Win a free place at Kevin Kline’s “From Good to Great: Productivity and Influence Skills for the IT Professional” at the SQL Saturday Dublin pre-conference How would you like to win a free place at Kevin Kline’s “From Good to Great: Productivity and Influence Skills for the IT Professional” at the SQL...

Is now all available online I will tidy this up (one day), but just to get the content out there, here it is: Day 1 (1) Dave Northey - Introduction and Fundamentals - 25 mins (2) Dave Northey – Manage and Maintain Availability - 25 mins (3) Dave Northey - Deploy and Manage Your Applications - 3 mins...

Last few spaces available for our Windows Server 2012 Deep Dive event We are running a two-day deep dive training session next Monday 22nd & Tuesday 23rd in Microsoft’s offices in Dublin . We have some great speakers with some great content. Registration is still open – but there really is only a...

FREE Training on Windows Server 2012 in Dublin – April 22nd & 23rd A two day session (not for the feint hearted) – in Microsoft Ireland, Dublin (22nd & 23rd April). More details and registration here . See you next week?

FREE SharePoint training – Dublin 18th April (08:30 – 15:30) AvePoint is pleased to present a very special MVP workshop on Thursday, April 18 in Dublin, Ireland on Microsoft SharePoint 2013 and moving to the cloud . This workshop, organized for IT professionals, is intended to empower and train attendees...

FREE half day events in Cork, Galway, Belfast & Dublin 57% of all Windows Servers are running Windows Server 2003, an operating system that will no longer have support after July 14th, 2015.  Come to this session to learn why & how to upgrade to Windows Server 2012.  Presented by Dave...

Remote Desktop Services (RDS) & Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Alex Juschin (Microsoft RDS MVP) will be delivering a day of free training on Windows Server 2012 RDS & VDI in Microsoft’s Leopardstown offices on Tuesday 26th March. Places are limited, so register early. Details of the event...

Save the Date: 23rd – 26th April 2013 and fill out the poll below. This April we are joining up with Microsoft UK and taking part in their online version of TechDays . Details are still in the making, but we’ve been asked to get our asks in. If you’re interested in attending a fantastic, online event...

BT Training in Partnership with Andy Malone - Microsoft MVP - Present 4 Half Day Innovation Sessions On Windows Server 2012 On the 17th and 18th December @ BT Tower Belfast Event is Free to attend and light refreshments will be provided With a prestigious international career spanning 17 years, He is...

Microsoft Technology User Groups Ireland – System Centre Special Interest Group This week we hosted four online meetings, each covering a different aspect of System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM). Paul Keely, our local System Centre MVP, gave us four hours of his experience and knowledge. And we...

Microsoft Technology User Groups Ireland (MTUG.ie) – SharePoint meeting in Dublin Wednesday 28th November @ 18:00 – 21:00 in the Gresham Hotel, 22-23 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin 1 Real World Large Scale SharePoint Deployments This session will discuss the large scale deployment of the document management...

So attend the Windows Azure Conf - A Windows Azure Community Event On November 14, 2012, Microsoft will be hosting Windows AzureConf, a free event for the Windows Azure community. This special event will be streamed live from Microsoft Redmond Campus Channel 9 Studios on November 14, 2012, and will feature...

Microsoft Technology User Groups Ireland – Four presentations from the System Centre User Group With our week of System Centre Configuration Manager 2012 not even started, we’re already planning a week of Operations Manager 2012. So it’s still not a week (it’s four days) and they’re not days (they’re...

Microsoft Technology User Groups Ireland – Four presentations from the System Centre User Group Paul Keely from Infront Consulting, a local MVP is kicking off the Irish System Centre User Group (a Special Interest Group under the overall Microsoft Technology User Groups Ireland). So it’s not a week ...

With Thomas Kejser, November 23 rd 2012, Dublin Cost - €799 or €599 for registrations received on or before October 5 th 2012 Registration: http://www.prodata.ie/events/2012/SQL-super-scaling.aspx This course is not for the faint-hearted…. In fact you could describe it as performance tuning on steroids...

with Klaus Aschenbrenner , November 14 th – 16 th 2012, Dublin Cost – €1,799 or €1,500 for registrations received on or before October 5 th 2012. Registration: http://www.prodata.ie/events/2012/SQL-Performance_tuning_workshop.aspx We all know the situation only too well, Friday evening and the weekend...

SQL Master Class series begins again in Ireland The SQL master class series is designed to bring the highest level of SQL knowledge to Irish SQL Professionals in an affordable and accessible way. Internationally recognised experts, Bob Duffy, Chris Webb, Gavin Payne & Klaus Aschenbrenner have...

Big Year, Big Change s – Are you ready? This year has already been one of the most transformational periods in Microsoft’s history and there’s more to come! Come and join us at one of our 4 roadshow events during the 1st week of October to hear more about how we’re reimagining...

Thank you to those of you that attended the TechNet Live Tour last week. We really enjoyed bringing this event series around the island and we were delighted with the response we received to our ‘Cloud for IT Pros’ overview. The slides are now available for download on Skydrive and the...

I wanted to give you a heads-up on what’s lined up for Private Cloud Computing Academy in 2011. Register now and block off time in your diary before you get distracted with Christmas mayhem! Microsoft has been working towards a Dynamic Datacentre vision for the last 8 years and now our story...

It’s the anniversary of Microsoft’s BizSpark program and Microsoft Ireland are also launching a new initiative, WebsiteSpark , aimed primarily at web based businesses. In the last year, over 300 companies in Ireland and Northern Ireland have benefited from business and development support from the...

The Irish Windows User Group will be running a session focusing on OCS, aka Office Communications Server. The speaker is John McCabe, a senior engineer with CDSoft. Mobile users and mobile computing have enabled a more flexible workforce but there is a challenge in enabling communications that are...

Reporting Services 2008 Architecture and End User Reporting Summary The first part of this session is a detailed look at architectural changes to the Reporting Services 2008 product and how they might benefit your reports. The second part of the session is a demo based walk through of the...

On June 12th the Windows User Group will be running a session on Exchange 2010, also known as Exchange 14. The speaker, Nathan Winters, is an Exchange MVP, consultant and author with huge experience and a growing international reputation. As you can see from the session agenda, the world of email has...

Tech Days, a joint effort between Microsoft and the IT Pro community, is bringing exceptional up-to-date technical content to Galway and Cork. Register and learn more about these evening events @ http://www.microsoft.com/ireland/technet/techdays.aspx Galway will cover Windows 7 and Client Deployment...