A little late, but worth the post. Microsoft announces Online Peer Groups, a new benefit for current Small Business Specialist partners that took the Windows SBS 70-282 exam. What are the Online Peer Groups? The online Peer Groups are an opportunity for Microsoft partners to learn, share...

Hey everyone, This is your chance to get your feet wet in the Windows Essesntial Server Solutions suite of products, SBS 2008 and EBS 2008. The team has gone to great lengths to put together the "Windows Essential Server Solutions Launch with Technical Training Series" https://partner.microsoft...

Thanks to everyone who responded. We had a lot of responses this year and I appreciate the time and energy that a lot of you spent in sharing your thoughts on the SBS Community. I plan to share the findings here and hopefully everyone will gain a better understanding of how others think of the SBS Community...

I figured a new blog post would be better than continuing a thread of comments on the previous blog post. Where is the love? The SBS Community Survey is floundering with very few responses. Results from previous surveys have been posted on this blog. I probably could have done a better job of talking...

Hey all, Please pass the word to anyone who is interested that if you were having any problems with gaining access to either EBS 2008 or SBS 2008, you should be able to go get it now. Some people were getting redirected to the main MS.com page when they clicked on the Get it now link. It was an...

OK, I thought this would be like shooting fish a barrel, but apparently, this isn't the case. So far we have had 250 responses in 2 weeks. At this rate, we will set a new record for the least amount of responses in a month by a country mile. Is everyone so busy that they can't spare about 5 minutes...

Just a heads up if you didn't already here the announcement, but you can go get the public preview of SBS 2008 today. http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2008/05/28/announcing-small-business-server-2008-rc0-public-preview.aspx What distiinguishes this public preview from the techbeta is really...

Hey everyone, Thanks to all of you who have already responded to the SBS WW Community Survey 2008 . I have had almost 200 responses so far. I would love it if we could get close to 2,000 responses this year. We got over 700 last year and we learned a ton. The reason why I would like a lot more...

This is the third year we have published an SBS WW Community Survey to the SBS Community. We have learned an amazing amount of information from the people who have taken the time to tell us what they thought. Some things we kind of knew already, but other things were not as clear before we had received...

I posted the following comment on Sean's blog post about whether you are Company Centric or Customer Centric. http://communitygrouptherapy.com/2008/05/17/community-strategy-are-you-company-centric-or-customer-centric/ . Along with my thoughts below, I think honestly answering Sean's question is a very...

You have to check out some pretty cool stuff our Marketing team put out recently. So how many times has someone asked you "Can I add multiple servers to an SBS domain?". The SBS team decided it was time to do something about it so now, they are working on dispelling some of the most common and not...

Last week was an amazing week... We started off on September 27th and 28th with over 20 MS MVPs (mostly SBS MVPs aka the SBS Family) in town before SMB Nation 2007 for a set of Round Table / Deep Dive / NDA conversations with the Centro, Windows Home Server and SBS teams. The primary objective of these...

A lot of you have contacted me lately asking to get in on the Windows Server Code Name Cougar Beta program that we are hosting on MS Connect. Right now, we are at a level of participation that meet our goals for feedback. We are still taking applications for future releases of the beta of Cougar here...

So, how do you provide feedback to Microsoft today? What I am talking about when I say feedback is a bug or a suggestion like you would on a beta. I know that participating in a Beta like the Windows Home Server Beta is one way to get in your suggestions and bugs to the product team, but how do you do...

Hi all, The Survey is now closed. Thanks again to all of you who responded to the survey. We received a ton of feedback. I have my work cut out for me, but I promise that I will get back to you all with the results and let you all know what we plan to do in response to your feedback. Thanks again...

Since I said that it was open until the end of the month, I got a bunch more responses and a lot of great comments. So, since I will be on a family vacation the week of July 4th, I will leave it open until I return. Please take the survey if you haven't already done so. We reallly want to hear from you...

Wanted to post a link to the SBS 2003 Technical Library announcement. I think this is a great addition to the Community and I think helps address a lot of concerns that people have raised in the SBS WW Community Survey 2007 . The ability to search for information on SBS I think has been vastly improved...

Thanks everyone for sharing your feedback this year. It is so amazing the read the comments and see where things stand with the people who have taken the time to share their time in filling out the survey. I am glad that a lot of other Community Leads that I work with are considering doing the same thing...

The Windows Small Business Server Product Team would like to hear from the Windows SBS Community. This anonymous survey of the Windows SBS Community is brought to you by the Windows SBS Product Team. We want to know how valuable your experience is with the community resources and information that...

Hey all, Been a little busy lately with 3 betas running in tandem and all, but I thought I would put this heads up out here to let everyone one know that the SBS Community Survey is coming. I decided after all of the data that I got from the last survey that it would best to make this an annual survey...

Partners will not need to purchase Office 2007 to use the Toolkit! A number of solution provider partners discuss their success with the Infrastructure Assessment Framework and the Business and Technology Assessment Toolkit in an article on MS.com/presspass . An excerpt: NetCom Systems Inc...

Here's the link: http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/news/article.php/3655761 When it comes to business productivity, server software means a more secure and efficient network as well as better-managed computers, printers and other resources. That technical reality explains Microsoft Windows...

I don't often blog this sort of stuff, but I think this is one is important. We’re pleased to announce the launch of latest Microsoft Business and Technology Assessment Toolkit (previously called the Small Business Assessment Toolkit). As you may know, the previous versions of the toolkit have...

Hi everyone, In response to the comments I received from the last SBS Community Survey, I created a cool little search tool on Windows Live that may make looking for answers in the community a little quicker. Check it out and let me know what you think. http://search.live.com/macros/sbscommunitylead...

Hi all, Please take a second to take a look at the changes that I have made to the SBS Community Page on MS.com. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/en-us/windowssbs/default.mspx I made a lot of initial changes, but there are still a number that need some work. This work is basically a band...