So, I am now into my second day back to work. Man, so many things to get caught up on and so little time in the day.

My little Soleil is still adoreable and already has been under her spell and she is only 6 weeks old. It is kind of hard to justify putting in long hours getting caught up when you have such a precious present to go home to every night.  Soleil along with my two boys, Haven and Schuyler will get a lot of daddies time when I get back tonight.

We had the first meeting of the Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 Partner Group Tour - Microsoft takes to the road in Redmond last night. We had about 120 people show up. It was pretty cool. We kick the rest of the tour off next week in Portland. We hope to drive our interaction with the User Group Community more this year then we have in the past. We have done tours like this before and we plan to continue them. What I hope we can add is a more open level of communication with the User Group Communities that are in place today and help people in the community create new User Groups where there are not.

The SBS Community Survey revealed a lot of things and one of the top areas identified as vitally important by the survey was User Groups. So, I am looking for ideas on how we can improve our interaction and engagement with the User Groups. If you have ideas that you would like to share either publicly or privately, drop me a line. I would love to hear from you. You can either post a comment on my blog or drop me a line at kbeares@microsoft.com.

Thanks again,

Kevin