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Licensing SBS 2003

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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Update on Microsoft Office Accounting

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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IT shouldn’t always be like the Martini advert

Lots of vendors like to think of their mobile technology in the same way Martini promoted their drink;
‘Any time, any place, anywhere’
Partners usually cringe when vendors go bounding off to end-users saying how this is always the case (we’ll forget that in some areas of the world there isn’t a mobile signal!) as it’s us […]

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Who is accessing your TS gateway?

Matt Hester has created a screencast to show you the built-in monitoring tools within WS2008 that help find out who is having a nose into your Terminal Services gateway.
Also,
How the TS gateway in the TS server role of WS2008 allows authorised remote users to connect to TS resources without a VPN connection.
Your applications and TS […]

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Software Developer Events | January 2008

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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Marketing Down Under: Mike Heald

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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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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Do your guys care enough?

After popping back to visit the parents at the weekend we decided to drop into BlueWater to get some lunch. I wouldn’t normally suggest going to a huge shopping centre in a dug out chalk pit weeks before Christmas but I wanted to go and have a look at a coat which had been calling […]

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Back up and about

Thanks to everyone who let me know my blog fell over temporarily. Obviously the Small Business Forum that took place on Thursday overwhelmed it a bit too much so I’ve coaxed it back into action with a bit of TLC as well as a version upgrade.
Phew!

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