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With the worldwide launch now behind us , I'm pleased to announce the availability of the official trial versions for both SBS 2008 & EBS 2008. These 60-day trials can be extended three times if your customer requires a longer evaluation period. It
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I'm very pleased to announce that Microsoft overnight has officially launched the long awaited Small Business Server 2008 & Essential Business Server 2008 . These have been on the drawing board for over 3 years now & so I for one can't wait to
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Can you spot the difference? * Solid article from today's Sydney Morning Herald that highlights our growing efforts around stamping out software piracy. Snippet: Microsoft this month commenced legal action in the Federal Magistrates Court against three
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See guest post #1 here. Thanks, Robbie As the Australian SBS User Groups are changing focus, direction and names into the SMB IT Professionals groups, we need to ensure that we're not only changing our names, but living up to them. Microsoft has really
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We're in serious feedback gathering mode at moment & my colleague Vaughn Gourlie in the partner website team is looking for your input. It'd be great if you can spare a few minutes to let us know the top 5 things you go to the Partner Portal to do,
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Great pick-up from Nick Mayhew's blog around the upcoming Partner-to-Partner networking nights. Open to Gold, Certified & SBSC partners. This round will focus on Local Government & whilst there's no specific focus on SMB per se, it could still
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http://hiltont.blogspot.com/2008/07/wpc-08-summary.html Good summary & whilst I perhaps had a slightly different take on some of the sessions, I agree that one of the most useful part of any conference such as this is in the networking. The chance
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New Australian SBSC newsletter out today. Please let me know if you haven't received yours. We're working on a way to allow more than one recipient per company - stay tuned. Robbie
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I've just posted this note on my blog and I know from talking to Robbie that there are already some concerns and questions arising in the SBSC community around the announcements last week on BPOS and S+S at Worldwide Partner Conference. So here is my
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We announced over on the SBS blog last night the long-awaited sign-up incentive for the SMB Servers TechEd 2008 pre-day - a free copy of Small Business Server 2008 Std for all attendees. Register here: https://www.infosalons.com.au/teched2008/s1p1.asp?j=1
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Good collection of the main WW Partner Conference Presentations from Nick Mayhew, Australia's Group Manager of all things Partner. The Australian Partner Conference is just over 3 weeks away & there are still one or two places left if you act fast.
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Microsoft's VP of SMB, Michael Risse, gave the keynote in yesterday's SMB Partner Forum at the WW Partner Conference in Houston - check here for details. Whilst the deck is obviously designed to be presented live (ie there's space for a demo), I've kept
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First up in an ad-hoc series of guest authors on the Australian SBSC Blog is the newest member of our Breadth Partner team - Julia Askin . You may have already spoken with Julia as the main organising force behind the recent SBSC Roundtables & I'm
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The Worldwide Microsoft Partner Awards were announced overnight & will be handed out at the Partner Conference in Houston in early July. I was on the judging panel for these awards & it was fantastic to see all the work that SBSC partners are
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The Microsoft Australia small business website has quietly been undergoing some changes lately, all designed to help customers find the answers they need - even if they don't know the questions to ask. And with more than 50,000 unique users on average
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