FREE training on Windows Azure This one day deep dive class will get you up to speed on developing for Windows Azure. The class includes a trainer with deep real world experience with Windows Azure, as well as a series of labs so you can practice what you just learned. Awesome . How much does it cost...

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...

FREE in-person event - Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 Software powers the world – without software, our life would be very different! And right now is a very exciting time to be involved in software development. Microsoft and Storm Technology will be in Dublin and Belfast with this...

8GB USB Memory stick Before you all say “Me” – there’s a catch or two: Firstly you have to have an Irish (North or South) postal address – for me to send it to you. Secondly you have to be willing to spend ten minutes of your time doing something for me. I do have a finite number (more than these six...

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...

Introduction to Hyper-V Microsoft Virtualisation for VMware Professionals Microsoft Tools for VMware Integration & Migration The Microsoft Virtual Academy ( www.MicrosoftVirtualAcademy.com ) training portal offers quick and easy access to presentations, webcasts, whitepapers and other technical content...

What are the new Office 2013 editions, who are they targeted at and what do you get? Lots of great detail on the new Office line-up here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-ie/ This is a great overview: I suggest you all try Office 365 Home Premium for a month (for free).

Feature by feature comparisons of Hyper-V in both Windows Server 2008 R2 and 2012 I just went looking for a decent comparison of Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012.  I obviously found this excellent document on download.microsoft.com – but couldn’t find these high-level bullets...

Microsoft Jump Start Series: Virtualisation, Hyper-V & Intune. These events run from 8:00am – 5:00pm PST (16:00 – 01:00 GMT). January 24, 2013, 8:00am-5:00pm PST Introduction to Hyper-V Jump Start Instructor Team: Symon Perriman and Jeff Woolsey This is the first of a three course series and is designed...

If you’re based in Ireland (North or South) – write this down! Licensing is always called out as one of the most “negative” attributes of Microsoft during our Satisfaction Surveys. And we’ve had a solution to it for ages!  So this turns out to be one of Microsoft Ireland’s best kept secrets: The...

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...

8GB USB Memory Stick Before you all say “Me” – there’s a catch or two:   Firstly you have to have an Irish (North or South) postal address – for me to send it to you. Secondly you have to be willing to spend ten minutes of your time doing something for me. I have accidentally ordered too many memory...

Altaro, developers of Altaro Hyper-V Backup, are giving something back this holiday season and are giving every Microsoft Hyper-V admin 50 licenses of their desktop backup software, that’s up to $2,000 worth of software.   There’s no catch! All you need to do is send them a screenshot of Hyper-V...

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...

Requirements for connecting your network to Azure You can link your Windows Azure Virtual Network to an on-premises network via site-to-site VPN connection, as illustrated above. All you need is a VPN device on your home network and a direct connection to the internet. The list of (currently) supported...

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...

System Center 2012 Self-Study Guide (Complete Edition) I stumbled upon this the other day – it literally is everything you ever wanted to know about System Center 2012 and more. It would take you the best part of a year to consume all the content – but it’s a fantastic resource for you to bookmark.