Yearly Archives: 2006

SMB Nation Day 0: SBSers and Free Alcohol

Events
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Untitled document SMB Nation East  pre-conference kicked off today with much fanfare and even more alcohol. We're all currently in the Hyatt directly opposite Computer Associates in New York (Islandia). I was lucky enough to catch a ride with Levent … Continue reading

SMB Nation East

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Untitled document In a few hours I'll be taking off for New York City to attend SMB Nation East. SMB Nation is an event series started and managed by Harry Brelsford with the major focus on small-to-medium business IT. Harry … Continue reading

Which Office is Cheaper?

Open Source
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Untitled document The free one or the commercial one? Alright, so it's a trick question but a fairly legitimate one as Microsoft continues to wage a war against piracy. Let's for a second assume that the person running a pirated … Continue reading

No immigrant day award goes to…

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Untitled document As you may be aware today is May 1st, internationally celebrated International Workers Day. Well, we don't celebrate this in good ol' US of A but we do keep many industries afloat through cheap, near slave-wage labor of … Continue reading

SBS Crown Jewels To Go

Events, SMB
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Untitled document My buddy Chris has the recordings of his recent SBS webcasts online and available for download. This series was fairly good for Chris and the attendance was very awesome. Poor guy did this through a lot of pain … Continue reading

SBS Show Strikes Back

SBS Show
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Untitled document The SBS Show will be making its triumphant return from the extended spring break tomorrow. This is quite exciting because the type of content I'm coming back with is both inspirational and creative. In short, it is not … Continue reading

Roadshow: No, WSUS can’t do that

IT Culture, Microsoft, Security
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Untitled document As mentioned earlier, I am on the road presenting a part of the security content for Microsoft Technet seminars and meeting partners and professionals all over the state. It is quite exciting and most of all – insightful. … Continue reading

TS2 SBS Crown Jewels Presentations

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Untitled document My SBS Show sidekick Chris Rue is doing the following webcasts for TS2 guys this week. Check em out but remember that you have to register first. 4/26 – part 1: sharepoint & companyweb 4/27 – part 2: … Continue reading

Notes from the road: R2, BB4B, Vista

Events, IT Business, IT Culture
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Untitled document I started my little tour with Microsoft Accross America yesterday and it was pretty eventful. Thanks to those of you that showed up and said hi, I tried to invite everyone that I could. If you gave me … Continue reading

Day 1: SBS R2: What is it?

Beta, IT Business, SMB
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Untitled document MY DISCLAIMER: I, Vladimir Mazek, have not been given any private or confidential information regarding SBS R2. All of the information below is public information shared by Microsoft Corp with the public. The rest are my assumptions. Microsoft … Continue reading