Join the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Microsoft to explore Smart and Simple Strategies for Small Business. Increase your knowledge, rekindle your passion and learn proven strategies that will help you take your business to the next level. Choose from two outstanding tracks: Go to Market and/or Start Up or Rev Up.
Presenting speakers include [...]

For most small businesses, technology represents a significant investment. Business owners recognize the central role that technology plays in their companies, but often lack confidence that they’ll actually receive the benefits promised – having been burned by a poorly implemented system or an unreliable IT support company that can’t seem to ever “fix” the issue [...]

Recorded Thursday, April 16, 2009, as part of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce Technology Thursday series.
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More than ever before, small businesses need their investments in technology to yield the rewards that are promised. The most important first step to making this happen is partnering with the right company, yet every day companies form sub-optimal partnerships [...]

Thinking about starting a new business or interested in sharpening your skills? Come to the 13th annual Washington Small Business Fair (Biz Fair) on Saturday, September 12, 2009 at Renton Technical College.
It’s a free event for new and existing business owners and features over 50 non-profit and government agencies that support small enterprise and over [...]

One of our very own X-BAR clients was contacted last week through Facebook chat from a “friend” who was stranded in London and needed some money to get home. Tom agreed to share this to raise awareness about the potential for fraud and abuse in these new online communities that many of us use personally [...]

This summer marks another year in the life of X-BAR and we want to celebrate it with all our amazing friends, clients, and colleagues who have helped X-BAR thrive these past seven years.
Stop by our office this Thursday, August 20th, and join us as we celebrate our 7th anniversary in French style. The party will [...]

When performing an upgrade from Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 to SBS 2008 in migration mode the process stops and you receive the following error:
The user account does not have the permissions that it needs to join to the domain. The user account must me a member of the Domain Admins, Enterprise Admins, and Schema [...]