I don’t have
anywhere else for this,
so sorry Tom but I’ve got to hijack for minute. I don’t think that I’ve
ever done this before but since attending the SBS Users Group Tour last
night I’ve
been in such a state that I didn’t sleep very well. I’m a member of
the local group and we’re generally a small (30-ish) bunch of
knowledgeable people but this event was different. What’s keeping me up
at night? The sorry state of ISA
knowledge
among people calling themselves small business consultants.
I handed
out all the business cards I had after I scrawled my ISA blog address
on the
back of them to these sorry souls. Unfortunately I didn’t have very
many
with me. Imagine their surprise when (gasp) a women came to them with
the
answers they were looking for. All I got back was st..st..stunned, ugh
thanks.
What kind of self respecting consultant raises his hand in front of a
crowd of
130 and says I had so much trouble with my SBS install that I had to
call
business down critical support to install it from the Action Pack??
Good God!!!
The whole purpose of the Action Pack is so you can learn the product
not take
up the valuable time of Business Down Critical Support! Why didn’t they
hang up on you? Then there was the guy that asked why Microsoft wasn’t
helping him learn ISA and how there isn’t any information available
anywhere and the two behind me that went on and on all night about how
ISA is only
good for simple things and the ones in front of me that spent the night
trashing the product too. I was in ISA heck and it was killing me to
have to
sit there quietly. When the presenters asked if there were any MVP’s in
the room, there were none. There’s a huge gap here that needs to be
filled. These guys are scaring me. If you run into any of them please
send them
over to my blog. If it doesn’t have what they are looking for have them
contact me and I’ll get them what they need. I don’t want to be
sitting in the same room with these kind of guys ever again.
