for 2012-2013. He also isn't a fan of describing himself in the third person.
Community Is More Important Than Ever
As well as the recent death of Small Business Server there has been a lot of concern about what will happen to the Small Business Specialist Community as a whole. Especially against the backdrop of the replacement of the SBSC designation with the shiny new Small Business Competency and the fact that community participation has
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Goodbye Small Business Server
On 5th July Microsoft announced licensing details for Windows Server 2012 and the biggest piece of news for anyone that works with Small Business Server is this: Will there be a next version of Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard? No. Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard, which includes Exchange Server and Windows server component
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SBS 2011 Study Guide Book–Competition!
I’ve had this on the back burner to do for a couple of weeks but a certain well known (and very nice!) MVP was doing something similar so I thought I’d wait for him to finish. So what have I got? Two copies of the e-book version for: Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard,
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It’s been a while
Hello? HELLLO!? Testing, testing, one, two – is this thing on? It’s been more than a while, it’s been three months! I don’t think I’ve ever gone this length of time between blog posts. I’ve had an awful lot going on both at home and with work but in reality I’ve had a bit of
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Pecha Kucha Birmingham Volume 5–including me!
Back in October last year I wrote a post called “Do Something That Scares You” where I talked about pushing some personal boundaries by speaking at Pecha Kucha Coventry. I should really have called this post “Do Something Really Stupid” as I’m doing it again! This time it’ll be at the Birmingham event on the
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Robert Crane–Search Server Express and SBS 2011
At the last AMITPRO meeting I was asked about having SharePoint search more than just the lists and libraries within the SharePoint site. Part of thinking is that if users became accustomed to browsing to the SharePoint site to complete this common task (search!) it may help with general adoption of SharePoint as another tool
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Protecting Your Gmail Account with Two Factor Authentication.
It’s not always obvious but your email account is one of the most important things you have on the Internet. (Jeff Attwood wrote a really good post about this back in 2008!) Your email account is like the keys to the city because when you sign up for just about any service on the Internet
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Retro Computer Museum – Event – April 2012
It’s not really a massive secret I’m a little partial to a spot of retro gaming. Back in 2010 I first visited the Retro Computer Museum and I’ve been quite a few times since. The guys there work really hard and put in a lot of their free time in keeping everything running smoothly. What’s
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How To Spam Friends and Irritate People
If you write anything on the Internet that you want people to read there are now lots of different ways for people to find out you have new content. When I first started blogging there were generally three practical options. 1) Subscribe to the RSS feed (if it had one) and keep a regular eye