Hi All, Attending the Worldwide Partner Conference is often not an option for the majority of New Zealand Partners due to cost and time constraints. One option you may like to consider though is the Australian partner conference . This years conference...

Hi all, Now is a great time to update your certification to Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008. Auldhouse and Ace Training both have some great offers to help you upgrade your certification and have courses in Auckland, Wellington...

Hi All, Earlybird tickets to Tech.Ed 2009 have now sold out! Regular tickets are still selling fast so if you are planning on going please consider getting your ticket asap to avoid disappointment! For information and to register visit www.microsoft.co...

Hi All, Planning is underway for Tech.Ed 2009 , New Zealand’s biggest conference for the ICT technical community. This year’s Tech.Ed is shaping up to be bigger and better than ever before, and will showcase exciting new technologies including Windows...

Hi All, Microsoft and IBM are running 3 customer briefing sessions around the country next week. These sessions are a great opportunity for you to bring customers along to. The sessions will cover: IBM’s new flagship System x rack and blade servers Performance...

Hi all, As many of you may be aware the Windows 7 RC is now available for download! The RC features a couple of great new features added since the beta version: 1. Windows XP Mode : Allows Windows 7 professional users to run many Windows XP productivity...

Hi All, The Unplugged guys are doing a roadshow starting later this month, covers Windows 7 & Server 2008 R2, definately not to be missed! Details below. UNPLUGGED Roadshow: Windows 7 Special - 25 May to 5 June 2009 Join us for the...

Hi All The New Zealand Microsoft Partner Awards are back for the third year running. Again we’re looking to honour those Microsoft Gold partners, Certified partners and Small Business Specialist partners who have delivered exemplary, innovative...

Hi all, We have recently created the Microsoft Licensing Toolkit , a kit which contains a number of one page licensing documents that are both partner and customer ready. Included is information on: Different Licensing Programs available ...

TechNet UNPLUGGED Event: Windows 7 Technical Overview and Installfest - April 2009 Come along and learn about Windows 7 and get the opportunity to install the beta on your PC too. The Windows 7 beta is out and everyone is excited about it. In...

Hi all, Play a key role in bringing together powerful technology with domain expertise, innovative capabilities, and value added services to New Zealand customers with Microsoft Online Services. By offering and building on Microsoft Online Services...

MS WPC is scheduled for July 13-16 2009, in New Orleans, Louisiana. These are amazing events with thousands of geeks descending on a poor unsuspecting city for Learning, Discussion and fun. If you haven't been before, you should make every effort to get...

As a way to combat the issue of people not understanding licenses, Microsoft has released LicenseWise for Volume Licensing. Check it out! http://partner.microsoft.com/licensewise - Ben

Keep an eye out for the courier with your box of goodies. One big item is that they were going to get everyone a copy of Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Workgroup. This has been upgraded to Enterprise (yeah baby). Also included will be various...

The SBS & EBS 2008 (70-653, 70-654) exams are available, and according to the guys + gals who wrote the exams they are “a lot harder to pass by design”. They have been written so that the S.B. Specialist program truly reflects those that have committed...

Hi all, Just a quick note, the presentations from the first three SBSC partner sessions that were held in Auckland are now availalbe for download from the partner portal here . Make sure you check them out! Cheers, Brad

Hi all, Happy new year and welcome back. I hope everyone out there had a great Christmas/New Year break. I'm sure you will all agree it's great to back in the office while the sun shines down outside! Or maybe not so great?! On Thursday the 12th...

Hi All, I am off on a long overdue holiday today and would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a safe holday period and hope that you all have a relaxing time away from the office. I will be back on the 12th of January so look out for more posts...

Hi All, We have just recieved a shipment of SBS and EBS 08 Trial DVD's in both Standard and Premium editions. These are a great resource to show potential customers SBS or EBS 08 solutions in action. These are available free to New Zealand SBSC...

Hi All, Last month we informed you of a critical update for Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Windows Server: MS08-067 . It appears that many companies and individuals are still being infected by a number of new exploits. The key piece of malware...

Hi all, An event for all you developer types out there. In December we are running more MSDN Unplugged sessions throughout the country. These sessions will share principles, practices, patterns and tools announced at the Professional Developers...

Hi All, A couple of great training events coming up, particularly for those looking to deploy EBS 2008. Server setup.exe This session will cover the basics of installation and migration onto Essential Business Server 2008. It is targeted at...

Hi all, Good news, trial downloads of both SBS and EBS 08 are now available. These are 60 day trials but can be extended 3 three times if a longer period is needed. To download click here . Also, we are awaiting DVD's of these trial versions...

Hi All, With the official launch of WESS upon us I though I would give you an overview of some of the key resources available to you right now. The most comprehensive would have to be the WESS page on the partner marketing centre which has a...

Hi All, Microsoft's platform for cloud computing and software + services was announced last week (outline below) at the professional developers conference. The platform combines cloud based developer capabilities with storage, computational and networking...