Adopting this exciting new computing paradigm provides a whole new landscape of technology and career direction for IT professionals. Microsoft Learning and the Microsoft System Centre 2012 team have partnered to bring you an exciting opportunity to learn...

Download link is http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh505660 A Microsoft private cloud dramatically changes the way your business produces and consumes IT services by creating a layer of abstraction over your pooled IT resources. This allows...

The latest MCP exams on Office 365 are currently in beta, and I thought I would do a quick post on the materials I used to study for the 2 exams. The exams are very challenging, especially the Administering exam, you definitely want to have your head...

Learn about the latest Microsoft Virtualisation technologies, including Hyper-V and Windows Azure. Download Understanding Microsoft Virtualisation R2 Solutions , written by industry expert Mitch Tulloch along with the Microsoft Virtualisation team. Register...

Join us for a webcast technical presentation next month: Get started deploying Windows 7 and Office 2010 Businesses across NZ are rapidly deploying Windows 7 and Office 2010 to take advantage of a more productive desktop environment, and to avoid any...

The internet of things, big data and virtually limitless inexpensive storage will transform the online environment. Huge volumes of data from new sources such as sensors, biometric devices and smartgrids will create significant opportunities in business...

Free Microsoft NZ technical training event in Auckland and Wellington! Find out how Hyper-V has matured and grown up a lot over the last few years, now including the core functionality you need to meet your business and technical requirements for virtualisation...

the next Christchurch Infrastructure User Group session has been announced, this time an overview and demo of Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango”. What's new in Windows Phone 7.5 for End Users & Business Come along to this end of year User Group session and...

Just a reminder that there is only 2 weeks left till entries are due for this years Microsoft New Zealand Partner Awards . The Microsoft Partner Awards represent the pinnacle of IT industry awards in New Zealand and are the main avenue through which Microsoft...

Microsoft New Zealand is an official sponsor of the RWC - and now you can have every match loaded into your Outlook calendar Find the link to download them here .

An exciting new Microsoft blog has recently been created by Steven Sinofsky at http://blogs.msdn.com/b8 called Building Windows 8 - An inside look from the Windows engineering team. The blog is discussing and disclosing features in the coming Windows...

the next Christchurch Microsoft Infrastructure User group event is on next week, the topic this time is ’IPv6 the Basics’ When: Tuesday, September 6 · 5:30pm - 7:00pm Where:St. Andrew's College 347 Papanui Road (or Carpark off Normans Road) Christchurch...

A reminder that this coming Sunday August 28 2011, (After Tech Ed NZ 2011) the Microsoft User Group communities team is running Code Camp 2011 at the University of Auckland Business School, Auckland. For us IT Pro’s there is even an Infrastructure track...

As announced on the Microsoft Press blog we are very excited to announce that we are able to offer Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime (ISBN 9780735656949), by Katherine Murray, as a free eBook download See below...

  This year for our TechEd NZ conference we have moved to a cloud hosted model for our Hands On Labs for attendees, this means the labs are more reliable and there are a greater number of labs available covering a wide range of Microsoft Infrastructure...

from the System Centre blog : The SCOM 2012 beta is now available for download Here’s what’s new Rich application performance monitoring and diagnostics for .NET applications plus JEE application health monitoring Support for monitoring heterogeneous...

From the Microsoft Virtual Academy Blog , today the Office 365 for the IT Pro – Exchange Online course has been released and available for free The track covers Exchange Online from an IT Pros perspective. The first modules cover an overview of the product...

  The latest version of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) v6.0 is now available for download The MAP Toolkit is an agentless inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that can securely assess IT environments for various platform...

  As announced on the Windows Intune blog this morning You can go to Windows Intune Springboard site for information on signing up for your beta subscription. Once you have completed the sign-up process and activated your account, you can go to https...

  Early this morning Microsoft released the latest developer preview build of Internet Explorer 10: Platform Preview 2. Download Now http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Info/Downloads/Default.html For more information & features in IE 10 PP2 visit...

  Here is the official Office Team Blog announcement with more details: Official Office Team Blog Announcement And for SharePoint: Service Pack 1 Changes to SharePoint 2010   SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 Service Packs 1 are now available...

Cloud computing is the biggest change to hit IT professionals in recent years. Everyone is talking about the Cloud and this makes figuring out what you need to be successful in your role hard. Wouldn't it be great if there was a simple, effective way...

Last week I joined Paul Spain (Gorilla Technology) and Bradley Borrows (Microsoft NZ’s Server and Tools Product Manager) to record the NZ Tech Podcast . This was the fifth episode and my first time as a guest on the show. If you enjoy keeping up with...

You’re invited to the next meeting of the Auckland Cloud User Group Microsoft Auckland Level 5, 22 Viaduct Harbour Avenue, Auckland Presentation/demo starts at 530PM Tuesday 26th April Please register so we know how much beer & pizza to order Overview...

You’re invited to the next meeting of the Wellington Cloud User Group Microsoft Wellington Level 12, 157 Lambton Quay, Wellington Presentation/demo starts at 530PM Tuesday 3rd May Please register so we know how much beer & pizza to order Overview...