I’m speaking at SMB Summit this year…  Microsoft asked me to speak on messaging in Small Business Server 2008 (Microsoft asked us to do pre-release testing of SBS 2008 with our client, The Bellingham/Whatcom Chamber of Commerce - we’re one of only 11 Microsoft Partners in the World to be so honored)

 http://smbsummit.com/speakers.html

 I’m also speaking on how Windows Home Server can help back up important client PC’s on a Microsoft business network.

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Microsoft has accepted Hardlines Company as one of the few Microsoft Certified Partners in Whatcom County. Microsoft explains this special designation best, so here is a snip of test from their website.

• Microsoft Certified Partners have demonstrated expertise. Each Microsoft Certified Partner must employ a minimum number of Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCPs) who have a demonstrated level of technical expertise and the proven ability to deliver solutions featuring Microsoft products. MCPs must pass certification exams developed by Microsoft.
• Microsoft Certified Partners have a broad-range of experience. Microsoft Certified Partners typically offer several areas of technical expertise including infrastructure, networking, office automation, e-commerce, collaboration, business intelligence, and other leading edge disciplines. Microsoft Certified Partner services include consulting, training, implementation, maintenance/support, and hosting services.
• Microsoft Certified Partners have direct support from Microsoft. Microsoft Certified Partners have access to 24 x 7 x 365 support for your project whenever they need additional support from Microsoft.
• Microsoft Certified Partners offer a real world perspective to your technology strategies. Microsoft Certified Partners have been in the business, on average, for more than 5 years. They bring experience to your projects gained through conducting similar projects over many years of service.

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Hardlines is proud to announce that we are 100% carbon neutral. This means that we offset our carbon dioxide emissions by contributing to renewable energy, energy efficiency, and reforestation projects. The typical American is responsible for 10 tons of CO₂ emissions annually through their direct energy use of home, cars and air travel, and about 23 tons of CO₂ including their purchases, activities and the other services we all share throughout the economy. These emissions are a caused the burning of fossil fuels: oil, coal and natural gas. Hardlines has calculated the carbon dioxide emissions we are responsible for, and has offset these emissions by contributing to CarbonFund, and organization dedicated to reducing America’s total carbon dioxide emissions.

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As a continuing effort to reduce out impact on the local and world environment, Hardlines Company has become one of the first companies in the state to use 100% Green Energy. The energy types used are Solar, Wind, Biomass, Tidal, Geothermal, and Hydrogen/Fuel Cell. As customer’s are aware, Hardlines is committed to evironmental preservation. Among the other ways we are reducing our impact on our plant are: Offering paperless billing, using energy efficient servers, purchasing credits to make our company carbon neutral, printing on recycled paper, recycling our office paper/plastic/aluminum/batteries/computers, offering bus passes and car pool incentives to employees and more.

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We are pleased to announce that Nik Dahl has become a Microsoft Certified Professional. Nik passed his exam on Friday June 23rd. Out of all of Hardlines staff, now fifty percent are Microsoft Certified. When doing business with Hardlines Company, you can be assured that our staff has all the knowledge necessary to provide the right solution for your business.

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In order to provide the most reliable and highest performance for our customers, we will be upgrading our primary web server with additional memory. The upgrade will take place between 5pm and 6pm PST on Wednesday, June 7th.This upgrade is expected to cause an outage of all web and email services during the upgrade process for all customers hosted on this server. Email messages sent to addresses hosted on this server during this period will be met with an automatic response stating that messages could not be delivered, but all messages will be sent through properly once the server resumes normal operation. The total time for the upgrade to take place is not expected to exceed 15 minutes. Previous to this upgrade, the primary web server has had an outstanding uptime of over two years, demonstrating Hardlines commitment to providing the highest quality webhosting for our clients.

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Hardlines is pleased to announce our acceptance into the Microsoft Small Business Specialist program. We are well qualified to consult, and deploy a Microsoft small to medium business network including Microsoft Small Business Server 2003.

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Aaron Booker has passed his Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) Exam entitled “Designing, Deploying, and Managing a Network Solution for a Small- and Medium-Sized Business“. This was the final step before being able to claim that Hardlines is a Microsoft Small Business Specialist. We expect Larry Gilbert and Nik Dahl to both become MCP certified within a month. This means that you can be assured that Hardlines is well qualified to setup and administer your Small Business network.

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The Honolulu Pro-Tour webcast went fantastically. The video archives are now available online at:

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/pthon06/welcome

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We would like to announce the addition of a cool new webmail client for our customers: RoundCube Mail. This new client is AJAX based, which means that it will be much more similar to a Windows or Macintosh application. Double clicks, drag and drop, no page refreshes. Check it out: http://www.hardlines.com/rcmail

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