I have had a lot of discussions with them on various topics and one of them should be of interest to all IT Professionals in the SBS Community regarding the .local top-level domain names. Rick Claus convinced me about six months ago to abandon this naming convention, and I have not looked back.
In a recent Newsgroup conversation I was reminded of this discussion and brought it up to Rick, who subsequently wrote a great article on the subject which he posted to his blog. You can read it at http://blogs.technet.com/canitpro/archive/2006/03/05/421256.aspx.
My response to the post may sound black and white sometimes, but I truly believe that we all must find the time to stay current on the technology that we use because otherwise we will be overcome and will fall back.
I hope you all read it and let me know what you think!