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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 3:14 PM

ITForum and TechEd merge in Europe

Well the IT forum site is now live on the web - but it's now called TechEd-ITForum.  I think it's a really good idea that the 2 events have merged in Europe.  For one thing, it's only one trip across the pond for presenters from corp,
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006 8:24 PM

SMS R2 - available to download

I noticed today on Blakes blog   and Rod's blog that  Systems Management Server 2003 R2 is now available for download. Omar pointed out all of the features included in the release and Anthony talked very coprehensively about upgrading his
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Monday, June 12, 2006 5:35 PM

Getting started with Software updates

I sent lot of information out about our update services the other day.  I'd been researching some information for a question that I'd received at the Roadshow on Tuesday and thought I'd pass it on.  I was a bit surprised actually to hear
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Friday, June 09, 2006 10:34 AM

Acronym hell in conference calls

James has been nagging me to have a look at this video that he found on Jasons blog.  He practically forced me to watch it the other day. The scary thing is - I understand almost all of the acronyms and buzzwords that they used during the video. 
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Thursday, June 08, 2006 7:32 PM

Exchange 2003 synchronisation with Outlook 2003

You know, sometimes I'm really glad that I'm not an Exchange admin any more.  Sometimes life is just too hard... I got a mail from Paul with this challenge: We have a user that is at the end of a slow link in Africa. We continually have problems
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006 4:56 PM

64 bit Exchange really does rock!

Tour date 3 of the TechNet roadshow and we were in Manchester.  I was expecting to sail through the session, and all of the demos, and hoping that the UM demo went off without a hitch.  I mean, it wasn't as if it was the first time
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006 12:21 PM

Open your Outlook Calendar in any view you want...

Now this is something that I think that even the great Allister hasn't mentioned on his blog.. If you want to look at your Microsoft Office Outlook calendar a day, a week, or a week and a half at a time. With your calendar open press ALT+ the number
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Monday, June 05, 2006 12:57 PM

System Center Virtual Machine manager

We announced this last week at WinHEC.  Bill Gates and Bob Muglia talked about this product and where we are going with our overall virtualization strategy.  I'll leave it to James to go into the Virtualisation technicalities in more detail,
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Friday, June 02, 2006 3:08 PM

User groups leaders for user groups

We're hosting a community leaders day today on campus, where we invite all of the people in the UK who run User groups, either online or offline.  They come from all technology areas, but in the IT Pto space, there are a number of gaps. In the UK
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Thursday, June 01, 2006 4:20 PM

Sharepoint 2007 resources

You may have been playing with the Beta of Office 2007, and it may have inspired you to start looking at SharePoint 2007.  I use this quite a bit internally at Microsoft - especially the wiki software and the blogging software. Yes I have an
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