SMB Nation Early Bird Rate to Expire Friday

Hi Gang Update to fix broken link,

Just a friendly reminder that the EARLY BIRD RATE for the SMB Nation Fall Conference expires this Friday 9/14/2012. Don’t delay and miss the discount!

Check out Susan calling Harry to task :>)

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Hi Gang,

Just a friendly reminder that the EARLY BIRD RATE for the SMB Nation Fall Conference expires this Monday (August 31st).

Also Harry is hosting another fall conference preview Webinar next week:

“Your Community Confab – SMB Nation Fall 2009!”
Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT

Registration link https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/187223512

Hope to see you at the conference, look for me around the GFI booth, “Hangin with MAX”

Have a Great Weekend,
HA

Apparently I waited too long to become a twit

Well I signed up for twitter finally; I may be the last person on earth to get an account. But it seems I waited too long, someone took my name, so I had to use http://twitter.com/OriginHandyAndy which of course is what I am, the original :>)

Now all I have to do is figure out how it works, I was just getting the hang of FB

User Group Community Loses a Legend, Al Wromke

Al Wromke half a lifetime ago

Our old friend Coline MacLean sent this note out about Al’s passing and Fred Townsend long time Leader of SVCS sent it out to the membership; allow me to share her words here.

Members and Friends of SVCS:

 From Coline MacLean we receive this information:

Al Wromke passed away today. He had lung cancer. He only lasted two

weeks after the detection and most of that was spent in a catatonic

state. He died at the Veterans hospital in Palo Alto. Very sad.

Al returned to Silicon Valley from El Paso in June. He was trying to get

re-established and did not seem to be in ill health. He had lost lots of

weight but said he had been dieting and exercising. During the last

three weeks the complaints of joint pain and the inability to sleep

started. He went to the VA center in Palo Alto with little

satisfaction. Al was then hospitalized.

Within a few days, the bad news of renal dysfunction, lung cancer and

God knows what else. They immediately told him to get his affairs in

order, which knowing AL, as we do, know that getting anything in order

was not Al’s strong suit. Al’s relatives were called, almost too late as

AL didn’t want them called. 

AL’s body is being shipped back home to NJ, where the family will have

a service on Friday and bury him next to his parents.

He was a good person. I never heard him say a bad word about anyone and

he would give you the shirt off his back or anything he had if you

needed it. He was always on the outlook for opportunities for his

friends and he was constantly creating wild business opportunities,

which benefited mostly other people. The world is a lesser place

without him.

… c

Fred Townsend

I leave you with the immortal words of Al Wromke, “Can You Send Me A Copy To Review”
Good Bye Al, We Will All Miss You,
HA

Attention Enterprise Geeks

Hello Geeks of the Enterprise World, I know a number of you are looking at our space and salivating.

Please do yourself’s and us a huge favor and check OUT THIS POST  before you come into our sandbox to play :>)

Thank You

Keep an eye on this Company, you heard it here first

The other day the news and record wrote THIS ARTICLE about an up and coming local comany. Keep an eye on them, they are going to be making huge waves in the online shopping business over the next couple of year. Interested in trying out some of their products? Hop on over to THIS SITE, register (it’s free) and poke around some. Just click sign in at the top right to register.

Have you met MAX

Yesterday GFI announced that they bought HoundDog Technology and rebranded it GFIMAX.
I am going to miss seeing that doggy, but ya have to admit, MAX is cute too!

I have been using this technology for a couple of months now and I think you will you will really like it.

MAX lets you pick and choose which what you monitor and what reports and alerts you get. It is the missing monitoring and reporting for those of you who have moved to SBS 2008. It is the perfect way for the gun shy break fix consultant to stick their toes into the world of managed services, without signing a long contract or committing to spending a ton of money. With MAX you only pay for what you use. MAX is very afforable! 

You see all your clients servers and workstations in one console. Hop on over to MAX’s House and download the 30 day fully functional demo today.

How Secure Is Social Networking?

My friend and fellow ETT’er Brad Dinerman has written an interesting article on Social Networking and it’s risks and rewards.

Here is the start,
The popularity of social networking sites has increased at astonishing levels. There is no arguing the usefulness of sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.  They can be used for professional networking and job searches, as a means to increase sales revenue, as a tool to keep the public informed of safety and other issues or as a way to reconnect with friends from way-back-when.
 Read the rest here
http://www.fieldbrook.net/TechTips/Security/SocialNetworking.asp

Win7 RTM’d today

For those of you on the edge of your seat the wait is over, it’s offical Win7 Shipped http://blogs.technet.com/kevinremde/archive/2009/07/22/breaking-news-finally-windows-7-and-windows-server-2008-r2-shipped-rtm-baby-yeah.aspx

And the offical Win7 Blog Post http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/07/22/windows-7-has-been-released-to-manufacturing.aspx

And when can you get your hands on it you ask http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/07/21/when-will-you-get-windows-7-rtm.aspx

And of course we can’t forget Windows Server 2008 R2, check out http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/

Office 2010, the Movie

SBS migration guidance, click through simulator and checklist

Just got this note and though I would share it with you, be sure to check out the links to the updated docs!
(this is the MS migration path, not Jeff’s)

Earlier this week we released the SBS migration checklist on to the download center. This checklist helps partners follow the steps needed to migrate customers from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 and is based on PSS details, additional research into migration, and feedback from yourselves.  Please use it with the document “Migrating to Windows Small Business Server 2008 from Windows Small Business Server 2003” also found on the Download Center.

I want to thank several of our MVPs for supporting this with their real world feedback on this doc

Eric Neale, Susan Bradley and Wayne Small – a big thank you for taking the time to support this effort.

Family, can I ask that you take the time to have a look at this doc, and we’d love your support to get the word out there on this checklist.

Also don’t forget to check out the migration click through as well.

Have a great weekend.  Cheers, Nick

Nick King

Product Manager | Windows Server Solutions Group