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Thursday, May 31, 2007 11:31 AM

TechEd/IT Forum site now live

Wow, that's come around quickly - it seems hardly anytime at all since I was at It forum last year. Well this years event has been announced. Here's the official mail: TechEd IT Forum is Microsoft’s premier EMEA conference designed to provide IT professionals
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 11:20 AM

Women in Technology Survey results

I thought I'd share with you the press release about the Women in Technology survey results that I talked about in March. Apologies for cutting and pasting the text, but hey, it's a press release, not my own stuff :-) To: Eileen Brown Subject: News Release
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:57 AM

UK User Groups joint event

The UK User groups are getting together and having another "Community Day" here in the UK. Here are some details and the link to register... As some of you might remember several of the UK IT Pro User Groups, came together on January 23rd this year, to
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Friday, May 25, 2007 9:22 AM

Women business and blogging

More presenting coming up. I'm going to be out and about for the next few months, I'm flying ( Aargh!) to Orlando next week (I'm going early to do some scuba diving before going to Teched ), then I'm flying back (more Aargh!) early to deliver a session
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 11:40 PM

Women: Raising your profile in Technology

Phew, I'm exhausted. I've just presented at a Women in Technology event in London about raising your profile and I'm all questioned out. lots of questions about returning to work after a career break, being assertive , presentation skills and styles and
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 1:32 PM

Things I love, things I hate

So there's another tagging thingy going on. Steve (who finds stuff of the Internet I've never even heard) of tagged me so I thought I'd better keep this thing going as I'm very dedicated eh? I actually like reading about other peoples favourite (and not
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 6:17 PM

Sharing files safely

Aah, the innocence of children. My next door neighbour June has 2 kids that think its perfectly safe to download whatever they want to onto the home pc, custom emoticons, music, video, peer to peer stuff, bittorrent and anything at all that their mates
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Monday, May 21, 2007 1:56 PM

Migrating your anti spam settings to Exchange

Now this is useful. You've spent all this time configuring your Exchange 2003 server to be as effective as possible in preventing spam from reaching your users inboxes, and now you're going to Exchange 2007 with the prospect of doing all that work again!
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Friday, May 18, 2007 6:45 PM

Stressing Exchange

I've been chatting to Tony who is trying to work out how many users his Exchange box can take and wanted some tools for stressing his server and analysing messages. He wanted some "free stuff" too (he's running a medium sized business with limited budget),
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Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:44 AM

SharePoint security

I noticed that there's quite a bit of stuff on Security, SharePoint and Forefront that I thought I'd collate and share with you. Handy to have these documents in one place especially if you're taking a closer look at SharePoint with a view to deploying
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 4:57 PM

Exchange 2007 overview TechNet session

I promised to give links to everything I talked about at this mornings TechNet event on Exchange 2007 on campus, so here are all of the links I remember mentioning... Why we made the decision to move to 64 bit Enabling Tarpitting Exchange Hosted services
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 10:30 AM

Social worms...

I was interested to read this article about the myspace worm (the Web 2.0 worm that whizzed around everyone's sites) We've had social engineering tricks for years, from salesmen trying to find out people's direct lines, to pseudo workmen trying to gain
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Monday, May 14, 2007 10:44 PM

No more flying

Yikes. I'm normally quite sanguine about traveling, after all, I fly quite a lot for my job, and when I go on holiday but the experience I've had today has changed my mind completely. I traveled to Munich this evening as I'm delivering a section of the
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Friday, May 11, 2007 1:20 PM

Migrating from Lotus Notes?

There's been a lot of information about migrating from Notes over on the Collaboration tools blog . Here are 3 tools in particular that may be of use to you if you're thinking of migrating to Exchange... Microsoft Transporter Suite for Lotus Domino Demo:
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Thursday, May 10, 2007 3:32 PM

A week in the life of an Evangelist (me)...

I don't know why Sarah would find my day job interesting enough to ask me to blog about, but she did after I blogged about blogging the other day. So I've chosen a week in my Calendar at random which represents a typical week I suppose, and I'll try to
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007 1:44 PM

Changing fonts in PowerPoint

John sent me this tip after I'd blogged about Death by PowerPoint the other week, and it's really useful if your job means that you need to work with lots of PowerPoint presentations, taking bits from several presentations to make a different one. It's
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007 10:14 AM

Outlook and Vista Freeze

Will Kennedy publishes an interesting post on Outlook and Vista freezing The Short Story We've released an update to Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 that will help to address some performance issues that are discussed in Knowledge Base Article 932086 .
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Monday, May 07, 2007 2:03 PM

Making Word work harder for you

I'm really glad I subscribe to the at Work newsletter , it's got some cracking tips sometimes that I've never encountered. Most of us don't use a lot of the key features in Office, but some of them could really save quite a bit of work. Take these 5 tips
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Friday, May 04, 2007 1:38 PM

Outlook 2007 indexing issues

David had a problem with Outlook 2007: Can anyone offer any suggestion as to why the search function in Outlook 2007 should suddenly decide to return no results for any search whatsoever. I had this problem yesterday and it is still happening today, so
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Thursday, May 03, 2007 7:07 PM

More Exchange 2007 documentation just released

Scott has just pointed to a whole new set of Exchange 2007 documentation that has just been released to the web which I thought I'd share with you. We seem to be getting a huge amount of momentum now that the product has been released for a few months,
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 7:41 PM

Web Administration summit in the UK

We've got 2 presenters from the IIS team at corp coming over and they'll be delivering a one day summit talking about IIS on Longhorn in the UK on May 23rd. We've got a great venue too - the British Library Conference centre in London. Topics include:
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 6:05 PM

VOIP viral clip from the Unified Communications team

This is another one of these little viral audio clips that spread around the Internet. I loved the previous video clips that the Unified Communications team have done, like the spoof on the Devil wears Prada film, showing Unified Communications in one,
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