Category Archives: Microsoft

SBSC Crashes, Burns and brings out the yellow flag

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And you get to see it this Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! Ok, now this is dope! Microsoft Small Business (ie, Eric Ligman) is sponsoring Nascar car #49 and giving SBSC’s an opportunity to put their logo right into the middle of … Continue reading

How many times should you activate a legitimate copy of Vista?

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Ok, it’s a trick question. Take a look at the following exchange. You should activate an operating system once. Due to the OEM scandals and widespread piracy, Microsoft came up with WGA which has done little to prevent piracy, but … Continue reading

Ouch, the death of SBSC

IT Business, Microsoft, SMB
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Due to the popular and seemingly angered demand, here is a blog post for you today. In the few years that I’ve posted here on nearly daily basis I’ve encouraged you to take these rambling, incoherent, grammatically and politically incorrect … Continue reading

Year in review: Is SBSC community better off?

Microsoft
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I’ve been blogging about doing business with Microsoft for a few years now and every year, as our program renewal comes up, I like to ask myself if we are better off or worse off as a community that relies … Continue reading

In Defense of Microsoft

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One of the things you eventually have to come to terms with is that business is not always fair. Not everyone gets compensated the same, not everyone gets the treatment they deserve, not everyone gets their fair share of the … Continue reading

What is a rollup? Exchange 2007 SP1 Rollup 1

Exchange, Microsoft
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One of the more frequent questions about Exchange 2007 is the new update technology, the rollup: Rollup is a collection of hotfixes and Exchange system updates that apply to the entire product. While in the past, Exchange hotfixes included updates … Continue reading

Microsoft Software + Services – Partners = The Future

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My favorite cat killer is right, I don’t like where Microsoft is going with it’s Software+Services strategy. What I specifically don’t like about it is the PR way in which they are trying to crush their partners in order to … Continue reading

It’s Good Enough, Reincarnated

Google, Microsoft
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For the past decade IT shops and IT departments have had to fight the “it’s good enough” mantra of cheap CPAs that were in charge of the company budgets. Going even smaller, “it’s good enough” brought you the world of … Continue reading

Virtually speaking, Windows Server 2008 STD Virtualization is my fault

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Lot’s of confusion over the virtualization of Windows Server 2008 so I figured I’d explain it in some simpler terms: Windows Server 2008 Standard can optionally be used as a VM host server only, and Microsoft allows you to use … Continue reading

Windows Server 2008: My, how the times have changed

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Today Microsoft launches undoubtedly the biggest product in history of the company, at least in the terms of solidifying the market it dominates – business server room. Susan mentioned the launch virtual event which I will be on because I’m … Continue reading