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Monday, December 31, 2007 4:19 PM

Happy New Year wishes

As we head into the final hours of 2007, I would like to offer Happy New Year's wish to each and every one of you throughout the MSSMALLBIZ Community. May your travels be safe, your ears filled with laughter, your homes filled with friends and family,
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Monday, December 31, 2007 11:46 AM

Join us to hear all about the Q3 Microsoft Incentives and Promotions

On January 8th and 10th, we will be conducting our Q3 Microsoft Incentives Live Meeting for Partners, where you can hear all about the upcoming offers and promotions that we will be making available to you and your clients through the Microsoft Incentives
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Monday, December 24, 2007 10:24 AM

Big news for the new year!

As we move closer to the beginning of the new year, I hope all of you are enjoying a wonderful time together with your family and friends. Just a quick heads up that when the new year rings in, there will be an exciting announcement for Partners made
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:33 AM

Alerts feature in SharePoint

For any of you utilizing Windows SharePoint Services or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, there is a very nice feature included called “Alerts” that you should know about and use. For instance, how many times have you posted a document
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Monday, December 17, 2007 12:50 PM

Entering your customer references for your Microsoft Partner account

As you probably know, submitting a customer reference earns you Partner Points and Partner Points help you move from a Registered Level Partner to Certified to Gold Certified. In addition, the Microsoft Partner Locator tools also list how many references
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Monday, December 17, 2007 7:45 AM

Guide to associating MCPs to your organization

Many of you may recall the announcement earlier this year about SBSC Partners now being recognized at an area level . With this shift in recognition, SBSCs with multiple locations now have the ability to be listed and shown on a location by location basis
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Friday, December 14, 2007 8:17 AM

Part numbers to add Software Assurance to your OEM SBS licenses

This morning I received an inquiry as a follow-up to my, “ OEM Microsoft Server software. New short video answers top questions about adding Software Assurance. ” post asking for clarification on exactly what the Part #s are that you would use to add
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Friday, December 14, 2007 5:49 AM

Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V RC1 Beta available for download

Since my, “ Windows Server 2008 Packaging, Pricing and Licensing Announced this morning ” post, I have received and seen a few questions about where the Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V Beta can be downloaded from. Well, look no more. Here
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 12:29 PM

Microsoft Partner Program 101: Helping you get the information you need as a Microsoft Partner

Over the past several months, we have been delivering MSPP 101 courses for Partners through the MS Readiness site to help give you insight into several tools, resources and information that you can use or that you interface with as a Microsoft Partner.
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 6:37 AM

Partner Webcast: Recent changes to Action Pack subscriptions and renewals

For any of you Partners that currently subscribe to the Microsoft Action Pack, we are holding our Action Pack Update webcast next week on Tuesday, December 18 th at 11:00 AM PST and you are all invited to join us for it. Attend this webcast to learn about
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 8:55 AM

Microsoft Office 2007 SP1 now available for download

For those of you with Microsoft Office 2007, Service Pack 1 is now available to download HERE . The 2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 1 delivers important customer-requested stability and performance improvements, while incorporating further enhancements
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Monday, December 10, 2007 12:13 PM

Did you miss the premiere of the Microsoft Small Business Show? It's playing again today!

For those of you that missed the premiere of The Microsoft Small Business Show (recorded live on Nov 14 th ), it is re-running/streaming on both www.entrepreneur.com (all pages) and also on the Microsoft Small Business Center home page and the article
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Saturday, December 08, 2007 12:01 AM

Some key takeaways about the Comcast/Microsoft announcement from Elliot Curtis

Those of you who joined Tim Schmidt, Elliot Curtis, Mark Crall, and me for today’s “ Partners, get answers to your TPAM & Microsoft/Comcast announcement questions live Friday, December 7th ” call, you heard Elliot call out some key points about the
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Friday, December 07, 2007 10:20 AM

New resource announced for SBSC Partners with TPAM questions or feedback

For those of you on the, “ Partners, get answers to your TPAM & Microsoft/Comcast announcement questions live Friday, December 7th ” call this morning, you just heard Tim Schmidt announce that a new feedback channel has been established for the SBSC
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Thursday, December 06, 2007 12:38 PM

How is Microsoft Office licensed?

I have seen a conversation taking place in one of the online forums about how Microsoft Office is licensed and how secondary use rights fits in. To that end, I thought I would post this information here to address the question and for others to use in
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Thursday, December 06, 2007 8:46 AM

Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2008 just announced

For all of you Partners that focus on the development side of the house, we just announced the date and location of the next Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC): October 27–30, 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.  You
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 1:26 PM

How to view the Vista Test Drive from the Partner Plunge page

Earlier this week I posted about The Microsoft SBSC “Partner Plunge” Contest now being live and a few Partners have contacted us since then saying they were having issues accessing the “Vista Test Drive” link on the page. Below
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Monday, December 03, 2007 1:17 PM

Partners, get answers to your TPAM & Microsoft/Comcast announcement questions live Friday, December 7th

Based on what I've seen and heard in various places lately, I am guessing that some of you Partners have questions, comments, or concerns regarding your Microsoft TPAM or the recent Microsoft/Comcast announcement? Well, get your answers here live from
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Monday, December 03, 2007 6:17 AM

The Microsoft SBSC “Partner Plunge” Contest is now live!

Some of you may recall my, “ "Get the Edge" contest just announced at SMB Nation ” post back on September 29 th , announcing the upcoming SBSC Partner contest for this year. Well, the contest is now live! Last week over 5,000 “Partner Plunge” kits were
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