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Robbie and Susanne's Marathon - come join in

Think of this as a 1st mover notification. I am always in awe of those who can motivate themselves to do physical exercise and even more so if it is also raising money for charity. Well Robbie and Susanne have decided to take up the challenge. They have a joint site that will feature blogs, training details, events and other useful information as well as guest speakers/ bloggers. The site is just beginning, but pop along to Robbie and Susanne's Marathon and support a good cause and then sponsor them both...

Published Mon, Aug 28 2006 9:46 AM by David Overton

Filed under: Off-topic, Community
SMB Nation in Seattle in early September

I remember this time last year - people were debating the benefits of SMBNation - was it worth the cash, then a nice sized bunch left the safe shores of the uk and traveled across the shiny pond and mottled country to arrive in Seattle. Behold, what they found was not quite gold and definitely not fools gold, but was jolly worth while. Advice, information and access to the right people mean that you get your cash back pretty quickly in terms of sales, saved time and swapped opportunities, but it is absolutely...

Published Fri, Aug 25 2006 2:22 PM by David Overton

Filed under: SBS 2003, Support and Tools, Business, Exchange, Windows Server 2003
Internet Explorer 7: RC1

I have often debated the quality of IE over firefox and I'm not about to stop now, however this is just a simple note (as I am still a 4 fingered typist at the moment) to say that the latest build of IE is out there. To get more info on what this build has, go have a look at " What's new in RC1 " however they key paragraph for those not after the toolkit etc is: improvements in performance, stability, security, and application compatibility. With this build, Microsoft has also made enhancements to the fit and...

Published Fri, Aug 25 2006 8:09 AM by David Overton

Filed under: Windows 7, Vista and XP, Support and Tools, Internet Explorer
Great Weekend sailing that ended with me in A&E and St Mary's Hospital on the Isle of Wight

I seem to be able to find trouble at the moment. I attended part 1 (3 of 5-days) of a competent crew training course designed to get me on the ladder to bigger and better sailing experience and finally teach me what the wind has to do with sailing. Over the three days we started with the basics, like how to make a distress call, only ever abandon a boat when you will be stepping up into a life raft, clothing, life jackets and how to use a toilet on a boat. We then progressed to the basics of sailing, so the...

Published Mon, Aug 21 2006 3:53 PM by David Overton

Filed under: Off-topic, Personal
So your profile info is on MS Partner site and partner finder, so now you MUST update your solution profiles to be found - here is why and how it takes 10 mins

You are all hopefully aware of the need to update your profile information and the web site url in it so that when one of the small businesses follows up on one of our campaigns and clicks on the find a partner link (UK) they can find information about you that makes them want to buy from you. Well, we are now talking about solutions to our customers and this is where you can now create and update your solution profile so that you can have several solutions profiled on the site. Each solution can have a completely...

Published Thu, Aug 17 2006 1:08 AM by David Overton

Filed under: SBS 2003, Support and Tools, Business, Community
The IW Center - podcasts on the office system

I was looking for a trickle of information that includes videos and podcasts on the technologies around Office 2007 and the Office System. The IW Center is just the right place to get this info - worh a look. ttfn David

Published Tue, Aug 15 2006 1:24 PM by David Overton

Filed under: Office System, Windows SharePoint Services
Customizing the Ribbon in Outlook 2007

I was reading the MSDN Flash and came across this article " Link to Customizing the Ribbon in Outlook 2007 " and thought a few of you who wanted to customise the Office 2007 Ribbon bar can see how to change it and add new icons. ttfn David

Published Tue, Aug 15 2006 12:57 PM by David Overton

Filed under: Office System, Support and Tools, Developer
USATODAY.com - Cybercrooks constantly find new ways into PCs

I was reading this article and it reminded me of a few things. Sometimes when sitting in the Microsoft camp we say how good / bad others are at security, but rarely reflect on what people need to do and why. When there is a known issue with a package, I suspect many don't go to a test environment and pull the patch apart, many just do a quick test on 1 pc and then deploy wider. Obviously SBS 2003 R2 makes this process easier as you can now control the deployment and retraction of patches via the console. It...

