Event season wrapping up, SBS show rolls through

To all those of you who emailed me asking about my flu, thank you for your concern, I made it just fine. It was not a flu at all, it was a case of too many Hooters wings (or rather, too much grease accompanied by a wing or two) that took me out of comission. Playing the wedding planner for the SBS roadshow, trying to manage the D&R requests nearly statewide and figure out logistics for some other things at the same time didn’t leave much room for the blog.

But I’m back so there will be more stuff on Exchange SP2 stuff soon, thank you for your patience. Another show this weekend, and I’re going world-wide this time, Omaha, Alabama and Kent (UK) will be here along with Florida. But first things first:

SBS Roadshow: Microsoft takes to the road again
The presentation tonight was quite remarkable. They took so much input, I don’t think I’ve ever seen my group show that much respect for Microsoft in my entire life. They listened, took notes, opened up… it was kind of like hanging out in the parking lot after SBS shows, except with Sr. Microsoft people and it really gave the group a whole new dimension. This is not that far out of the norm, Orlando is pretty respectful of Microsoft (much more so than any place I’ve ever been to) but they also go far beyond and above the call of duty to show a good face here.

The event was exactly as promised – Senior Microsoft people, taking feedback on SBS and everything involved with it from SharePoint to WSUS, partner program, competencies, etc.

SBS Show
First of all, thank you to everyone for the very kind feedback. We’ve had 805 downloads at this point, which is roughly 8x as much as I had expected. So whoever had that faulty browser that kept on crashing and reloading the mp3 all of the 804 times, please hug your browser for me. 🙂

We are doing another one this weekend, and yes, we’re going global. I wanted to keep it in the SEC (Southeastern Conference) last week since Chris was so kind to help me test audio and phone stuff about 50 times to get it right. He’s coming back this weekend. We have a surprise (actually two very attractive surprises) for this show which will be all about the many communities that exist on the Internet and in your neck of the woods, whereever you may be. There are folks out there that enjoy to help people and not just for techie things – there are support communities for business initiatives, managed services, certification, small business, big business.. no matter where in the IT business you are, or how far up and down the business management chain you may be, there are people that want to help you – and we’ll talk to some of them.

If you have anything interesting please drop me an email or post a comment to this article and we’ll work it in. Look for it this weekend.