Hybrid is one area where I personally expect a lot of growth over the coming years. It’s definitely an interesting topic and having a good understanding of it, will help your business and the drive for converting CAPEX to OPEX. On that note I’m delighted...

Today is a huge day as Microsoft announces general availability of the next generation of Office 365! The official announcement can be seen below; Microsoft Corp. today announced worldwide availability of a major new update to its Microsoft Office 365...

  Over at www.microsoft.com/sqlserverlabs you'll find a set of pre-configured hands-on-labs, that will allow you to get your hands dirty, with the latest and greatest technology / features in SQL Server 2012. The nice thing about the labs is that...

Are you thinking about a hybrid deployment (part on premise, part in Office 365)? Or are you looking into a private cloud solution? If so identity management is a very hot topic and something you need to be aware of. Before diving into the brave new world...

There is some great analysis over at TechNet, which may help you further evaluate Windows 8. Simon May has gone to some great lengths to cover a variety of topics, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did; http://bit.ly/VHQ5Os

Hi all, Please see the below post for further information about the day (its happening on the 212t March); http://bit.ly/15AyKLn In summary this is a great opportunity to learn how to secure and monitor your Lync environment, the day will also help you...

Hi Everyone Greetings from the 1302 to London Euston, this is my second attempt at posting; as the last time, the train sped into a cutting and I lost signal. So I've learnt a valid lesson about backup! Anyway! Here is this week's "This Week @ Microsoft...

Hi Everyone, here is part two of this weeks bumper edition of key announcements. This time, covering the last week. Please keep the comments coming below, or on Facebook or Twitter, we love hearing about how we can make the MSPREMUK blog more appropriate...

Hi Everyone, Double bubble this week. Apologies for the delay, but here is the first of two compilations of key announcements from Microsoft over the past 2 weeks. Rob Premier Field Engineer Microsoft UK Recent Releases : Weekend Reading...

  Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust in the north of England wanted to offer online counselling to patients. The trust chose hosted Microsoft Lync Server 2010 unified communications technology for its e-clinics service—the...

Hi all, Please see the below post for further information about the day (its happening on the 13th March); http://blogs.technet.com/b/mspremuk/archive/2013/01/15/premier-and-pfe-microsoft-exchange-server-2013-operations-day-march-13th-2013.aspx In summary...

Shaping Cloud University Uses Cloud-Based Platform to Help Businesses Reduce Carbon Emissions The Centre for Low Carbon Futures (CLCF) in the United Kingdom wanted a new software system to help enterprises cut carbon emissions. Shaping Cloud used the...

Nick Ball, a Premier Field Engineer from the UK, writes about how Data loss prevention in Exchange 2013 can help your business. A lot of my customers have been asking me lately about some of the new features in Exchange 2013 especially around Data loss...

Skipton Building Society needed a self-service portal for development environments for its mortgage services division HML. Its IT Shared Service Centre was tasked with finding a solution that would allow HML to provision virtual machines to keep pace...

Hi Everyone, Here is the weekly round up of key announcements from Microsoft. Thanks to Pete Roden for his on-going work to keep us informed each week, and keep the feedback coming, we are always happy to listen to your ideas on how we can improve...

Reposting some great content from a fellow PFE, that I believe should resonate with this audience! Microsoft Exchange Server is the leading messaging platform in the world today, and can be found in SMBs, large enterprises and also behind cloud services...

Hi Everyone, I'm pleased to bring you this week's compilation of key announcements from Microsoft. Thanks to Pete and his band of helpers as always. Rob York Premier Field Engineer Microsoft UK Recent Releases : Updates: Autoruns v11.4...

Hi Everyone, Happy New Year and with it the first of the This Week @ Microsoft for 2013 Rob Microsoft UK Important Announcements : Dynamics GP - Upcoming Web Client Training Opportunities! - 03-Jan-2013 How to: How to setup...

DATE and TIME: This event is scheduled for 13 th March 2013 (Wednesday) at Microsoft, Thames Valley Park, Reading, Berkshire RG6 1WG. Location is Building 3 and Session Room Names are “Chicago 1 and Chicago 2”. Contact your Technical Account Manager for...

DATE and TIME: This event is scheduled for 21 st March 2013 (Thursday) at Microsoft, Thames Valley Park, Reading, Berkshire RG6 1WG. Location is Building 3 and Session Room Names are “Chicago 1 and Chicago 2”. Contact you Technical Account Manager for...

Thanks to the UK Technet blog for this information! Free Training  - Microsoft Virtual Academy We know budgets for training are not what they use to be and that we’ve just had a wave of new products launched.  The Virtual Academy is a great...

As a Dedicated Support Engineer in Premier Field Engineer (DSE in PFE) I work closely with customers for a set period of time, typically three months, supporting and guiding them with their Microsoft technology projects. I wanted to share with you a recent...

Hi all, Firstly Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a great 2012, however I think its fair to say that 2013 will be even better from a technology point of view! We are one week into the new year and there have already been some great announcements around...

Hi Everyone, Whilst it may be January (and a dreary grey one at that) in reality, in This Week @ Microsoft it is still very much 2012. Its a short one this week, most likely owing to the holidays, but never-the-less here is the last 2012 instalment...

Hi Everyone, Here is part two of the Christmas period releases for "This Week @ Microsoft" Rob York Microsoft Services Microsoft UK Important Announcements : Breaking news: HTML 5.0 and Canvas 2D specification’s definition is complete...