Now an Official Chapter of
and our new name is
SMBTN Triad NC
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Now an Official Chapter of
and our new name is SMBTN Triad NC |
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The date for our next meeting is December 5, 2006
Coming Up for Our December
Meeting
Tuesday is our regular meeting date and
although our previously scheduled presentation (Exclaimer for
Exchange) is not going to be able to make it until early next year, I
met someone today whose is going to come and fill in at the last minute
for us. More about her in a minute.
First, those few of you that made the long
drive to Raleigh today for the Partner Briefing, let me apologize. The
content was absolutely not geared for an audience of partners in the IT
world. Please believe Tom has been duly chastised for this and assured
me he would go back to his practice of reviewing the content before
telling us it would be relevant to us. I think he just got lax because
we have had such great content lately, he also just came to expect it.
Anyway the only saving grace for the day was listening to Melissa
Boschert from softchoice. Finally someone who understands MS licensing
and can explain it in English. I only had to call her on 2 items out of
her entire presentation, may be a record for me :>) So since so many of
you did not make it today I asked her if she would come and do the
presentation for our group and it just happened to work out with her
calendar that she is free this coming Tuesday. So unless you are going
to be in a clients office picking up a big check, plan on making this
meeting, it will help you understand licensing and help you make more
money selling it. She understands her audience and will not drown you in
a sales pitch for softchoice, I think she did 5 minutes tops on
softchoice and the rest of her presentation on explaining the diferences
between the licensing programs and how to take advantage of them.
I know a lot of you are going to say, but I
have to do my Christmas shopping, but I really believe if you spend
these couple of hours with us on Tuesday, you will learn enough to pay
for all those gifts you need to buy this year :>)
Next I am sure you know by know we are
hosting the Vista / Office Launch on February 13 for The Triad, but I
noticed a lot of you are still not signed up. Please hit the link below
and register for the event, and then tell your friends & clients about
it. Don't forget this is a split event, not only partners, but also for
potential clients & end users, so bring your best pitch, wear a clean
shirt, put on your best smile but first REGISTER YOURSELF!
Chat Reminder:
Don't forget to attend my SBS Chat hosted by my friend Jeff Middleton at chat.SBSmigration.com/sbschat on Dec 20th at 7:00pm eastern time We have tentative commitment from Vlad at www.OwnWebNow.com the home of Exchange Defender to speak early next year to our group, also there is an unconfirmed rumor that Susan Bradley may be coming to town, she is still working on her schedule, I will keep you updated. Jim Locke, our fearless SMBTN Leader is working on getting a SonicWall training for us in the Triad, if you are interested in attending, please drop me a note and let me know so I can get back to him with a potential head count. I don't have the details yet, but business members will get a substantial discount (or maybe free) over registered members. And finally a note from my friend Harry
Don't forget we now meet at Fire Mountain Family Steakhouse 1180 S. Main Street, Kernersville, 27284, 336-996-0456 At Our November Meeting Well Wayne Walker from ClearWire was a no show, after confirming the day before the meeting, THANKX WAYNE. But our own John Fuller (recently hired on by Culminis) did a great job be showing you how model the business process of a new client. This is a skill most IT Pro's are lacking and really need to get their heads around. More and more as we move forward you are going to be called on to do more than just hook up the computers, if you don't learn these new skills you are liable to go the way of the doodoo bird and become extinct. At Our October Meeting I met a guy named Richard Nixon (yes that is really his name) at the first meeting of the South Carolina SBS Group I attended recently lead by Roger Swanson. Richard works for a company called Red Condor, which does e-mail filtering something like what postini or Exchange Defender does, but works on a different principle. Anyways he said he would love to come to our group in person and tell us about it. So he will be the presenter for October. I know some of you use the other solutions, so bring your tough questions and lets see if Red Condor holds up. I have asked a few of the security folks I know and none of them have heard of them yet, so you may be the first on your block to hear about this new technology. The other thing I would like to hear about at this meeting is y'alls reaction to this years SMB Nation, We were represented very well with 7 of our members in attendance. So let me know what you though about the conference and share your stories with those who couldn't attend. Don't forget we now meet at Fire Mountain Family Steakhouse 1180 S. Main Street, Kernersville, 27284, 336-996-0456 At Our September Meeting Scott out Co-:Leader ran the meeting as I was already on the West Coast in preparation for the Annual SMB Nation Conference. Speaking of Redmond, I enjoyed seeing y'all at the Community Table which is shared by my favorite teams, the SBS-MVP's, The SMBTN and the InternationalSBSgroupLeads.
Michael presented on DNN. He did a great overview of how it works and what it looks like to the end user as well as the administrator/creator. I think it is very useful for SBSer’s to know how to put together a simple web site to get customers started- and this is a great tool to use to do it. During the installation portion of the presentation we got to see several installation methods that didn’t work. As soon as everyone left and he was able to concentrate without the pressure of the group he realized what he was doing wrong. There were several DotNetNuke versions and he was selecting the latest upgrade versions. You have to start with the base version first, so he needed to start with DotNetNuke_3.0.13 version to begin the installation. After that completes, then you can upgrade by overlaying the DotNetNuke_3.2.2 overtop of the current code. To get a look and feel for what DNN looks like visit some of the sites Michael has developed: www.wsoptimist.org this site gets 80,000 hits a month during soccer season. www.TechnoStudy.com (version 2.0) www.TriadEAR.com (version 3.0) www.TriadSQL.com (version 3.0) team.IHFRA.org (version 3.0) www.PTNUG.org (version 1.0) www.DotNetNuke.com this sites has many showcase sites developed each week www.SnowCovered.com lots more info- modules etc. At our August meeting We had an informal Q&A session amongst ourselves, Also I did a short demo of Dana's Firewall Dashboard and then showed off some of the work Anne Stanton and I have been doing for one of my clients with CRM SBE 3.0, sometimes I think these unplanned or unstructured sessions are the best. Have you heard the SBS Tour is coming to Charlotte this time, I will be there will you?
Here is the note I got from Mark the leader of the Charlotte SBS Group.
Our normal meeting day is the first Tuesday of each month, we meet at
6:00pm, come join us and be a part of SBS Land. This is not intended to be a web user group.
If you are interested becoming involved please
Member of
these fine organizations And part of the community of IT Pro Groups Sponsored by
Your input is very welcome, please let us hear from you. Looking forward to seeing Y'All at the North Main Cafe! HandyAndy [SBS-MVP] DownHome Computers (my company) Specializes in Small Business Server
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