As an advocate for small business use of Microsoft’s SBS (Small Business Server), I’ve created this blog to contribute to you and the rest of a vibrant SBS community to payback a little of the rich knowledge I’ve received. Its an ever changing and dynamic environment where a single administrator must know everything that an enterprise would have full-time departments to address. Moreover we need to get things done on the small business budget and a small business timetable. It’s an uphill climb but its reachable.
The Greek mythology describes Sisyphus as a clever guy who never relented in finding a way to get whatever he wanted done. He even cheated death for a short time. This is a great metaphor for describing the magic of the marrying of business essential software in what has become a tremendous asset for small businesses, Microsoft SBS.
Eventually Sisyphus’ cleverness included circumventing Zeus. This angered him sufficiently to get Sisyphus placed in the lowest level of the underworld and punished by having to infinitely having to carry a boulder up a hill only to have it go back to the bottom. With SBS we might parallel this scenario with a Service Pack, a component update ala SharePoint 3.0, or a version rollout like Cougar- SBS 2008.
For the past 5 years or so I’ve been very inspired to work hard by many in the SBS community and from all over the world. The SBS Team, BOB, MVP’s throughout the world, TS2 guru’s and a lot of other good folks at Microsoft have been very responsive and innovative to provide a competitive product and support to grow SBS into a hugely distributed worldwide business culture.
We’ve all got our mountains and hills to climb in the technology business but its a lot easier knowing extra hands, eyes, and support are there to help and only a web away.
I am Dale Unroe and I wish anyone from my corner of the world in Cincinnati and whoever else finds their way here from Under There, Across the Pond or parts in-between feels welcomed to read and pass more along to your fellow SBS peers.
If you find something helpful please let me know. Likewise if you find something in error also write a comment so I can correct it.
For the past year or so I tried doing a blog with Microsoft Live Spaces; however, older posts mysteriously disappeared without notice. What I discovered was the limited nature of the blogs posted there. Unfortunately I wanted to actually save the blogs for the purpose of using the blog as a library or repository of tips and handy knowledge. So here we are on a new blog and like Sisyphus I’m back down at the bottom of the hill and am lifting up the blog boulder once more. We’ll just have to see how this one goes. At least I can post from MS Word 2007 now! That’s going to be really convenient.
new theme added 3/3/2009
photo is of a spectacular place in West Virginia. There in the heart of a national recreational area is the New River Gorge Bridge. Extremely high and an enormous span. In the fall on Bridge Day maniacs parachute off of it. Below the north flowing river is filled with rafters and kayaks. Mountain biking the western ridge is a recommended must do. Stop at the only dedicated biking outfitter in town and get a trail map and friendly service.
Do you know who the artist is that did this painting?
I am figuratively the model for this painting …furthermore I’ve no idea who did this eons ago. …sorry but I’d guess a Google on “Sysiphus picture” would yield you the result.
The artist is Tiziano or alternately spelled Titian. More info here:
http://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/online-gallery/on-line-gallery/obra/sisyphus/
Thanks for your site. I wanted to let you know that I was looking for information to send to one of my customers and copied the information from your site to them. Then I noticed that you have a picture of the New River Gorge Bridge on your site. The funny thing is my customer site is probably 2 miles from the bridge. Its a small world.
I’m so jealous that you work in that area …was just reading about how massive the Lower Gauley gets in the Spring. Will work for whitewater
…just sayin help a brother out.