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Remembering Jim Locke

Posted Aug 24 2011 by in SBS with 0 Comments

When we lost Jim Locke this month, we lost a pillar of the SMB community. Jim was a great man, who never ceased in his efforts to grow the community and develop strong relationships with vendors and SMBs. Jim was the president of IT consulting firm ResultWorx, and received the SBS’er of the Year Award for his work with SMBTN.

Jim leaves behind his wife Marilyn and son Brian. Following Jim’s vision that Brian go to college, SMBTN has set up a fund to allow Jim’s SMB community friends to contribute to Brian’s college fund. To learn more, go to http://www.smbtn.org/JimLocke.htm

Below are some moments in Jim’s life which we captured on tape. Please join us in remembering Jim.

Adnet Technologies Benefits from using Quosal with ConnectWise

Posted Nov 9 2009 by in Cloud Services, Conferences, ConnectWise Conference, Managed Services, Microsoft, Microsoft Partner Network, SBS with 0 Comments

Pat Dolan of Varvid.com speaks with Ed Laprade of Adnet Technologies Inc. of Windsor Connecticut, a CPLS authorized Microsoft Training Center at the ConnectWise Partner Summit in Orlando.

Adnet utilizes Quosal, a quote/proposal generation application that integrates with ConnectWise, and Laprade really appreciates the seemlessness and productivity this affords Adnet.


Sean Daniel – Senior Program Manager Windows SBS 2008

Posted Sep 18 2009 by in SBS, WPC with 0 Comments


Aaron Booker from Varvid interviews Sean Daniel, Senior Program Manager SBS 2008. He’s been seeing people back up their most important client PCs inside their business with Windows Home Server. If the computer crashes, you can bring back up in 15-20 minutes. Its a great solution for backing up clients. The Windows Small Business Server has been on the market since November 2008, and they are no longer selling SBS 2003, so now is the time to upgrade.

Dean Calvert – Varvid Interview w/ the Managing Director of Calvert Technologies

Posted Sep 18 2009 by in Microsoft Partner Network, SBS, WPC with 0 Comments

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.

David Fabritius – Technical Product Manager for SBS & EBS

Posted Sep 18 2009 by in SBS, WPC with 0 Comments

Aaron Booker from Varvid interviews David Fabritius, the Technical Product Manager for SBS & EBS. There are lot of issues that pop up that will not stop day to day tasks, but you will need to uncover. The Microsoft IT Environment Health Scanner tool they have developed allows you to identify issues and get prescriptive guidance on how to correct them.

Varvid Speaks with Praerit Garg from Symform at SMB Nation Spring

Posted May 2 2009 by in Conferences, Managed Services, SBS, SMB Nation with 0 Comments

Praerit and his team have built an amazing product – a “Coop” Cloud Storage Company. Only sold through the Channel – flat fee – and your clients get 2/3 of the storage they share. Wow! I think this could be brilliant for Managed Services Providers – I’ll be trying it out in my Hardlines Company practice.

Really intriguing
stuff – learn about them at: http://www.symform.com

David Fabritius – Technical Product Manager for SBS & EBS

Posted Apr 23 2009 by in EBS, Microsoft, SBS with 0 Comments

David spoke to us about some of the products that he is responsible for training partners on at Microsoft. They include SBS & EBS, but also the tools around them like the Best Practice Analyzer for SBS and the Preparation Tools for EBS. These tools are phenomenally useful in our practice as we evaluate a new client environment. David is also responsible for the newly updated Business and Technical Assessment.

SBS Diva, Susan Bradley, speaks with Aaron Booker of Varvid.com – SMB NATION 2008

Posted Oct 8 2008 by in SBS, SMB Nation with 0 Comments

First day wrap up at SMB Nation – Harry Brelsford

Posted Oct 6 2008 by in EBS, SBS, SMB Nation with 0 Comments

We interviewed Harry Brelsford about the first full day of SMB Nation 2008. Busy keynote and good sessions on SBS 2008. Interesting to see new vendors at the vendor hall entering our SMB Space – from NetEnrich to ClearOne to Calyptix. Lots more too… Harry and I had fun talking about how the first day went and what to look forward to tomorrow with EBS 2008.VARvid!

Aidan Delaney from Microsoft on how to prepare for SBS 2008

Posted Sep 10 2008 by in SBS with 0 Comments

Aidan Delaney (what an accent!) led the technical portion of the first stop (Redmond) of the SBS 2008 Partner Tour.  As a VAR/VAP, I highly recommend attending – both the business conversation and the technical presentation were valuable.  Aidan owns several facets of SBS 2008, including User Management and the Admin Console.  A good guy to talk to!

You can see all the cities where the tour is visiting and sign up at: http://blogs.msdn.com/mssmallbiz/archive/2008/08/20/8881511.aspxVARvid!

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