Published Tue, Aug 15 2006 11:46 AM by David Overton

Filed under: SBS 2003, Security
This is broken! Great web site about broken signs, projects etc

I was reading this blog from the Live Writer site and came across this link - it is just one of the funniest things I have seen in a long time. Link to ...the musings of a psycho...: This is broken! enjoy David

Published Mon, Aug 14 2006 10:00 AM by David Overton

Filed under: Off-topic, Live
Are you near Exeter, then sign up quickly for the Small Business Ignite Tour as it is coming to you on the 29th August from 6pm

Once again the Small Business Ignite Tour is coming out and this time it is Exeter. You need to sign-up quickly, so go to http://www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/training/ignite/default.aspx?id=Exeter and sign up for the Small Business Tour (as opposed to the tour with a date in the past). If you do not know about the Small Business Ignite Tour, then this is the rough agenda: Introduce just how big the business opportunity is in the land of small business Introduce the topics of Flexible Working and Collaborative...

Published Wed, Aug 9 2006 8:56 PM by David Overton

Filed under: SBS 2003, Windows 7, Vista and XP, Office System, Support and Tools, Business, Windows Mobile, Windows SharePoint Services, Exchange, Hosted
New Vista Gadgets

There are some new gadgets on the web site - http://gallery.Microsoft.com/Results.aspx?vista=la... My Favourites are: (Outlook Info, Media Shuffler, Poker beta, IP Info) ttfn David

Published Tue, Aug 8 2006 2:35 AM by David Overton

Filed under: Windows 7, Vista and XP
What is going on in the world of Windows Live Ideas - IM, chat and web

You can see any Live areas you have access too by going to http://ideas.live.com You can now IM to Yahoo Messenger users. Try it | Learn more | View blog The Live.com site continues to be updated - there is just so much you can do to your home page. If you have not been here, have a go at http://www.live.com and see how much fun it can be. Try it | Learn more | View blog There are lots of things you can load onto your Live.com page, your toolbar, Live Messenger and more - the place to configure all this is the...

Published Tue, Aug 8 2006 1:12 AM by David Overton

Filed under: Live
Getting IE to search UKSBSGUY.com, companyweb or any other site you happen to like

I like using IE 7 - I use the tabs all the time, I like the integrated search, I use the Live Toolbar too. Then I discovered that I could add new search times into the IE7 and I thought this was amazing. I have included the web site that builds custom searches and also two search config downloads - one that enables searching of UKSBSGUY.com and one that searches http://Companyweb - assuming you have search enabled as per this entry . (For completeness I also include SBSBPI and UKSBSG search clauses too) So,...

Published Mon, Aug 7 2006 1:01 PM by David Overton

Filed under: SBS 2003, Windows SharePoint Services, Community, Internet Explorer
Enabling Search against your Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) site, such as SBS 2003's companyweb

I went looking for this post from me today on the web site and was astounded to discover that I had not done it. So, here is the deal - your nice WSS sites can all have search enabled by default - and this means search inside all the documents with them understood (rather than some poor quality text search that can not deal with binary file formats). To enable this it is very simple: 1) Load SQL onto your system choosing to upgrade the instance called SHAREPOINT 2) Go to the SharePoint Admin Page (on SBS this...

Published Mon, Aug 7 2006 12:24 PM by David Overton

Filed under: SBS 2003, Support and Tools, Windows SharePoint Services
Great R2 Spoof Advert based on DaVinci Code - good humour

Microsoft often pokes fun at itself, but due to one of our competitors taking it a little too seriously some years back, these rarely come out to play in public. Well, have a look at this one . It was posted by Jules in the UKSBSG forum and I also got private messages from a few people saying that we should use this in the UK. ttfn David

Published Mon, Aug 7 2006 4:57 AM by David Overton

Filed under: SBS 2003, Support and Tools, Community

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Robbie and Susanne's Marathon - come join in

SMB Nation in Seattle in early September

Internet Explorer 7: RC1

Great Weekend sailing that ended with me in A&E and St Mary's Hospital on the Isle of Wight

So your profile info is on MS Partner site and partner finder, so now you MUST update your solution profiles to be found - here is why and how it takes 10 mins

The IW Center - podcasts on the office system

Customizing the Ribbon in Outlook 2007

USATODAY.com - Cybercrooks constantly find new ways into PCs

This is broken! Great web site about broken signs, projects etc

Are you near Exeter, then sign up quickly for the Small Business Ignite Tour as it is coming to you on the 29th August from 6pm

New Vista Gadgets

What is going on in the world of Windows Live Ideas - IM, chat and web

Getting IE to search UKSBSGUY.com, companyweb or any other site you happen to like

Enabling Search against your Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) site, such as SBS 2003's companyweb

Great R2 Spoof Advert based on DaVinci Code - good humour