The IT Manager track is coming along nicely. We have some excellent speakers that featured at TechEd EMEA 2008, as well as our very own IT Manager here at Microsoft UK. Whilst that is progressing, thanks to all of you that voted in the TechNet Virtual conference session poll for the technical track. ...

IT Pro Top FAQs – February 09 Q) What's the difference between Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Standard and Enterprise Client Access Licences (CALs)? A) For each client computer or user accessing Office SharePoint Server 2007, you need to buy a Standard CAL. To access the enterprise features of Office...

TechNet UK will be launching a Virtual Conference in May. There is so much great content to cover but we can’t fit it all in, so we need you to vote on the proposed sessions and the sessions with the most votes will feature Vote Now Full session abstracts here: Building the Jetson’s Digital Lifestyle...

Learn about Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express along with our portfolio of Enterprise Search Solutions that integrate with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and find the right search solution you need to increase business productivity.  During the webcast, we will demonstrate Search Server...

As always, we have some excellent upcoming user group meetings. These sessions really give you the opportunity to talk to fellow technology enthusiasts and discuss the warts and all aspects of products. The other really positive is that communities in the UK really seem to be striving. Existing groups...

Microsoft Tech·Ed EMEA 2008 IT Professionals is the Microsoft premier technical education conference just for IT professionals. For five days, you and 5,000 of your peers will learn how to architect, plan, deploy, manage and secure a connected enterprise from Microsoft experts and industry leaders. You...

SharePoint Development and Migration for the Enterprise Workshop – Customers Date: 21 st and 22 nd August 2008 Place: Microsoft Campus, TVP, Reading Register: Jo Foster, i-jofost@microsoft.com Time: 08:45 – 09:00 registration 09:00 – 05:30 workshop Day 1 - Development Studio for SharePoint Leverage the...

PC World wrote a great article on this and includes a link to the official case study. What stands out for me is that people are beginning to realise the power of what SharePoint can d0: Microsoft originally conceived SharePoint as a portal product on which companies could build Web sites. But with its...

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 on SharePoint deployments, assess and monitor...

Here are the latest free downloads and download-related services from Microsoft. Register now if you are not already receiving the weekly email informing you of these. To find more downloads, visit the Microsoft Download Center. For support with downloads, visit the Help and Support site. Automated...

The External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint provides authoritative guidance and tools to deploy a customisable solution built on Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 that teams can use to collaborate with partners outside the firewall. Once it is deployed, the toolkit’s familiar desktop...

I was just reading my RSS feeds from Darren "the Office Rocker" Strange and there were so many cracking posts that I thought I would highlight my top ones here: 1. Can you all update your sections of the document and email it back to me? Brilliant write up about the different ways that you can collaborate...

Darren wrote a really great post on SharePoint and Infopath training which I wanted to share As well as a big hats off to Darren for for including TechNet :)

Steve was very quick to blog about the announcement made today. The software-plus-services model from Microsoft provides a secure, reliable and scalable hosted solution. They give you more choice depending on your business requirement of on-premise servers, hosted or online Here is an...

TechNet has developed the following pages in response to your feedback on the topics you want to read more about: • Before you Begin Office SharePoint Server 2007 offers significant enterprise capabilities that require planning and validation to configure correctly for your needs. Use...