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We’re Speaking at SMB Nation East
Posted by: | CommentsThe content is lining up for SMB Nation East and we’re proud to be part of it. Third Tier staff members Amy Babinchak and Eriq Neale will be presenting in separate sessions. Amy is partnered with SBS-MVP Kevin Royalty, together they will talk about how they have implemented a range of new backup solutions for their clients. There’s no one size fits all anymore, so we’ll be trotting out lots of different solutions to show when, where and why we implemented them. Eriq will be a busy guy during his presentation. The world of IT is changing and boy to we have choices. Choices are a good thing, or are they?
GS103: Backup here, backup there, backup everywhere
Speaker: Amy Babinchak, Kevin Royalty 
Agenda
By now everyone knows that backup has changed. We’ve gone from tape backing up data only to the wonderful world of hardware independent image backup and restore. Suddenly the options are endless. We can backup workstations incrementally, a whole server every 15 minutes, we can store them locally, on removable media, send it off-site or all three! But will your client pay for all of this wonderful new backup technology? How do you present it to them? Amy and Kevin will discuss the various technologies and show you what they are doing for their clients and how to sell it.
GS101: Alternative Solutions in the SMB Space
Speaker: Eriq Neale Agenda
“What if SBS isn’t the best solution for my client?” If you’ve been asking yourself this question recently, you may find some answers in this session. Eriq Neale demonstrates two on-premise solutions and other cloud-based services that might be a more viable option for some of your customers, with real-world implementation examples. Is the notion of “one size fits all” still viable in the SMB space? Come learn and decide for yourself!
If you haven’t registered for the conference yet, then now we would be a good time to do so. Your conference fee includes accommodations at the Hyatt! Can’t beat the value. Use the link below to register.
http://www.smbnation.com/Events/SMBNationSpring2010/PricingandRegistration/tabid/288/Default.aspx
Webinar: Friends of Third Tier – Calyptix
Posted by: | CommentsBen Yarborough of Calyptix will be with us next week for our Friends of Third Tier webinar. Calyptix was a first vendor partner for us. Together we are helping Calyptix customers implement and solve security issues in their clients networks.
Ben will give us an overview of the Calyptix product and show what sets it apart in the market. They have designed this firewall specifically for the under 100 user business and it’s a UTM appliance that can help you consolidate some of the security services your clients need into a single device. Being a lawyer by trade, Ben also has a keen understanding of the risks and responsibilities that businesses have.
Please join us next week. Mark your calendar now. The show will start at 12 Noon Eastern (-5gmt), Thursday February 10th.
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Welcome Wayne Small
Posted by: | CommentsThird Tier is pleased to announce the addition of Wayne Small to our staff.
Wayne has expertise in many areas including: Small Business Server, Essential Business Server, Trend Micro, Hyper-V Virtualization, Exchange, ISA, Networking, DNS/DHCP, and Active Directory. He is also a long time SBS MVP. His biography is located at http://www.thirdtier.net/who/wayne-small
Wayne lives and works in Australia, which is +10 GMT, effectively presenting Third Tier with an opportunity to better serve our clients across a wider range of hours. You may know Wayne as the Aussie that attends and speaks at many conferences in the USA and the owner of SBSFAQ a well known community resource.
Welcome to Third Tier, Wayne!
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Webinar: Third Thursday, Foundation Server with Eriq Neale
Posted by: | CommentsWhat? You haven’t heard of Foundation Server? Inexpensive, no cals, up to 15 users and worth its weight in gold to your client? Eriq will discuss the technical bits of Foundation Server and suggest where it use makes the most sense.
When: Thursday, Jan 21, 2010 12:00 PM (EST)
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Corrected URL for Today’s SMB Virtualization Webinar
Posted by: | CommentsThe URL in the blog post for today’s webinar is incorrect. My apologies for not noticing that hosted Exchange had grabbed and mangled the URL. Below is the correct URL.
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Dave Shackelford Named Exchange MVP
Posted by: | CommentsThird Tier is proud to announce that Dave Shackelford has been honored by Microsoft with the MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award for 2010.
Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities. Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts that represents the technical community’s best and brightest, and they share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others. For more information on the MVP program, visit http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/.
Dave was awarded for the Exchange Server category. His MVP profile can be found at https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=B058C0A5-2970-4645-BEA1-A7EAECEA9C2A
Friends of Third Tier: SMB Virtualization next Thursday, January 14th Noon Eastern
Posted by: | CommentsRemember this press release from December 9th? http://www.thirdtier.net/2009/12/smb-virtualization-and-third-tier-partner-to-support-computer-network-virtualization/ We’re very excited to be working for the best SMB Virtualization brain in the industry. Dave owns an IT consulting business in the Washington DC area and he’s been implementing virtualization projects for his clients for a couple of years now. Recently he formed SMB Virtualization to help any IT firm in this space bring virtualization projects into their business successfully. Dave’s success was recently noticed by Microsoft and he received an MVP in Virtualization.
Dave is going to talk about the opportunity to add high margin virtualization to your practice and the value is brings to your client. We will also squeeze in conversation on the new skill sets required to support virtualization and how our partnership can help you go forth with confidence.
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Third Tier consultants named Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals
Posted by: | CommentsThird Tier is proud to announce that Amy Babinchak, Eriq Neale and Steve Banks have been honored by Microsoft with the MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award for 2010.
Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities. Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts that represents the technical community’s best and brightest, and they share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others. For more information on the MVP program, visit http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/.
Amy was awarded for the Essential Business Server category. Her MVP profile can be found at https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=EBF7B66B-D1F4-4CE5-A025-A1C147F086DF
Eriq was awarded for the Small Business Server category. His MVP profile can be found at https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=92191CEA-3309-4D91-B674-491DB73AA1B6
Steve was awarded for the Small Business Server category. His MVP profile can be found at https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=2AF5F8C3-9294-4090-A3DF-90D736D842EF
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Another Blog Added
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The other steveb – Steve Banks’ Blog on SBS, EBS, and other Small Business Technology Topics
Our very own Steven Banks blog has been imported into the Third Tier blog. Looks for Steve’s posts such as:
BPOS Sync Tool does not migrate passwords; Critical Update Available for ShadowProtect 3.x Customers; How to Manually Install Certificates in SBS 2008; Microsoft Joins Push for Better Computer Science Education in U.S.; and many more.
You can catch up on Steve’s posts by click on his name under any one of them. This will take you into the Steve Banks archive.
New Blog Content
Posted by: | CommentsWith the permission of our fabulous engineers, the Third Tier blog will now contain “re-prints” of their blog content. So subscribe to the Third Tier blog and you will now get content from several excellent technical resources. Please have a look at this great new content. Since we are importing this content, they will not all be at the top of the blog page rather they will be appear in date order of when they were written on the original blog source. If you’d like to see all content from a particular blog source, just click the authors name and you will be taken to the full archive.
The first two to be integrated are:
Edwin Sarmiento’s blog bassplayerdoc. With topics such as: Installing SQL Server 2008 Failover Cluster on a Windows Server 2008 R2? ; Enabling wireless on Windows Server 2008 – and eventually allowing Hyper-V guests to use it; Connecting HyperV guests to the local network even before installing Integration Services; Blank space between startup parameters
Eriq Neale’s blog lessonslearned. With topics such as: Another reason SBCore could shut down your server; Windows Activation Errors; Connecting to Exchange 2007 from Snow Leopard Mail Client; Connecting iPhone 3.x to Exchange
More will be coming soon.
