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Mar
7

Third Tier Staff Award Nominations are Ready for Your Vote

by amy

Several members of the Third Tier staff have been nominated for the 150 most influential in SMB. This award is sponsored by SMBTN and SMB Nation. There are many reasons why people are nominated for this recognition but all of them revolve around one thing: commitment to the IT community. At Third Tier, we are fortunate to also have many MVP’s on staff; another award for commitment to the IT community. You might say it’s in our blood.

This year members of our staff were the top travellers on the all volunteer SMB IT Community Roadshow, sponsored by HP, MIcrosoft and SBSMigration.com, hitting over 25 cities in total. It was a fun show and we got to meet lots of great IT professionals committed to small business. The tour showcased SBS, MultiPoint and Storage Server Essentials.

We’re also frequent speakers at usergroups all over the Country. You probably know us too from the many forums we participate in.

If you have appreciated the volunteer time that we put into the IT community I would encourage you to recognize the individuals below. It’s a little something that can mean a lot. While you are there be sure to browse around and also recognize the other volunteers that influenced you and your business this year too.

Here are the direct links to our nominations. Click the green arrow by our names to place your vote. You will be prompted to login to prevent voting fraud.

Amy Babinchak http://smb150.com/search.php?search=babinchak

Cliff Galiher http://smb150.com/search.php?search=cliff

Jeremy Anderson http://smb150.com/search.php?search=jeremy

Steven Banks http://smb150.com/story.php?title=steven-banks-1

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Aug
10

Registration is OPEN!

by amy

Join us for a Brain Explosion Master Class in Remote Access

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Join us on September 29th in Las Vegas for an SMBNation Pre-Day event.

The day will begin at 8:30am with introductions, then at 9:00am sharp the first session begins. Lunch and an evening at the pub are included with your $100 registration fee. So not only are we providing amazing content by our very own Third Tier consulting team, but we’re going to have fun too!

Members of our own staff will be presenting at this event: Eriq Neale, Brian Higgins, Dave Shackelford, Jeremy Anderson, Steve Banks and Cliff Galiher

Here’s what we’ve got planned:

2011 Brain Explosion – A Master Class in Remote Access

8:30am – doors open, meet & greet, welcome by Amy Babinchak
9:00am – Mastering DNS
10:15 – break (15 min)
10:30 – Under the covers of Remote Web Access – how it all works.
12:00 – lunch break (30 min) Vendors Lunch.
12:30 – Securing Remote Access using Radius
1:15 – To Be Determined
2:30 – break (15 min)
2:45 – Advanced Exchange Diagnostics
3:30 – Really Enabling Work from Anywhere on Multiple Devices
4:15 – Final thoughts, dismiss by Amy Babinchak

Later that same evening: PARTY with Third Tier at the local Pub.

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May
31

Welcome Michael Smith!

by amy

We’d like to introduce you to the latest addition to our consulting team, Michael Smith. Michael is an Exchange guru. He is also the author of Monitoring Exchange Server 2007 with System Center Operations Manager.

Country and Time Zone (in GMT):
USA, EST, -5GMT

Areas of Expertise:
Exchange, Directory Services, System Center Operations Center

Certifications and Awards:
MVP Exchange
MCSE NT4/2000/2003
MCITP:EMA and SA
CCNA

Related Work Experience or Business Ownership:
Michael has had over 25 years of experience in the IT field and focuses on providing solutions that support customers goals for operational excellence.

Book:
Monitoring Exchange Server 2007 with Operations Manager

Social Networking:

http://theessentialexchange.com

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Apr
27

Welcome Jeremy Anderson!

by amy

We’d like to introduce you to the latest addition to our consulting team, Jeremy Anderson. Jeremy has a diverse background in supporting large and small businesses. Amy has known Jeremy for a number of years.

Jeremy Anderson

Country and Time Zone (in GMT):
USA Pacific, -8 GMT

Certifications and Awards:
MCSE 2003 + Messaging
SBSC

Areas of Expertise:
SBS 2003, Exchange Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS

Related Work Experience:
Active Directory and Exchange Administrator. Small Business Specialist.

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Mar
18

Have Questions about Preparing to Migrate to SBS 2011 Standard?

by amy

A forum thread has just been created for the topic Preparing to Migrate to SBS 2011 Standard. Didn’t get to ask a question during Q&A? Ask it on the forum.

www.thirdtier.net/forum

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Feb
21

Eriq Neale Appearing on Talk TechNet February 25, 2011

by Third Tier

Third Tier co-founder Eriq Neale will be appearing on Talk TechNet live this coming Friday, February 25, 2011. This is a LIVE event where you can call in and ask questions via phone, or connect using Live Meeting and submit questions through that interface during the hour. Based on previous episodes, this promises to be an entertaining and educational hour.

