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September 2006 - Posts

Friday, September 29, 2006 12:34 PM

Do you want to be an idol?

I get some quirky requests sometime. Some of them are easy to ignore, some of them require a bit of wriggling to get out of tactfully, and some of them are unusual enough for me to take a second look at. As soon as I heard about this I said yes, yes YES!
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Thursday, September 28, 2006 5:59 PM

Office 2007 for the Mac

Ooh. this will impress my friend Mark , who's been banging on about this for ages. The Mole and Tom have already tried it and like it, and I uncovered this article , which says we're going to release Office 2007 for the Mac, 6 months after the release
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006 6:29 PM

UK TechNet Events

Ok, so I'm going a little bit off topic, and including all of the events that we're holding in the UK for the next few months, but I've decided to do this as I believe: The UK TechNet events site needs an RSS feed (I get questions about when the next
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 5 Comments
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 5:14 PM

Young readers of TechNet magazine

We get an internal newsletter from KC every week talking about progress to date with Exchange 2007, customer quotes, comments and links to interesting messaging related topics. This made me smile. I've worked with Greg in the UK for quite a while now.
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Monday, September 25, 2006 3:57 PM

Cleaning up your Powerpoint documents

John, one of our Platform Strategy Advisors (he talks about Visual Studio a lot in a broad Geordie accent), send a mail out with an amazing tip about Powerpoint, which I repeat in full as it's really useful and will save you lots of time... If you, like
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Friday, September 22, 2006 2:06 PM

Web Office: Hype or reality?

I was really interested to read Richards post on the Web Office of the future and how we've evolved since the olden days of indicidual Word processing packages, spreadsheets, and email clients. I'm using a whole host of Web tools at the moment. Windows
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 4 Comments
Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:34 AM

Asking Questions about Exchange

"Live it vivid" Betsy has been getting around a bit. She's on Channel 9 again (not many luminaries manage to get on Channel 9 twice) talking about her new role on QNA. I've had a play with QnA, sometimes as the person asking the questions, but mostly
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006 11:42 PM

Unified Communications Webcasts for October

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Tips and Tricks for Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2005 (Level 100) Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time Evan Archilla, Senior Training Specialist, Projectline Services http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032309173&Culture=en-US
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006 11:40 PM

Sharepoint Webcasts for October

MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management for Content Owners and Authors (Level 200) Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time Andrew Connell, MVP MCMS, Mindsharp http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032307695&Culture=en-US
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006 11:35 PM

Office Webcasts for October

TechNet Webcast: Overview of Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 (Level 200) Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Pacific Time Jean-Francois LeSaux, EPM LEAD ARCHITECT, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032309358&Culture=en-US
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006 11:32 PM

MOM and SMS Webcasts for October

TechNet Webcast: Agility Now (Part 08 of 10): Managing the Environment from Microsoft Operations Manager (Level 200) Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time John Baker, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032306329&Culture=en-US
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006 11:26 PM

Messaging Webcasts for October

TechNet Webcast: Exchange Server 2007 Client Access Services and Web Services (Level 200) Monday, October 02, 2006 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Pacific Time Chris Avis, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032309156&Culture=en-US
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006 3:35 PM

Download System Center Essentials

Why? Because its for mid sized businesses, it's easy to use and its a unified solution with a single console (I blogged about the demo and the white paper). Beta 2 has just gone live and is available for download and there's a Wiki , where you can contribute
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Monday, September 18, 2006 6:04 PM

Improving your SLA's

I noticed that there's a new Webcast recording by our internal IT team. How Microsoft IT monitors and manages the Messaging infrastructure as a service. It's a topic I get drawn into quite a bit. I was presenting at an eema Special interest group on Thursday,
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Friday, September 15, 2006 6:58 PM

Beware of Internet dating and duping...

I was truly horrified to read Dare's post the other day which talks about how Craigslist has been compromised, several people have been seriously embarrassed, and there are separations occurring due to people looking for love on the web. Warning. This
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Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:50 PM

Meeting the Messaging user group

So the first two meetings of the messaging and mobility User group went really well. We held one sessionyesterday, on campus at Reading and the other session tonight at our London office in Soho. It's really intersting to meet people who attend user groups
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 7 Comments
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 5:40 PM

Interacting with people who interact with Exchange

Do you know how many forums there are on Exchange 2007? 15 according to this list on Technet. You can submit questions and issues on any of these, and there are loads of MVP'd and Microsoft people who monitor these forums will answer them. But the best
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Tuesday, September 12, 2006 4:03 PM

A computer that reads hand movements

Wow. We've got some totally amazing people working here. I've just read an article in the Wall Street Journal about Andy Wilson, TouchLight and his computer that reads hand movements. You can spin stuff round on the screen just by waving at it. TouchLight
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Monday, September 11, 2006 2:38 PM

Office Gets Technical

There's new area where you can go to get answers to all of your Technical queries about Office. It's long overdue I say. The regular Office site has loads of great information - but its geared towards the end user. This site sweeps all of the Office back
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Friday, September 08, 2006 1:54 PM

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there was Web 1.0

I've been watching the hype around Web 2.0 with interest. I was around at the start of the dot com boom and remember only too well, all the phone calls from enthusiasts trying to get me to give up everything and join the latest start up. I found an interesting
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Thursday, September 07, 2006 1:35 PM

Take your Laptop to bed...

This takes the term "working from home" a little bit too far. The New York times reports that people are working with their laptops in bed. I was going to launch into an indignant tirade about how dreadful this is, and how it can be rather detrimental
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006 4:18 PM

Infrastructure Optimisation

I had a chat to Garry the other day. Garry runs our Infrastructure Optimisation team and is tasked with making people aware of how they can improve their environment from reactive to proactive. There are 4 states to this model 9full description of each
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Tuesday, September 05, 2006 4:00 PM

Biometrics - for your voice

Well we're working on eliminating voice spam and Porticus Technology are working on voice biometric authentication . Speak your password and your voiceprint is detected and you'll be authenticated. So I wonder how people who make their living impersonating
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Monday, September 04, 2006 3:54 PM

Security resources for Exchange

I noticed that there was quite a bit of security stuff on the last TechNet security newsletter (to subscribe just sign up here e by the way) I've reproduced them in case there's something you weren't aware of: Forefront Security for Exchange Server Beta
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Friday, September 01, 2006 4:06 PM

Posting source code to your blog

I know. I never post source code to my blog - even writing Powershell gives me the wobbles. But some of you may be really frustrated about the visual mess that can happen when you post source code. Well my colleague Mike has come up with something quite
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