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Wet String and Sellotape
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Free Champagne....to the winner of this simple competition..!
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Right so the winner is the person who does the following: 1. Reads my previous blog on nags, chucks and huskies: Had me crying with laughter...race horses, flocks of chickens and harnessing huskies :-) 2. Posts a comment on this blog with the best analogy...
Unshamedly stolen from Steve Lamb's great Security blog....cheers Stephen!
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As the title suggest this content is not at all mine but it’s so great it’s worth posting here too! Thanks Stephen for the content: Don't forget the free ISA webcast week - you'll learn how to protect Exchange, IIS, Sharepoint and critical...
Securing SharePoint - best practices and what is Forefront...something rude, a pest spray or something else??
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Forefront Security for SharePoint So this morning I pinged a mail to some of my colleagues over in the Security group – it was some random thing which they generally still humour me on....it remind me about an important aspect of IT that i haven’t...
Announcement: Hands on Enterprise Search Course coming up..!
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Righty ho – (not yo, ho, ho quite yet..) check out this great Enterprise Search course coming up. The course consists of 8 hours of hands on how do you do it stuff! We will be running 5 of these courses from December and running 1 per month – have a good...
Getting hassle about your non-existent Christmas list...try this as the perfect way to sort out that crucial list!!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Right so a friend of mine showed me this after a chat in the pub, where we were both being nagged about not letting our relatives know what we wanted for Christmas: http://www.alliwantforchristmas.com/ Perfect solution – have to admit I did get...
Zune launches - Some very cool media comments...will it continue?
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Well for one I hope so!! These are some of the comments we are seeing in the press at the moment: “Brown is extremely fashionable now. Many people say it's the new black…’Brown in the past has been somewhat earth-related… It's been grounded and...
Syndicated Live Search being adopted by websites - check out the Register using LiveSearch!
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Right so ‘The Register’ is not one of those websites that would go down in history as a wonderful advocate 100% of the time around Microsoft technology. However with the news that website owners can now syndicate Windows Live on their sites – they have...
Microsoft and Bull Put High-Performance Computing Within Reach...momentum building!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Quick bit from the press release: Microsoft and Bull Put High-Performance Computing Within Reach Bull adopts Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. PARIS — 9 Nov 2006 — Microsoft Corp and Bull SAS, one of Europe's largest information...
Microsoft and Tyan Partner for HPC Relationship - another hardware provider on the block!!
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over 8 years ago
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So I dont know if it is me, but there appears to be a new partner every ten minutes in the HPC space such is the pace of change in this market. This time Tyan an HPC OEM has brought out the Typhoon using Microsoft’s Compute Cluster Server 2003! ...
Free Search training for first 600 partners...!
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Are you a member of the QuickStart for Microsoft Search? Are you a Microsoft Partner? If so, there is some new training up there which will help you to get the brand new Search specialisation under the IW Competency. Check it out today on: https://www...
See if this works...BlogRMail with Tags and Photos...
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Seriously cool new application – blogging is just sending e-mail now! Kudos to Steve for the find: http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/default.aspx Published with BlogMailr
Moments in your life when you go WOW!
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Right so before you start saying something like XYZ company had this X months ago - check out how very very very very cool this 3D visualisation is of your town or City on local live.com: http://local.live.com/Default.aspx?enc=0 So how good is it...
Video from Frank Chism HPC technical speacialist of 41 years...check it out!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Great video from an industry guru of 41 years Frank Chism - good investment of 20 minutes! http://port25.technet.com/archive/2006/10/18/Introducing-Frank-Chism_3A00_--High-Performace-Computing-Blogger-on-Port-25.aspx The bits I loved from this were...
HPC - The way all computing will look...
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
So I have blatantly just taken that headline from a post on Port25 by Michael Freedman a Distinguished Engineer from Santa Barbara. He wrote the following which perfectly captures what Microsoft are doing in the HPC space and why we are entering this...
Port 25 v2 Upgrade - Live!
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over 8 years ago
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Kudos to the Port25 team who have redesigned their site so it's far more imaginative, easier to read and interact with. Check it out for yourself here: http://port25.technet.com/ For those new to Port25 this is the place where Microsoft puts all it...
Simple syndicated live.com Search option for public facing websites..!
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over 8 years ago
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Windows Live Search Box : We just launched Windows Live Search Box , designed for Web site owners and bloggers who want to quickly add customized search capability to their site. The search box enables visitors to search your site, the Web, or any other...
Make a difference or go home...that's the polite version!
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over 8 years ago
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So Steve ( http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/default.aspx ) got his friend Hugh Macleod to put the following together: Regardless of your passion for different technologies the sentiments I absolutely subscribe to, namely: (Start Rant) Dont...
Windows Cluster Resource Centre: University of Southampton and Microsoft Research working together!
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over 8 years ago
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Microsoft Research (MSR) is one of the best kept secrets of Microsoft and this site shows the great work being done between MSR and the University of Southampton. Read it for yourseld here: http://www.windowsclusters.org/ The bits that caught my...
Zane Adam (Director in the HPC team) discusses the future of Windows CCS 2003...Virtual Tech-Ed Video!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Great little video here by the Virtual TechEd team showcasing Zane Adam talking about Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 at launch! http://virtualteched.com/archive/2006/06/09/56.aspx Enjoy!
Queens University uses Compute Cluster Server for bringing HPC to mass research..!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Read it all here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/5/e/85efe5ae-4700-4c39-8f06-2654bc644c1d/QueensU_ComputeCluster%20Case%20Study_Final.doc Some great benefits here including the following: Enabled less technical researchers to take advantage...
Zune Desktop download yours now!
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over 8 years ago
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Get yours from here: Zune desktop theme (1.64mb)
IDC - The Hidden Costs of Information Work - get the article here and MS Commentary!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
So in many of the Search posts I have written I refer to a whitepaper by IDC called 'The Hidden Costs of Information Work', we cannot give this to you for free unfortunately for IDC licensing reasons - but for those who do wish to review it, IDC make...
Beyond Search: Unleashing the Value of Business Information ....the MS story succinctly..!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
So sometimes the hardest thing to do with a customer is to deliver the compelling business case as to why they should deploy a given solution. The options they have on the table are vast from different market players: Google, Endeca, FST so Microsoft...
Level 300 Technical Training for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - get it now online!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Interested in Enterprise Search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007? - check out this level 300 technical training from TechEd in Boston last Summer: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032298160&EventCategory...
Resources and proof points for HPC partners and customers...gaining momentum!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Hi All, So sat here listening to Giovanni Marchetti wax lyrical at the High Performance Computing technical deep dive session. Some of the examples he is using is the work we have done at BAE and Queens. If you fancy some great proof points around the...
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