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
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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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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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
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‘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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SharePoint as a Help Desk–On Tour!
I’ve been waiting to post this as I wanted to make sure it was shared on the official site first! As you may or may not know (if you read this blog or know me you should!) I can quite happily ramble on about SharePoint in a small business context for a long time. So
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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