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Are you looking for a way to harness and leverage information in your small business? Here's a tip. You may need some structure. The Microsoft Small Business Stack is a great way to do just that. I'll be looking, over the next few posts, at creating some...
Abbie and I co-presented at the Microsoft Connections event in Corpus Christi on Tuesday. It was a great event. Lara Pryor was the presenter, she did a great job. While down there we went to the beach and on the way back hit San Antonio, more on that...
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Abbie was out of town all last week, and I am just now catching up from covering for her! :-P I've been putting together a couple of new projects as well as putting a couple of old ones to bed. Last night I went over to the Dallas Microsoft Offices for...
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I've long been an advocate for Instant Messaging, both for personal as well as professional purposes. Back in the mid '90s I used ICQ for chatting with my family online. Then as time went by migrated from service to service. I've even tried to setup an...
Vista CTP...looks good so far. I went to TS2 on Thursday in Dallas, saw Stephen Cracknell do his presentation. The highlight for me was getting more looks at Vista. My hardware is woefully undermatched for running Vista, so for now I am only able to observe...
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Today we did a great meeting, small as it was, but none-the-less fun with some partners on the benifits of Using Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting within the Microsoft Small Business Stack of software. Abbie has posted a great entry on it at...
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in recent weeks i have been loading various sandbox released code on a test CRM environment and where applicable in our production environment. I have to say, the possibilities are mind boggling! First I loaded the Dynamics CRM SNAP. That is a quite powerful...
So a few weeks ago, I downloaded the code sample from Johnz Blog for 'An ASP.NET Service Portal - Level 300' One thing I am not is Level 300. I am maybe a Level 200 programmer on a good day. So I download it, and set it up. If there's one thing that's...
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Is this out there somewhere??? Perhaps in the next release of SBS (no not R2!). The exchange team seems to be working on the whole unified messaging thing and may have it ready to go for the next exchange realease. Now this will be COOOOOOOL!!!!! My wife...
Recently, in my local SBS User group someone posed a question about 3rd party faxing utilities. This got me to thinking...(bad idea, I know). SBS Fax seems like the step child of the SBS world. We love to talk it up as a big selling point, but, because...
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A couple of weeks ago, my OMA stopped working on my Sprint Phone. It's a WAP enabled device, not yet up to investing in a Windows Mobile PC (drool)... Anyway, I tried a bunch of stuff, but was really too busy to sink my teeth into it, so i gave up. The...
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I have long been a fan of scripting, from batch files to 'psuedo-app' vb/vba scripts I pride myself in the ability to answer and opportunity by writing a script. This was no different. First off, I am by no means a pro at scripting, most of my work is...
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This just popped up in my RSS reader... Microsoft announced at LinuxWorld on Monday that it is making the enterprise version of its Virtual Server 2005 R2 product available as a free download, and that it is planning to offer support for Linux as a Virtual...
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How does one add, say, a logo or image to a coverpage in SBS shared Fax coverpages. These files are .cov and I have yet to be able to figure this one out. Word baulks at openning these .cov files, as does paint. I have several clients who have been using...
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So last week after migrating a network from peer 2 peer with an outdated 'super checkbook' accounting application. I should add that it was far from super. I setup SBS with SBA on 4 workstations, and started showing them around their new systems. One...
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