Some of the feedback from Partners who attending the Small Business Forum last month was that although OEM was the license of choice for now, there was a clear willingness to want to understand how to better adopt volume licensing.
It’s not always the easiest to understand and those who have been chatting to me about […]
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Eileen posted recently about one of the latest Microsoft Partner Marketing promotions that is available to Partners now.
Here’s the deal:
You can order 200 FREE postcards or 1,000 FREE emails which you can personalise with your logo and contact details to your target customers or prospects with this campaign. If you want more then you can […]
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Lots if you’ve subscribed to a fair number of Microsoft blogs! Well here’s one more.
The Service Pack (SP) will now form part of your automatic updates, but for those who have disabled this and want your own copy to do with what you will, here’s the direct download link. Don’t forget that you’ll need to […]
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Mike highlighted this one and because lots of you fedback to me that you want to understand the opportunities regarding security on products such as Exchange or SharePoint, I thought you might want to download it and check it out for yourself.
The toolkit includes nine VMs which demo four scenarios:
Secure Remote Access with IAG (Intelligent […]
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I found a good post from Moloy Tandon regarding how you can license Microsoft Small Business Server 2003.
One of the challenges we are facing is how we can change people’s perception of how to license SBS (and I don’t mean everyone to go to volume licensing on server OS). On my travels around the UK […]
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Here is the situation regarding Microsoft Office Accounting so far in the UK…
Currently the product is only available from Microsoft as a download in three different versions (www.msofficeaccounting.co.uk):
Express -which is a free version available to anyone to download for free
Professional - 60-day free trial or £149.99 (exc. VAT) for a full copy (3-user license is […]
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David has posted on a whole series of nationwide free developer events for customers and Partners.
More information on the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) can be found here.
Microsoft supports more than 500 developer user groups around the World. Find out more about Developer User Groups and online communities in the UK.
Also check out:
Channel 9
Channel 10
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I found another blog feed which I think others who need some marketing inspiration can sign up for.
Mike Heald keeps an eye on the Aussie Partners in this World but the messages are relevant to all of us.
Add him to your RSS feeds and you’ll see what I mean!
p.s. Mike, you need to tell us […]
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Looking through the delegate sign-up list for the Small Business Forum there are lots of questions around licensing, particularly volume licensing. Thanks to those who have submitted questions, I’m collating them and getting answers ready for the event. I could probably put a whole day together just to focus on this subject alone but there […]
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I attended the UK & Ireland MVP Open Day today which was really interesting. To sit in a room amongst a group of passionate people from lots of different backgrounds and professions was pretty impressive and quietly I felt very overwhelmed. What inspired me the most was a presentation on security which was taken by […]
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