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James Senior at Microsoft: Like a kid in a candy store
Moving your business to a client/server environment
I've said before I really like the Smart Business Newsletter that Microsoft produces - there's...
Author: james Date: 06/11/2008
Monster Virtual Earth Upload
We just uploaded 69.2 Terabytes of new imagery and data up to Virtual Earth ready for public...
Author: james Date: 06/11/2008
Announcing Groove in Professional Services Webinar
We've got an interesting looking webinar coming up especially for those of you in professional...
Author: james Date: 06/11/2008
Media Center University
Following the Vista After Hours events we did last year, it's great to see some training being put...
Author: james Date: 06/05/2008
When the Cloud goes down
Over the weekend one of the services in the cloud that I consume - Statcounter - experienced some...
Author: james Date: 06/04/2008
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 shipping this week and other tidbits
Announcements aplenty at TechEd 2008 in Orlando today. Somasegar's been writing about his...
Author: james Date: 06/03/2008
SBS Partners - when do you want training?
We've just been debating whether partners want Sales and Technical SBS training to be released in a...
Author: james Date: 06/03/2008
Last few spots on the Forefront technical training
Hurry! There's only a few places remaining... Overview of the course – Learn critical...
Author: james Date: 06/03/2008
Good news for Scanners on Vista
Scanners are quite unique pieces of hardware in that people tend to hoard them and keep them for...
Author: james Date: 06/03/2008
Plumbb - read my blog roll
I've had a list of links to blogs I frequently read since I began writing posts about three years...
Author: james Date: 06/03/2008
Introducing the Microsoft Store
Consumers can now purchase and download our most popular products like Windows and Office online...
Author: james Date: 06/02/2008
SBS 2008 RC0 public release
Roll up, roll up come and get your copy of the RC0 of SBS 2008 for your pleasure! Directly from the...
Author: james Date: 05/30/2008
Announcing the UK Office Live Small Business Seminar
The Partner Readiness Team is pleased to announce the Office Live Small Business Seminar, to be held...
Author: james Date: 05/30/2008
Partner TV interview on Exchange and Unified Communications
Just posted a new interview on Partner TV covering off Exchange 2007 and Unified Communications,...
Author: james Date: 05/29/2008
Mashed 08
The BBC and Microsoft are running a developer event in London called Mashed 08. It's a free...
Author: james Date: 05/28/2008
Bill and Steve at D6 with Windows 7 Touch
I've refrained from posting anything about Windows 7 until now but it seems that this week the lid...
Author: james Date: 05/28/2008
Vista UAC helps to stop rootkits
An interesting article in TechWorld last week about how UAC - which is the Marmite of Vista features...
Author: james Date: 05/27/2008
Virtualisation Briefing for Partners
26 June 2008 09:30 - 26 June 2008 14:00 GMT Virtualisation is the hot IT topic, yet 93% of...
Author: james Date: 05/27/2008
Live Search Image Scrathpad
I'm liking this new feature of Live Search Images, I can do a search and do some quick refining and...
Author: james Date: 05/21/2008
TechNet Spotlight Videos
Our very own Mr Lamb keynoted at the recent event on "Building a Security Infrastructure with...
Author: james Date: 05/15/2008
Moonlight Available (that's Silverlight for Linux)
The interop momentum is growing now with news of the release of Moonlight which is in a nutshell...
Author: james Date: 05/15/2008
Forefront training available
We still have some spaces available on the Deploying and Administering Forefront Client Security,...
Author: james Date: 05/14/2008
SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 Pricing Announced
We've just announced the pricing for the versions of Small Business Server 2008 and the brand new...
Author: james Date: 05/13/2008
Healthcare Silverlight Demo
Loving the work from the team in the UK on this demo app to show off Microsoft's Common User...
Author: james Date: 05/13/2008
Worldwide Telescope released
Great news today that the Worldwide Telescope project is now unveiled and you can download the...
