‘SharePoint as a Help Desk’ On Tour–Manchester

I may have mentioned once or twice over the last couple of weeks I’d been invited to the Manchester SBSC group to deliver the presentation I gave at AMITPRO a few months ago. So last Thursday I made the trip up to Manchester and as I’ve done every time I’ve presented to a user group

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SBS 2008 Migration Gotcha

I was recently migrating a client from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008. I was using the Microsoft method (backed up by the techniques in Dave Overton’s book!) and having ran the source tool on the old server I kicked off the migration on the new server and got this error. Weird….I’d ran the source tool

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SharePoint as a Help Desk @ AMITPRO

Urgh….I meant to do this a lot earlier but I’ve had a crazy week since the AMITPRO meeting last week. I’ve got a back log of posts I want to put together but between holidays, hospitals and a couple of major client projects I’ve been at full tilt since then. Anyway, back to the point!

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Andy and SharePoint @ June AMITPRO Meeting

Yeah i know….me again. We’ve had a speaker drop out at short notice so I’m going to speaking at AMITPRO this month. The topic is one you’ll probably know is something I quite like talking about – SharePoint! My presentation will be titled – SharePoint as a Helpdesk I’ve had the idea for the while

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David Houston – Community Legend

If you follow the SBS Community at all you’ll have no doubt heard the sad news of the passing of David Houston. I met David “virtually” online in 2007. Both he and I participated in the long departed monthly SBS Chat and were the only people from this part of the world. (mainly because it

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AMITPRO Invades Microsoft Briefing

Bank holiday always throws me so this is sneaking up on me quite quickly. This Thursday, (6th May), Microsoft are holding a regional Partner Business Briefing in Birmingham to promote the upcoming changes to the Microsoft Partner Network, showcase the current wave of Microsoft products and facilitate inter-partner collaboration (we promoted the event on the

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Get them while their hot! ZDTM Workbook special offer

In my last post I gave details about the upcoming event at AMITPRO featuring Karl Palachuk and Richard Tubb I just wanted to share a special offer Karl has kindly put together Time-limited offer for attendees of the April 6th AMITPRO meeting! Karl has offered a massive saving of $120 (£80) off the cost of

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April AMITPRO meeting – Must Attend Event!

Just wanted to do a bit of shouting about our next AMITPRO meeting. It’s one we’re really excited about! First, we’ve changed the date. Our meetings are usually on the second Tuesday of every month but we’re rearranged to accommodate one of our speakers. This means the date of the meeting is 6th April So,

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Bye Bye EBS!

You’ve more than likely heard that Microsoft are ending development of EBS with immediate effect. If you browse to the website you’ll see this (eventually…I got this and the regular product page randomly on each page load) There is also an an announcement on the official SBS blog “New IT Trends Bring Change to Mid-Market

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