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Monday, January 28, 2008 8:54 AM

Ireland's first Windows Server 2008 in production on the Internet?

Unless you know differently, it looks like Blacknight have Ireland's first Windows Server 2008 in production on the Internet: http://blog.blacknight.com/blacknight_and_page7_media_lau.html Windows Server 2008 is still in a Release Candidate stage - it
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008 9:04 AM

Community Launch events.

Four of our local Microsoft Technology User Groups have organised technical preview launch events in Dublin, Belfast, Cork and Galway. Whereas our official launch will be a showcase experience aimed at getting our high-level launch messages to as many
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:11 PM

Oh, you're in for a treat!

On Monday 21st February, Microsoft Ireland are running a morning session on Enterprise Mobility. Jason Langridge ( Mr Mobile ) is delivering it (he is a fantastic speaker - I'm turning up just because it's Jason, not to learn the content). Jason will
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 9:40 AM

Great Office 2007 materials (free training)..

I've just stumbled across this  fantastic wealth of stuff (which I just had to share). Web-based interactive command reference guides Interactive: Word 2003 to Word 2007 command reference guide Interactive: PowerPoint 2003 to PowerPoint 2007 command
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 7:15 PM

Windows Server 2008 User Group - Ireland

Now that the Longhorn Academy is over ( all slides are here ), what's next? Well, the consensus was that we couldn't just let it end there.  So, Aidan Finn (with a little bit of a push from all the attendees at the last session) has started a User
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 6:49 PM

Thoughts from the field on SQL Server 2008

Tony O'Grady has started blogging about his SQL Server 2008 evaluations.  His first post of this New Year is about the Resource Govener and his test setup.  He's going to post his results soon - so watch this space: http://tonyogrady.blogspot.com
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Monday, January 07, 2008 10:11 AM

Deploying (or about to deploy) Vista and/or Office?

We have a couple of FREE events coming up to help you. Belfast (Jan 22): Click to register. Dublin (Jan 21): Click to register. The content has been put together by consultants who are doing this work on a daily basis, so it is "real-world" material that
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 2:24 PM

Thoughts from the field on Windows Server 2008 - Terminal Services and SoftGrid

I've been doing a bit of "remote assistance" for Victor Olaoya (a local IT Pro working in Dublin). Victor has been deploying a Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services and SoftGrid Proof of Concept (POC) for one of his clients. Now, he does comment on the
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:29 AM

Getting PHP to perform on IIS7

So I finally have somewhere to post screencasts - http://edge.technet.com Here's my first post: Getting PHP to perform on IIS7 Basically I cover (in six and a half minutes) getting PHP to work on IIS7, improving its performance (lots) and extending it
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