Always good to hear your thoughts - on a blog, IM, or in person … So, when will the book be coming out

Good luck “down there”

David

Your mission if you choose to accept it is to find a Pub near North Ryde where you can buy a pint of New with a dash of Stones (green ginger wine). I’ll come up early next month and we can get some Lads / Ladettes to have a quick clensing Ale before the SMB IT Sydney Meeting. Maybe we can prize that laptop out of fuzzy’s hands for ten minutes too.

James

Looking forward to hearing how much trouble both yourself and The Upcroft can cause with SBS in Down Under land…

Hope the new job works out!

Microsoft Office under the Office Ready Programme is a trial version so after 60 days you’ll know because it will remind you to upgrade. The Office Ready Programme is only available on new machines, so if you have just bought your laptop and there is a copy of Microsoft Office 2007 on there which you didn’t order (or haven’t been charged for), then chances are, you have a trial version of Microsoft Office.

If that is the case, give whoever sold you the laptop a call and they can sort you out (for the cost of the software) with a full version.

My apologies for not responding sooner, I’ve moved over to Oz so have been busy settling in.

CRM itself sounds like it could be too bulky for what you are looking for. So, the choices are probably going to be ACT!, something from Goldmine (although I know some Goldmine dealers who are converting to MS CRM) or maybe something that is custom built - the latter may give you some options where you can have something that suits you and you can pay for it over a certain time period (inc. maintenance, updates, modifications etc…).

Give the Office User Group (UK) (http://www.officeusergroup.com/) a nudge, I’m sure between them, they will have a few experts in the field of BCM and Office Accounting - they may even get your problem fixed so that you don’t have to dig deep into your pockets!

We installed Outlook with BCM in December along with Microsoft Accounting and have had nothing but trouble ever since. Microsoft only provides call back support which is very time consuming and inconvenient. We were looking for a product that would run our front end CRM and marketing programs and then interface with time and project management and be seamless with an accounting package for billing.

We have yet to get the two systems to talk to each other and it would seem that there is great potential for the whole system when it is working, but it seems fraught with bugs at this point.

We are not aware of too many people that have the whole package installed and workingin So. Cal. So if there is a usres group out there that could provide some help it would be great.

R

Regards
Amrik

Using backup software which is embedded in OS is a good idea when you are sure
about your hardware. Major data lost occur due to hard disk failure or controller
failure. In this case, you wont be able to retrive from your hard disk and basically
you will lose all your data unless you have done offsite backup.

I hope somebody can help me with this problem with windows mobile centre and my orange m700 (but god I hate having these problems!). I have been running a windows smartphone and wm phones for about 5 years now and you wiould think you would now all the problems…but alas!

I have an orange spv m700, a new laptop and a new pc…both running vista home premium. I can sync with my lap top but for some reason I cant with my pc. It recognises the phone, syncs notes but wont sync anything else. I have tried everything I can but nothing seems to work…when I mean everything there does not seem to be much you can do except update to wmc 6.1, change connection settings and a few tweaks. Anybody got any ideas?

Good luck in your new life - wishing you all the best from all us “blue badges”.

-Tim

Tell Robbie to throw another shrimp on the barbie…

TTFN

James

but still the wmp isn’t installed!
does anyone got a solution?

You are:
moderately expressed extravert
moderately expressed intuitive personality
moderately expressed thinking personality
slightly expressed judging personality

Is that good, bad or what???????

INTJ AKA The Intelligent Mastermind
http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2006/09/blame-it-on-dave.html

BTW: The “Dave” in the title would be none other than Mr. Overton.

Which makes me,

moderately expressed introvert
moderately expressed intuitive personality
moderately expressed thinking personality
slightly expressed perceiving personality

Also this article backs up why i’m so rubbish at remember birthdays, etc so i can blame that!
http://www.personalityzone.com/user/DrLovegood/view/blog/the-rational-lover.html

Another similar type of personality analysis is the DISC profile (http://tinyurl.com/2r52lm).

It’s good fun to try and guess what “type” the people around you (partners, colleagues, clients) are!

Thanks for the post. The £249.99 is for the Professional version plus a 12-month subscription to payroll - is this also now £149.95/9?

