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Swing Migration with 2008 Platforms
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5W/50 Webcast on Migration - Recorded January 2009
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LEARN MORE: View on Demand the Microsoft Partner Webcast
Presenter: Jeff Middleton, SBSmigration.com |
 Migration Concepts with SBS 2008 Microsoft Partners 5W/50 Series Recorded January 9, 2009 1hr Presentation, followed with 90 minutes of Q&A
Microsoft Partner Channel Members May View this Webcast: https://training.partner.microsoft.com/plc/details.aspx?publisher=12&delivery=261259 Note: You must use a Microsoft Partner account to logon to the Microsoft website, then use this URL to access the webcast. Unfortunately this webcast is not available outside of the Microsoft Partner channel resources.
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Migration projects pose unique challenges for IT Consultants. The goal is to move a customer's server infrastructure into a new product and platform with a process that is both predictable and profitable. * The Transition Timeline & Value Budget |
| Making Money with Migration Projects |
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5W/50 Webcast on Migration - Recorded January 2009
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LEARN MORE: View on Demand the Microsoft Partner Webcast
Presenter: Jeff Middleton, SBSmigration.com |
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Making Money with Migration Projects
Microsoft Partners 5W/50 Series Recorded September 9, 2009 60 Minute Presentation
Microsoft Partner Channel Members May View this Webcast: Note: You must use a Microsoft Partner account to logon to the Microsoft website, then use this URL to access the webcast. Unfortunately this webcast is not available outside of the Microsoft Partner channel resources.
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Migration Projects can be fraught with pifalls and issues, but it doesn't have to be that way. Jeff Middleton will present insights into the project and lifecycle planning strategy that will ensure your migration projects are delivered on time, on budget and meet the client's expectations.
This presentation can be considered "part 2" of the related technical presentation delivered January 9, 2009. (see above) It addresses a 60 minute review of the business perspective on server and infrastructure migration. This content is intended for the small or "one man shop" consultant who wears many hats, but may not have time to focus as a dedicated sales and marketing staff might do. |
| Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 |
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Webcast Replay: (70 mins.) Live Session Presented in New Orleans July 2009 "Optimizing the Customer Experience: Platform Upgrades and Replacement Strategies." |
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Server upgrades and migration project pose unique challenges for IT Consultants. Jeff Middleton uses Windows Small Business Server 2008 to illustrate case studies on managing your customer's Strategic Technology Lifecycle well beyond the scope of a technical project. Jeff Middleton presented this session in the SMB Track. This session takes a common sense approach to planning and implementing project work, looks at common customer and consulting situations, and then targets what should be the key concerns of SMB consultants who have not yet developed a well managed approach to their business and operations. Jeff provides tips on managing the product and technology lifecycle, the evolution of infrastructure upgrades and how to make the customer experience not only positive, but integral in how you retain and grow your customer business opportunities. Jeff highlights how managing the platform upgrades of a customers server infrastructure can become the most important business, technical and marketing opportunity you have with that customer for an entire lifecycle in their business and yours. |
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Hurricane Katrina and Disaster Recovery |
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Vlad Mazek's Podcast "SBS Show Episode #4 – Recovering SBS in Crisis" http://www.vladville.com/sbsshow/ The second of a two-part episode focused on Disaster Recovery concerns, this conversation includes Jeff Middleton (SBSmigration.com) and Scott Buchanan (PDQ Computer) comparing IT Pro disaster response experiences in the aftermath of major hurricanes in their respective areas. Vlad Mazek and Christopher Rue chatted with Jeff only a couple of months after Katrina devastated much of the gulf coast including New Orleans, and for another perspective, Scott offers insights more than a year following up after four different hurricanes struck Florida just months apart in 2004. |
| Canada Community Outreach Tour (Fall 2005) |
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Note: This webcast from November 2005 is available at this time without an introductory web page. http://www.microsoft.com/canada/technet/media/Technet11-02v3.wvx "Katrina: The IT Pro Experience of Dealing with Catastrophic Crisis" is a sobering yet an enlightened look at the small business world, the responsibilities of the business owner vs. the IT Pro, and all the stress that unfolds in a crisis. I did this presentation first at SMB Nation 2006 as a substitution for my planned Disaster Recovery session. Rather than focused entirely upon technical process, this 2 hr session exposes the full reality of working through a catastrophic circumstance. I've tried to capture the experience of living through the fog of confusion, and in the same process, expose many issues through anecdotes of my own activities over a period of the days and weeks following Katrina. This isn't a presentation filled with bullet charts of "best practices", rather this exposes the sometimes tragic breakdown of what you thought best practices would protect you from. Some of the issues revealed have weight in questions about ethics, professional responsibility issues, and even drive to the root of what you may face in making choices about your own business and family in a tradeoff against the needs of your professional obligations. Along the way, you get my local perspective about Katrina and the continuing struggle for recovery in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. I borrowed some metaphors from the regional crisis to illustrate some aspects of IT Pro concerns in disaster recovery scenarios where managing expectations with responsible preparations and proactive resolutions are essential to satisfying, if not only saving anxious people in need of your help. |