Remote management means never being very far away...
Beta Time!
I've got myself on several of Microsoft's Beta programs, specifically the SMS 2003 R2, SMS 4.0, MONAD and SBS 2003 R2 betas.
The SBS R2 beta did take some begging to get on - apparently, more than 60% of the applicants were from the UK, and I was told that "they were over quota for English guys". However, some abject grovelling later, I was allowed on the program.
The beta web site is http://connect.microsoft.com/
To begin with, I didn't like SBS at all, but I've begun to appreciate it now, especially since I've been managing two SBS sites remotely for nearly two years now. One site is in Northumbria, the other in Skipton, whereas I'm in Harrogate. I have a third site I manage in France, but that's not on SBS and its at the end of a dial up link (!). Yes, painfully slow is a good description.
It will be interesting to see how SBS changes with R2, and hopefully I'll be able to publish some news on how the testing goes.
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