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Peter F. Drucker, The Practice of Management.

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11/2/2008

SBS 2008 Reviewed by the Guardian Newspaper

Kate Bevan a technology journalist for the Guardian Newspaper has written a review of setting up and configuring SBS 2008, which has some comments by Gareth Hall, the Microsoft UK Server Product Manager.
 
Emily Lambert, the UK SBSC Programme Lead has more details on her blog.

11/4/2008

Arrival of Oct/Nov 2008 MAPS

The latest edition of MAPS is landing with SBSC Partners as we speak and this is a pretty special edition as it contains the RTM versions of SBS 2008 Std Ed and EBS 2008 Std Ed. Some people have been asking why only standard edition? Well, Premium Ed is only the edition of another Windows Server 2008 Std Ed and SQL Server 2008 Std Ed version, which you get in the subscription anyway!
 
One thing that continues to annoy me is that Microsoft is not making available the Demo Showcase 2008 Virtual Images and have again provided the Simulations. Whilst the simulations are useful in that you do not need a serious computing power to run them, they are canned demos which lack flexibility and customisation. The Virtual Server images (available to Certified/Gold Partners) are on the other hand extremely useful and customisable to build scenarios which match to your customers business.
 
We want Microsoft to provide the Demo Showcase VMs to SBSC Partners because they are a great selling tool!
 
UPDATE
I might have jumped the gun on the Demo Showcase VMs as I believe these will be included with the SBSC Toolkit to ship with MAPS. Sorry!

11/4/2008

NCI Technologies CRN Channel Awards Finalist

Gold Certified SBSC Partner, NCI Technologies, is a finalist for the CRN Awards on 13th November 2008 in the SME Reseller Category. So, why not consider voting for them?
 
RESELLER AWARDS
Reseller awards will recognise excellence in the delivery of solutions, service and support to end user customers, taking into consideration the reseller’s ability to deliver real benefits to the user organisation, and to meet customer objectives in terms of improved efficiency, ROI and investment protection, and cost reduction. Companies that demonstrate innovation in developing and bringing-to-market new concepts and solutions will also be candidates for these awards.