No - I'm not talking about the fabulous SMBPreday at TechEd Australia (but hey it's only a few days away now). What I'm talking about is the one and only Harry Brelsfords SMBNation which is in October in Seattle. Harry could easily be suited up in a ringmasters outfit as he takes charge of the circus that is SMBNations Fall Conference :-) And I mean that in the nicest possible … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2008
Trend WFBS 5.1 Beta coming – SBS/EBS support
Trend have just released the beta for the 5.1 release of Worry-Free Business Security. The major components of this release are; What s new in Worry-Free Business Security v5.1? Additional Microsoft Operating System support: Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 (Cougar) and Microsoft Essential Business Server 2008 (Centro) Support Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server on Windows … [Read more...]
Microsoft takes community seriously with SBS and EBS launch
I've been working at Microsoft now for a few days over the last two weeks. My first day was last Wednesday and it was right into a team meeting around the WESS family launch here in Australia. Now having been an outsider for so long, I've heard MS tell us that they value the community input greatly. What impressed me greatly was that even in my very first internal meeting … [Read more...]
SBS 2008 RTMs – Available Early October
Today SBS 2008 was RTM'd - aka Release To Manufacturing. This means it's done, baked ready to come out of the oven and onto the production lines as CD's. It's been a long beta for this product and finally it's done! This direct from Microsoft... We are very excited to announce the RTM of Small Business Server 2008 today! This is a huge milestone for the team here, as well as … [Read more...]
Moving over to the dark side.. :-)
To the sounds of evil laughter, I've swallowed the blue pill :-) Well almost. Today I started working with Microsoft Australia. My role here will be Tech Specialist on SBS and EBS and I'll be helping very much with the launch of SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 here in Australia over the next 6 months. Robbie approached me to see if I would be interested in working with Microsoft to help … [Read more...]