It's the little things that count and today a small thing really made my day You may remember from the TechNet newsletter a while ago that I had a humorous situation involving myself, a convertible car and voice-command voicemail with Exchange Server...

....although as the New York Times online sums up "sort of" Hopefully you all know that I am a bit of a fan of the chap...ok, well a lot of a fan as I have a framed picture on my desk of him (see above) and it even sits above my Reading FC t-shirt from...

Judging by the number of people we had at a Virtualisation event this week and the interest, this is going to be a big one! Microsoft reached a pivotal milestone today with the release of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization...

Recently a communication was sent to Windows XP customers informing them of the end of sales date and what this meant. Phil, Alex & I, the UK IT Professional team, got our hands on the letter and spent some time trying to understand what they were...

The US team have set up a series to showcase the latest and greatest cool stuff coming ot of Microsoft. The first in the series covered World Wide Telescope. You can view the full session here: http://on10.net/blogs/nic/Back-Channel-Event-World-Wide-Telescope...

I was really pleased when this was brought to my attention. What with the rising oil prices and fears that we will run out of electricity in the UK within my lifetime, it really brings home that we all have a responsibility at home as well as at work...

Big thanks to Jonathan for pointing this TechNet Edge video out, who only comes in second behind James and Richard as the most enthusiastic person about Powershell that I have ever met Watch the full video here

Sorry to only give you 2 hours notice, but this one is worth pushing the red button on Sky + An overview of the programme from the Radio Times : Full marks to The Money Programme for landing an exclusive interview with Gates. He even lets the cameras...

BBC NEWS | Magazine | 50 office-speak phrases you love to hate This has been doing the rounds this week in the office A few of my favourites: let's touch base about that offline . not enough bandwidth leverage Some other classics we hear in our office...

Thanks to the Windows Server Chaps for this: A few months ago we completed our runs for the Top500 list. For those of you not familiar with this bi-annual benchmark, the Top500 list represents the 500 most powerful computers in the world. It is the supercomputing...

The second Springboard Live! virtual roundtable has now taken place: The topic? Windows Vista Security Microsoft Technical Fellow and desktop guru Mark Russinovich hosted an interactive on the topic of Windows Vista security. As with the March roundtable...

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I picked this up on an internal email about news alerts This is from eweek.com and covers a TechEd US session by Group Program Manager for Solution Accelerators Luis Camara Manoel, who said his group has created tools to help IT administrators get a handle...

Great pick up from Emma , our resident licensing guru It is actually positioned as a tool for partners, so either send this their way or make use of it yourself. It takes up to 30 mins, but will enable you to examine current production server, development...

Tech·Ed EMEA 2008 is now underway with registration opening on 1 June. These events are the best place for IT professionals and developers to learn more about Microsoft’s latest and soon to launch technologies. No other event offers five days of deep...

Bink.nu has done a fantastic write up of a "How Microsoft does IT" session at TechEd this week Barry Briggs, CTO of Microsoft IT, spoke about the challenges and ambitions of what Microsoft IT wants to achieve, as you can see from the image below, the...

Coming soon: MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-647): Windows Server® Enterprise Administration This 2-in-1 TRAINING KIT delivers in-depth preparation plus practice for 70-647, an exam for MCITP: Enterprise Administrator certification. Ace your...

On Thursday, 12 June, as part of DesignIT 2008, a roundtable debate in central London will take place focusing on the blog as an art form. It will explore the connection between art and web2.0 issues and in particular, the creativity of the blog. Specifically...

This toolkit provides best practices from Microsoft about how to plan, deploy, and monitor a security baseline. In addition, the toolkit provides remediation recommendations to address security baseline issues. The toolkit also offers a proven method...

SQL Server 2008 provides a comprehensive data platform that is secure, reliable, manageable, and scalable for your mission critical applications. With it, developers can create new applications that can store and consume any type of data on any device...

On Wednesday June 18 th at 9:00AM Pacific Time, Microsoft Technical Fellow and desktop guru Mark Russinovich will again be hosting a live, interactive Springboard Series virtual roundtable—this time on the topic of Windows Vista security. As with the...

Great new white paper announced on the Windows Vista Team Blog : To help in your evaluations we've released a new white paper, The Business Value of Windows Vista: Five Reasons to Deploy Now. (Download the XPS or PDF .) This document summarises the...

I love the Vista Squad because they really add some life into the community meetings they run The next meeting in on 18th June at the London Victoria offices of Microsoft with two great talks lined up: Building RIA for Desktop, Web and Mobile using Silverlight...

The Microsoft Forefront Integration Kit for Network Access Protection is now available. To learn more about the Kit, click here . The Microsoft Forefront Integration Kit for Network Access Protection helps strengthen malware defenses by integrating two...

In Data Mining and Business Intelligence for Enterprises, Rafal Lukawiecki aims to show IT Professionals how data mining can be used in IT infrastructure to support real business scenarios demystifying the perception that Data Mining is complex, untested...