I got a nice note from my friend Mark asking about a specific client challenge (which probably sounds familiar to many of you):
Hey Karl,
I am looking forward to the next service board class and my wife enjoyed the recent QuickBooks training. Thanks!
I have a question about your cloud setup. I just got out of a meeting with a client that has sbs2011 and is moving to D.C. Long story short we have moved them to Office 365 and disabled exchange on their server. Next step was to setup a newer smaller server to handle AD, DHCP, DNS and File Server. Problem is she is now considering working from home and having the other users (only 2 other users) work from their homes. By the way you explained your system it sounds like yours would work in this scenario. We already have her on VOIP so her phones are good. Only thing I am not sure is how they can do file sharing in a similar way they are doing now. Also do I join them to an Azure domain for authentication?
Appreciate any input.
Mark
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My response:
Thank you for the very positive feedback.
You need to attend my cloud roadshow !!! www.smbroadshow.com
Seriously: We use and recommend JungleDisk with storage at Rackspace. www.jungledisk.com to get started. They are re-starting their reseller program so I’m not sure if that’s an option yet. But it’s still the right solution. We put the whole thing on our credit card but use the client’s [email protected] email address for the account. That way they could control it if we disappeared.
Anyway, with JungleDisk, their data appear on a mapped drive. It’s identical for everyone everywhere, just like hosted exchange mailboxes.
I don’t sell O365 direct because it’s about a hundred times easier to manage via Intermedia, Rackspace, Appriver, etc.
Once you’ve got hosted exchange mailboxes in place, setting up hosted active directory is easy. Obviously, it’s best if these are with the same service provider.
I go into a lot of detail about putting bundles like this together in the roadshow. This client sounds like a perfect fit!
If you sign up for any city, you can log on, get all the downloads, and listen to the recorded sessions from past cities.
Hope that helps. Sorry to sound like a salesman.
- Karl W. Palachuk
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Followup: Is there a discount if I bring one of my techs?
Yes! Second (attendees pay only $299).
:-)
Hey Karl,
I am looking forward to the next service board class and my wife enjoyed the recent QuickBooks training. Thanks!
I have a question about your cloud setup. I just got out of a meeting with a client that has sbs2011 and is moving to D.C. Long story short we have moved them to Office 365 and disabled exchange on their server. Next step was to setup a newer smaller server to handle AD, DHCP, DNS and File Server. Problem is she is now considering working from home and having the other users (only 2 other users) work from their homes. By the way you explained your system it sounds like yours would work in this scenario. We already have her on VOIP so her phones are good. Only thing I am not sure is how they can do file sharing in a similar way they are doing now. Also do I join them to an Azure domain for authentication?
Appreciate any input.
Mark
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My response:
Thank you for the very positive feedback.
You need to attend my cloud roadshow !!! www.smbroadshow.com
Seriously: We use and recommend JungleDisk with storage at Rackspace. www.jungledisk.com to get started. They are re-starting their reseller program so I’m not sure if that’s an option yet. But it’s still the right solution. We put the whole thing on our credit card but use the client’s [email protected] email address for the account. That way they could control it if we disappeared.
Anyway, with JungleDisk, their data appear on a mapped drive. It’s identical for everyone everywhere, just like hosted exchange mailboxes.
I don’t sell O365 direct because it’s about a hundred times easier to manage via Intermedia, Rackspace, Appriver, etc.
Once you’ve got hosted exchange mailboxes in place, setting up hosted active directory is easy. Obviously, it’s best if these are with the same service provider.
I go into a lot of detail about putting bundles like this together in the roadshow. This client sounds like a perfect fit!
If you sign up for any city, you can log on, get all the downloads, and listen to the recorded sessions from past cities.
Hope that helps. Sorry to sound like a salesman.
- Karl W. Palachuk
- - - - -
Followup: Is there a discount if I bring one of my techs?
Yes! Second (attendees pay only $299).
:-)
This post first appeared on Small Biz Thoughts By Karl W. Palachuk, please read the originial post: here
