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February 2006 - Posts

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:07 PM

SMS 4 first look

After talking about SMS 2003 for such a long time, it's going to be a bit strange talking about SMS 4, but I've noticed that the SMS homepage allows you to have a look at the SMS 4 beta and download it. So in addition to downloading SMS 2003 R2 , you
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Monday, February 27, 2006 10:39 PM

Exchange 12 preview webcasts

Harold (he of the cheesy grin) has noticed that we're delivering a set of Exchange 12 webcasts in March. 1. An Overview of Exchange “12” (Level 200) - Tuesday, March 14, 2006 2. Giving the Administrator More Control in Exchange “12” (Level 200) - Wednesday,
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Friday, February 24, 2006 11:31 PM

RTC Experts - Come and talk to us...

I'm over in Washington state again for a meeting of our evangelist managers, so I thought I'd extend my trip by a day and catch up with my virtual team of evangelists and talk to a couple of people in the product team. I've just had a meeting with Kevin
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Thursday, February 23, 2006 4:51 PM

Unified messaging solutions

Blake has been collating lots of things on Exchange 12 recently and has created a series of resource pages if you're interestd in tracking the technology Exchange Server Resources Live Communications Server 2005 resources Live meeting resources and the
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 3:52 PM

Microsoft Office - what it's really going to be called

I've seen a couple of press releases about Office 12. Its got several opinions about what we're calling it. Here's a couple of examples: 2007 Microsoft Office suite contains several product names: Microsoft Office Word 2007, and Microsoft Office Excel
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 6:27 PM

SMS R2 Beta

So we've announced the release of the SMS R2 beta with a 30% discount if you buy the licence before April 1st this year. Check out the press announcement from the web. There are 2 major features for this release, the Inventory tool and the scan tool.
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Monday, February 20, 2006 5:48 PM

Switching to Exchange native mode

Jan mailed me: she had her finger on the button, about to make the switch from mixed mode to native mode, and wanted a sanity check before actually hitting the option button. AD was also running in mixed mode. So what to switch first? Exchange or AD?
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Friday, February 17, 2006 2:48 PM

Real Time Collaboration Webcasts for March

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Office Communicator Technical Overview (Level 200) Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time Paul Duffy, Product Manager, Microsoft Is your organization's remote communication still limited to the call-wait-response
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Friday, February 17, 2006 2:45 PM

Mobility Webcasts for March

MSDN Webcast: Mobile Web Development with ASP.NET 2.0 (Part 3 of 5): Data Access and Security (Level 200) Monday, March 06, 2006 - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Pacific Time Thom Robbins, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 makes it
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Friday, February 17, 2006 2:41 PM

Office Webcasts for March

Microsoft Webcast: Adding Efficiencies to Compliance Efforts Through Microsoft Office Visio Monday, March 27, 2006 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time Sandy Sharma, Vice President, Technology & Strategy, INS Complying with the increasing number of
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Friday, February 17, 2006 2:35 PM

MOM & SMS Webcasts for March

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft System Management Server 2003 Technical Overview (Level 200) Friday, March 03, 2006 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Pacific Time John Baker, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation Find out about the new features of Microsoft Systems
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Friday, February 17, 2006 1:55 PM

Sharepoint Webcasts for March

Microsoft Webcast: Communicate Discussion Topics with Free Windows SharePoint Services Applications Tuesday, March 07, 2006 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time Bob Sutton, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation Learn about the free Collaborative
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Friday, February 17, 2006 1:16 PM

Messaging & collaboration Webcasts - March

Microsoft Webcast: Improving the Quality of Professional Client Services with Collaboration Solutions from Microsoft Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time John Henderson, Project Manager, ADP Elliott Ichimura, Industry Manager, Microsoft
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Thursday, February 16, 2006 2:52 PM

Flexible working: Do your best work...

I presented the keynote speech at the Women in Technology networking event last night. There were over 200 women present to talk about flexible working . So I talked about my cats and my smartphone and how mobility allows me to work wherever I want, whenever
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 3:24 PM

Learning Monad

Lee saw my entry the other week about my challenges on Monad, and asked me to have a look at his blog . Oh wow. Some scary stuff in there, and some cool things too (I particularly liked the fire effect gif that's all documented for you to try). Scripting
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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 5:18 PM

New UK based Sharepoint User group

The Sharepoint User group had it's first meeting in the UK last night at the Microsoft campus in Reading. Nick managed to secure an amazing turnout for a first meeting with over 60 people attending. There's obviously a need for people to get together
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Monday, February 13, 2006 3:51 PM

Sending Instant Messages to a group of people

This one had me puzzled for a while. Scott wanted to send IM to a group from the Exchange Global Address List, similar to the old types of Broadcast that everyone used to use 10 years ago (Netware 3.12 perhaps?). I had to look this one up and found a
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Friday, February 10, 2006 2:58 PM

Have a look at MOM 2005 SP1

I noticed that you can try some of the multilingual versions of the MOM 2005 SP1. They're available to download here. .. (careful its a 42Mb file...). if you want access to other languages like French, German and Japanese, go to the SP1 home page . Some
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Thursday, February 09, 2006 3:08 PM

What should we talk about?

Today is the second day of our IT Forum highlights event. We've been focusing on things that will be coming up later on in the year (E12, Monad, Mobility and Vista today). At the last roadshow last week we talked a lot about released technology. Last
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Wednesday, February 08, 2006 6:30 PM

Sharepoint Virtual Lab

If you're not familiar with Sharepoint, and want to have a play with it without having to build the produce yourself, then why don't you have a play with Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 in the safety of a virtual Lab. There are 6 modules for you to have
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Tuesday, February 07, 2006 4:32 PM

Evangelism on a global scale

I'm often asked if I only evangelise in the UK or do I "do" other countries too. Well, when I present at TechEd or ITForum, then I suppose I'm evangelising throughout Europe, When I write for the Technet Flash, or for another publication, I may be read
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Monday, February 06, 2006 3:49 PM

Management videos on IT's Showtime

I noticed that there are a few new videos on IT's Showtime concerning management technologies filmed during the Product team tour late last year. The product team were in Europe to deliver the best of the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS). So there are
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Friday, February 03, 2006 6:12 PM

Unified Communications Group - the merging of Exchange and Real Time collaborations.

There's been quite a lot of talk in the press and the blogosphere since the announcement on Monday that the Real Time Collaboration group and the Exchange team were going to merge into the UGC. I think that this is a really good idea - and gives the whole
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Thursday, February 02, 2006 3:27 PM

Exchange increased store limits

Even though SP2 has been out for a couple of months, and there's been quite a bit of talk about the increased store size and how to enable it (it's a registry key if you wondered). There's still a bit of confusion about where to find out information about
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Wednesday, February 01, 2006 4:30 PM

Sharepoint Services Templates - that look like Notes/Domimo templates...

We released a set of 30 Sharepoint templates a few months ago, to make it easy to explore functionality in the product. Well I've noticed that we've released 3 more templates. These are: Discussion Database , Document Library and also the Team Work site
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