The Sikh Geek

The final SBSC PALs Conference Call (for this round of PALs) is scheduled for 8th May. The good news is that Andrea Russell is back at the helm of the Worldwide SBSC Programme after being away for a little while. I think we’ll see more drive and focus coming through now. On the call will be someone from the Windows Server Business Group to talk about Essential Business Server and SBS 2008, so that’ll be interesting!

There is talk of keeping the existing PALs on for another year (not confirmed at the moment) while at the same time getting new ones aboard and I’ve put my nominations through. Interestingly, I had to hunt down the right person at Microsoft UK to give them to and thanks to Andrea for helping with that. The great thing is that there is so many people who would do a great job and change is a good thing, with new ideas and thoughts coming through. It’s in the hands of Microsoft now but good luck to those I nominated.

If you’ve not seen yet, the SBSC Symposium at WPC is changing into an SMB Track in the main conference as well as a one day interactive event now called Small and Medium-size Business Partner Forum. The SMB track is a recognition of the importance of this area to the overall Microsoft strategy and the difficulty in previously finding content/sessions which were focused on that area rather than just all Enterprise stuff throughout the main event.