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Good News San Antonio Partners - Microsoft has opened a Satellite Office now!

Larry Lentz didn't believe me when I told him, but its true, San Antonio now has a Microsoft Satellite Office.  Here are some of the details from the email notification I received.

"In an effort to support business growth and foster the economic development in the San Antonio area, we have opened a new 600 square foot suite in Legacy Office Centers at the Forum Office Complex.  Located at 8000 I.H. 10 West, Suite 600, the suite offers more than 20 Microsoft area employees access to receptionist and administrative support as well as usage of conference room facilities.  Here is the complete address and some additional information:" 

Legacy Office Centers

8000 I. H. 10 West, Suite 600

San Antonio, Texas 78230

(210) 366-8000 PHONE

(210) 366-8001 FAX

v      Attractive building and suites

v      3 offices in close proximity to each other

v       Conference Room Usage (Large seats 15-20; Small seats 6) – reserve through receptionist

v      High Speed Access (not on the corporate network)

v      Easy access off/on to I-10

v      Free Parking

The next email I will receive from Larry will be.  "Ghee we only get a 600 sq foot office".    Nothing but love for ya Larry.     All in all, its a good start.

Virtual Server 2005 is FREE FREE FREE!

If you have not already seen it, here are the details for the announcement on Virtual Server 2005 new pricing – Free!!!

Market Bulletin: Microsoft Announces New Price, and Availability of Linux Support, for Virtual Server 2005 R2

As of (April 3, 2006), Microsoft made Virtual Server 2005 R2 available as a free download at www.microsoft.com/virtualserver. This policy applies to all users of Virtual Server 2005 R2, and it will apply to the forthcoming Service Pack 1 of Virtual Server 2005 R2. This price change makes it easier for customers and partners to cost effectively run Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition with Virtual Server 2005 R2 for server consolidation, application re-hosting, disaster recovery, and software test and development.

In addition, Microsoft announced the availability of virtual machine add-ins for Linux and technical product support model for Linux guest OSes running on Virtual Server 2005 R2.

The add-ins are available via free download, and will be supported for an initial set of nine Linux distributions listed below.  Microsoft has performed extensive interoperability testing with these distributions in the Virtual Server 2005 R2 platform.  Based on customer and partner input, we will consider additional operating systems and new releases of the Red Hat and Novell/SuSE distributions. 

Enterprise distributions:

          Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (update 6)

          Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (update 6)

          Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

          Novell’s SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9

Standard distributions:

          Red Hat Linux 7.3

          Red Hat Linux 9.0

          Novell’s SuSE Linux 9.2

          Novell’s SuSE Linux 9.3

          Novell’s SuSE Linux 10.0

Resource management has always been part of the operating system, and over the years customers have been able to obtain this functionality as an integrated part of their operating system platform.  As Microsoft releases its Windows hypervisor technology in the Windows Server “Longhorn” wave, customers will be receiving the benefits of virtualization as part of the Windows Server operating system.  

The price change makes it easier for customers to access and experience the benefits of virtualization technology with Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition, customers can run up to four virtual operating systems on one physical server at no additional cost. 

The announcement enables customers to easily and cost-effectively run Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition with Virtual Server 2005 R2 for server consolidation, application re-hosting, disaster recovery, and software test and development.

Further details for the announcement check here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/evaluation/news/bulletins/vs05pricing.mspx

TS2 - San Antonio - Special Guests - Anne Stanton & Larry Lentz

Last Thursday in San Antonio, I had the distinct pleasure of introducing Anne Stanton, (CRM MVP from Burlington, Vermont) and Larry Lentz (CRM MVP & Taco Talk lead from San Antonio).  I put them on the spot and got them up front during the CRM session and they were a hit. 

Anne, thanks for not roasting me at the event for putting you in front of the crowd without any warning.  Larry is used to it. 

Larry was the sponsor for the morning Microsoft Connections event and he drove more people to the event with his markting on the www.clicktoattend.com site than we did with our marketing engine!  Great Job Larry.

We'll be back in San Antonio on June 8th talking about 2007 Office (that's still hard to say in that order... ), Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2, and Windows Vista!   You can register for these events at http://www.ts2seminars.com