SBS Show #12 features Beatrice Mulzer talking about her new book: "Making It Big In Small Business 2006: Top 15 Successful SMB Consultants Share Strategies and Lessons Learned"; As promised in the SBS Show #11 with Eriq Neale where he talked about his new technical reference, SBS Unleashed, we are doing our part to review some of the books that we feel would make you a better technician or a business(wo)man with SBS. The better business part, in my humble opinion, is covered by Beatrice's new book. It is a detailed look at the business leaders that have built successful practices on SBS Worldwide. In her own words "SMB Consulting Best Practices is a wonderful MBA book, and this is the next step. It is a look at how others have successfully implemented Harry Brelsford's techniques." Download the SBS Show Episode 12: Click Here http://www.vladville.com/sbsshow/sbsshow-episode12.mp3 We're also running a little contest. During the show I read a small passage from the book so the first person that emails me with the person that said what I read gets a little unique SBS Show prize.

New year is coming up and so are New Year resolutions. I'm sure you'll promise to exercise more and lose weight but SBS Show is here to help you make a promise you can actually keep – Become a better consultant and a better IT Pro. Joining us this show is Eriq O. Neale, the lead author of SBS 2003 Unleashed, to discuss what is in the book essential to everyone supporting SBS. However, we talk about a lot more than just the book: How do you make a transition from having a job to going out on your own, how to do a good default SBS install, how to integrate a Mac in your SBS network, going beyond SBS wizards. Download the SBS Show Episode 11: Click Here 7:10 Becoming a consultant 15:18 SBS Unleashed Books, writing process 21:30 What sells the book 30:00 Refrence book 37:53 Background and Mac maintenance 49:00 How much SBS can I get on my Mac 1:00:00 Q, Inc. Podcasts, webcasts, business, blogs, books and boards oh my Eriq's Links: http://www.eonconsulting.net http://www.eoncall.com http://simultaneouspancakes.com/Lessons http://www.eonconsulting.net/OnQ http://www.smallbizserver.net/Forum/tabid/53/view/topics/forumid/36/Default.aspx Vlad's Take: The reason you need to get this book is because it is written for you. Here is what I mean by that: This book is written by people that participate in the big SBS community. This book addresses the real world and the ups and downs of running SBS on the net instead of a Microsoft spec-sheet. Anne Stanton, Chad Gross, Susan Bradley, Amy Babinchak, Susan Bradley, Javier Gomez, Tim Barrett, Frank Clark, Henry Craven, Ed Walters contributed chapters to this book. Download the SBS Show Episode 11: Click Here

SBS Weekly #10 was quite a unique experience. Susanne and Chris had to make do without Vlad this episode, but hopefully we still managed to come up with something useful to you. Items we covered include: * Lawsuit Concerning Mobile Security & Feature Pack * Outlook Junk Mail Filter Update * Intel's Dual-Core Yonah Chipset * CPC Combo Windows XP Tablet/Windows Mobile 5 device * Impact of Guidance Software Security Breach * Microsoft's 10 Resolutions For 2006 * Xbox 360 Rollout In Japan * Upcoming User Group Meetings UK – http://www.sbsbpi.co.uk * Manchester User Group – Dec. 19 * Kent User Group – Dec. 20 USA * Orlando IT Pro – Dec. 19th * Kansas City SUG – Dec. 20th * Alabama SMB UG – Dec. 20th * Michigan 70-282 Study Group Starting In January – http://www.misbs.com * Inside SBS #13 on Monday (IMF) – http://blogs.technet.com/sbs * SBS Show #11 w/Eriq Neale * Reminder About User Groups Around The World/Shoutout To Wayne Small – http://www.sbsgroups.com * Feedback About Vendors for UK Group Leaders Download SBS Show #10

The SBS Show #10 will be recorded at some point tomorrow but will be an interesting departure from the norm in that I will not be a part of it. Because I did not bring my headset Chris & Susanne will give this show a go on their own and bring you the latest SBS news you need to know. So you know the drill – if you have an SBS group meeting coming up or if you'd like an SBS take on something you saw in the news… ping Chris or Susanne and get them to chat about it.

