October 2005 - Posts
Hey There all of you! Just back from a few days of vacation and a TS2 Event in New York City last week. 122 Partners attended that one in Manhattan! Vlad from www.vladville.com turned me on to the SBS SHOW on the web. It has Podcast's you can download and some other really great stuff. It's definitely worth checking out! This show is all about the small business technology communities that can help you get better as an SBSer, it pro, technician, salesman or that guy stuck with running a server in the small business. Travel the world of information from the comfort of your chair, they talk about SBS groups, sites, blogs and mailing lists for every interest. www.sbsshow.com Check this one out folks!
Here is your chance to get a great amount of visibility in the MS partner directories! Just follow the links and fill out the forms and let customers know why you are different from your competititors! This is an easy way to grow your business and get more customers!
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Profile Your Solutions Once and Communicate Them Everywhere
Enter your company’s offerings in Partner Solution Profiler. Providing this information in one location will allow you to reach both customers and Microsoft partners through Partner Channel Builder and customer-facing solution directories.
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Please be sure that the solution profiles you submit meet the following quality standards to be exposed in the online search directories.
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Solution profiles must be updated annually through the online tool.
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Solution profiles must be supported by customer references.
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Customer references may be validated by Microsoft at any time.
To use Partner Solution Profiler, you must be a member of the Microsoft Partner Program. Not enrolled yet? Become a Registered Member for free in just 15 minutes.
Why Use the Partner Solution Profiler?
Get visibility in Microsoft customer and partner directories by describing your solutions and differentiating them from those of your competitors. When you enter your solutions in Partner Solution Profiler, they will appear in both Partner Channel Builder and customer-facing solution directories.
Extend Your Market Reach with Partner Channel Builder
Partner Channel Builder enables you to network with other Microsoft partners on potential opportunities. Promote your business online to more easily enter new markets and geographies while helping to reduce your operating and demand-generation costs.
Connect with Customers and Plug into Microsoft through Customer Solution Finder
Customer Solution Finder, launching later this year, will help you promote your company's solutions to potential customers. Profiling your solutions also helps you qualify for leads and co-marketing support with Microsoft.
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Sybari provides a key layer of defense, helping to stop threats before they impact businesses and users. The antivirus, anti-spam, and enterprise management products are tightly integrated with the servers they protect to maintain infrastructure reliability and performance. Product benefits include:
Layered Defenses
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Reduces cost with better protection against viruses and worms through multiple scan engines.
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Improves productivity with anti-spam technology.
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Enforces policies with content filtering.
Integration with Infrastructure
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Helps maintain availability of infrastructure.
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Optimized for Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint Products and Technologies, and Live Communications Server instant messaging.
Protection Against Latest Security Threats
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Reduces cost by automatically updating signatures from multiple antivirus labs.
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Helps IT keep ahead of evolving spammer techniques through anti-spam updates. |
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Sybari software can help businesses protect their messaging and collaboration servers from viruses, worms, and spam through comprehensive security solutions that tightly integrate with Microsoft messaging and collaboration platforms.
Antivirus protection can be provided at the server level through the unique multiple-scan engine approach offered by the following solutions:
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Sybari for Microsoft Exchange
Help protect Exchange Server 5.5, Exchange 2000 Server, and Exchange Server 2003 from viruses and enable advanced content filtering for corporate security policy management.
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Sybari for SharePoint
Help protect Microsoft SharePoint site document libraries from viruses and unwanted content.
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Sybari for Instant Messaging
Help protect Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 with real-time virus and content scanning.
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Sybari for SMTP Gateways
Help stop viruses at the network edge through Microsoft Windows Server SMTP gateways.
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Sybari for Lotus Domino
Help protect against spam and viruses, including those native to Domino environments.
Anti-spam solutions help protect businesses from the latest spam through a combination of advanced detection techniques.
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Sybari Advanced Spam Manager
Help reduce email spam for computers running Exchange Server and for Microsoft Windows SMTP gateways.
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Sybari Advanced Spam Defense
Help reduce spam by combining clocking technology powered by real-time, up-to-the-minute signature lookups with multiple scanning techniques.
Enterprise management solutions enable administrators to configure, monitor, and report on multiple installations of Sybari security technologies from a single console.
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Sybari Enterprise Manager
Provides a single place for configuration, monitoring, and reporting of Sybari technologies.
