The South Australia Department of Health (SA Health) is responsible for delivering comprehensive healthcare options to the state’s 1.6 million residents. To support this work, the department’s ICT Services division adopted the Windows 7 operating system...

Get in on some Microsoft Virtualization action in May with a selection of TechNet Live Meetings. Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V – Technical Overview and changes Friday, 7 May 2010 11:00 AM Australia (East) Speaker – Jeff Alexander Event Overview In this...

Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services Live Meeting – Friday 16 April In this session, we will examine Remote Desktop Services for Windows Server 2008 R2. We will begin by discussing user experience improvements in RemoteApp and Remote Desktop...

As we announced in 2008, support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) will end on July 13, 2010. Support for Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 Server will end on the same date. Support for Windows Vista Release to Manufacturing (RTM) will end on April 13,...

SQL Server 2008 is a broad, integrated, easy-to-use, and rich platform for database management and delivering Business Intelligence (BI). SQL Server 2008 R2; the latest release to this enterprise-class DBMS, was announced at TechEd 2009. The official...

We are having a Windows 7 Tweetup in Sydney on March 30th at the Shelbourne Hotel.  We will have a bar tab, pizza and cool door prizes.  There is only room for 200 people so register today !

There are some great articles in this month’s TechNet Magazine .  The theme for this month is about Cloud Computing. Privacy in the Cloud Computing Era : A Microsoft Perspective by Microsoft Microsoft, NSF Open Azure to Researchers by David Nagel...

We will be running our next local Live Meeting session in March. Optimise Windows 7 with the Microsoft Desktop Optimisation Pack (MDOP) The session will focus on the Microsoft Desktop Optimization pack for management and deployment. We will begin by discussing...

As you know (if you don’t you should!) TechEd 2010 Australia will be held on the Gold Coast 24-27 August .  We need you to put your creative hats on (or whatever you put on when you need to get creative) and tell us your ideas for what you want to...

We have Craig Kitterman (Senior Tech Evangelist) and Vijay Rajagopalan (Principal Architect) coming down to Australia to talk about Interoperability goodness.  What do you want to hear about?  What is on your mind at the moment when it comes...

From the Windows Team Blog : On February 15th, people still running the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) will receive a notification reminding them that starting March 1st, 2010, their PC will begin experiencing bi-hourly shutdowns. These shutdowns...

For those who haven’t heard, HP and Microsoft Corp. announced an agreement to invest $250 million over the next three years to significantly simplify technology environments for businesses of all sizes. This agreement represents the industry’s most comprehensive...

From the Windows 7 Australia Blog Microsoft Celebrates Christmas with Windows 7 Family Pack Limited Pilot in Australia Microsoft is making available limited stock of Family Pack in Australia – entitling consumers to three upgrade licenses for Windows...

Windows Server 2008 R2 (i.e. "Windows 7 Server") introduced significant advancements in Server Power Management capabilities. You may never win a Nobel prize for building an application that plays well with Server Power Management policies nor...

We are pleased to invite you to hear from one of the founders of x86 virtualisation. Our keynote is Kenon Owens , Technical Product Manager, Microsoft Corp. He has worked in the computer industry for over 15 years as an email and virtualisation specialist...

Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 empowers your people to do their best work from more places – whether they’re using a PC, phone or web browser. It can maximize existing investments and help people accomplish more by bringing server capabilities...

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) holds a monthly webcast to discuss the security bulletins that we released on the second Tuesday of that month. To attend live and ask questions, register at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security . ...

Stephen Elop closed out day 1 of TechEd Europe with the announcement of General Availability of Exchange 2010.  In the keynote, he talked about some of the new features in 2010, like the new protection and management capabilities. He also talked...

Information from the Microsoft Exchange Team Blog : It is my distinct pleasure to announce today the global availability of Exchange Server 2010. This has been an amazing journey from conception to launch, and the team has delivered an unprecedented line...

The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) is a comprehensive and wide-ranging study of the evolving threat landscape, and addresses such topics as software vulnerability disclosures and exploits, malicious software (malware), and potentially unwanted...

Adam Bomb from the TechNet Edge team recently sat down with David Mills and Edwin Yuen, who got together for a brief discussion of Microsoft’s IT management and virtualization solution for midsize businesses. With the release of public betas for System...

In this episode of Brad and Jeff's periodic chats about the management business at Microsoft, they talk about how System Center fits in the constellation of platform and server releases in the fall of 2009. In part 2, Brad and Jeff talk about all the...

The following System Center and Forefront products are available for download as evaluation. Forefront Identity Manager 2010 Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 System Center Essentials 2010 System Center...

Windows 7 was launched last week! We had our launch event at the Australian National Maritime Museum.  Media, technology enthusiasts and PC makers were present.  There are some amazing looking PC’s running Windows 7 which were on display, my...

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