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My first non-technical article in a long time is now live at cloudbold.com

This article takes a look at how the move to the cloud in IT will affect IT Professionals, what the challenges are and what opportunities are there. It’s an interesting discussion that I have with my students at TAFE frequently, with my fellow teachers and with colleagues in the industry. Read it here, you have to register to read the full article. Feel free to comment below or email me with feedback.

Enjoy the article and thanks for reading.

Prometric Shines…. not + new Article

So, Prometric’s brilliant online test booking system allowed me to book a beta exam on a day (10th of Jan) in a test center that wasn’t open. “Sorry, someone should have called you…..” Well they didn’t and my rebooked exam for the 12th didn’t exactly work out either – Brisbane CBD was closed down due to flooding. Ah, well, I’ll do the SBS 2011 exam in it’s real for when it comes out.

My article for 4Sysops on Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer is now live here.

Enjoy and thanks for reading

Small Business Server 2011 beta 1 review

As a small business consultant my professional life has revolved around Microsoft’s small business server for the last 10 years (ah, the joys of the console in SBS NT 4 – there were some real gremlins in there). You young ones have no idea…… But I digress…..

My focus on SBS may change over the next few years with these storm clouds coming but for now SBS 2011 Standard (the follow up to SBS 2008, everything on premise) with Win 08 R2, Exchange 2010 and SharePoint foundation 2010 is here.

My review of the beta (no changes expected in the RTM version) is now online at Zdnet.com.au here.

Wish me luck on the SBS 2011 beta exam this coming Monday (10th of January).

Enjoy and thanks for reading