One of the things that I am often hearing is how Microsoft could do more for opur partners - and I don't disagree, but in many cases the things I am asked for are already available. 

One of the goals of SBSC is to enable me to spend my time with better quality partners, and for Microsoft to direct customers to those quality partners.  There are lots of other benefits and purposes too, such as providing focused support and offers, listening to your needs and delivering on them etc.

Two things that people have asked me for recently are:

• Help understanding what "offers" Microsoft has running at the moment - check out http://www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/sales_and_marketing/promotions/default.aspx?page=latest for a full list
• Help me configure against my license needs -See the license configurator - http://members.microsoft.com/partner/uk/sales_and_marketing/gearup/

One nice feature of the configurator is that you can compare various license types.

We are also running a couple of campaigns at the moment, but the one I like is the "Right Server" campaign, designed to pitch SBS into those businesses larger than 25 users, but still where SBS sits - have a look at the material at http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windowsserversystem/rightserver/default.mspx and let me know what you think.

One if the items I really like in there are the webcasts on what SBS can do for you - have a look at http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windowsserversystem/rightserver/webcasts.mspx for more info.

ttfn

David