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Sybari Management Pack for MOM 2005
Leverages existing Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 (MOM 2005) deployment to monitor Sybari security technologies. | |
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The Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act focuses on regulating corporate behavior for the protection of financial records. Learn how our Sybari products can help you achieve SOX compliance. |
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| HIPAA Compliance (PDF) |
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In recent years, evolving federal regulations have changed the way organizations conduct business. Learn how our Sybari products can help you be compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). |
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| Sybari for Microsoft Exchange Datasheet |
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Help prevent business disruptions by providing a preemptive line of defense against email viruses, worms, and malicious code in a multi-layered solution. |
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| Sybari for SharePoint Evaluation Guide |
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This product offers high-performance antivirus and document filtering for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Provide your team and customers with this evaluation guide. |
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During the coming months we will be announcing exciting new capabilities that will be part of the next release of Microsoft Office products, currently code-named Microsoft Office "12." Visit this site often for the latest news, and register to get the beta when it's available. |
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Microsoft is now providing native support for the creation of PDF documents from within Office "12" applications. With this capability, Office customers can create widely viewable and printable documents directly from within Office applications. |
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Microsoft Office "12" is being redesigned to make it easier for people to find and use the features and commands they need to get the results they want. Read the overview to learn how. |
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The New Microsoft Office User Interface will make working with Microsoft Office easier and more productive—meaning, better results faster. Get answers to your questions and learn more. |
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The Microsoft ECM offering spans document management, records management, and Web content management and includes powerful search and workflow capabilities. Learn more about our ECM offering and how it can be easily managed, integrated, and extended. | |
We did a segment on Mobility April-June at our Ts2 Events nad there was a lot of momentum on this whole subject. Here is some great info on Mobility for you to grow your business in this space!
If your company designs, deploys, or customizes mobility solutions using Microsoft technologies, attaining the new Mobility Solutions Competency can aid you in promoting your skills to customers. Find out more about the benefits, requirements, training, and certification exams.
Learn more about this Microsoft Competency | | |
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Lots of really good stuff on SBSC, Small Business and SBS. Interested in learning more about small business-related questions? These valuable and engaging sites cover small business issues and software used in solutions provided by Small Business Specialists.
Microsoft Small Business Community Blog
Find how-to tips and tricks, breaking news, and other information relevant to the Microsoft partner community. Some posts come from conversations with partners; other posts are based on upcoming promotions or knowledge that is relevant to small business oriented partners.
Gain tips and tricks for getting through everyday life using Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 (SBS 2003), Windows XP, and Office 2003.
Mark Stanfill, Technical Lead for SBS Support at Microsoft tells it like it is. Offers up occasional "Stump the SBS Gang" free calls for SBS users among many other really good stuff for you!
Other Great SBSC Blogs to check out!
The Microsoft Partner Program is rolling out new program enhancements to help you extend your market reach, increase operational efficiency, and realize maximum business potential.
This announcement represents the most significant enhancements to the program since its inception approximately 18 months ago. Many of the new benefits are available today, and the rest will become available early this fall. In addition, we’ve centralized processes, expanded into global support, added four new Microsoft Competencies, streamlined and simplified the Partner Points model, and made many all-around enhancements to the tools and infrastructure to make it easier to do business. Download the complete announcement for additional details.
Turn Expertise into Opportunity: Achieve a Competency
Achieving a Microsoft Competency enables you to promote your expertise and differentiate your organization from the competition. Attaining a competency provides access to additional benefits and value-added resources to help drive business results.
Save Up to 30% on Microsoft Certification Exams Worldwide
To help Gold Certified and Certified Partners become qualified to attain Microsoft Competencies, Microsoft is offering certification exam savings on Partner Competency Exams (PCEs) and Microsoft Business Solutions and Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) exams for a limited time. Learn more. |
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We’ve centralized processes, expanded into global support, added four new Microsoft Competencies, streamlined and simplified the Partner Points model, and made many all-around enhancements to the tools and infrastructure. The following are highlights of what is new. |
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Four New Competencies
Changes to Existing Competencies
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The Business Intelligence Competency will be renamed Data Management Solutions with Database Management and Business Intelligence as the underlying specializations
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New Opportunities for Small Business
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The Microsoft Professional Accountants’ Network (U.S. Only)
Improved Membership Management
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Partner Membership Center
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Simplified navigation, unified anniversary dates, and points expiration
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Streamlined enrollment and renewal process
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Automatic enrollment into competencies (if requirements are met)
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New support for global businesses
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Software License sales
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Small Business Specialist designation
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Pool Partner Points across multiple locations
New and Improved Benefits, Tools, and Resources
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New Customer Solution Finder (will launch later this year)
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The Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 Partner Services Promotion is designed to help you increase your sales of Office Professional Edition 2003 and to put you in a position to provide the services your customers need. For a limited time, Microsoft will offer as much as $30,000 in partner service subsidies to qualifying customers when they acquire a minimum of five (5) Office Professional Edition 2003 licenses. Qualifying customers will receive service dollars in the form of a check from Microsoft made out directly to you to provide the services they need.
