Forget with Confidence, Edit on demand
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 posted by luxAt times, I’m a ‘to do list’ freak!
I’ve even been guilty of writing up ‘to do lists’ consisting of tasks, some of which have already been completed - simply so that I can have the juvenile pleasure of ticking them as soon as I write them!
However, nothing beats the pleasure of ‘ticking off’ tasks that have been languishing in a to do list for far longer than you’d care to remember. We had the opportunity to do this earlier this week - with one of the (many) to do lists for the Vembu StoreGrid Online Backup Partner Zone…
You can now afford to Forget Your Password!
Everyday, we get up to 3 emails from partners who have forgotten their Partner Zone login name/password!
The (long pending) forgot your password feature is now up and allows you to immediately change your password, if required.
What’s more, we’ll also email you details on other members from your firm who are using the same partner zone account - so you can be nice, and let them know that they need to remember another obscure password!
The bigger piece of news: You can now Edit Build-O-Matic on Demand!
For various reasons, we’ve (so far) been ‘manually throttling’ the custom build creation process. As many of you know, each time you needed to make an edit to your custom build or create a new custom build - you needed to email us to get your form back to ‘edit’ mode. In fact, we get an average of two such requests every day - to set the form back into edit mode!
You can now do this yourself, i.e., set your form back to edit mode, as required!
Although the post title says ‘Edit on Demand’, please use your discretion when requesting new builds. We don’t have a formal cap on the number of edits you can do but since it ‘costs us’ a fair amount of bandwidth and storage each time Build-O-Matic churns out a new set of builds, we request you to be judicious about requesting new builds - that way, we’ll (hopefully) never need to place a cap on how many edits partners do.
Partners who have never forgoten their passwords and/or never edited their build settings probably won’t perceive these features to be even mildly interesting. I’m sure the others are probably cursing us for not introducing this earlier!
Houston, We have a Solution
Friday, June 6th, 2008 posted by luxMicrosoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference, 2008 will be held in Houston, Texas between July 7 & 10. The exhibit hall will be open between July 8 & 10 and we’ll be there at Booth no. 1063 (yes its a big event; but no, they don’t have 1000+ booths)!
If you’re attending or if you’ll be in Houston (or thereabouts), it would be great to catch up and put faces to names. I’ll be there and so will Sekar Vembu, our CEO!
If you can make it, do let us know here.
While on the subject of tradeshows…
What other events do you suggest we attend? Xchange? SMBNation? HostingCon? We’re planning on attending a few select events and obviously wish to select those where we can meet our (existing & prospective) partners! Please give your suggestions in the comments below.
(someone asked me why we chose this title for this post)
