With the recent changes to the Partner Network, there is some confusion among partners around what is required to get the Silver and Gold competencies in some areas. On Tuesday 1st March, at 4pm GMT, I will be running a webinar entitled Get to Gold. This...

Attention all SharePoint Partners! Get to the Silver Digital Marketing competency by simply meeting the requirements outlined here and be entered to win 3 tickets for the ENGLAND vs GHANA International on March 29 th 2011. Many partners will already have...

I’ve commented before that the new SharePoint Online looks and feels very much like SharePoint Server 2010 on-premise. There are some places however where you see a slight difference. One of those is around creating a new site. As the Administrator...

Ever wondered how to position different parts of the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack? We have a range of different tools that can be applied in a range of different situations for a range of different purposes. In this webcast series, I will...

Office 365 beta accounts seem to be like gold dust inside Microsoft. When, during a meeting about something different, a colleague realised I had access to the beta, she instantly demanded I show her what it looks like. So, once I’d found my...

There are still places available on the course: Getting Started with SharePoint . I am running this live workshop along with Microsoft training partner Combined Knowledge to provide an introduction to the capabilities of SharePoint along with information...

Sometimes, people that have been working with a technology for a while assume that something is so obvious, they don’t feel it needs explaining. This means that those who are trying to wrap their heads around something for the first time could be...

Is one of your New Years' Resolutions to do more technical training? If so, you're in luck. There are a couple of up-coming webinars on Business Intelligence being put on by the Technical Advisory Services. Microsoft Gold Partners are entitled to a...

Sometimes, people get excited about strange things. Fortunately, I work in a technology role, so people are understanding when I start bouncing about the fact I’ve got a document from Office 365 opening on my phone. I got access to an Office...

I was invited to write an article for TechNet Flash in the UK, a biweekly newsletter on Microsoft technlogy. You can find the latest newsletter here . If you want to go straight to my article, it's here . TechNet Flash is a great way to keep up to...

If you work with Microsoft for any length of time, it doesn’t take long to realise that we all talk in acronyms. For example, a partner might meet up with their PAM to write a PSP about BI and then bring in a PTA to discuss training about SSAS....

Got any questions about Microsoft’s BI offering? Myself and a colleague are running a free webinar next week for Microsoft partners and the subject of this is Your Questions Answered. The idea of this is that we will endeavour to answer as many...

The BarCamp is drawing to the end of its first day. I did a Windows Phone 7 presentation. I picked a small room on the grounds that most people at an event like this are iPhone or Android users. We had to move rooms to one about four times the size...

It turns out that SharePoint is very sociable, at least according to Gartner. They recently published their Magic Quadrant on social software and SharePoint is up there as market leader in this space. Microsoft is ranked #1 on Ability to Execute and overtook...

A colleague of mine, Andrew Fryer , has been nominated in Computer Weekly's IT Blog Awards in the category of IT Professional Male . If you're looking for some high-quality tech blogs to read, then taking a look at the shortlists in the various categories...

This video continues my Office Mini demo series with a look at a new feature of Outlook 2010: mail tips If you have any suggestions for features to include in this series, please leave me a comment.

This video continues my series of demos showing Office 2010 features you might not be aware of. This demo shows how to trim a video in a PowerPoint presentation. If you have any suggestions for features to include in this series, please leave me...

This Office Mini demo shows a feature that's been around a while but largely unreguarded: insert text. If you've any suggestions for features to include in this series, please leave a comment.

This video continues my series of mini demos highlighting some features of Office 2010 you may not be aware of. This video shows how to quickly remove the background from an image. If you have any suggestions for features to include in this series...

This video is another mini demo to show features of Office 2010 that you might not be aware of. In this demo, I show how to make use of templates from Office.com to quickly produce new documents. If you have any favourite Office 2010 features or...

This video continues my series of mini demos showing features of Office 2010 that you might not know about. In this video, I show how to save an Office document to SharePoint without leaving the client. If there’s a feature you’d like to see demonstrated...

This is the first in a set of mini demos showing some of the simple yet powerful things you can do with Microsoft Office 2010. This video shows how to add SharePoint keywords from within an Office document.

The Software Development Kit for SharePoint has been updated. The SDK is a fantastic tool to make it easier for developers to build on top of SharePoint Foundation and Server 2010. This updated SDK includes new code samples, updated documentation and...

Donald Farmer, the rock star of Microsoft BI, is delivering a series of webinars on the subject of PowerPivot next week. These online workshops are being run in conjunction with Microsoft Gold Partner Panorama. Donald is a great presenter so I would definitely...