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Join the Microsoft SBSC Programme: Free of Charge

One of the latest offers to appear from Microsoft which is available to all Gold, Certified, and Registered Partners who are signed up to the Microsoft Action Pack Programme or currently enrolled in Empower for ISVs.
Usually, in order to qualify, you have to pay to take the 70-282 exam (’Design, Deploying, and Managing a Network […]

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Westcoast Small Business Forum

Get yourself booked onto our Small Business Forum which takes place on November 29th at Microsoft’s Thames Valley Campus.
Spaces are limited (unless you’re happy to sit on laps?!) so get yourself booked on now. First come, first served.
Full details are available by clicking here. We’ll be updating it with a few more events that are […]

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Changes to the Microsoft Action Pack

About time too as well!
A training and assessment requirement will take effect from November 30th 2007 for new and renewing subscribers.
If you are going to be one of these, then you will be required to take any Microsoft e-Learning course and then pass its associated assessment with a minimum score of 70 percent. To continue […]

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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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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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How to become a Microsoft Small Business Specialist

Already a Microsoft Partner (Regsitered, Certified, Gold)? Click here to find out more.
New to the world of Microsoft Partner programmes? Click here to find out more.
Exams that will allow you to begin the qualification process for the SBSC Programme:
70-282: Designing, Deploying, and Managing a Network Solution for a Small- and Medium-Sized business
70-631: Configuring Windows SharePoint […]

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Microsoft help lobby the Government to change UK attitude to IT

For the last few months Microsoft and in particular their Partnership Manager for SMB, Sarah Hughes, have put together an IT Manifesto which recommends a four-point action plan which, if adopted by the Government, should ensure that ’small busineses continue to grow and contribue to the knowledge economy through IT’. Microsoft propose the creation of […]

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Small Business Symposium 2007 Agenda

If you haven’t spotted it already, Microsoft have released the agenda for this year’s Small Business Symposium. I’m pleased to see that there are three UK representatives presenting; Gareth Brown from Sytec (nice shiney new site Gareth!), Andy Trish from NCI Technologies, et moi.
Click here for the agenda. (part of the MS partner portal so you may […]

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Partner Bot is your Buddy!

Got MSN Messenger?
Need to ask a Microsoft Partner related question and are short for time?
Add partnerbot@hotmail.com to your friends list.
Et voi la!
More information can be found via David Overton’s post.

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SBSC Quarterly Webcast | June 19th 2007

It’s a US thang but the rest of the world’s SBSCers are always welcome!
Event Description:
Get a pre-launch review of the new “Specialist Finder” tool that will soon be launching on the Microsoft Small Business Center Centre. See how the new competency info is now combined with a Virtual Earth user interface to create a more compelling end […]

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