The Rt. Hon. Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, met with Microsoft’s senior executives at the company’s headquarters in Redmond. The group exchanged a broad range of ideas around technology solutions designed to create opportunities for New Zealand...

We have a handful of seats available for some Windows Vista training, this week in Auckland and next week in Wellington. Read on for details, BTW this is free: You are invited to come along to one of a very limited number of two day interactive technical...

We’re busy planning our 2007 Technical Briefing Events. The first event is in Auckland on 7 March, followed by Wellington on 14 March and Christchurch on 21 March. These are not–to-be-missed technical updates which will cover a broad range of topics including...

Well thanks to out timezone New Zealand was the first country to officially launch Windows Vista and Office 2007 My colleague Nigel Parker was up in Auckland and the main event at midnight last night. See the cool video he put together here ...

The 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is about to start in Las Vegas at the moment. Bill Gates is doing a keynote this afternoon NZ time and its available as a live stream, or ondemand tomorrow. If you're watching live this afternoon...

One of the things I've been busy with over the last couple of months is educating NZ IT Pro's on Windows Vista deployment. Well we're getting closer to releasing the final version of Business Desktop Deployment 2007, and here is the download of RC1 of...

The latest installment of TechNet Magazine is out and available to read on the web or download for offline viewing This month's issue is focused on Exchange 2007: Getting ready to make the move to Exchange 2007? You've come to the right place. This month...

We've given out the beta2 guide in New Zealand both in digital and hard copy at our various events Now the RTM version is available for download I love giving out this guide to sceptics who think Windows Vista is "lipstick on a pig" There really is a...

The Virtual PC 2007 Beta is now available to download, with Windows Vista support! - sign up for it here Some of the major changes include: Support for hardware virtualisation (both Intel & AMD) Support for Windows Vista as a host operating...

Windows Vista and 2007 Office System sales and technical readiness. Coming to a region in New Zealand near you during October The Reseller Roadshow is a half day event running from 1pm-6pm and will cover sales and technical training for these...

Just a reminder that the Exchange User Group is on in Wellington this week: If you have already registered for the User Group meeting this week, then this is a reminder! We look forward to seeing you there. If you haven’t registered, but would...

Daemon Tools is a "standard-issue" tool that a lot of people use to mount ISO images onto their machines. The download versions that have been available in the past have not worked on Windows Vista. I just noticed last night that the Daemon Tools...

Over the weekend we released an interim build of Windows Vista, also known as an EDW, or External Developer Workstation. This build is number 5728 and serves as an update to RC1 and runs in parallel with that release. The build is available as an ISO...

Wellington SharePoint User Group on Wednesday 13th September: With the growing interest in the Microsoft SharePoint technologies space fuelled by the upcoming release of Windows SharePoint Services v3 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 there is a new SharePoint...

Cisco and Microsoft are delivering on their previously stated commitment to provide customers and partners with clear guidance on how Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) and Microsoft Network Access Protection (NAP) will interoperate. The two companies...

"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...

Info is up on their web page for this months meeting http://www.woug.info/ Something a bit different this month... A focus on Printing. This should be of interest to Office users, but may also appeal to a wider audience, so please pass this information...

I'll be at both TechEd New Zealand in Auckland and TechEd AU in Sydney next week. In Auckland I'll be on and around the Microsoft stand for most of the time Mon/Tues/Weds and then in Sydney Thursday/Friday I'm also presenting a couple of sessions ...

TUG Meeting Tomorrow The next meeting of the Tablet PC User Group will be held on August 3rd. This is a little later than it should be but we wanted to get the best speakers for the topics. We are over half way through the year now and suddenly Office...

http://local.live.com now has New Zealand street level mapping data in it. You can find any street, all streets are named and you can get directions from one place to another (shortest or quickest routes) and also satellite imaging too Some examples...

A colleague and fellow NZer just passed the Microsoft Certified Architect program This is a big deal and a tough certification to pass, the failure rate is very very high Read more about Miha's trials and tribulations on the MCA Review Board...

A reminder that the Wellington Office User Group has its monthly meeting on Wednesday night this week. More details including the different location of this month's meeting is on their site They also have a summary of the previous meeting going...

Still haven't got your New Zealand TechEd ticket yet? Its the biggest IT Technical Training event of the year, with a great lineup of International and local speakers and an awesome array of knowledge transfer for thirsty IT Pro's - Windows Vista ...

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...

Hanging out to try Windows Vista? Windows Vista beta2 is now available for download - the New Zealand download site just went live earlier this evening. download Beta 2 of the 32- and 64-bit versions via the Community Preview Program (CPP). You have...