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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 2:11 PM

Watch out for the Daleks

We're in Manchester today at the Science museum with another packed house for this part of the Exchange unplugged tour . It was really great to meet up with Guy yesterday who is a regular contributor to my blog, it's always great to put faces to names
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:03 PM

More and more girly geeks

It was great to see Emmeline, Sarah, David, Richard, and more (sorry - I forgot all of your names) in Nottingham last night . A nice convenient stop off for me on the way up to Chesterfield for the Exchange Unplugged roadshow. It's nice to see that women
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Monday, October 29, 2007 12:41 PM

Presentation style coaching: The feelgood factor

I got a great email from Kris the other day. I've been coaching others around the business who want advice on their presentation styles and helping them create a better experience for their customers. Often its not what you say during a presentation,
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Friday, October 26, 2007 11:17 PM

Microsoft and Facebook partnership

I've been watching the news about our partnership with Facebook with interest, and following all of the different perspectives on the negotiations. We announced an "equity investment" which means we're entering into an advertising syndication partnership.
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Thursday, October 25, 2007 8:22 PM

Exchange (and girly) geeks meet here...

It was great to see so many of you yesterday at the Tate Modern and at the Clarence pub in Albemarle street on Wednesday. Hopefully you had a good time with the lads and didn't drink too much. I'm going to be in Chesterfield on Tuesday, and Manchester
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:15 AM

Changing the way Outlook "finds" items in the GAL

Ray had a problem with modifying the default find template in the Outlook Address book. He wanted to modify the default address book “Find” template/form to include the ability to search against a phone number as well. In the past it was possible to modify
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007 4:56 PM

UC Unplugged at the Tate Modern

I'm off on tour tomorrow for the Unified Communications unplugged set of sessions that we're doing around the UK. I'm talking about Exchange 2007 architecture implementation and planning and things like that. Tomorrow we're at the Tate Modern in London
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Monday, October 22, 2007 6:17 PM

The feel good Social Networking sites

I'm fascinated by the current social networking trend and watch twitter , facebook and myspace , flickr etc ad nauseam. There are several social networking sites out there which do a variety of different things. But they all have one key goal. To connect
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 9:51 PM

Popfly enters public beta

As an IT pro, I didn't jump onto the Popfly bandwagon, I thought it was a developer geek toy. That was until I saw a demo by another IT pro (who also isn't a developer) and now I'm hooked with just how easy it is to create mashups by dragging and dropping.
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 8:53 PM

TechNet on the road again

Well we managed to cut costs this year so we could squeeze another roadshow into this years planning. We've got yet another roadshow planned in the spring and a huge one off event also planned. So Georgina has been busy checking out places for us to go,
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 6:15 PM

Exchange webcasts in November

Momentum Webcast: Protecting Your HP Storage and Microsoft Exchange Server Solution from Disasters (Level 200) Thursday, November 08, 2007 - 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Pacific Time Rich Bruklis, Product Manager, HP http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032351245&Culture=en-U
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 6:11 PM

Sharepoint Webcasts for November 07

TechNet Webcast: SAP Enterprise Portal and SharePoint Server 2007 Interoperability (Level 200) Thursday, November 08, 2007 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time Tilo Boettcher, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation Anu Chawla, Program Manager, Microsoft
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 6:06 PM

System Center webcasts for November 07

TechNet Webcast: System Center Operations Manager 2007 Installation and Management Pack Migration (Level 200) Friday, November 02, 2007 - 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Pacific Time Blain Barton, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032352708&Culture=en-US
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 12:23 PM

Microsoft Exchange Server ActiveSync Certificate-Based Authentication Tool

Ooh, this is a useful tool to download if you're playing with Exchange and web authorisation... The Exchange Server ActiveSync Certificate-Based authentication tool provides several utilities to assist an Exchange administrator in configuring and validating
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Monday, October 15, 2007 10:32 AM

A lot of spam

Sender ID: Blocking 20 million fraudulent e-mail messages every day With more spam and other unwanted e-mail, it's no wonder we're becoming more wary of e-mail. But Sender ID, (-mail authentication technology) seems to be having an impact . Every day,
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Friday, October 12, 2007 4:29 PM

Sync your contacts between Outlook and Windows Live mail

I thought this was an interesting tip, so I thought I'd share it: Marc has a friend who has a small business. He’s using Office Live for his business. Hence, he is using Windows Live Mail . He's using the Windows Live Mail desktop application for a better
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Thursday, October 11, 2007 6:13 PM

The Ultimate Steal: Office 2007 for students. The price of a curry for 2...

Wow, we have some really inventive people who work here. We encourage everyone to think differently and The email I got today showed me yet another great example of this. Andrew, one of this years interns who works in our Marketing Communications team,
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007 5:51 PM

Best (and worst) presentations

I was at a really interesting meeting last night. The BCS invited me to their strategy debate around why young people aren't choosing Technology as a career and what could we do to change this perception. It's interesting to know that clinical pathology
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007 3:03 PM

Communicator Mobile 2007

There's quite a lot of stuff about Communicator Mobile out there as Solsie , Paul and Brett have noticed, so, as I've been using it quite a bit on my phone when I'm out of the office so I thought I'd blog about this set of links and resources if you want
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Monday, October 08, 2007 4:10 PM

Set your IT manager free.

Damn, another catchy tune to torment me all day. I love this little clip from Intel talking (well singing) about their hardware and software solution on the new chipsets So why doesn't someone walk up to my desk and start serenading me then? would be
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Friday, October 05, 2007 6:28 PM

Last chance to register for the roadshow:

The UK partner team are going on the road with their roadshow . You'll learn about: Windows Vista 2007 Microsoft Office System Microsoft Windows Server The new Microsoft 'Centro' product and Microsoft Small Business Server Market overview and business
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Friday, October 05, 2007 4:59 PM

Mobile Connections

Do you want to go to Las Vegas and get your hands on some cool mobile devices? Yup - so do I. Loke Uei has arranged a discount code for people who read about the event via blogs to get a $100 discount. You can then put the discount towards your new cool
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Thursday, October 04, 2007 6:42 PM

Microsoft Executives and a pair of high heels...

I spent the morning with Gordon Frazer at our company All hands meeting which we hold every quarter. We all get together, Gordon is MC and the executives all have a session to talk about progress and innovation so far this year. I'd been asked to talk
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007 4:12 PM

Groove towards the OCS 2007 launch

Mark is trialling a new way of getting people to our events and has decided to use Groove to organise everything for the Office Communications Server launch to save the load on his mailbox. I did exactly the same when I was trying to co-ordinate internal
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007 4:19 PM

ITForum: The virtual side

Daniel and Tony have interviewed me for the Virtual side at ITForum and they showed me their great video that they did as an introduction to ITForum this year. The geeks are out. Great job guys, see you in Barcelona...
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Monday, October 01, 2007 6:59 PM

Daylight Savings Time around the world: Updating your system.

Oh heck. It's getting round to that time again, I've seen a few mails flying around. It's time to change the clocks again as we're heading into winter in the Northern Hemisphere (don't gloat if you're heading into summer in the southern part of the world).
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