Kevin Beares is the Community lead inside the Microsoft Server Group in the US. He's been conducting a yearly survey of the community for the past 3 years now and it's that time of year again. Please support the community by taking a few minutes to do the survey. Below is the note from him. The Windows Small Business Server 2008 WW Community Survey is live This is the … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2008
SBS 2008 Public Beta now available
Finally - SBS 2008 is available for the wider public audience to download and start to test in your own environments. Having been part of the SBS 2008 beta now for nearly 2 years, it's interesting to see where the product has come from and where it is heading too. At this late stage, I don't expect to see too many changes in features between what you can get today and what … [Read more...]
SBS 2008 & EBS 2008 Training around Australia
Woohooo... Today SBS 2008 went public with the beta which means I can now talk more freely about this product and what's cool about it. Robbie Upcroft the SBS/SBSC Product Manager here in Australia, is keen to ensure that we get some advance training on SBS and EBS and in conjunction with him, I'll be running a morning training session on both SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 over the … [Read more...]
Free security software from Scorpion Software
Yes - you heard right, CEO of Scorpion Software, Dana Epp has released a free security tool to help address one of the often raised security concerns about the Remote Web Workplace in Small Business Server 2003. By default SBS 2003 allows all users (including administrators) to remotely access their desktops inside the network. This is via the Remote Web Workplace portal and … [Read more...]
Small Business Events in Australia this week
I didn't know about it until today, but the New South Wales government have labelled this week as Home Based Business week and they are running a host of seminars all around the state all related to home based and small business. Looking through the topics, it looks like they are covering some very interesting information and I wish I'd found out about it earlier so I could … [Read more...]