Susanne Dansey’s Blog

Mr. Upcroft is back up and kicking and looking for feedback on how Aussie Partners would like to see Centro Windows Essential Business Server planned and launched. Click here read his message. Maybe he’ll finally start blogging?
Aussie Partners, be nice to him as he’s sorely missed over here in the UK!

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It’s not something that’s on my wish list to Father Christmas but I’ll be interested to know if there is a Tech Guarantee programme due to be introduced for SBS 2003 and Windows Server 2003. Something like this would help get customers using great technology now without them choosing to tread water until the release of […]

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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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Agenda
09:30 - Registration
10:00 - CRM Market Update - Brad Wilson General Manager Dynamics CRM Worldwide
10:40 - Break
11:00 - What’s new in CRM 4.0 - Jason Nash & Reuben Krippner
12:00 - Showcase customer evidence
12:30 - The Power of Choice - Hosting with CRM 4.0
13:00 - Lunch and ISV Partner solution networking
14:00 - Close
Dates available:
31st January 2008: Reading
26th […]

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Did you know Dell promotes themselves in the US Small Business Community? There have been some recent changes close to home in the UK so it will be interesting to see how our Community responds in the New Year.
Now whatever you feel about Dell, I like the fact that they are contributing in their own way […]

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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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… is when others do it for you. The only way I’ll prove it is if you click on the link at the bottom of this page once you’ve read my post…
Find something that involves your target market and reward them; create a buzz, a bit of spin, and something that allows those who help […]

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It’s been nearly a month since I read what I consider to be one of the most powerful posts to come from one of who I consider to be a very respected peer and good friend. Ironically, it was published in response to a post that came from another respected peer and very good friend […]

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