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
Category: SBS
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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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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SBS 2011–Most important SBS release ever?
Microsoft announced about a week ago that SBS 2011 standard is now fully available from volume licensing through to OEM. I think this latest release of Small Business Server is a significant one for many reasons. Lets go back a few years and a couple of versions and you’ll find working with Small Business Server
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Community looks great on the CV
I had a hard time thinking of a title for this post and I’m not entirely sure if it’s applicable…but it’ll do! Yesterday I read a post called “Dropping my MVP” The post from David Woods who was until very recently an MVP in developer security. David isn’t happy with his experience of the MVP
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SBS 2008, Windows Update and BITS
Just following on from my last post about SBS 2008 setup hanging while expanding and installing files. I mentioned in the last post that since it appeared to be Windows Update causing the problem I was hoping the update got stuck would be downloaded again when I manually ran the updates. So I started the
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SBS 2008 Setup Hang while Expanding and Installing Files
How very annoying this was. I’m setting up an SBS 2008 server for a client and the setup process got to the “expanding and installing files” part. It was running in the background whilst I was doing some other bits and pieces but I noticed it had seemed to get stuck right at the end
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SharePoint as a Help Desk on Tour v3–Reading
Looking back at my recent posts it looks like this is all I talk about at the moment! Anyway….after giving this presentation to both AMITPRO and the North West England SBSC Group I’ve been asked to do it again by Chris Timm from the Thames Valley Group. The meeting is on November 4th in the