I cannot tell you how much this made my day! Tony, IT Manager from Bott Ltd, sent this to me out of the blue last week having read a TechNet Magazine article about DPM 2007. I have actually cut and pasted it straight from the email as it reads perfectly...

Totally agree with Steve C that the best TV advert around at the moment has Brains from the Thunderbirds dancing to "Rhythm is a Dancer" I wish water had that affect on me!!!! You can watch it in full here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=e2aRDacKANs&eurl...

Phil wrote in the latest issue if the security newsletter: At InfoSecurity last month Ed Gibson (Chief Security Advisor, Microsoft Ltd), Cliff Evans (Security Marketing Lead, Microsoft Ltd) and I were talking about the latest physical loss of equipment...

Register for this event Date - 02-Jul-2008 Time - 2pm - 5pm Location - Leeds/Bradford Microsoft's Vision for Unified Communications Speaker: James O'Neill, IT Professional Evangelist Following on from the success of the MSDN events in the North, Black...

This was a popular topic in the last newsletter so though this would be worth sharing: With Windows Vista Power Options, you have more control over how your mobile PC uses and manages power. Windows Vista includes three default power plans to help manage...

These short videos focus on specific tasks and show you how to accomplish them, step-by-step, using Microsoft products and technologies. Subscribe to the RSS feed to see new content every month or go here A few that I think will be popular: 10 Cool...

Just a reminder that this event is taking place: Register Now If you have a Microsoft licensing agreement * there are resources you already have to help explain why and how you can effectively deploy Windows Vista and Office 2007 in your organisation...

Redmond | News: Exec Describes Microsoft's 'Social Networking' Vision A Microsoft executive involved with the company's Windows Live efforts outlined some of the company's ideas about cloud-based computing and social networking technologies today. The...

What does WWT stand for I hear you ask? Well if it were for my reaction then it would be Wow Wow Treble Wow. Really is stands for WorldWide Telescope which is a Web 2.0 visualisation software environment that enables your computer to function as a...

This week we opened up the Public Preview for Windows Essential Server Solutions - Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008 . Visit here to find out how to download and evaluate the Release Candidate 0 versions of both. EBS is available...

Monday was an exciting day for Xobni. After seven months of invite-only beta, they announced that Xobni is now publicly available for anyone to download. If you need to download Xobni, download it instantly here: http://www.xobni.com/download You can...

We are now just over halfway through the 2008 Launch Roadshow and, as per last time, we have been taking questions via text messages from attendees in the audience. It has been interesting to see a few popular questions repeated over the three events...

Calling all IT Managers... We are conducting a short survey to find out where you get the information you need to determine your organisation's IT vision/strategy. The criteria for taking part in the survey is that you must have at least three direct...

Volume 4 of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report was just published. Download it today for an in-depth, global perspective on software vulnerabilities, software exploits, malicious software, and unwanted software for the second half of 2007. http...

Microsoft, which eats its own dog food since the Virtual Server 2005 era, just announced the complete migration of both MSDN and TechNet, two of the most popular web sites in the world, on virtual machines. Microsoft kept the back-end database on physical...

On May 7 th , Microsoft released a new Word add-on to help visually impaired users PC Magazine reported that on May 7 th , “Microsoft joined with Sonata Software, Ltd. and the Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) Consortium to launch an initiative...

Until 20th July, we're giving away a £2000 prize package every week comprising a new Dell laptop, a complete makeover for your website and over £500 in cash To enter the prize draw, just click on http://smallbusiness.officelive.com/uk/sos and follow...

2007 Microsoft Office Security Guide: Threats and Countermeasures This guide is a comprehensive technical reference that explains the security and privacy settings for the six referenced applications, their recommended configurations, and which threats...

In Building a Security Infrastructure with Microsoft Forefront Ronald Beekelaar provides an in-depth technical overview of Forefront Client Security, Server Security and Edge Security. This includes Forefront Server products for Exchange Server 2007 and...