This week I found out about the Microsoft Desktop Player which is in beta at the moment. This tool can be downloaded here The idea is that Microsoft will make available loads of content easily searchable from your desktop. In addition to that however it will also allow the content such as webcasts, podcasts etc to be downloaded to your desktop for offline … [Read more...]
SBS 2008 Advanced Training Course
I’m trying to understand what people want in terms of technical training around SBS 2008. I’d like to invite you to have a think about exactly what it is that you want that is not covered to the depth that you think you need to know. I’d like to use this blog post as a way to collect very specific feedback on what you think is missing or needed in what I might call … [Read more...]
Are you coming to this?
Are you coming to the SMB IT Professionals – Sydney Backup++ Workshop on 21st and 22nd of May? If you are not then you’re a bloody idiot… ok – maybe not but hey it sounded good when I said it out loud.. :-) Seriously though, we’re running another of our successful workshops, this time focused on all things Backup and Restore. We’ll be having a shoot out between … [Read more...]
Want to know more about Hyper-V in SMB?
In conjunction with Third Tier, I’m presenting a webinar next Friday morning (Sydney time that is) or Thursday afternoon USA time :-) The webinar is based on my own experiences spec’ing, quoting, selling and installing Hyper-V environments for our SMB clients. We’ll talk about the reasons Hyper-V is good and bad and walk through some of the specs I’ve used in real world … [Read more...]
Security and Optimisation Workshop Wrap up
Wow - what a day... my brain is bleeding and that is saying something... The SMB IT Professionals group in Sydney has today been holding a workshop focused on Security and Optimisation of your SBS 2008 network. We had multiple vendors involved and around 35 members from the Sydney group as well as a few ring ins from Brisbane and Melbourne. Via Livemeeting we had Dana Epp … [Read more...]