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Windows Mobile Training

Become a Windows Mobile Specialist or a Windows Small Business Retail Mobile Specialist by studying a series of courses developed specifically around the features and benefits of Windows Mobile. Also available are online sales tools, and mobile device news.
Very useful if you want to train a new recruit up on the product both in terms […]

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Deploying Windows Mobile 6 with Windows Small Business Server 2003

Do you want to add Windows Mobile devices to your network? Is your network based either on the Windows Small Business Server 2003 (Windows SBS) server software with Service Pack 1 (SP1) or on Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2? If so, you can use the step-by-step instructions in this downloadable document to deploy devices […]

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Partner Questions from the Small Business Forum

Note: I’m updating this page regularly as I get new information so keep an eye on it… 
Thanks to everyone who attended the Small Business Forum last Thursday, we had a great turnout and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. I’m still wading through all the emails that I’ve received so far - I can assure […]

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Mr. Busy Campaign paves the way for future marketing campaigns aimed at small businesses

The Mr. Busy Campaign will be bidding SBSCers in UK and Ireland a hurried goodbye as he gets replaced by three new campaigns.
Here’s what the Mr. Busy campaign achieved:

101 Partners took part in the campaign within five weeks
24,000 end users were reached
98% of Partners told Microsoft that they would like to see more of these […]

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Live Meeting Event for Small Business IT Consultants

The Partner Outreach Team (headed up by another pro-community Partner David Houston) will be holding their first online event for those wishing to attend.
The Agenda:

Wayne Small - Patch Management (from a business & technical perspective)
Mark Mulvany - Windows Mobile and Exchange for the Small Business
Susanne Dansey (that’s me!) - Daring to be different

The event will […]

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Banging the drum about DemoShowcase again…

In the last few days I’ve had some good meetings. Interestingly, both featured DemoShowcase which is a set of 24 predefined customer scenarios which you can customise in a virtual machine environment.
After chatting to the London IT Pro Group, I showed them how easy it is to talk about how five different applications in just over […]

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Small Business Forum | 29th November 2007

Hi Guys,
A thread has already started up regarding an event a Small Business Community event that we (as in me and the guys at Westcoast) will be hosting. So I thought I would talk briefly about it here just to give you the heads up.
Although the finer details can’t be released to you just yet, […]

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Microsoft Windows Mobile 6

I’ve just updated my XDA Trion (Orbit users can update by clicking here) to Mobile 6 and I am pleased to say it was pain free!
A few of our customers ask us to break down fluffy words such as ’secure’ and ‘productive’ into real words and I found a datasheet on Windows Mobile 6 which […]

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Windows Mobile Device Centre | Cannot See Device

Whilst away at the SBSC Symposia my PDA on Windows Mobile 5 decided it wasn’t going to play nicely and kept resetting and/or hanging. The ROM update for the machine has been built to eliminate this problem so I downloaded it and then remembered I was on Vista.
Vista means no more ActiveSync.
ActiveSync is now the […]

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