Aaron Booker from Varvid talks about Small Business Specialist with SBSCers at Microsoft’s Smart and Simple Solutions Conference for Small Business. Brad Benner from X-Bar IT, Steve Banks from Banks Consulting NW Inc., Cameron Slade from the Silvertip Group Inc, and Jamison West from JWCS all mention some of the reasons they work with Microsoft Small Business Specialist. They also talk about the benefits to having small business specialist certification.
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WPC09 Wrapup with Aaron Booker and Pat Dolan
Varvid’s Aaron Booker and Pat Dolan wrap up the coverage of WPC09 by highlighting some key tends of the Worldwide Partner Conference. Microsoft has increased company openness and decided to become more engaged with small business owners. The company is concerned with becoming more humble and helpful to their partners. New exciting features are coming from Microsoft Office 2010 and many more new products are coming this year including Windows 7.
Dean Paron – Principal Architect Windows Server Solutions Group
Aaron Booker from Varvid interviews Dean Paron, the Principal Architect of the Windows Server Solutions Group. They are the group builds Windows Home Server, Small Business Server, Essential Business Server, and Windows Server Foundation. He explains some things you can do with Windows SBS 2008 that you didn’t know you can do. There are tools built into the SBS 2008 program that help you manage your internet domain name. You can manage pre-existing domain names without needing to buy a new one. He also explains what Windows Server Foundation is.
Dean Calvert – Varvid Interview w/ the Managing Director of Calvert Technologies
Aaron Booker from Varvid interviews w/ Dean Calvert, the Managing Director of Calvert Technologies. Calvert is a Gold-Certified Microsoft Partner Small Business Specialist based in Adelaide, Australia. Facilitates the user group there as well.
Varvid Interviews Scott Turner from Microsoft at #WPC09
Aaron Booker from Varvid interviews Scott Turner who is the Channel Development Manager – Transaction Partners. He’s the World Wide Channel Development Manager responsible for listening to the voice of the partner to drive simplification of the licensing ecosystem. Also responsible for the field sales force called the Partner territory manager. They increase the number of partners interacting in the VARS space. He’s trying to drive licensing training in the channel. Visit the new Microsoft Partner licensing website with a host of new training resources available.
Varvid interviews Birger Steen – VP of Microsoft’s SMB Division
Aaron Booker from Varvid.com and Birger Steen from Microsoft spoke about the SMB space and VARs while at WPC 09. Birger is the VP of SMB & Distribution – Worldwide SMS&P. In other words – Birger Steen drives the bus that all the Partners we know are on. GREAT interview. We see Birger “getting it” about the SMB/VAR Partner space in a major way.
Part 1 of our Interview with Birger Steen:
Part 2 of our Interview with Birger Steen:
