Do you miss reading SMB tips and tricks by the ISA MVP & Guru Amy Babinchak? Are you wondering what happened to her? Well wonder no more, she moved her blog and you can now find her at http://securesmb.harborcomputerservices.net
We told her not to move, but she had to move, progess has it’s pain points. Anyways now you can get your Amy fix once again :>)
Well if you live and work in my part of the world, we share the same PAL, 
read about Mark Crall HERE, or better yet stop by the next meeting of the Charlotte SBS Group and meet him in person
Well according to D&H anyways, there ain’t no stinkin recession and they are willing to put there money where there mouth is, so to speak. Read the story on Channel Insider. They are betting 10 million that it’s just media hype.
Have you been hearing rumblings of this thing called Hyper-V and wondering what it is all about.
Well RC0 was just released maybe it’s time to take a look and see what your future holds?
Besides what better place to install your new copy of ServerCore ?
Just imagine, a nice beefy box running Hyper-V, ServerCore, SBS2008 and TerminalServer in one neat package, I can hardly wait, how about you?
So by now you have heard that Vista SP1 is up on the Microsoft Download Site, but there are a few things you should know. First if you have run any of the SP1 beta’s make sure to uninstall them before going any farther.
Second I have not run into one reason to not install this much awaited SP as soon as possible, I have been running it through the beta cycle and it rock solid.
Last but not least, hop on OVER HERE and read what to expect and how to go about doing that update now. There are some specific pre-requsites and that page will make sure your experience is as painless as possible.
Dear Clients,
Did ya notice less spam in your mailboxes?
Were you wondering if the spam problem on the Internet is gone?
Well it is still out there alive and well, it is just that Exchange Defender (all our clients mail goes through ED) got a major update so you are seeing much less. Read about the New Improved Exchange Defender HERE.
Oh and if you were wondering, no there was no price increase.
We now return you to your business to make some more money to pay your bill :>)
It seems I hear this all the time from folks and I just don’t where it comes from.
Microsoft communicates us to death, I need a full time person just to read all the partner news coming from Redmond.
Let me help you out, here is your full time partner news filter, his name is Eric Ligman and he has a blog full of non-fluff, important, relivant, timely information. He doesn’t charge for this service, it won’t up your workmans comp bill, so once a week or so hop on over there and read it, or better yet subscribe to it’s rss feed at http://blogs.msdn.com/mssmallbiz/rss.xml
Here is a great example, this announcement just today about the new Vista Managed NewsGroup.
That is right, just announced on the New EBS Blog they have opened up the nomination process for testers of the upcoming Essential Business Server. Want to nominate yourself to participate, CLICK HERE
HA-note: The nomination link on their blog is temporarily broken but should be fixed as soon as someone on the east coast wakes up and gets my note :>)
What you don’t know what EBS is, you say you have been living under a rock for the last month, check it our HERE
The SBS Doc Team has just release step by step instructions on the proper way to add a WS08 computer to your SBS Lan either as a stand alone server or even an additional domain controller.
Looks like this is one web page I won’t have to do for you on SBS-Rocks :>)
Every once in a while you hear about some company (Lowes in this case) or some person (Mark Strenta in this case) stepping up to the plate and doing it the way it should be done. Then you scratch your head and wonder why it has to be the exception instead of the rule. Well here is your lesson for the day, great customer service makes customers for life, it’s not just about a sale today!
Hop on over HERE and read the story and watch the video.
Pre-Requisite Disclaimer, the young man in the video wearing the Lowes shirt is my son-in-law. But that doesn’t change the fact he hit a home run with his quick response to this potential customer disaster :>)