The SBS Community Survey

[Kevin Beares [MSFT]]

Hi there,

This message is to the entire SBS Community.

If you haven't already seen the links to this survey out on the official SBS
Blog or Susan Bradley's blog or Nick Whittome's blog or Sean Daniel's
blog...., I wanted everyone to take a few minutes to take this community
survey and also promote this community survey to the SBS Community. I am
depending on your all to help me to virally spread the word about this SBS
Community Survey. This is a great chance to get the SBS Community involved
in setting the direction of the SBS Community.

The Small Business Server Product Team would like to hear from the SBS User
Community. This direct anonymous survey of the SBS User Community is brought
to you by the SBS Product Team.

You are invited to participate in the Windows Small Business Server
Community program on the Microsoft Connect Web site at
http://connect.Microsoft.com. This Site has been set up to directly gather
feedback anonymously from the SBS User Community.

Your role in the SBS Community is important to us. Microsoft Connect enables
you to connect with Microsoft developers, product managers, and other
development team members to help us make our products the best they can be.

To accept this invitation and become a member of this program, please follow
these steps:

1) Use your Internet connection to visit our Web site at
http://connect.microsoft.com.
2) Click on "Invitations" on the left-side menu.
3) You will need to sign in using a valid Passport and before you can
continue to the "Invitations" page.
4) Enter your Invitation ID in the blank.
Your invitation ID is: COMM-GKXK-WJKV
5) Click "Go."
6) If you have not previously registered with Microsoft Connect, you may be
required to register before continuing with the invitation process. This a
light registration and we will not use any information that you provide to
contact you later unless you tell us otherwise.

Now, please follow the steps shown to you by that program to become an
active participant. Once you complete the steps, you will be automatically
approved. From that point forward you should be able to log into this site
using your passport account and take any surveys that are available to you.

A note about the survey being anonymous; We only use the passport account to
insure that we do not receive spam. While we are collecting basic
information that you provide during the light registration, we are not using
this information for any purpose except to meet the minimum requirements
that MS Connect requires to run this survey. The MS Connect site uses
Passport which requires us to do the minimal registration process. Your
comments and survey appear anonymous to as well.

Here is the link to the survey: SBS Community Survey. You will find this
link on the main page of the http://connect.microsoft.com site under Small
Business Server Community Site.

Thanks a lot,

Kevin Beares
Community Lead - Program Manager
Windows Server Solutions Group
kbe...@microsoft.com | 425.707.8222

[Kevin Beares [MSFT]]

Me again,

I want to make sure I clear up any concerns that may have been created by me
posting this community survey.

As I stated earlier, this survey is brought to you by the SBS Product team.
As you know, the SBS product team tries to do anything it can to support the
community in any way that it can. Our only hope is that from the information
we get from this survey that we will have a better understanding of where
the Windows SBS Product group should concentrate it's efforts in engaging
and listening to the Windows SBS user community.

We in no way mean to say that we want to set the direction of the community.
The community sets the direction.of the community.

Also, when I used the term, "User Community", I in no way meant to exclude
our SBS partners, which I know and most of you all know are the predominant
representative population of the community. This survey was created with the
assistance of SBS partners. I gathered feedback from a number of SBS MVPs as
well as a couple of User Group Leads in putting this survey together, thus
the references to partners in most of the questions at the beginning of the
survey.

Can you please send me your comments, questions, concerns. I want to hear
what you all think. My role on the SBS Product team is to engage with the
community. I have always felt that the only way to truly know what people
want is to ask. So, this is just my way of trying to ask. Please feel free
to call me at work or on my cell.

Thanks,

Kevin Beares
SBS Community Lead
WSSG
425-707-8222 work
206-605-8643 cell

"Kevin Beares [MSFT]" <kbe...@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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[Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]]

Just to throw in my $.02 - IMO everyone who reads or posts here should be
doing this survey. This is your chance to have your input heard directly by
the actual SBS developer team. If you've got anything whatsoever to say
about SBS, these are the people you want to hear it. They're not marketing
or some survey company, it's the actual SBS product team.

This particular survey relates mostly to community - this group, blogs,
etc. - but I would guess that the response level will influence future
surveys where we, the actual consultants and users of SBS, can be heard.
The sign-up process will take 1 minute if you've got a Passport, and 3
minutes if you need to get one.

"Kevin Beares [MSFT]" <kbe...@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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[Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP]]

This is important, folks.

> The community sets the direction.of the community.

If you've ever found value in on-line resources for information or
troubleshooting, please indicate that by completing the survey. There's a
good chance that MS will at least consider the results in future resource
allocation decisions. Meaning - the on-line resources we find most valuable
could get a boost to make them even more useful.

As Dave mentioned, every person here has the ear of the SBS dev group
through this survey. These folks are a dedicated group of very talented
individuals who want nothing less than your experience with SBS to be as
good as it possibly can.

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Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP]
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SBS Rocks !
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"Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I'll remember. Involve me and I'll
understand." - Confucius

"Kevin Beares [MSFT]" <kbe...@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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[Kevin Beares [MSFT]]

I posted an update on the Survey on my blog. I really hope people will take
the time to take the survey and give me their feedback.

http://blogs.technet.com/controlpanel/blogs/posteditor.aspx?SelectedNavItem=Posts&sectionid=5091&postid=431045

Thanks,

Kevin Beares
SBS Community Lead
WSSG

"Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP]" <les.c...@DEL.cfive.ca>
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[Marina Roos [SBS-MVP]]

Rather this link ;-)

https://blogs.technet.com/kevin_beares/archive/2006/05/30/431045.aspx

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Regards,

Marina Roos
Microsoft SBS-MVP
One of the Magical M&M's
www.smallbizserver.net
Take part in SBS forum:
http://www.smallbizserver.net/Default.aspx?tabid=53

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