Woody Walton   NO MORE EXCUSES!  You want to get into the game?  You want to have a thorough understanding of BPOS and how to plan, deploy, migrate, and administrate the service for your customers?  Spend FOUR days on LiveMeeting at...

Rob Waggoner This is part two of my discussion around App-V.  In part one , I covered how to sequence Office 2003, in this session I’ll walk through the client side setup and installation of the Office 2003 sequenced package.     ...

Rob Waggoner I’ve talked about virtualization for a long time and while most people think of server virtualization, there are other forms of virtualization that can make a big impact on our customers.  Application Virtualization is another form of...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- Hopefully by now you have taken a look at how to “Transform Your Business Model.”  But let’s get a little more technical and accelerate your Microsoft Online practice! Go HERE to learn more: “Help...

Woody Walton There has been a lot of talk in various places lately about BPOS and its impending successor, Office 365.  I have been following BPOS closely for a few years and try to keep abreast of the latest information relevant to partners. ...

Woody Walton I just received the actual invite so I am posting this in haste.  Many of you in the Central U.S. who were signed up to attend a Microsoft Central Region VAR Summit in Des Moines, Iowa; Omaha, Nebraska; or Wichita, Kansas were disappointed...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- Sort of.  You will have the same access to the following applications as you would in the Volume Licensing version of Office: However, the activation, licensing, and use rights differ. Here’s some...

  http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/news/article.aspx?Feed=FOOL&Date=20101110&ID=12380458&Symbol=MSFT - When I read this article I was shocked.  With customers like U.S. Air Force, Sara Lee, HP, Best Buy, and Polaris; Microsoft...

Q: Where can I get help understanding the considerations that need to be addressed to successfully move my business to support Cloud solutions? A: The Cloud is here and it is real. According to a study recently completed by Everything Channel’s IPED Research...

  As I have been traveling around, as well as my counterparts, talking with partners about Office 365; a common theme has arisen. “What about my existing BPOS customers?” First I hope you are aware of the Office 365 transition center , which will...

by Ron Grattopp…..Windows 7 continues to be a big hit as it heads into into its second year ( Windows 7 Earns High Marks from Businesses: Survey ) and most of the stats seem to indicate that IT spending is rebounding but businesses still need to understand...

Q: (from Scott) We did our first install for Microsoft BPOS. We have an issue with the customer public folders for Exchange. We can not upload these. We were told we need to use Sharepoint. Is BPOS going to support public folders for Exchange later? A...

  Now available for download from the connect site is the beta of the next version of Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0.  What’s new in Security Essentials 2.0 Beta: - Windows Firewall integration – Microsoft Security Essentials will ask if...

Rob Waggoner     We just released guidance on how you can build your private cloud based on System Center and Hyper-V here .  What is a Private Cloud and how do they differ from our standard Data Center?  Our site provides a good definition...

by Ron Grattopp…. I have been doing a series of events lately known as the Intel Channel & Embedded Conference.  Even though this series is targeted to our OEM audience, one of the subjects I present on at these events I believe is important...

by Ron Grattopp…..Some of my TS2 cohorts and I have been presenting sessions on SMB Servers (up to now known by their codenames, SBS 7 and Aurora) for a series of OEM-focused, Intel-hosted events around the country.  Of course, the two questions...

Rob Waggoner Windows 7 is now a year old and I’m still hearing questions like “Why Windows 7?” or statements like “XP is good enough”. Other people are still saying things like “I’m waiting for SP1”,...

Woody Walton Over the last two weeks I have had the opportunity to attend a train the trainer session on the executive summary for this series, attend the web versions of each of the sessions below, and the pleasure of actually presenting a truncated...

  by Woody Walton The announcement of Office 365 on October 19th has been well received generally speaking from most of the partners I have spoken with.  Of course the inclusion of Office 2010 Pro plus as a component of subscription offering...

Rob Waggoner Procrastinators beware! Please don’t wake up after a scary Halloween to find that your Beta version of Office 2010 has expired. Below is the link talking about the expiration. I’ve also included a run down of the different...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- I know this is short notice, but I wanted to make sure our Florida partners were aware of this seminar next week (November 2nd).  If you are located in or close to Central Florida, please join Mark...

    Start Date: October 25, 2010 End Date: December 31, 2010 Target Audience: Small and M idsize Organizations Market Segments: Commercial and Local Government Organizations Products Included: • Designer and Developer Tools • Dynamics ® CRM...

Q: (from Matthew) It was a pleasure meeting you today.  I hope you can help me with is dealing with our conversation around CRM seats.  If you have anybody I can reach out to or any sites that can help me take advantage of the new/old Online...

Rob Waggoner I installed the Beta of SP1 on all of my Hyper-V servers a few months ago and will be upgrading to the RC once I have some time (probably this weekend). The Beta was very stable, I expect the RC to be pretty much ready to go. We are...

Rob Waggoner   CRN has the following article talking about rogue software that is impersonating itself as Microsoft Security Essentials.  A rogue version of Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT)'s free antimalware product, Microsoft Security Essentials, is...