I was not aware of this, and wondered how many others are not also. Microsoft have brought back their 2nd shot free for the MCP exams. Basically you can have a 2nd attempt at a failed exam for free provided you register for the 2nd shot first. Find out more here http://www.microsoft.com/learning/career/en/us/career-offer.aspx#certification … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2010
Questions for the Cloud…
My weekly blog post for CRN Channelweb this week was titled Cloud Computing for SMB: Rainmaker or Thunderstorm? It focused on some of the questions that you should consider when looking at the Clouds for solutions to your customers business problems. They are certainly not the only questions but a few that come to mind that we've not had to consider the Cloud as a solution. … [Read more...]
Success in Small Business
One of the things that I think that big business fails to understand is that success in the small business market is based on relationships. Relationships are so very often the key in this space. What I see all the time though is that people fail to understand that. More specifically people that are in big business fail to realise how personal relationships … [Read more...]
SharePoint Conference features Robert Crane
Well – it looks like our local SBSer and Sharepoint Guru - Robert Crane has landed himself a speaking spot at the Australian Sharepoint Conference on June 16th/17th this year. Roberts session is noted below You’ve got SharePoint now what? - 100 Level The least known component of Small Business Server 2008 is SharePoint and yet it offers the greatest opportunity for … [Read more...]
EBS 2008 is dead – Post Mortem time
I spent some time this last week being very angry and upset over Microsoft's decision to kill the EBS 2008 and future mid market product based on it. It's now a week later and I've got to say I'm really surprised at the lack of response from other resellers on this topic. I'm also somewhat surprised at some of the comments and in particular who they come from on my … [Read more...]