Here’s how it works:
When customers acquire a minimum of 5 qualifying Office Professional Edition 2003 licenses through Microsoft Volume Licensing programs, they will receive partner service dollars as described in the Terms and Conditions. The customer can use this check for partner services with the partner of their choice.
To register to receive the services subsidy, your customer needs to visit the Microsoft Incentives website. After registering, your customers will receive a check for up to $30,000 from Microsoft based on their qualifying license purchases. The services check will be made out to the partner of their choice. This offer is good for qualifying licenses acquired between October 17, 2005 and March 31, 2006. Customers must register before May 31, 2006 in order to receive their services subsidy. |
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How the redemption works:
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Customer selects the Microsoft partner of their choice to perform the services
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Customer submits their redemption
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A check is made out to the selected partner, and mailed to the customer for partner services to be performed
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Partner follows up with the customer, as checks must be used within 90 days
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View a recording of the October 3 webcast to learn how your customers can receive service subsidies from Microsoft when they purchase licenses for Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003.
Important Note: Click here for a full explanation of the Terms and Conditions and eligibility requirements of this promotion. |
For a LIMITED time, eligible partners* who attend live TS2 events will be entered into a drawing to win 100% off technical exam voucher to take either exam 70-282** or exam 74-134** towards enrollment in SBSC for FREE!
Eligibility Requirements:
Note: this information will only be used to send partners voucher redemption codes.
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Partner must be present at TS2 event at time of drawing in order to be eligible to win.
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Eligible partners* will be entered into a drawing to win a 100% off technical exam voucher; limited to one (1) voucher per winning partner per event, while supplies last.
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100% off technical exam voucher is only redeemable for 70-282** or exam 74-134** at Prometric testing centers through the end of November.
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Microsoft reserves the right to end the promotion at any time.
*Partners must meet eligibility requirements as outlined above in order to be entered into the drawing.
**Exam 70-282 Designing, Deploying, and Managing a Network Solution for Small and Medium-Sized Business
**Exam 74-134 Preinstalling Microsoft Products and Technologies Using the OEM Preinstallation Kit
Hey TS2ers!
Find out if your computers and your customer's computers are vulnerable today! Learn how to safegaurd your systems today with SEVEN STEPS to SAFEGUARD YOUR BUSINESS and many others! Click HERE for more info!
Safeguard Your Business in 7 Steps
The 7 steps explain what you need to do to improve the security of your business. They were devised expressly for the small business owner — not for computer gurus — and break down the major security threats that your business may face. We've packaged the 7 steps in a variety of formats — choose the method that's best for you:
Give your company the marketing power of a big business without the expense. Microsoft Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager provides one place where you can keep all of your customer information. It helps you discover new opportunities, lower marketing costs, and improve customer responsiveness — all from your desktop.
The familiar Outlook environment is easy to use and works well with Microsoft Office Edition applications. With integrated business contact features and robust communications capabilities, you get the most from your Microsoft investments. For example, Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003 offers simplicity at a low cost.
Consolidate customer information. Manage all of your customer interactions in one place, including e-mail messages, tasks, appointments, and notes. Better contact management helps you focus on building customer relationships that last.
Track leads and sales prospects. Create complete customer records by tracking customer data. You'll have the information you need to make better-informed decisions more quickly.
Extend your knowledge. Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager is an enhanced version of Outlook, an application you use every day. Spend more time with your customers, not your computer.
Interactive Sales Process Demo Explore the fundamentals of a small business sales process in this self-guided demo.
Sales Process Overview Dig deeper into the benefits of a sales process, the steps involved, and some best practices for meeting the challenges you may face during implementation.
Sales Process Reference Story Follow a sales professional as she implements and customizes the sales process methodology to help close a big sale.
Sales Process Templates Download one or all 17 of the sales process "job aide" templates to help you jumpstart the implementation of your own sales process.