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I've been enjoying some internal "soft skills" training with my European counterparts this week in Prague - it's an amazing place - well worth a visit. BTW: I took the following picture after climbing 287 steps in the Cathedral! We've had many...

Click here to register for the event titled "Manage your core infrastructure from Desktop to Data centre" The event takes place on the 15 January 2008 from 9am until 5pm in London. The details of the event are as follows: A new style of launch...

From the 27th November to the 4th December the TechNet team plan to be back on the road in the North of England and lowlands of Scotland with the second iteration of our "TechNet of the road" tour. Once again we'll be using a handful of slides and a great...

Feliciano Intini's (much of the site is in Italian) Microsoft Security Taxonomy 1.0 is a handy resource as it lists many of the Microsoft security team blogs and functional area web sites.

Thanks to Ian (you know who you are) for pointing me to the Microsoft.com Operations team blog - specifically The Tasty Morsels Found In Dogfood...MSCOM OPS Top 10 Changes in IIS7.0 post. Their post goes into detail about the changes they have encountered...

I'm becoming ever more aware of the impact my actions have on the environment - particularly through travel. I'm "on the road" for the next four weeks and travelling to three different countries by air, using rail where possible and driving where necessary...

I'm sure that most technical people have a good idea of how hard disks work and what components reside in the small silver tins we some times replace in computers. Have you ever actually opened up the case and taken one to pieces to see for yourself?...

It's great to be in Barcelona for TechED:IT Forum for the week. I'm working today with my evangelist peers to share experiences and plan for the rest of the year. It's such a shame that we'll see VERY little daylight during the week - particularly...

Eileen wrote about TechNet Edge's imminent launch last week - it's here now - just browse to TechNet Edge . Edge is a place where IT Professionals can go to share videos of their cool demos and interviews - think of it as Channel 9 for IT Pros. ...

As Eileen mentioned IT Pro Momentum is our programme to help you deploy our latest technologies - if you'd like to take advantage of free technical support and gain (online) access to Microsoft experts then feel free to email the appropriate Evangelist...

Thank you to those of you who spread the word about places being available on our Q2 TechNet On The Road tour - there are still some places available but we now have enough people to make the shows viable. We really didn't want to disappoint anyone...

Eileen recently wrote a post titled Security for the 78 year olds which referred to an interview with Scott Charney (head of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative) who talked about his experience advising his mother on the need for security precautions...

Several people have forwarded me email messages like the following which is bogus - if you receive something similar then disregard it. We don't have a "Ken Gate", nor do we send emails from "yahoo.co.uk" addresses either. From: "KEN GATE" <...

A survey from the UK's University and College Application Service (UCAS) shows that Computer Science was the fifth most popular course for applicants in 2006. A summary of the survey was presented in a recent copy of British Airways' in-flight magazine...

I've been speaking today in Falkirk (Scotland) and have been asked "what's the difference between Standard and Enterprise editions of DPM?" - the answer lies on the Data Protection Manager 2007 Licensing page which goes into great detail regarding the...

I've wanted to write about this for ages...Finally we've announced System Center Mobile Device Manager (SCMDM) - it's due to be released in the first half of next year. Today the story for managing Windows Mobile devices centered around Exchange Server...