MidMarket Events
IT Risk: Turning Business Threats into Competitive Advantage
George Westerman was our guest at our IT Leadership Summit events these past months. I want to thank...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/16/2008
Dynamics CRM Sales Briefing
Please join the Microsoft Across America Dynamics team as we show how Microsoft Dynamics CRM can...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/12/2008
Can I Add in Other Accounts in my Office Communicator?
IT can make it to where your Office Communicator users can add in users who have AOL, MSN, and Yahoo...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/10/2008
Small Business Server 2008 Preview Released
Windows Small Business Server 2008 is designed to provide small organizations with an affordable,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/30/2008
Gartner: Ninety Percent of Virtual Worlds Projects Fail
As if I wrote the article myself, but I did not, we mentioned today at our launch event about the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/20/2008
Microsoft Gets Gartner’s Business Intelligence Top Ranking
This tie into the post from a few weeks ago about Microsoft being placed in the leaders quadrant in...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/09/2008
Integrated Development Environment Usage Patterns Among Our Developers
We reference this survey in our launch events, so I wanted to provide you with the entire story for...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/09/2008
Government stimulus plan encourages midrange technology investments
Vicki Powers gives great insight on how midsize companies are planning to take advantage of the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/30/2008
IDC, Forrester Reduce Projections for Growth of IT Spending in 2008
Two leading market research firms are projecting that the growth of overall spending on information...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/22/2008
Is The Idea of Social Networking Scaring You as a CIO?
Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, two Forrester Research analysts, have a message for CIOs in their new...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/22/2008
Silverlight Adoption Expected to Triple
Did you know….. Silverlight's market share is expected to triple over the next 12-18 months as...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/21/2008
The Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms – by Gartner
I got several questions on the Magic Quadrant for BI from Gartner so I went out and found the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/11/2008
Q&A: Windows Server 2008 Will Not Backup Exchange Databases
Windows Server 2003 ntbackup program, that is included with the operating system installation, was...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/31/2008
MSAM Launch Event is Coming to Your Town!
If you have not experienced a launch event, come out and take in the launch of Windows Server 2008,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/21/2008
How to Tap IT’s Hidden Potential
The Wall Street Journal's article says it best when it says that "Some of the biggest names in the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/12/2008
Q&A: Import IMAP Folders into Exchange Server 2007
My company had two email systems, Merak Mail running on one server (for hosted clients) and Exchange...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/05/2008
Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Visual Studio 2008 Launch Starts Today in Los Angeles
Microsoft is celebrating the release of a new version of one of its most successful products outside...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/27/2008
System Center Essentials on TechSoup – Not Yet
Several of you asked about whether System Center Essentials (SCE) is available on TechSoup. Well,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/24/2008
Heroes Happen Here
Get ready for yet another wave of great innovation. We are launching Windows Server 2008, SQL Server...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/24/2008
{Heroes} can be anywhere
Attend the launch event. Take home the products. Three powerful products are coming. Be a part of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/15/2008
Enterprise 2.0: Five Innovations the CIO Shouldn’t Miss
Everyone in the organization will benefit from innovation, even CIOs. Technology managers can't...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/15/2008
Supported VoIP Gateways & PBXs
Wondering what gateways and PBXs are supported? Deploying Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging (UM)...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/08/2008
Two Worlds Converge: Enterprise Applications Meet the Desktop
Profitable growth is the primary business driver behind corporate efforts to improve productivity....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/01/2008
Microsoft Across America (MSAM) is Talking about CRM
Thinking about implementing a great customer relationship management solution, well don't make a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/01/2008
Microsoft Across America (MSAM) is Coming to Your Town
Well we had a great new year and we are ready to kick off another round of events. Over the next few...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/21/2008
What do we mean when we say Infrastructure Optimization (IO) for IT?
IO isn't just about technology meeting business goals. It's also IT processes. Part of this is going...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/16/2008
There’s More to Virtualization than You Think
Virtualization is something that is not new. It is an established set of technologies that have been...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/13/2008
Information Overload is Killing You and Your Productivity
I know that this is mentioned in several of our events because it is a priority to have an impact on...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/05/2008
Virtualization: Test Drive Hyper-V Now
Microsoft has been providing powerful virtualization tools for years. Microsoft Virtual Server 2005,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/14/2007
Windows Server Virtualization
Windows Server virtualization provides a robust, scalable platform that allows you to virtualize...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/12/2007
Palm Releases Upgrade to Windows Mobile 6 for the Treo 750
Palm has just released an upgrade to turn the Treo 750 into a Windows Mobile 6 Professional device....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/10/2007
How to Comply With E-Discovery Rules Before You're Hit With a Lawsuit
I was reading this article and it brought me back to a lot of my events where we talk about the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/10/2007
Thinking about Being More Productive While Mobile?
In our space, our phones have to be more than just pretty; they must make it easy for us to be...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/05/2007
Test Drive Our Products by Downloading the VHDs
The VHD Test Drive Program enables Microsoft and partners to distribute VHD images that contain...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/28/2007
Convert PDF to Word Files
Word does not have the ability to convert PDF files out of the box but there are 3rd party utilities...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/28/2007
Notebook Shipments Poised to Overtake Desktops
Gartner has found that the shift has already happened—at least in the North America market. In the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/27/2007
Microsoft Response Point
For small companies of 50 users or less, maybe Office Communications Server is not the most optimal...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/16/2007
SQL Server 2008 Q & A
I had some questions from the SQL Server 2008 Overview webcast and I wanted to share those questions...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/13/2007
Control Issues: Who Really Owns IT?
IT has their hands on just about every facet of the business. As we are discussing at our events how...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/08/2007
Offline OLAP Cubes in Excel
Q. Has Microsoft removed the ability to create "off-line OLAP cubes" from Excel 2007, or is it maybe...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/05/2007
SBS Best Practice Analyzer
For the customers and Partners of the small businesses who attend our Midmarket events, I wanted to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/29/2007
Office Communications Server - No PBX, really?
A PBX is not required. It is possible to use a native OCS environment for all call handling. The OCS...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/26/2007
Licensing Assistance
We have been getting into good licensing side discussions while out on the road. For a lot of folks,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/26/2007
What are your Disaster Recovery or Backup Plans?
During my event yesterday, we got into a great conversation about backing up and disaster recovery...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/19/2007
Office SharePoint Editions
Great comment on a previous post. I wanted to make sure that for anyone who may not look at the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/13/2007
Differentiating Windows SharePoint Server and Office SharePoint Server (more info)
Okay, you want more information than that short and sweet answer so I will give you more detail but...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/11/2007
What is the relationship between Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer?
I have received this question and I make sure that I make the clarification at every event that...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/11/2007
When IT Keeps on Truckin’
A freight transportation and logistics company with $4.2 billion in revenue, Con-way is a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/06/2007