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Wellington Microsoft Infrastructure User Group - Highlights from MMS2010
Announcing the latest meeting of the Wellington Microsoft Infrastructure User Group. Topic:...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 04/14/2010
Auckland Microsoft Infrastructure User Group - Highlights from MMS2010
We are really excited to announce the formation of new Microsoft User groups in New Zealand....
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 04/14/2010
Christchurch Microsoft Infrastructure User Group - Highlights from MMS2010
We are really excited to announce the formation of new Microsoft User groups in New Zealand....
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 04/14/2010
Microsoft New Zealand to host Virtualisation Summit
Events to be held next week, in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. See...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 04/13/2010
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for April 2010
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for April 2010 Microsoft today released 11 bulletins affecting...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 04/13/2010
NZ IT Professional Showcase: Medical union boosts capabilities, improves communications with server upgrade
Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and Small Business Specialists, Quay Corporate, provided The...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 04/13/2010
Notification of an out-of-band IE security bulletin
Microsoft is intending to release an out-of-band IE security bulletin tomorrow on March 31, 2010 (NZ...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 03/29/2010
new Microsoft Common Engineering Criteria website is Live
The Microsoft Common Engineering Criteria (CEC) programme establishes a set of engineering...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 03/15/2010
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.0 Beta 1 Now Available
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 is an agent-less tool designed to simplify...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 03/15/2010
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for March 2010
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for March 2010 Microsoft released two bulletins today affecting...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 03/09/2010
NZ TechNet UNPLUGGED March events Office 2010 & SharePoint 2010
Just a quick reminder that there is an IT Pro Unplugged event running in March in 5 cities:...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 02/20/2010
Data Protection Manager 2010 Release Candidate – now available
We are very excited to announce that the Release Candidate for DPM 2010 is now available for public...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 02/10/2010
Microsoft IT – how we run our own infrastructure BranchCache
Have you heard of Microsoft IT Showcase? This is a set of content (articles, videos and web casts)...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 02/08/2010
Get the new Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Workload Architecture Poster
This free OCS 2007 R2 Workload Architecture poster gives you a visual of the different...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 02/08/2010
Heads Up: End of Life support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2
Just a quick reminder that Windows 2000 and Windows XP Service Pack 2 are nearing end-of-support....
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 02/04/2010
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-002 (978207) released today
Heads-up about this Critical out of band Internet Explorer security update released earlier this...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 01/21/2010
System Centre Essentials 2010 Release Candidate Available
As announced on the SCE Team Blog, the Release Candidate of Essentials 2010 is now available for...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 01/20/2010
TechNet Magazine December 2009 edition online
Editor Notes: The Times Are a Changin' While TechNet Magazine will no longer be offered in print...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 12/21/2009
latest Windows 7 Application Compatibility List for IT Professionals released
The latest Windows 7 Application Compatibility List for IT Professionals has just been released for...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 12/16/2009
SharePoint 2010 Ignite Training announced for NZ
Microsoft is pleased to announce the availability of upcoming SharePoint 2010 Ignite training in...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 12/08/2009
next Wellington Infrastructure User Group : Exchange 2010 + Cloud Online Services
Reminder that our next Wellington Infrastructure User Group meeting is on next week: Tuesday, 8th...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 12/01/2009
invite to IT Pro ‘fireside chats’ with Microsoft execs
We recently started running a series of Live Meeting sessions where senior Microsoft executives talk...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 11/30/2009
Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 released
Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 development is now finished, and its released - the...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 11/22/2009
Windows Home Server (WHS) Power Pack 3 – available this week
as announced on the Windows Home Server blog: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 will be available...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 11/22/2009
December NZ TechNet UNPLUGGED sessions for IT Pros
Join us around New Zealand (Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Tauranga, Auckland), in December 2009...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 11/10/2009
Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft e-book download
download Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 Learn about the new features of Windows Server 2008 R2...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 10/20/2009
Wellington - Wake up and Win Windows 7 on October 22nd
Wake up and Win - Windows 7 on October 22nd Microsoft and Hewlett Packard invite you to help...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 10/18/2009
Auckland - Wake up and Win - Windows 7 PC's on October 22nd
Wake up and Win - Windows 7 PC's on October 22nd Microsoft, Hewlett Packard and New Zealand’s most...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 10/18/2009
System Centre Essentials 2010 Public Beta is here
Time to check out the next full release of System Centre Essentials. SCE 2010 is designed...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 10/07/2009
Need some free Antivirus for home?
Microsoft just launched Microsoft Security Essentials… Microsoft Security Essentials provides...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 09/30/2009
final release of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 available for download
Get ready to deploy Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 with the final release of Microsoft...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 09/11/2009
Wellington Novell Users International meeting this week – Windows 7 Technical Overview
I will be presenting at the Novell Users International meeting (aka Novell User Group) in Wellington...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 08/30/2009
next Wellington Infrastructure User Group meeting announced – Active Directory in R2
What’s new in Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory Presented by: Tony Murray When: Tuesday...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 08/29/2009
Exchange 2007 SP2 ready for download
Exchange 2007 SP2 is now ready for download, (version 08.02.0176.002). As announced in...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 08/25/2009
final version of VMM 2008 R2 evaluation available for download
We’re pleased to announce the RTM of System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. VMM 2008...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 08/24/2009
Exchange Server 2010 Ignite Training NZ 3 day deep dive technical session
We are pleased to announce the availability of Exchange 2010 IGNITE training for NZ IT...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 08/23/2009
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 RC - now available for download
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit is the recommended process and toolset to automate desktop and server...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 08/19/2009
Remote Server Administration Tools RSAT for Windows 7 released
Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 7 enables Windows Server administrators to...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 08/12/2009
Windows Virtual PC and Win XP Mode Release Candidate - now available
This morning we announced the availability of Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP mode Release...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 08/04/2009
Be in to win with Tech·Ed NZ 7 Canon Ixus cameras up for grabs
Register for Tech·Ed before 31 July 2009 and be in to win. As you may already know, Tech·Ed is New...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 06/29/2009
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Beta 2 is now Available for Download
Getting ready to deploy Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2? Check out the recently released...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 06/28/2009
TechNet Magazine July 2009
TechNet Magazine July 2009 issue is now available online, below is a sampling of articles from this...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 06/28/2009
Free eBooks available Office Communications Server 2007 R2
Microsoft Press have another couple of free eBooks available for download. This time they are...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 06/28/2009
TechNet UNPLUGGED June 09 Slide Decks Available
A few of you have have posted comments asking when I will be making the PowerPoint decks from the...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 06/23/2009
Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM and General Availability dates
Did you see the news about the general availability dates for Windows 7? Well the same is true for...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 06/02/2009
next Wellington Infrastructure User Group – SCOM 2007 R2
The next Wellington Infrastructure Group meeting will feature System Centre Operations Manager 2007...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 05/25/2009
SharePoint now running www.microsoft.com/sharepoint
I was browsing for some SharePoint content today and I noticed https://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint...
Author: Nathan Mercer Date: 05/24/2009