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This is the second SBS Show with Erick Simpson and combined with the first one perhaps the audio bible of managed services – how to offer them, how to sell them, how to provide them, how to manage it all. Must hear.

SBS Show Episode #26 – Managed Services Howto with Erick Simpson (final)

If you haven’t heard SBS Show #25 you might want to listen to the two of these at the same time.

I’m proud to announce that we’ve launched the first SBS Show newsletter. In the same spirit as the podcast, the newsletter is a non-commercial glue for the SBS community that we can share info thats relevant to us.

I’ve even spent some time to design the “fan club” concept that is similar to digg.com and the social way of voting for stories. Let’s be honest, we all find info every day that pretains to our business, but we’re all too busy to review every single thing. And we all can’t stay on top of a newsgroup thread with 500 posts – “so give me the skinny” becomes the way of life.

Please sign up for the SBS Show fan club, it’s free. Please download SBS Show Episode #25, with Erick Simpson, it’s awesome. And, thanks for all the support. Big thanks to Susanne Dansey and Dave Sobel, my cohosts, Susan Bradley my spiritual advisor, Tim Barrett the UG guy and our long lost friend, Chris Rue, may god bless his soul.

Yeah, yeah I know… Long time no SBS Show, the world is ending. Unfortunately for both me and my significantly-audiable-one, that work thing we do between the free stuff for “the community” has been getting in the way of fun stuff. We will have a very exciting two-part SBS Show out soon but we’re also working on the newsletter and a few other things that come out at the exact same time.. thus the delays. But I know you’d appreciate something in the meantime so here is a great show by our friend Eriq Neale:

Today’s episodes of eOnCall feature an interview with Sandi Hardmeier, IE MVP, about the IE7 release. If you haven’t had time to look at IE7 yet, or if you have clients who are wondering about IE7, this would be a good pair of episodes to catch. The broadcast airs today, and the archives will be available no later than tomorrow morning on the show web site, http://www.eoncall.com.

SBS Show 22 live from TechEd. We grabbed everyone left over after TechEd ended earlier today and brought you the SBS Show live from TechEd’s Security MVP executive office. By the time we were done not even the posters were left on the walls. Hope you enjoy it, we talk about the new technologies demonstrated at TechEd, general Microsoft technical direction for the next year, what we took from the event, working on SBS as a big-business employee and more. Joining me are Susan Bradley, Alun Johnson and Dave Sobel.

Download the SBS Show #22

http://www.vladville.com/sbsshow/sbsshow-episode22.mp3

Can you believe we’ve banged out 20 of these so far? I’m impressed. The little SBS Show has grown from “Man, how do I stop these illiterate people from shooting themselves in the face with SP2” to one of the only places in SMB where you can get the whole story. Even though its an expensive and time consuming process I have to admit its totally worth it. I get so much mail thanking us for putting this together, telling us how successful they have been with the info they got from the SBS Show, how much they enjoy listening, how they listened to all the episodes back-to-back during their drive to Vegas, how they had to buy an MP3 player because of the SBS Show. So thanks guys, thanks for the support and well over a million listeners that tuned in to the SBS Show. Thanks to all the awesome guests and cohosts that put their time into making the SBS Show such a success.

So go and get #20. Joining us this week is Bob Rebholz from Microsoft to discuss the Web 2.0. You know, we in the “dev” roles know what Web 2.0 means because we’ve been dealing with it for such a long time. But if you’re over 19 and in IT odds are you don’t know what Web 2.0 or Ajax or DOM/DHTML or any of these things mean. Digg what? Bob is the guy behind theworkingnetwork.com blog and recently transitioned over to microsoft.com to make information discovery easier for IT Pro’s digging around microsoft.com for solutions.

Sarah Perez (www.sarahintampa.com) is cohosting this week because she is my web 2.0 go-to person. I’m not sure how the heck I found her but she has been a constant inspiration as she constantly lives on the bleeding edge of web services. Plus she’s an SBSer! Little known detail is that she inspired the SBS Show with her own podcast. I thought about the podcast for a while before doing it but without her help and all the advice I never would have pulled it off. So thanks for the inspiration Sarah and thanks for the help with #20.

I’m just incredibly proud of our little SBS Show. Honestly, I hope this inspires you. I can’t tell you how many people have told me “I was thinking about doing that but you beat me to it!” – beat you to what? It’s not like we’re the 8PM show on NBC that you need to bump to get the attention, if you’ve got something to say and think you can contribute then go for it. This is not a competition guys, this is sharing and collaboration. Just do it.

Please welcome Susan Bradley to our SBS podcasting family. She has published her first podcast so give it a listen. It just might give you an idea about why your WSUS is downloading a 6.5 GB file overnight if you selected SQL 2005 & Service Packs to be automatically downloaded.

 http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?podcasts=509847&t=1065

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Add it to your streamer.

Now, I just know the question thats going to come up – are you afraid she is going to steal your thunder? If I had a penny for every time I heard "Oh, I was going to do SBS Show but you beat me to it" I would be a much richer man. I know this is going to just shock you, but… we don't make any money on the SBS Show. Really, $0. As a matter of fact, yours truly has spent a ton of money, time and effort on the SBS Show to give people an opportunity to share their story. I absolutely love it when yet another person takes the time and effort to contribute their expertise and skill. It is all about sharing information, helping someone, somewhere. It is a good feeling. We love Eriq. We love the Inside SBS Guys. We love Exchange screencasts. I looooove Amanda Congdon. Sharing information is a good thing. Please do it. The satisfaction that comes out of helping strangers is amazing, getting their email after you've saved their day is even better. So get to it. No, we are not afraid of you. 

What are you gonna do, take away the hordes of attractive women that are throwing themselves at me because of the SBS Show?  

This German site recently held a contest to create a new logo for a podcast, the recorded/straeamed radio program. The SBS Show will proudly abuse this logo in addition to our own. Speaking of which, the SBS Show #20 will be our first all-international show with Susanne Dansey broadcasting from Amsterdam at SMB Nation Europe.

Let's face it, most problems with SBS happen when changes are made. Patches, hot fixes, service packs, migrations, upgrades. SBS PSS guys take on the topic and R2 issues in the latest Inside SBS Episode #17. They are drinking that sweet sweet Livemeeting coolade but don't let that turn you away, I'm listening to it right now and the voice quality is excellent. Download #17