Author: james Date: 05/13/2008
Licensing Training for Breadth Partners
The Microsoft Licensing Sales Specialist (MLSS) accreditation is made up of seven...
Author: james Date: 05/12/2008
Virtual Earth Features Video
Put the volume to 11 and press play... Via Mark Brown's Blog.
Author: james Date: 05/09/2008
Startups Live 2008
I've just been reading the Microsoft Small Smart Business newsletter (sign up here) and they are...
Author: james Date: 05/09/2008
Focus on your business, not IT Security
The Smart Business Newsletter is full of useful tidbits this month! I've been having internal...
Author: james Date: 05/08/2008
Microsoft hiring Ninjas
I was chatting with my pal Viral today and he pointed out an employee at Microsoft who had the title...
Author: james Date: 05/08/2008
Changes afoot for UK Live Maps
The product managers for Live Maps in the UK have taken a slightly more proactive approach than last...
Author: james Date: 05/07/2008
Virtual Earth's new features
I'm always reading the blogs from Chris Pendelton and Johannes Kebeck because they are rich with...
Author: james Date: 05/07/2008
Learn about System Center Operations Manager and Licensing
A quick headsup that I posted a new interview on the Partner TV blog on System Center Operations...
Author: james Date: 05/07/2008
Bit of a result: Microsoft platform is best to develop web apps on
Well I never. Having been at the Future of Web Apps conference last year and hearing a...
Author: james Date: 05/06/2008
MDOP Technical Training for Partners
Two new courses have just been released for MDOP Technical Training. Not only do you find out...
Author: james Date: 05/06/2008
Pro Photo Tools
Chris has details on the recently released Microsoft Pro Photo Tools that provide extra...
Author: james Date: 05/06/2008
Photosynth in CSI
A new CSI episode was aired in the states last week and I've been waiting for a certain clip to...
Author: james Date: 05/06/2008
Web 2.0 Pattern Mining workshop
The Live Labs team have news of a Web 2.0 Pattern Mining workshop taking place in Zurich at the end...
Author: james Date: 05/06/2008
New videos on Partner TV
This week I've posted a couple of new videos on Partner TV. The first is an interview about...
Author: james Date: 05/02/2008
Running Terminal Services on SBS 2003
I just had a customer question routed to me about running Terminal Services on SBS 2003. Quick...
Author: james Date: 05/02/2008
Essential Business Server videos
Some of our MVPs have been busy making some quite amusing videos that help explain the different...
Author: james Date: 04/29/2008
Vista Incentive for Partners
We've just launched a great incentive for our partners to drive the conversations with their...
Author: james Date: 04/28/2008
Vista Power saving stats
Andrew in my team forwarded an interesting article from Infoweek which has the following nuggets of...
Author: james Date: 04/28/2008
Windows Live Vision
This mashup was forwarded to me today which maps on Virtual Earth all the recently updated Live...
Author: james Date: 04/25/2008
Server 2008 Hyper-V Training
Date 27th-28th May 2008 Course Virtualisation – Implementation and Migrating to Hyper V...
Author: james Date: 04/24/2008
Make sure Vista can install future updates and service packs
System Update Readiness Tool (KB947821) When SP1 came out some people experienced issues with...
Author: james Date: 04/17/2008
Final Call for Office Live Business Technical Training
Venue : Microsoft Chertsey Training Centre Dates : 22nd and 23rd April 2008 Course description :...
Author: james Date: 04/16/2008
Silverlight in the enterprise
By "enterprise" I of course mean "business". Many partners have asked me...
Author: james Date: 04/15/2008
How to build your own Operations Manager 2007 Management Packs
It was only today that I was discussing with Andrew Driver - the expert on Management in our team -...
Author: james Date: 04/15/2008
Live Maps in the UK - normal service is resumed
You'll be glad to hear that Live Maps UK is no longer redirecting Multimap - well done for all your...
Author: james Date: 04/14/2008