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032476777&Culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Talk TechNet with Keith Combs and Matt Hester – Episode 10: Eriq Neale on Small Business Server (Level 200)

Event ID: 1032476334

Language(s): English.

Product(s): Windows Small Business Server.

Audience(s): IT Decision Maker, IT Generalist.

Event Overview

Talk TechNet is all about discussing topics and trends in the world of IT Professionals. In this show we’ll have guest Eriq Neale. Eriq is a Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) MVP six years running. Eriq is a native Texan, founder and owner of EON Consulting. I’m sure you’ll recognize his name as lead author for the books Microsoft Small Business Server Unleashed (both 2003 and 2008). Call in and join us for what promises to be a lively 60 minute session. Get some burning questions answered.

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Feb
18

We’ve got Forums!

by amy

Third Tier is pleased to introduce forums.

We’re going to kick off the forum experience by creating a topic for each webinar that we present. Using the forum you will be able to interact with other listeners of the webinar and ask questions of the presenter of that webinar. So if you think of question long after the Q&A session is over, the forum offers you another opportunity to get your questions answered.

The forum is found at http://www.thirdtier.net/forum

Once you have created an ID on the forum you will have access to a user control panel. This is not only an opportunity for you to set a signature and tell us a bit about yourself but you can also setup Buddy Lists and review the threads you’ve subscribed to all in one place.

So please help us get the forums off the ground and register your ID today. http://www.thirdtier.net/forum

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Feb
15

Welcome Robert Pearman!

by amy

We’re quite pleased to be able to add another non-USA consultant to the team. Robert will be adding day time support for our European friends and evening support to the East Coast of the USA. Robert’s specialty is Small Business Server and he’s recently started a blog.

Robert Pearman

Country and Time Zone (in GMT):
UK London GMT

Areas of Expertise:
Windows Server, Small Business Server, Networking, DNS/DHCP, ISA Server

Certifications and Awards:
MCP, MCDST, MCTS, MCITP, MCSA, MCSE, MCSA+S, MCSE+S, S+, N+, SBSC, SBS MVP

Technical blog and/or publications, recent speaking engagements, etc:
www.sbstips.com
robertpearman.wordpress.com

Related Work Experience or Business Ownership:
IT Authority (www.itauthority.co.uk)
Ittium Ltd (www.ittium.com)

Where I hang out online:
smallbizserver.net

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Feb
14

Welcome Webster!

by amy

How could a guy named Webster have turned out to be anything but an amazing Geek? Third Tier is pleased to welcome Webster to our consulting team. He brings a unique skillset to the team allowing us to introduce a new area of support: Citrix. Webster holds numerous certifications in Citrix technologies and is one of the world’s foremost and respected Citrix professionals.

Carl ‘Webster’ Webster

Country and Time Zone (in GMT): USA, CST, -6GMT

Areas of Expertise:
Citrix, Terminal Server, Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, Exchange

Certifications and Awards:
Citrix Technology Professional, CCIA, CCEE, CCEA, MCT, MCITP, MCTS, MCSE: Messaging, MCSE, MCSA

Technical blog and/or publications, recent speaking engagements, etc:
http://dabcc.com/Webster
http://dabcc.com/BasicsofXenAppBook.html

Related Work Experience or Business Ownership:
9 years in Mainframes, 15 years in software development and 10 years in Windows networking.

Where I hang out online:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/System_Utilities/Remote_Access/Citrix/

ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com

exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com

thin@freelists.org

Social Networking:
LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook

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Feb
11

Welcome Brian Higgins!

by amy

Third Tier is very pleased to introduce Brian Higgins to the consulting team. Brian has a wide range of experience in server management spanning medium and small businesses. In addition to being able to support the current team, he bring unique skills in remote access and virtualization.

Brian Higgins

Country and Time Zone (in GMT) USA, EST, -5GMT

Areas of Expertise:
Windows Server, SBS Server , Active Directory, Group Policy, Exchange Server (2000-2010), Hyper-V, ISA Server, Terminal Services, RRAS, DPM Server, iSCSI, OSPF, BGP, Wireless, Remote Access, VPN

Certifications and Awards:
MikroTik RouterOS Administrator
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft Small Business Specialist
Microsoft Small Business Sales and Marketing

Related Work Experience or Business Ownership:
Investor / Manager – The Hosting News, 3/10-12/10
Director of MS and Data Center Technologies & Senior Network Engineer – Netology, 12/08-5/10
Founding Partner & V.P. / Senior Network Engineer – ForePoint Networks, 8/05-3/09
Founding Owner / Senior Network Engineer – Accent Consulting Services, 11/02-12/08
Systems Administrator -Round Grove Machine Corp. 06/01 – 10/02
Network Administrator – Kelly Construction of Indiana, 03/98 – 04/00.

Social Networking:
LinkedIn

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