Last week at IT Forum in Barcelona, Microsoft announced the upcoming releases of Group Policy preferences (formerly PolicyMaker Standard Edition and PolicyMaker Share Manager by DesktopStandard).   Microsoft acquired DesktopStandard last year and...

Last week we released for download Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 helps keep your PCs and servers on the latest support level. It also provides on-going improvements to the Windows...

Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 is an enterprise messenger that integrates communications capabilities (including instant messaging, rich presence, PC-based voice and video, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and enterprise telephony) with productivity...

After last months Windows Vista Technical Training Sessions @ Connect, one of the frequent questions I had both during the presentation and in email after the event, is how do people get their hands on the tools that I talked about and demoed. I promised...

Just released by the New Zealand Rugby Union - grab the All Blacks Rugby Gadget from http://www.allblacks.com/gadget/default.htm    The gadget regularly updates including fixtures, results, streaming video, news and also information on our team...

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How do you lookup and search the Exchange Global Address Book (GAL) when you're on the road, with only Over The Air wireless access on a Windows Mobile device? Or schedule a meeting with someone at work and include an internal resource like a conference...

ISA and Exchange admin's have Best Practice Analyser's (BPA) available previously, now it is also available for SBS 2003 as well. The SBS BPA will check all major components of Windows Small Business Server 2003, including: • Exchange Server 2003...

are now available for download. No more calling up PSS or Microsoft Services requesting the hotfix from KB 900076 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=900076 Once you install these in the VM guests you will notice a performance increase, most noticeably...

Exchange 2007 SP2 is now ready for download ,  (version 08.02.0176.002).  As announced in May Exchange 2007 SP2 has in-box backup when running on Windows Server 2008 with Volume Snapshot, new enhanced auditing capabilities, improved public folder...

Just a quick reminder about next weeks UNPLUGGED TechNet event series , this month on Exchange Server 2007.  Please register if you intend to come along, hope to see you there...   Come along to this month’s TechNet UNPLUGGED event to...

We have received a lot of feedback from customers about the need for the Remote Desktop Connection client 6.1 to be made available as a standalone install for Windows XP SP2 to ease deployments of Windows 2008 Terminal Services. In response to this feedback...

The MTV show was broadcast about half an hour ago, now the new http://www.xbox360.com/ site is up, as well as some new content on http://www.xbox.com/en-US/default.htm too. The first site has a flash graphic that lets you view the console and controller...

Presentation Downloads You can download the PowerPoint decks from the latest TechNet UNPLUGGED sessions now.  I have made the PowerPoint decks available as PPT, PPTX (2007 format) and PDF.  Very interested to know which format you prefer going...

Later this month, on Thursday 27 September, we will be in Christchurch hosting a (free) TechNet Update event - an overview of Windows Server 2008, and also will be demoing our newest addition to the Windows family, Windows Home Server as well. The session...

Like "wide and deep images"? This is cool, check this out - a panorama view of Wellington, New Zealand shot from the top of Mount Victoria in February 07 (during the week of summer!) and created using Microsoft Research HDView Thanks to my Microsoft...

"Release Candidate 1" of Windows Vista RTMed in the early hours of last Saturday morning NZ time and is now available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers, as well as those people who signed up for the Windows Vista Customer Preview Program (CPP) with the...

Desktop Backgrounds for Windows Free desktop backgrounds and themes from Microsoft New Zealand. Someone from MSNZ posted this for download up on the MS Download Centre They're actually pretty cool, chewing gum for the eyes. A kiwi style 'bliss...

Overnight Microsoft announced availability dates for several key product updates including Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista, Service Pack 3 for Windows XP and the release to manufacturing of Windows Server 2008. Together these releases are a good example...

Just spotted this on the Windows Blog . Windows 7 RC will be available for download on Friday 1 May next week, for TechNet and MSDN Subscribers, then Wednesday May 6 publically (New Zealand dates) Windows 7 Release Candidate Update http://windowsteamblog...

TechEd is on in the USA (Orlando, Florida) right now, Steve Ballmer did the opening Keynote (titled "Enabling People to Drive Business Success) which was on about 1AM Tuesday NZ time There were several announcements that are interesting from Steve...

Its been quiet around here, I've been on a long overdue holiday, overseas :) But I'm back now rested, relaxed and firing on all cylinders: IE7 beta2 releases to the web and is now downloadable (including the real Beta 2 of IE7 for Windows XP SP2, Windows...

Some Exchange news this week, reasonably big news! Firstly on Wednesday NZ time at the IT Forum in Spain it was announced that Exchange "12", which should RTM next year will be x64 only. This is significant for Exchange and for the wider market...

For a limited time, you can get a free second shot at any Microsoft IT Professional, Developer, or Microsoft Dynamics (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions) Certification exam. Just register for this offer before your first exam, and you'll get two chances...

With the launch of Windows x64 at WinHEC 2005, last week I was in Auckland and Christchurch with AMD announcing Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and the Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions The most obvious and common advantage of x64 is that the...