Entries from July 2008

National Baconator Day

Date July 8, 2008

My personal laptops I use for training and presentations are really top-notch. But I’ve been riding a worn-out hand-me-down whitebox rig for my day-to-day desktop PC, and it’s pretty much been circling the drain. Fan gave out on the video card, hard drive is tripping S.M.A.R.T. alarms for temperature, slow CPU, skimpy RAM, Outlook […]

SBS 2008 Launch Date Announced

Date July 7, 2008

Today, July 7, 2008, at Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) Microsoft announced the official launch date of SBS 2008 (Cougar):
Per Steven VanRoekel:
“I am excited to announce that Nov. 12, 2008, is the official launch date for Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008. Activities that day will signal availability of both solutions […]

Crazy Screen Shots – iTunes

Date July 4, 2008

More iTunes weirdness today:

Sure, I’ve got a lot of songs but, Wow! It stuck like that until I restarted iTunes.

Free Windows Mobile Training

Date July 4, 2008

We’ve talked about this before, but it bears repeating as the topic came up in one of the mailing lists today.  I wanted to pass along the info in case you haven’t come across it before:
www.windowsmobiletraining.com

If you sell Windows Mobile devices to your clients, this site is fantastic! This is, hands-down, my favorite Microsoft […]

Changes to SBS Phone Support

Date July 4, 2008

We’ve all been there. It’s 4:50 PM on a Friday afternoon (or a holiday weekend) and you get the call from a client, “Our server just went down.”  In times like that it’s nice to know that you’re not working without a net – you can always call Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS).
Well, before you […]