Has a customer ever asked you if CRM 1.2 will run on SBS 2003 R2? 
What about Small Business Accounting 2006 on a pre-SP1 SBS box? 
Is Vista RC 1 supported in an SBS environment, or is Office 97 supported by WSUS?
The answers to these and many other SBS-related questions can be found on several handy charts […]

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The pictures I took at the SBS Tour in Louisville last week on 18 September 2006 are now online on Flickr.  Our presenters were Ron Grattopp from the TS2 team and Paul Fitzgerald who is the Lead Program Manager for SBS.
If anyone else has event pictures that they’d like to share from the Louisville event […]

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The 2006 SBS Partner Tour that rolled through town last week really sparked a lot of dialog.  For example, I got a call from an SBSer today asking for clarification on SBS R2.  They wanted to know if they need to upgrade a client to SBS R2 just to increase the Exchange store limit.  In a […]

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Webcast:  Small Business Specialist Community Quarterly Webcast
Presenters: Eric Ligman & Paige Boesen
Date: Tuesday 9/26/2006
Time: 1:30 PM Eastern (GMT -5)
Duration: 90 minutes
Description:
Participate in the Microsoft Small Business Specialist Community quarterly webcasts designed to serve as forums where we can unite as a community to hear new developments and gather feedback on the SBSC “Grow Your Small […]

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This info comes courtesy of Andrew Delozey at Interprom. 
The Issue:
Nightly backup was repeatedly failing within one minute of starting.
The Error: 
Volume shadow copy creation: Attempt 1.
“MSDEWriter” has reported an error 0×800423f4. This is part of System State. The backup cannot continue.
Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:800423f4
Aborting Backup.
The Details:
Initially when this was entered into Google […]

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Today I got my first email with an Office 2007 Word .docx attachment, and since I’m still running Office 2003 on my desktop PC at the office, I couldn’t open it.  So now I have to e-mail Andrew back and ask him to re-save the file in Office 2003 format, right?  Wrong.
Title:  Microsoft Office Compatibility […]

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The release of the Beta 2 Technical Refresh for the 2007 Microsoft Office system is available.
File Name:  office2007b2tr-kb000000-fullfile-en-us.exe
Version:  1
Date Published:  9/6/2006
Language:  English
Download Size:  494.7 MB 
Download URL:  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b07a3387-01cf-4bc3-821a-0bb10e7a59fa&DisplayLang=en
Microsoft has developed a Technical Refresh with modifications such as improved performance, better product integration, improved collaboration tools as well as general fit and finish changes.
This Technical Refresh is […]

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Vista RC1 is officially out.  (I promise this time
Title:  Windows Vista RC1 (v5600-16384) for X86 and X64 (English)
Release Date:  9/1/2006
Size:  6,261.47 MB
Version:  RC1 (v5600-16384)
Category:  Build
Milestone:  RC1
Description:  
Please ensure you uncheck any files you don’t wish to download.  You should use your same key(s) from previous releases.  To generate a new key, please request from […]

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