The Windows Home Server team have blogged about their World Cup competition - the latest standings are that NZ trails just behind Norway in second place! Windows Home Server has now been sold in 47 different countries around the world.  The top 8...

The biggest event of the year is approaching rapidly and it will be big. Register now and on September 1st -3rd 2008, you'll be a part of the New Zealand TechEd experience! Since going live with registrations at the end of last week we have already sold...

TechNet NZ event series is back in (late) May featuring Microsoft Virtualisation. Stu and I will be doing a drilldown into and demos of the complete Microsoft Virtualisation Stack including Windows Server Hyper-V, VECD & MDOP, Application Virtualisation...

Still very handy to use to manage and remote control Virtual Server 2005, and this version works against Window Server 2008 too.  The latest version is now available for download from the DLC Original blog post here   If you've no idea what...

Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) enables IT administrators to remotely manage roles and features in Windows Server 2008 from a computer running Windows Vista with SP1. It includes support for remote management of computers running either...

I just saved my slide deck from the Launch Wave 2008 event, up onto Skydrive, and its available on the link above.  All the decks will be officially published up to http://www.microsoft.com/nz/events/launchwave/default.mspx later this week, I will...

Mauricio from Geekzone was at the Launchwave 2008 event at Te Papa yesterday and posted a photo being snapped next to the "hero" silhouette banner, bearing a quotation about his experience with  Windows Server 2008 / IIS 7.0 as part of...

I upgraded my demo machines from beta to Release Candidate of Hyper-V last night, and I'll be using them for my Win2008 demos at the Auckland Launchwave 2008 event next week. This morning it was great to wakeup to the news that we have announced the Hyper...

A reminder that this year, daylight savings ends two weeks later than previous years due the law changes introduced in April last year. This year, daylight savings ends at 3am on 6 th of April 2008. For more information on products affected, patches that...

Windows Vista SP1 is now downloadable via Windows Update.  Get the full story from Nick on the Vista Team Blog .   Get the x86 standalone package @ http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b0c7136d-5ebb-413b-89c9-cb3d06d12674&DisplayLang...

Not long to go now, till we kick off the launch of the 2008 Wave of Server products, starting in Christchurch next week We've mentioned this in the TechNet Flash, but as a reminder: join us at one of our Launch Wave 2008 Technical Briefings and get...

    We have just launched the worldwide availability of Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta. You can sign up now at http://workspace.officelive.com with immediate access and no waitlist. Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta is a free Web-based...

Microsoft Technical Fellow and desktop guru Mark Russinovich will be hosting an interactive virtual roundtable—broadcast LIVE over the Internet on Thursday, March 6 (NZ time). The subject? Windows Vista adoption and deployment. On the panel with...

A quick reminder that Microsoft Learning will retire 22 exam titles on March 31, 2008. These titles are focused on technologies no longer supported by Microsoft mainstream support and include part of the MCSA and MCSE tracks for Windows Server 2000 and...

Just announced this morning, the Windows Live SkyDrive service is now available in New Zealand (as well as 37 other countries around the world)   And now also has five times more space than was previously available — 5GB of free online storage...

Earlier today we announced the official name of the next version of Small Business Server - SBS 2008, hot on the heels of the release of Windows Server 2008.  SBS 2008 is part of the Windows Essential Server Solutions family of products.  The...

Good news for TechNet Plus subscribers eager to download the official Windows Vista SP1 bits.  The Windows Vista SP1 "Update" is now available for download through the Top Subscriber Downloads section at http://technet.microsoft.com/subscriptions...

Just a reminder that the 2008 Summer Road Trip hits Wellington in the morning Come along and see the community launch of Windows Server 2008 , SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 . Chris Auld , Jeremy Boyd , and Darryl Burling are doing a roadie around...

I've had a bit of a blogging holiday while I've been using up some annual leave - having a holiday and some R&R in the beautiful NZ summer. I am officially moving out of holiday mode - so expect normal postings to begin shortly.

Have a laugh with these Server vs Client comic strips, organised by the TechNet team in Australia, these funny ones are focused around Windows Server 2008. More info on Minty , Deeps De Silva and Scott Barnes blog posts.

Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 1 Enterprise with Hyper-V Beta is now available! The Windows Server group unveiled a surprise for Windows Server 2008 testers this morning, delivering a public beta for Microsoft’s hypervisor-based server virtualisation...

Our Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of Windows Server 2008 was declared final early this morning NZ time and is now available for download . Windows Server 2008, which is scheduled to release to manufacturing (RTM) by the February and March launch events, reached...

I've been demoing Windows Home Server quite a bit over the last few months, either on purpose or quite often because I'm talking to an IT Pro audience about the Windows Server roadmap and someone in the audience will ask me "Hey what's that Windows...

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...

Just a reminder that we still have a few spaces available at the TechNet UNPLUGGED session this week,  in Christchurch on afternoon of Thursday 7th Dec.  You can register here More info about this month's topics are posted here , but in short...