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The IMF and SP2

James, who was at the Exchange Unplugged roadshow last week asked me about the IMF and Exchange SP2 and that the IMF no longer seemed to be working after SP2 had been installed.  One potential issue to be aware of with Exchange 2003 SP2 is that

Oracle on Windows? Wow! can you do that?

So I'm sitting on the stand with Steve at the UK's Oracle user group 3 day event, handing out chocolate bars (you may get the lucky bar with the sticker inside telling you that you've won a creative mp3 player, and answering the same question
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Exchange unplugged tour

Well we're going on the road talking about Exchange 5.5 upgrades to Exchange 2003.  Support ends on December 31st this year by the way.  We're going to 9 venues in under 3 weeks.  it's a bit of a rock tour  - well if I'm going to

Introduction to Blogs and blogging

Steve and I really enjoyed talking to you the Blogs and Blogging Technet sesson last night and thank you for taking the time to give us some interesting and thought provoking questions, its always interesting to hear other opinions about blogging
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Women in Technology - and food

(Sounds better than the term girly geek dinner doesn't it).  Sarah did a fantastic job mobilising women to mix, network and interact with each other the other night.  Almost all of the women I chatted to were energised and motivated. 
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Geek Dinner in London - for Girls

Sarah is organising a Geek dinner - for girls in London next Tuesday evening.  You don't have to be a geek to attend though  (actually you don't even need to be a girl either) - it's just a great opportunity to network with other women in Technology

Find out how to migrate from Notes to Exchange

Dave Thompson, who is the VP for Exchange in corp. is coming over to speak at an event in London, Docklands next month.  The event is: Understanding the Microsoft Platrform for Notes Organisations.  I quite often talk to customers

Talking about blogging

I was at an industry event for executives last week who seemed to be completely unaware of the reach and extent of the online blogging community and how much information is fed around the blogosphere.  It's often fascinating, when
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Software Assurance Webcasts. don't miss out

There are quite a few changes coming with the new Software assurance program, so I'd really recommend that you watch one of these 4 global webcasts coming up next week.  The current Software Assurance benefits provide IT Pros with Training Vouchers,

Do you want to work at Microsoft?

Gretchen has a really neat idea if you're the creative type and you want to work at Microsoft.  Would certainly get you noticed anyway.  It wouldn't work though if you wanted to come and work in my team - all I'd want is for you to

Microsoft management summit - in the UK

Well not really - but if you didn't get a chance to get to Las Vegas for MMS in the spring and hear Bill Anderson talk about our management products, then you've got another chance.  We're planning to host a "highlights of MMS" here in the UK on

The mobile opportunity

We had to change the date of the Mobile Opportunity event after the terrible events in London, and we've rescheduled it to the 2nd September.  It's an all day event in London (register here) and Ewan and Jason will be talking about mobility, Exchange
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What demos do you want to see

Clives post has got me thinking.  What demos do you really like?  Simple or complex? Short or long?  Wxisting how to stuff, or new unseen things?  We're starting to plan our TechNet sessions for next year and would like some input
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Approaches to fighting spam in an Exchange environment

Greg presented this Technet evening for me last night.  The topic was all about fighting spam - the bane of the messaging administrator and Gred did a sterling job.  here are some of the references that he referred to during the presentation. 

System Center Data Protection Manager Webcast

Paul is delivering a TechNet event for me next month on System Centre, here in the UK.  Well, if you're too busy to come to the session or have some other reason, like you live in Australia or some other valid excuse. There's a webcast coming up