As many potshots as I take at Susan Bradley for being the pope of the SBS community, most of you will never even see 1% of what she does for literally every SBS, Centro and Windows Home Server user. Considering just how much of that 1% you guys actually see, and the stack of NDA’s I have signed with Microsoft, I’ve got to share with you what Susan has been up to lately;
Susan organized this SBS “family” list that has SBS MVP’s and MVP’s that are in the SMB family. This allows those of us that have focus on different products to give feedback and get the inside track on the future SBS development. What is particularly fascinating is the broadening of scope SBS is getting because of this activity. It has almost started the war of worlds. As dictated by the pope:
Thou shalt have no other wizards before me
Thou shalt not upgrade to R2
Thou shalt not commit RTFMery
Thou shalt not migrate without Swing
So you can imagine me watching for the stones to fly around when someone says they keep 2003 Standard Servers and asks why SBSers can’t figure things out without a wizard or use ADMT. Double ouch.
But instead of this becoming a flame war that it would have become everywhere else the conversation around it has been very positive. Gotta give Susan kudos for putting this together.
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