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SMB Nation - SBS Presentation

So I just finished my presentation on SBS 2003 SP1 and R2 at SMB Nation, and got a lot of great feedback. Fortunately we had a lot of SBS team members there as well to help me out and take feedback from the partners there. I try to time my presentations Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 10, 2005 1:07 PM by canthe | 3 Comments

Episode III: The Backup Strikes Back

Somehow I managed to get home, crawl into bed, get 6 hours of sleep, and then get up to immediately drive back to the business site to be there by 9:30 AM. Fortunately my morning schedule was pretty open, so I felt that I could hang around for a couple Read More...
Posted Friday, September 09, 2005 3:29 PM by canthe | 2 Comments

Hanging out at SMB Nation

So before I continue my saga on my experience as a partner, I thought I'd post a quick comment about the ongoing SMB Nation conference currently happening on the Microsoft campus at the Microsoft Conference Center. So far it's been great as a Microsoft Read More...
Posted Friday, September 09, 2005 3:07 PM by canthe | 1 Comments

Life as a Partner: Part Deux

When last we left our intrepid SBS Release Manager, he had been humbled at the all mighty task of trying to upgrade a pre-existing server box to be able to run SBS. After much consternation, he had gone off and gotten a BIOS upgrade for the machine, and Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:52 PM by canthe | 6 Comments

So this is what life as a partner is like

For the past several years I've been having a personal experience of the movie "Groundhog Day", only it happens every year when I go to visit my accountant. It would go something like this: Me: So are you still using that Linux file server, which requries Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 11, 2005 5:10 PM by canthe | 10 Comments

Request for info on Dell and Windows Server SP1 on SBS

To help us pinpoint the root issue with reports of Dell servers getting a BSOD when installing Windows Server 2003 SP1, if you do have a machine in this state, please call SBS PSS and report this issue. We will ask for a dump file (which may take some Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 06, 2005 11:16 AM by canthe | 3 Comments

What does RTM/RTW mean? (Part 2)

When last we left our intrepid release manager, we had a Bill of Materials for all of our SKUs. Now the development team has finished writing and testing the code - what else is there to do, you ask? Plenty! First, in order to get the software team to Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 02, 2005 2:28 PM by canthe | 0 Comments

SBS SP1 is done!

On Thursday I sent mail to the entire SBS development team announcing that we have now officially released SBS SP1 in all of our 18 languages! The Redmond SBS team is now focused on the next releases of SBS - and taking a well deserved holiday break. Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 02, 2005 2:18 PM by canthe | 1 Comments

What does RTM/RTW mean? (part 1)

Since I've become a Release Manager at Microsoft, I've learned a lot about what it actually takes to "ship" software. From the development team's point of view, the big celebration is when our software is "released" (often abbrievated as RTM or RTW). Read More...
Posted Friday, June 24, 2005 5:50 PM by canthe | 6 Comments

Additional release of SP1

While I'm here I just thought I would mention that we've now released SBS SP1 in 16 of the 18 languages. Today Czech, Polish, and Hungarian SP1 were released to the web (although I just got back an error through our web publishing tool on the Czech one, Read More...
Posted Friday, June 24, 2005 5:33 PM by canthe | 0 Comments

Anti-discrimination bill and MSFT

I realize most of the world has passed this issue by, but it's been getting a lot of discussion around Microsoft the last several days, so I thought I'd put in my 2 cents along with everyone else. In case anyone has been living under a rock the past few Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 03, 2005 12:06 AM by canthe | 1 Comments

It's dangerous this time of night

When you've been up and working late for several weeks, late at night is a dangerous time to be posting to the web. But it's late, I'm playing poker (in ahem... Canada) and so I figured the thome of silence should end. Susan Bradley, in her Mountain Dew Read More...
Posted Friday, April 29, 2005 2:32 AM by canthe | 1 Comments

Update on lockouts and SP1

My colleague Sean Daniel reminded me that in SBS SP1, we've enabled a new feature in Exchange SP1 to reduce the viability of performing a directory harvesting to get usernames on your SBS server. This feature (documented at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;842851 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 22, 2005 1:18 PM by canthe | 3 Comments

More from the mailbag - user name lockouts

Dan asked (a long time ago, sorry Dan) that he was getting notifications of accounts being locked out due to invalid password attempts. Dan's assuming this is because someone is trying to hack into an account and wanted to know how to stop SBS usernames Read More...
Posted Monday, March 21, 2005 2:58 PM by canthe | 2 Comments

Your questions answered!

I often get the complaint that I don't post to my blog often enough. (Somehow Eugene even mentioned he got comments about this too - I'm not sure when my blog posting frequency became something that popped on his radar, but oK.....) Well, today is question Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 10, 2005 4:14 PM by canthe | 7 Comments
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