After two weeks in production we're proud to present SBS Show #8 with Susan Bradley, MVP. We tried very, very, very hard to dumb her down and present patching and patch management to the magic "150" level where you're not being ridiculed but also not so over your head that you can't implement her advice. This is the show you pass on to your clients, to your boss, to every single person running Windows. I know there are more people out there like my dad, that see that yellow box and ask me 6 months later whether they should install it. This is the show for them. … and a show for you, the IT consultant. If you've ever seen Susan's blog (http://www.msmvps.com/bradley/) she is big on running things correctly and we've pressed her to explain everything – from patching to security to how she puts together Sam the Server posts. Professional, business and personal – this show has it all. In about a week when we clear out the rss/podcast traffic I will post the show in 128bit quality instead of the "royal flush gang" quality of 40bit. So what are you waiting for? Download SBS Show #8 (Runtime: 1:23:23) http://www.vladville.com/sbsshow/sbsshow-episode8.mp3 Subscribe to SBS Show http://www.vladville.com/sbsshow/podcast.xml Subscribe to SBS Weekly http://www.vladville.com/sbsshow/sbsweekly.xml Susan's links to more info on Patch Management: WSUS, MU and WU oh my (ppt) Microsoft Security Response Center Blog Technet Security Bulletin Center Windows Server Update Services How to do WSUS on SBS Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) .. and if thats not enough, Susan Bradley also writes patch management articles for Windows Secrets.

Ok, so we have finally picked the name for the SBS Show mid-week updates. Thank you for the feedback and suggestions, we did pick SBS Weekly which was suggested by one of the anonymous cowards on this very blog. The SBS Weekly show will run about 20 minutes to make it convenient for you to listen to it the same (or the very next) day and get the most up-to-date information in the SBS world. I know its hard to come by an hour or more to sit down and listen to the SBS Show we produce on the weekends, and believe me, we wouldn't dream cutting the weekend subjects down. I have been editing down the show with Susan Bradley for three days and I have a hard time taking out stuff – thank you for your patience with this one, it is really a gem. Now on to the SBS Weekly (SBS Show #9). We talked about: – Announcement of SBS 2003 R2. Even called Guy Haycock, Sr. Product Manager for SBS to get the details on just what expanded CALs were and if it was possible to split SBS components onto multiple servers with R2. – Discussion about Mozilla 1.5 and why you should really try it out. – New viruses and worms in the wild spreading through IM and how you can protect yourself from the next onslaught of Sober. – Risks involved in deploying Blackberry ES and potential blackout due to patent disputes. – New laws requiring VARs to handle proper disposal of PCs they sell in UK … and a few other things. Please let us know how you like the new format. Direct download of SBS Weekly (SBS Show #9, mp3) Podcast xml feed for your aggregator Look for the SBS Show #8 with Susan Bradley tomorrow night. If you got Friday afternoon open make sure you check out or sister show Inside SBS by the SBS PSS crew, they will be covering ISA..

SBS Show 7 is out and we cover this weeks events in SBS. For your easy consumption it is only 22 minutes in length as promised and we just go over some of the things you may have missed in the SBS community this week. On the table were: – Exchange 2003 SP2 reboots faster than usual (kb 555526) – Exchange 2003 SP2 IMF does not scan messages bigger than 3MB (thanks Philipp Kohn) – Can I install Exchange SP2 and SharePoint Team Services SP2 before I install SBS SP1 or do I have to install Exchange/SharePoint SP1, then SBS SP1 then SP2 of each? – (5:11) Firefox 1.5 – and reasons to upgrade – (12:14) Microsoft OneCare Live goes global – (15:19) What a (British) girl wants: Suede Laptop! – (18:00) SBS group meetings and sbsgroups.com Susanne Dansey of Readycrest Ltd. joined us today after some convincing and will be with us regularly during Wednesday's editions of the SBS Show (This Week in SBS). I explained the reasoning for this previously but we intended to keep a very high standard and make weekend shows useful. We understand nobody has an hour (or more) to sit down and consider all the braindumps offered on the weekend show and we still want to inform you. So during the week well have a little 20 minute show that brings you up to date and tells you what you need to know. Susanne will give us the global perspective, so while Chris and I represent the SEC, Susanne is tasked with representing the rest of the world. Hopefully a balanced and informative show for everyone, as a great man once said: "The SBS world is flat." SBS Show #7 – Download it here. Up next: THE Susan Bradley talking about patch management. Wanna talk to her? (407) 965-2945.

.. and wow did we have a lot of fun. Peter Galagher and Mark Stanfill from Inside SBS joined us and braindumped their support know-how. Thats the best way I can describe it. It is by far the most fun we've ever had recording this show and we got to act out things only done to the closest confidants… "The crazy SBS guru", "Sucidal SBS admin", "Helpless smallbiz owner" and Chris joined in with his impersonation of Arnold Schwarzenegger. If there was ever a show we were going to get sued for, this is the one. I did say "damn" and we recorded for 1:45 so there is at least 30 minutes of editing involved that I hope Chris can help with a little bit. I'll try to get this out by EOD Monday but I sincerely doubt it will be ready until Tuesday. This is on par with SBS Show #3 in the amount of great advice for SBS newbies and seasoned gurus wanting to learn more about how things work. I know that one famous guru will want to listen to this webcast as they talk about the perfmon preset counters that can be downloaded from Microsoft's web site that look at SBS specific issues. P.S. Dig the new logo?