Susanne

My name is Bryan from Microsoft Office Accounting Technical Support. Just wanted to point out that the product is £149.95 not £249.99. I do see that this was posted in December 07′ though. FYI -> I do support strictly for the UK version.

Thanks,

Bryan
Support Engineer
Microsoft Office Accounting

Good luck with whatever makes you happy girl.

Thanks for all your support.

Dave

must read before post…must read before post…

Not the first time something like this has happened today!

I’ll go put some money on the lottery

Thanks

Thanks again

It will be a long time before we see Windows 7, but as is always the case, the development started straight away. Most people only saw Vista at the beta stage and this is clearly not at alpha yet.

If we want to sell to our customers, then Vista is the answer, not waiting the 2+ years (a guess) until Windows 7 ships.

ttfn

David

What seems to work is:

a) ON THE PHONE: - In Settings/Connections/USBtoPC - I had to UNTICK ‘Enable Advanced Network functionality’ as above
b) Disable both Windows and McAfee firewalls (disconnected internet)

But after playing with this it may be my USB connection is not great and I needed to firmly push the plug into the USB

Cheers

Chrs

One thing to add to the mix that I saw when Jeff Middleton saw New Orleans go under… is there anything you need (no, I don’t have a spare car)… ?

While you are being very business about this, one other point to consider - was there anything missing from your plan or your plan to prevent it happening again? Sometimes these things teach us what to do next time to stop it becoming a disaster. When I sold DR, 95% of all DR plans had a key element missing so failed .. frightening if someone was paying 2M per year for the benefit of the backup!

ttfn and take care

David

I suppose I better chase to see where my original requests for CALs have gone…

I haven’t recieved any from my applications so far…

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 will be available through:

Open License (NB: no step ups available under this programme for Workgroup or Professional servers. Those who have purchased under these programmes and wish to move to a successive edition or language version will have to purchase it new.)
Open Value
Select
EA
CRM Live (see comments above)
BRL ERP Advanced Management and BRL Academic Alliance
ISV Royalty
SPLA
and System Builder

PC World Business in the US posted an article on it last year which gives insight to some of the editions available under the Live service: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/134314/microsoft_sets_pricing_rollout_for_crm_live.html

Now that I’ve read both of them properly I’ve pretty much just repeated what you said!! oops….

Thanks for breaking the news

Thanks for your feedback - I’m glad you are enjoying Vista personally and hope you are coming across the benefits of using the OS. Can you tell me about some of the flaws you are talking about when it comes to Vista? Do they include App Compat, Device Drivers or new UI being different? - these are some of the common push backs from those who don’t want to move. The first two are becoming less of an issue to be honest and we’ve done a load of work to make sure that apps work well and also devices have Vista drivers. As for the UI being different, yeah it is. Arnold Bennet said that “any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts” - but I hope you agree that the change is worth it even if it did take a little getting use to.

Like the blog too, Paul - keep up the good work.

James

I use Vista exclusivley now and don’t come up against any issues, but I have stopped making exuses for the product in situations where obvious flaws are pointed out to me. When customers ask me for my recommendation I explain the pros and cons and let them make the decision for themselves, otherwise you can end up receiving the blame if the end user is not happy!

I suppose the bottom line is that XP is the safe choice, it is fast,reliable and people know it backwards.

ON THE PHONE: - In Settings/Connections/USBtoPC - I had to UNTICK ‘Enable Advanced Network functionality’

Solved my problem as well…

For the search engines: Dopod D810 cannot connect with Activesync in Windows XP

Nice new title Robbie!

Great question but given Cougar is still over a 6 months away at least, nothing will be decided or announced until the new year.

I’ll definitely let you know as soon as we know & can share.

Robbie
Product Manager - SMB Servers - MS Australia

Microsoft Nothing 2008,

Following up the non-success of Microsoft Something 2007, Microsoft Nothing will not revolutionise the way you don’t work or make ignoring your co-slackers any easier

By not utilising their years of product development experience Microsoft are not producing a world beating system, Microsoft Nothing wont give any immediate gains and give 100% RON (return on nothing)

I’m not very good at this………