We launched this SBSC Canada blog about 89 days ago (63 “business days”) as the first of its kind in the technology partner ecosystem at Microsoft Canada. Since then I have had the pleasure of sharing a total of – you guessed it – 63 posts ! This wouldn...

Written by Brendan Gibb , SBSC Community in British Columbia We have been using Microsoft Forefront Antigen as a replacement for the managed antivirus products we deployed for the past ten years. Every one of our small business and larger clients uses...

With the holiday season in full effect, Christmas a sleigh ride away, and the New Year fast approaching, I would just like to take a moment to say thank you for your hard (and very awesome) work, and partnership with the SBSC community and our team at...

A couple of you have contacted me to clarify the SBS 2008 downgrade rights scenarios and process. You should be aware that Microsoft grants the rights to use any prior version of SBS 2008, regardless of which license type you acquire.  Your downgrade...

Written by Stuart Crawford , SBSC Community in Alberta Social media and networking is all the craze in the marketing world today.  Professionals and small business are moving over to social networking and online marketing in droves.  However...

This week we hosted the SBSC exclusive Win the Fight with Microsoft Forefront webcast with Robert Davidson, Principle Technology Specialist, and Vivian Wan, Project Manager, on the Forefront team in Canada. Now you can catch the entire webcast on-demand...

We’ve had a lot of past coverage on the 2008 IMPACT Awards, highlighting the 30+ SBSC finalists present and the winner of the SBSC of the year award. Now there’s a video recap of the event for you to feast your eyes on! Did I mention that you need to...

Please read below carefully and ensure that you update your systems accordingly. As a SBSC and trusted IT professional, communicate this notice out further to your clients to ensure they are also protected. This alert is to provide you with an overview...

Earlier in November Matt Wolodarsky, Product Manager for Windows Vista, announced the launch of the Windows Vista Small Business Assurance offer in Canada on our SBSC blog. Today, we are live with both English and French versions of the customer website...

When our Canadian Partner Marketing team set out for our annual round of Secret Santa, we had an amazing suggestion come in for a small change to the age-old tradition. Why buy gifts for one another that we might not even end up using, when we can add...

There are webcasts taking place all the time in the Microsoft SMB technology world led by Microsoft, members of the community, and/or third-party associations. It’s important for you to attend whenever you see topics that are of interest to you or even...

Solutions Pathway is an easy way for partners to migrate their SMB customers to a new solution in the Windows Essential Server Solutions f(WESS) family of products. This means an upgrade to a new product like SBS or EBS can be done pretty easily. In essence...

Want publicity for the awesome work you do? Want to represent the SBSC community in Canadian media? From time to time we see significant interest bubbling up on important topics from our small business customers. The best way for us to get the word out...

If you and your colleagues haven’t already, make sure you take the time to do this FREE on-demand training for SBS and EBS 2008. With these major product releases, this is really the absolute minimum you should be doing if ‘network infrastructure’ or...

Have no fear, we have one here! If you haven’t seen it on the Microsoft case study website , here is a brief description and PDF download link from Windows Live SkyDrive. This SBS 2008 solution was completed in the healthcare industry in Saskatchewan...

Written by Stuart Crawford , SBSC Community in Alberta Once an afterthought to many businesses, marketing is rapidly becoming important as sales pipelines dry up, the phones have stopped ringing, word of mouth referrals are no longer propagating and the...

When you’re working with your small and medium business customers, you gain a comprehensive understanding of their business challenges, you integrate all of the right solutions, and you simplify the daunting world of IT. You take good care of them when...

The updated release of the Licensing Reseller Handbook: October 2008 provides you, as a reseller or influencer, with a no-nonsense approach to our core licensing programs and products. You need to download this so you can be a resource for your customers...

The Microsoft Canada team is back from Western Canada and I am, as many of us are, catching up on your emails from the past week. In the mean time, enjoy this slightly older campaign by CRN for their channel champions awards. I am happy to say that I...