Woody Walton Office 365 is a great solution for many customers.  Its benefits over on premise solutions in terms of cost in infrastructure, deployment, and management are now acknowledged by most partners out there.  As I am sure you...

B   V   A UPDATE – We have a NEW Microsoft Experience Center – Check out Todd’s Post - http://blogs.technet.com/b/uspartner_ts2team/archive/2013/03/01/get-demoing-office-365.aspx New Link for TOOL – https://www.usmec.com Looking for...

As many of you are aware, Small Business Server has never been available for download from the Volume License Service Center.  However, it is available for download for those of you with a TechNet subscription and rumor has it that it will be making...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- Although we think your customers are going to love Exchange 2010 in SBS 2011…. we do understand that there may some instances where you will need to downgrade.  For a high level look at SBS Licensing...

I received a question a few days ago about how to license SQL (per processor) within a Virtual Machine on a Hyper-V server (or other hypervisor based host). There has been a lot of confusion on this, at least I’ve been confused, so I wanted to dig into...

As you’ve already read , we’ve renamed Terminal Services to Remote Desktop Services (RDS) in Windows Server 2008 R2. RDS also gives us the ability to leverage Aero Glass from a Remote Desktop Connection. This is a multi-step process, but there are really...

Rob Waggoner   We told you SP1 was coming here and here , and we told you about some of the value it will provide here , here and here .  We have just released the final SP1 installation files and you can install SP1 from Windows Update, or...

Rob Waggoner     I’ve talked about DPM a lot lately and I still receive more questions like: “What is DPM?” and “What makes DPM so good?”.  To me, DPM is the best backup solution for the Windows Platform. Period!  DPM allows you to...

Q: (from Bill) With many servers I build for clients, I either partition the RAID drive into a smaller OS part & a larger “Data” one, or if the client can afford it, use a large enough server to have two separate RAID drives – a mirrored one for the...

Q: (from Phyllis) I have been trying to find the default setting in Excel for automatically opening multiple instances when a new workbook is opened. I can manually open them. I am on Windows 7 Pro and Office 2007. Can you give me a shove in the right...

Rob Waggoner I just got an email asking for some help on a few questions around Hyper-V.  Since I had to look in a couple of places to get the complete answer, I thought I would share my results. Is there any support for Linux? Yes we do provide...

Windows Server 2008 R2 includes new features that require a schema upgrade. You do not have to upgrade your schema if you want to run Windows Server 2008 R2 in your environment, but you do need to upgrade your schema if you want to leverage the new functionality...

  One of the most common questions I hear from Partners when it comes to using “Cloud” solutions is “How do I know you are protecting my customer’s privacy"? I thought I should dig into this so you know where to go to find the information to...

  Partners - Do you have Small Business Server 2011 Standard with Volume Licensing, and need to download the media? Here are a couple options: Download from TechNet, or MSDN if you have subscriptions.  It will also be available with the Microsoft...

Woody Walton   Hey all! I wanted to convey some good info that relates to a post I made a few weeks back concerning Practice Accelerators.  I just got word from an internal source that if you register for upcoming Practice Accelerators in January...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- I’ve been having some great conversations with partners about Windows Intune…. and inevitably I’m asked, “So where do my customers go to download Windows 7 Enterprise?” Here’s how: There are three ways...

Many of you that have been working with the Beta releases of both Small Business Server 2011 and 2011 Essentials have provided a lot of great feedback as well as shown a lot of excitement around the next generation of updates for the Small Business Server...

Q: (from Norman) I've been having trouble finding where I need to go to purchase the licenses for Office 2010 Starter. At the Intel show in Philly you mentioned going to oem.microsoft.com which then referred me to partner.microsoft.com, but I didn't find...

Rob Waggoner With Windows Server 2012 around the corner, I wanted to start sharing some of the new capabilities in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. Today I want to show you Storage Live Migration. Just as the name implies, you can Live...

  By Ron Grattopp…..As you should recall I’ve been doing the Microsoft / Intel ‘Building Solutions Together’ Tour roadshow events for the last 6 weeks or so.  If you read about those, or if you attended, you know that in the desktop session...

  Woody Walton In my role as a Partner Technology Advisor for Microsoft Corporation I work as a generalist as it relates to our technology stack.  Basically, I am expected to know and be able to speak intelligently about all of our core business...

Josh Condie – Microsoft has just announced the 2 certification paths to receive your MCSE for SQL Server 2012.  These tracks will be built upon the new technical certification redesign that Microsoft introduced just a few months back.  Following...

B  V  A Announcing the Sales Skills Excellence 32GB USB drive offer for U.S. partners who attend or attended a U.S. VAR Summit or U.S. Distribution Boot Camp, and earn a Partner Sales Skills Excellence accreditation, have the opportunity to...

Q: (from Claudine) If a customer is legally licensed for Windows 7 Professional on 15 computers: 10 computers were bought with Windows 7 Professional preinstalled (OEM) and 5 they bought Windows 7 Professional Upgrades through Volume Licensing Can they...

Q: (from Shawn) Visual Studio 2010 Professional comes with the action pack correct?   A: Sort of… There are now two Microsoft Action Pack Subscription (MAPS) editions found at: https://partner.microsoft.com/US/program/memsubscriptions Microsoft Action...