Awarded: 2010 Small Business Specialist of the Year! Harbor Computer Services was chosen from an International field of IT consulting firms for this honor. This award is given for outstanding network support services. There is one company so honored each year by Microsoft.

Amy Babinchak, named to Symform Advisory Council Amy is advising this new online backup service to design the product for small and medium business backup.

Ted Kinczkowski Sponsored Invitee to Tech Innovators Ted will be participating as a invited sponsored attendee of the Tech Innovators event in Las Vegas. As one of about 10 people in the room, software vendors will present their product roadmap, seek input and show off "coming soon" product lines.

Awarded: Microsoft Partner Award Congratulations!! Harbor Computer Service is being recognized as the winner of the Heartland Area Partner VAR Open Growth Award. This award recognizes you for your strong contributions to Microsoft.

Amy Babinchak, named to GFI Elite Technology Team Amy has been named to the GFI Security Product Elite Technology Team. In this role she will assisting GFI in making their products, documentation and training better for the small business marketplace.

Amy Babinchak, Essential Business Server Unleashed, Technical Editor Amy is serving as the technical editor for SAM's publishing book Essential Business Server Unleashed.

Awarded: Amy Babinchak awarded Microsoft MVP For the fourth year in a row, Amy Babinchak, has been named by Microsoft as Most Valuable Professional. "Microsoft MVPs are an amazing group of individuals. By sharing their knowledge and experiences and providing objective feedback, MVPs help people solve problems and discover new capabilities. It gives us great pleasure to recognize and award MVPs as our way of saying thank you for their demonstrated commitment to helping others in technical communities worldwide." Amy was the only USA recipient in the Essential Business Server category.

Certified: Ted Kinczkowski Achieves Small Business Specialist Certification Ted Kinczkowski has achieved his Small Business Specialist certification. This achievement recognizes Ted's ability to not only provide technical support to small business networks but to understand how technology empowers small business. Ted has passed exams in technology, consulting and sales to achieve this designation.

Certified: Ted Kinczkowski, Diana Zhao, Amy Babinchak Achieve SBS 2008 Certification Ted, Diana and Amy have passed the Small Business Server 2008 certification exam. This exam confirms technical knowledge of Small Business Server 2008 and certifies their ability to install and support the technology.

Certified: Amy Babinchak Achieves EBS Certification Amy has passed the Essential Business Server certification exam. This exam confirms her technical knowledge of Essential Business Server and certifies her ability to install and support the technology.

Amy Babinchak forms EBS Virtual Usergroup Amy has formed a usergroup for IT Professionals and Consultants supporting Essential Business Server. In the first 2 weeks membership is up to 52 with 8 Countries represented.

Amy Babinchak attended Microsoft PSS training Amy was one of 15 MVP's invited to attend support training for Essential Business Server. This training is normally only provided to internal Microsoft support engineers.

Amy Babinchak named Trend Micro All-Star Amy has been named a Trend Micro All-Star. In this role she will assist Trend Micro map their products to the needs of SMB customers. HCS will participate in pre-beta testing of future products.

Ted Kinczkowski selected as SME on SBS 2008 After doing exceptionally well on the SBS 2008 certification exam, Ted was selected by GrandMasters to assist them in weighting exam questions. GrandMasters flew Ted to Seattle.

Amy Babinchak attended Microsoft PSS training Amy was one of 30 MVP's invited to attend support training for Small Business Server 2008. This training is normally only provided to internal Microsoft support engineers.

Diana Zhao attends SMBNation Diana attended SMBNation. At the conference she developed lasting connections with SBS MVP's and other IT Professionals. She also attended a private dinner with Trend Micro.

Amy Babinchak speaking at SMBNation conference Amy will be speaking at the fall SMBNation conference in the technical track. Amy will present a thought process to analyze your computer network to determine your firewall requirements. Diana Zhao will attend this conference with her.

Amy Babinchak selected as Small Business Server SME SME is a subject matter expert. Amy participated in the review of future certification requirements for technicians wishing to show competency in small business server.

Amy Babinchak, selected as Essential Business Server SME
SME is a Subject Matter Expert. Microsoft contracts SME's to assist in exam development and documentation development and review. SME's are recognized experts. Amy has been contracted through GrandMasters a company that supplies IT experts to Microsoft and other companies. She will be a member of the team that develops the Essential Business Server certification exam for IT professionals.

HCS and Comcast together bring high-speed Internet to Employees Only and save $20,000 in Build Costs
Harbor Computer Services leveraged their strong vendor relationship with Comcast to save Employees Only $20,000 in build costs and to bring high-speed Internet to the Wellington Green Executive Park in Auburn Hills.

Amy Babinchak, speaking at conference
Amy Babinchak will be speaking at IT Pro Conference 2008 in New Orleans on Transitions Strategies: Migrations, Upgrades and Services. She will participate in the conferences as a content advisor and panel member. IT Pro Conference 2008

Amy  Babinchak, attending MVP Summit
Amy Babinchak will be attending the Microsoft World MVP Summit in Redmond. This event occurs annually for those IT Professionals awarded as MVP by Microsoft. This event offers an opportunity to work directly with the development teams at Microsoft, provide feedback to them, and to develop relationships with subject matter experts from around the world. Over 60 countries will be represented. We often call on our worldwide contacts to provide expert assistance to our clients. MVP Award

Diana Zhao, Response Point Training
Diana will travel to Chicago to participate in training on deployment and management of Response Point VOIP phone systems. She will use this knowledge to lead HCS into this new market and expand upon our service offerings. Response Point

Amy Babinchak, Essential Business Server certification exam design
Amy was called upon by GrandMasters, a contractor to Microsoft, to participate in the creation of a technical certification exam for their new server suite for businesses in the 25-300 user range. Grand Masters