http://davesbs.com Dave's SMB thoughts Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:56:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As some may know, I do work with Apple Mac stuff. Some may call it the Dark Side of the force, especially as some of their clients will be asking about the shiny new iPhone and linking it to Exchange! I am not going to get into a Mac vs Windows discussion, each have ... http://davesbs.com/2008/07/16/the-dark-side/ Robbie Upcroft's SBS Down Under blog announced that Suzanne Dansey has become Australia's newest SBS MVP! Another SBS MVP joins the list in Australia Well done Susanne. Keep up the good work :-)   http://davesbs.com/2008/07/16/congrats-to-susanne/ Congratulations to Nick Lloyd and Sirona Solutions, who recently became the latest member of the Microsoft Small Business Specialist Community. If you know me or read this blog you will know that I am great supporter of SBSC and although there are many things which could be done differently or improved upon, I think it ... http://davesbs.com/2008/07/07/sirona-solutions-now-sbsc/ The server (souped up desktop PC) I have been using for three years is frankly f***ed. I bought myself an HP ML110G5 with dual core Xeon, four 250gb non-hot swap Sata drives of the new HP Midline range and bumped the ram up to 6GB. Also comes with a next business ... http://davesbs.com/2008/07/03/hp-servers/ Just a heads up regards SBS 2008 RC0. I and a few others are having issues with DNS (have a look on Microsoft Connect at your dashboard if you have the public preview and check the bug reports). Every couple of days internet access flakes out. Testing from the router is fine, ... http://davesbs.com/2008/07/03/sbs-2008-rc0-dns-issues/ Watched a Scottish BBC news item on t'telly tonight about broadband speed. It seems that the average speeds across the country are about 2Mbps download with some place like Northern Ireland being less that that or indeed, crap! Some bloke who works in a little village up northern Scotland has to take ... http://davesbs.com/2008/06/04/broadband-and-the-cloud/ MLSS, I passed! :-) A big thanks go out to Lesley March the (used to work at Microsoft but now works with them) licensing trainer and James Henderson, the Scottish Partner Manager. Lesley was about the best at explaining Microsoft -isms I have ever encountered, from either the training or marketing perspective! Also, doing ... http://davesbs.com/2008/06/04/microsoft-licensing-sales-specialist/ Looks like I missed a blog entry by David Overton in April: http://uksbsguy.com/blogs/doverton/archive/2008/04/12/where-will-your-customers-be-looking-for-solutions-will-they-stick-to-on-premise-or-will-they-move-towards-a-s-s-or-saas-solution-not-from-you.aspx http://davesbs.com/2008/05/27/head-in-the-cloud-2/ I just posted on a couple of newsgroups re the debate about hosted or 'in the cloud' services that seem to be everywhere at the moment. Microsoft are now offering hosted Exchange and Sharepoint and many partners have been doing so for a while. Many in the community of Microsoft partners are worried ... http://davesbs.com/2008/05/26/head-in-the-cloud/ On Wednesday 28th May I will be attending a Microsoft Licensing Sales Specialist training day in Edinburgh. I am actually looking forward to this, mainly as a way to help my clients with the minefield that is MSFT licensing. It may be quite gruelling being a whole day event but it is ... http://davesbs.com/2008/05/25/20/