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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Check Your SBSC Status

It’s come to light recently that some partners are having their SBSC status change without realising The reason being that the Sales and Marketing Assessment you have to complete when signing up only lasts for two years. On top of this you don’t receive any E-mails or alerts to let you know. Microsoft are aware

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AMITPRO Meeting – October 2009

I’ve been meaning to post about the changes at AMITPRO for a little while but I’ve been a bit on the busy side recently. I’ve started the post about three times and never finished it! So the changes…if you’re a regular attendee to AMITPRO you’ll already know that Steve Wright has decided to stand down

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Small Business Server 2008 – Installation, Migration and Configuration

A book review! Small Business Server 2008 – Installation, Migration, and Configuration by David Overton While there are some great books for anyone working in the SBS space I’m of the opinion there aren’t enough written in the UK so it was with great anticipation I awaited the release of this book once I’d heard

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Microsoft Partner Network: 2009

I’ve been asked to spread the word about an upcoming event On Wednesday 7 October, the Microsoft UK team will be inviting partners to the number one UK channel event, Microsoft Partner Network: 2009 at Wembley Stadium. This free event will give attendees  insights into current Microsoft strategies and the direction the company is taking

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Microsoft Partner Network and SBSC

I’m blogging on this a couple of weeks after the event because I’ll be honest I wasn’t entirely sure how I felt about this At WPC a couple of weeks ago it was announced an overhaul to the partner programme is on the way There is a great explanation of it on the UK SBSC

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PC PRO – SMB Feature – What happened?

I’ve been sitting on this one for a few weeks as PC Pro magazine articles don’t appear on the site straight away (which i can understand) First let me start off my saying I’ve previously been a massive fan of PC Pro magazine. My interest in the magazine has waned in recently years for a

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