Vijay Riyait: My Achievements as UK SBSC Partner Area Lead

We wanted to share a post from the FY09 UK PAL, Vijay Riyait, who recently published an article about his Achievements as UK SBSC Partner Area Lead. As you know, Vijay held the role of UK PAL for two years. His role has just come to an end – and here’s a short list of the many great things Vijay achieved in his role specifically over the last year:

image I was recently asked by Microsoft to highlight my achievements as a PAL, which I was happy to do. These are to be used by Microsoft to be shown to senior executives at Microsoft and I guess highlight the importance and value of having this programme. The things that I highlighted are below :

  • Supporting the SBS/EBS launch events in the UK with Microsoft
  • SBS 2008 Migration Workshop with David Overton (only one in the UK)
  • Online participation/communication for SBSC Partners through blog and online technical communities
  • Member of the newly formed Microsoft UK PAC
  • Technical Director of Ardent iSys showing good growth in providing software solutions based on MS Technologies e.g. ASP.NET MVC
  • Published Case Study for Windows Mobile
  • Provided free OfficeLive Training to community/charity organisations with great feedback in conjunction with Leicestershire Cares

I have done much more than this in the background in terms of feedback to Microsoft and trying to help SBSC Partners with problems and queries. Probably some of the lesser known things that I achieved were the release of the Demo Showcase VMs and System Centre Virtual Machine Manager (Enterprise Ed) in the SBSC Toolkit.

Microsoft has created a PAL Alumni Page on the Microsoft Portal and we continue to have access to the PAL Groove site. The new Global PALs I am sure will bring new ideas and perspective to things and continue to help build our Community further.

» My Achievements as UK SBSC Partner Area Lead.

Thank you once again to Vijay for the huge contribution he has made the Small Business Specialist Community!