Fourth in our series of Australian Small Business Server MVPs is Henry Craven of Melbourne. A passionate & prolific contributor to a whole host of SBS partner forums, Henry also manages the Melbourne SBS Users Group & provides much needed feedback...

Great FAQ for Partners just released covering Small Business Server 2008 & Essential Business Server 2008 - check it out: Windows Essential Server Solutions Partner FAQ The Wayne & I have just finished the Sydney SBS/EBS Partner training &...

It was good to finally take the wrappers off Small Business Server 2008 last night as local SBS MVP Wayne Small took the Sydney SBS SMB IT Pro group through the first Australian demo of the new kit. Lots of great feedback, ideas for further training &...

Submissions for all the Microsoft Australian Partner of the Year awards close on June 16th & so now is the time to get your entry in. Check here for details. With the upcoming launch of Small Business Server 2008 & Essential Business Server 2008...

We've opened up additional spaces on the first round of partner training for Small Business Server 2008 & Essential Business Server 2008 - see registration links below. Local SBS MVP Wayne Small & I will be delivering the presentation, which will...

Third in our series of Australian Small Business Server MVPs is Dean Calvert of Adelaide. Dean's well-known to the worldwide SBS community through his work leading the Adelaide SBS user group & more recently, via his role as the Small Business Specialist...

Next in the series of SBS 2008 video demos - adding a new user . Things to watch out for: Simplified add user UI More secure by design Setup of multiple workloads all in one simple wizard Guidance to enable tech-savvy business owners to do this too! Enjoy...

A new SMB partner-focused IT discussion forum has been kicked off for Australian & NZ IT consultants. To subscribe, email: ANZ-SMB-ITS-subscribe@yahoogroups.com In the words of the moderators, its a: "A community for Information Technology service...

Now that both the Small Business Server 2008 & Essential Business Server 2008 public betas are available for download (DVDs orderable soon), you should be starting to get your head around migration & how you'll move your existing clients to the...

Second in the Essential Business Server 2008 video slices comes system health workloads. Cheers & let us know what you'd like to see, Robbie

With continuing thanks to Nicholas King at Microsoft Corporate & hot on the heels of the Small Business Server 2008 video slices comes the first of our Essential Business Server 2008 video demos - security . Add this or his blog to your RSS, sit back...

Second in the series of quick video slices is SBS 2008 storage management . Click here for the previous post on the new remote web workplace . Cheers & let us know what topics you'd like to see, Robbie

                        We received some great feedback from last week's " tell us how to you want to get up to speed on SBS 2008 & win a free book " extravaganza (books being labelled...

Second in our series of Aussie SBS MVP profiles comes Mick Malloy - aka Super Gumby (don't ask me). Open, passionate & refreshingly honest, Mick is a prolific contributor to the worldwide SBS forums such as http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sbs2k &...

Hot on the heals of the EBS 2008 beta , the Small Business Server 2008 public beta is now available for you to download. Using RC0 code, this is your first chance to have a play with the software you've been reading about for the last couple of months...

Get in quick as spots are limited - the first official public showing of Small Business Server 2008 & Essential Business Server 2008 in Australia. With the public beta of EBS 2008 now available & SBS 2008 coming on May 29th (Aussie time), now...

Who are the Australian SBS MVPs? Don't even know what an MVP is? Well here's your chance to find out. The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award is given to select individuals around the globe in recognition of their voluntary involvement & leadership...

With the launch of Small Business Server 2008 just around the corner (Jul-Sept), the last thing you want to do is stall a possible sale now whilst the customer waits for the new software to be released. Now's the time to be thinking about adding Software...

Who'd like a free Small Business Server 2003 book? I've got a bunch of the below to give-away & they're yours free - all in return for answering a simple question: Q: Given the upcoming Beta , and soon to follow, launch of SBS 2008, what's the...

The Australian Partner Conferences awards are now open for submission & so drop everything and get your entry in before June 16th. See here for all the details: https://partner.microsoft.com/Australia/40043064 Though the conference this year is only...

With thanks to the TechNet Edge team , a very timely Essential Business Server 2008 interview with one of the program managers, Bjorn Levidow. Bjojn covers the remote administration console, the easy recovery from problematic add-ins to EBS, and the licensing...

          As referenced last week, the long awaited public beta program for Windows Essential Business Server 2008 is now open. Woo-hoo! This is a key milestone in the launch timeline & following yesterday's pricing announcement...

Just a quick heads-up on this on behalf of the SMB customer team: The Microsoft SMB team are today sending a direct mail piece to a sample group of companies in the 5 to 49 PC segment. This mailing is simply a follow up to the piece we sent to the same...

Microsoft today released the US pricing for Small Business Server 2008 & Essential Business Server 2008 . Full details on the press release here . In summary, the pricing of the new products is as follows: Windows Small Business Server 2008 Standard...

The wave is building Kinda feels like this surfer at the moment. We're on the crest. It's building up. The wave is looming massive & then.... the rush. Along with the TechEd SMB pre-day going live there are some major announcements coming out soon...