by Ron Grattopp…the fact the Windows 7 was a year old yesterday isn’t breaking news but as I ran across some other blogs on the subject, I thought of something that I felt was worthy of a post of my own.  Even though Windows 7 has been a critical...

  J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- First off….. QuickStartOnlineServices.com is the place to start for everything BPOS/Microsoft Partner related, and I encourage you to check it out.  When you do, you will be able to download...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- I have delivered a number of Office 2010 demos to Microsoft Partners and their customers….  The demo video that I created below is Part 1 in a series where I show some quick highlights of various...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- I hope that you enjoyed viewing Part 1!  Now let’s turn our attention to Excel 2010 and PowerPoint 2010.  Most people believe that spreadsheets are boring, but with the ability to quickly create...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- Are we already up to Part 3?  In this video, we complete our demo of PowerPoint 2010 with the Broadcast Slideshow feature.  Then I move onto a demo of Sharepoint Workspace 2010… This is that...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- Well, we’ve come to the end of the road… but there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow… should I go on? In the last part of this demo series I demo Office Web Apps in a SkyDrive environment, and...

Q: (from Bill) I was looking at a telephone system for which they demonstrated "presence." I asked if was compatible with Microsoft's presence, and he said it depended on whether MS is xmpp compatible. Is it? If not, what protocols does MS presence...

by Ron Grattopp…….Well, since the word dam is not profanity, there really is no “French” to pardon here, but hopefully that title got your attention because I ran across this interesting CMSWire post on SharePoint’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) technology...

Rob Waggoner   We just released System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3.  So what’s R3?  I’ll rattle off a few of the items that got my attention… The first thing they talk about is R3’s ability to support Green IT.  R3 gives you...

Today Microsoft is announcing Office365 which was codenamed“Union”, the evolution of Microsoft’s online productivity services.  Office365 represents the next edition of the BPOS,, Office Live Small Business and Live@edu solutions.  But its even...

Rob Waggoner   CRN has the following article talking about rogue software that is impersonating itself as Microsoft Security Essentials.  A rogue version of Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT)'s free antimalware product, Microsoft Security Essentials, is...

Rob Waggoner I installed the Beta of SP1 on all of my Hyper-V servers a few months ago and will be upgrading to the RC once I have some time (probably this weekend). The Beta was very stable, I expect the RC to be pretty much ready to go. We are...

Q: (from Matthew) It was a pleasure meeting you today.  I hope you can help me with is dealing with our conversation around CRM seats.  If you have anybody I can reach out to or any sites that can help me take advantage of the new/old Online...

    Start Date: October 25, 2010 End Date: December 31, 2010 Target Audience: Small and M idsize Organizations Market Segments: Commercial and Local Government Organizations Products Included: • Designer and Developer Tools • Dynamics ® CRM...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- I know this is short notice, but I wanted to make sure our Florida partners were aware of this seminar next week (November 2nd).  If you are located in or close to Central Florida, please join Mark...

Rob Waggoner Procrastinators beware! Please don’t wake up after a scary Halloween to find that your Beta version of Office 2010 has expired. Below is the link talking about the expiration. I’ve also included a run down of the different...

  by Woody Walton The announcement of Office 365 on October 19th has been well received generally speaking from most of the partners I have spoken with.  Of course the inclusion of Office 2010 Pro plus as a component of subscription offering...

Woody Walton Over the last two weeks I have had the opportunity to attend a train the trainer session on the executive summary for this series, attend the web versions of each of the sessions below, and the pleasure of actually presenting a truncated...

Rob Waggoner This was just released, check it out. Here’s the URL where you can download this management pack: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=32077d99-618f-43d0-843d-4ba4f8019f84&displaylang...

by Ron Grattopp…….Although PowerPivot has been available for a few months now, I recently saw the following Network World blog post ( How Microsoft PowerPivot will disrupt BI ) and thought it was an interesting take on the impact of PowerPivot, Microsoft...

Woody Walton When we think about Microsoft Online (Cloud) services and specifically about BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite), there is sometimes the tendency to shift our thinking too far to one side of the “ease of deployment” equation...