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October 2006 - Posts

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 7:32 PM

Planning Office 2007?

I'm going to be on tour starting for tomorrow. I'm visiting Athens, Zagreb, Warsaw and Vilnius talking about Unified Communications and Office 2007 and running some demos and hands on labs. So I've been reading up on some of the things I'll be demoing
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Monday, October 30, 2006 8:22 PM

TechNet magazine available in more languages

For those of you who haven’t seen this announcement about TechNet, I wanted to bring it to your attention. I know that for some of you, English may not be your first, or even second language, We've been doing some work on making the TechNet magazine more
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Friday, October 27, 2006 3:01 PM

Exchange - Virtually

Ok, So Jamie has moaned at me as I've been blogging about everything BUT Exchange recently and he wants me to go back to my true love. (Sorry - I didn't think I'd been THAT unfaithful!). Here's a selection of what you can virtually do with Exchange 2007:
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Thursday, October 26, 2006 12:54 PM

Girly Geeks at ITForum

I've been chatting to the Organisers of ITForum and whinging about why they were planning to hold a Woman in Technology event, and a Girly Geek dinner for TechEd Developers, but not for TechEdITForum. Why not ITForum. Surely there are women in Infrastructure
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 6 Comments
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 4:01 PM

Control your virtualised environments

The lovely Dave told me about Appsense , and as I've been getting up to speed with Softricity recently, I thought I'd take a closer look as the two seem to go hand in hand. The bad thing about Virtualised applications is that they start to hog memory
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 4:24 PM

New Powershell book

I met Scotty at my Exchange 2007 TechNet session last week. Scotty is a bit keen on Powershell. I'm a lot better since I discovered the Tab key. I type Get-U and press the Tab key, and all of the words beginning with U are presented to me. Fantastic.
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Monday, October 23, 2006 11:51 AM

There are too many Sundays in October this year...

And it's affecting your Outlook calendar, and it will mess up your daylight savings if you don't apply the hotfix says Paul . So what? Well if you're running on GMT time (UK time zone) then you stand a chance of your meetings all getting screwed up by
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Friday, October 20, 2006 2:43 PM

The end of SMS?

Will this spell the end for SMS text messages on your phone then? I was reading the article in The International Herald Tribune about Steve Ballmer talking about the new services that Orange subscribers in Europe will be able to use soon. You can do real
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 6 Comments
Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:38 AM

Come over to the Virtual side

Virtual TechEd is now live. TechEd ITForum is sold out and has been for a couple of weeks now, so if you're a last minute sort of person, then you've missed out this year. We've created videos so you can catch up on what's going on at both TechEd Developer
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 5:57 PM

TechNet evening: Introduction to Exchange 2007

I had a busy evening last night presenting on Exchange 2007. Lots and lots of questions and a lot of buzz and excitement around Exchange and Powershell. Here are links to the resources I mentioned: Link to Exchange 2007 Documentation Exchange 2007 Tech
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 1:26 PM

Office Webcasts for November

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Advanced Tips and Tricks for Creating Dynamic Diagrams with Visio 2007 and Excel 2007 (Level 300) Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time Stephanie Krieger, Document Production Expert, Arouet.net
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 1:24 PM

System Center Webcasts for November

TechNet Webcast: Agility Now (Part 10 of 10): Looking ahead to System Center (Level 200) Wednesday, November 08, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time John Baker, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032306334&Culture=en-U
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006 1:23 PM

Exchange Webcasts for November

TechNet Webcast: High Availability and Clustering in Exchange Server 2007 (Level 300) Monday, November 06, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time Kevin Remde, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation Michael Murphy, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 1:20 PM

Unified Communications webcasts for November

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Unified Communications Overview (Level 100) Friday, November 03, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time Joe Schurman, Trainer, Connected Innovation LLC http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032313385&Culture=en-US
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 1:17 PM

SharePoint Webcasts for November

TechNet Webcast: An In-Depth Look at Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200) Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time Keith Combs, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032312690&Culture=en-US
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Monday, October 16, 2006 3:15 PM

Messaging and mobility User Group

There's another meeting of the Messaging and mobility User group this week. It's held in our London Offices at 10 Great Pultenay Street on Thursday 19th October . Here's the agenda: 18:00-18:30 Arrival 18:30-18:35 Introduction to speakers and the aims
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Friday, October 13, 2006 3:44 PM

SLAM this on your phone and find a friend

I've always been interested in social networking ever since the early days of chat rooms which allowed me to interact with strangers who were interested in the same sort of thing as me (Technology stuff actually before you start thinking the worst...).
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Thursday, October 12, 2006 4:38 PM

Using Office 2003? Make Sure You're Compatible

Are you using Office 2003 and not yet trying out the beta of 2007? Are some of your colleagues well into testing Office 2007 and moaning at you? Make sure you can open and edit the documents sent to you by colleagues who are using the 2007 Office system.
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Wednesday, October 11, 2006 1:29 PM

A new Beta experience for applications

I heard an absolutely brilliant suggestion the other week. One that would take us a couple of years to deliver on, and would require a heck of a lot of co-ordination between all of the product groups, but ever since I heard about this, it's been kicking
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 8 Comments
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 5:11 PM

Find videos with Blinkx

Hmmm. It's really interesting that we've signed a deal with Blinkx . We haven't bought the company. We've agreed to pay Blinkx an outright licensing fee based on how much use visitors to Microsoft Web sites make of the Blinkx search system which could
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Monday, October 09, 2006 10:14 AM

Google to buy YouTube

I've been watching the news trickle through the blogosphere, and it's always amazing to see a new story appear and whiz though blogs. This one is about Google and YouTube. Apparently, Google are in talks to buy YouTube (according to this Reuters article
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
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Monday, October 09, 2006 9:57 AM

On my Soapbox

I've been having a look at MSN Soapbox which is currently in beta. You can request an invite and get to have a look at videos you want to see or upload. I've heard that it's been designed to appeal at consumers and its certainly a lot easier to navigate
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Friday, October 06, 2006 11:46 AM

More on Exchange security

Steve tends to focus on security, and I focus on Messaging and collaboration. I tend to leave all of the security topics to him, whilst I focus on my stuff. But our topics do overlap quite a bit, especially with Forefront. I've collated a set of articles
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Thursday, October 05, 2006 2:50 PM

System Center Essentials: Beta 2 released

I've just noticed that we've released Beta 2 of System Centre Essentials (for small and medium businesses). This is certainly worth evaluating if you're starting to feel that your IT infrastructure is getting a bit out of hand... Have a look at the official
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006 6:39 PM

Windows mobile 5.0 and persistent storage

Oliver had lots of questions on mobility. Jason kindly filled in the blanks for me, and answered Oliver's mail. I was in an all day meeting and couldn't respond. Here's Oliver's original mail, with answers. The Persistent Storage feature is one of the
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006 4:34 PM

Exchange 2007 Train the Trainer

I'm delivering another session of Train the trainer in the UK. it's quite scary listening to some of the stories of customers around Europe and their infrastructure. Especially the stories about international organisations (!). Yikes. I really feel for
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Monday, October 02, 2006 3:01 PM

Flickr plug in for Live writer

I don't usually post photos onto my blog - I find that they're a hassle to do as I hate HTML. I need to go into the HTML interface, find the part of the post to add the image. I then need to add the <img src> tag (or whatever it is) into my blog.
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