One of the benefits of being a Microsoft partner is the internal usage rights that are given each year, for both our subscription and competency partners. Being granted these rights is fine, but actually utilising them effectively is something that doesn’t always happen. This multi-part series...

  Recently I’ve been getting a few requests from partners to help them identify some of the key Office 2010 deployment resources that we have available, so here are a collection of useful links to articles and tools to get you started. Thanks to those who have pointed out some of these links to...

The Instructor Led LIVE (ILL) series focuses on Microsoft's new and upcoming strategic products and technologies. This is a great opportunity for you to gain insight on our solutions and capabilities, with no travel costs, no admission fees and no downtime. The ILLs are instructor-led by subject matter...

Back in late June I published that I was going to revisit the wonderful world of certification after abstaining for close to four years, and thought I would share the experience, knowing there are quite a few of you in the same boat out there. FIrstly, I found it much harder to get back in to the...

For those who have been waiting, Office 365 is now available to you and your customers. If you haven't had a look yet, where should you begin? Activate Your Internal Usage Rights If you haven't signed up for Cloud Essentials or Cloud Accelerate to get your 250 internal user right subscription...

For those of you who are migrating customers on Office 2003 across to Office 2010 and have been asked for help in transitioning across to the Ribbon from the old menu structure, here are some useful workbooks that you can download. Outlook 2010 Word 2010 Excel 2010 PowerPoint 2010 Project...

One of the things that you learn quickly at Microsoft is that the Outlook and Exchange combination is an essential part of how we work. Many of the things we take for granted, such as shared calendars, Outlook Web Access, and Outlook Anywhere allow us to work together easily regardless of where we are...

When I was growing up, if someone mentioned time zones, all I could think of was a pocket full of 20c pieces, and George St, Sydney. Ah, the glory days of arcade gaming. It is entirely possible I spent way too much of my time as a child playing video games, and I can still play a pretty mean game of...

One of the hot topics for discussion during the recent partner roadshow was the availability of Office 2010 as a 64 bit version, and the recommendations for when you would go 64 bit versus 32 bit. While this is discussed at length in the Office 2010 Resource Kit , here are a few things to think about...

During the current Office 2010 Partner Roadshow we reference several deployment tools, here are a list of some of those so that you can get up to speed. Office 2010 Resource Kit beta download It's nearly 600 pages long, but it's got the information you need to kickstart your Office 2010 deployments...