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Friday, June 29, 2007 5:33 PM

The virtual me

Aargh! I thought it was bad enough hearing my recorded voice last week on Woman's hour , but seeing yourself in a video is much much worse! My Women in IT session has made it onto Virtual TechEd . I want to hide under the desk and cringe. It's a very
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Friday, June 29, 2007 9:27 AM

Access Hotmail with the Outlook connector

I like this. No more web mail. Offline access to Hotmail messages. Yay! We released this a couple o0f weeks ago... With Microsoft Office Outlook Connector Beta, you can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to access and manage
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Thursday, June 28, 2007 1:45 PM

A princess amongst women...

I saved this mail because it made my day. Most of the mails I answer through my blog disappear into the ether. In 99% of cases I never get to hear whether my answer was any use at all, but this mail made me smile all day. Steve was on holiday, and his
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Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:27 PM

Touching Microsoft Surface - or not...

I've been intrigued by Milan ( Microsoft Surface , not the place name) since it was announced last month. I remember Bill Gates doing an amazing demo at the Microsoft Global Briefing ( MGB ) a couple of years ago where not only had surface on the desk,
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Wednesday, June 27, 2007 6:25 PM

Only a slight Extrovert?

Well I'm an encouraging leader then according to my personal DNA map Encouraging Leader But only a bit of an Extrovert. I've done similar tests to this personal DNA test a few times and it always comes back with either slight Introvert, or slight Extrovert.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007 11:00 AM

Enterprise ambassadors networking lunch

I went to lunch yesterday in a really amazing place - Lancaster house - part of St James's palace complex (where Prince Charles lives). The lunch was held for the women's enterprise ambassadors network sponsored by girls make your mark . I went there
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Monday, June 25, 2007 6:36 PM

From young to old - in a matter of hours

So fresh from my exposure to all of those teenagers on Friday, I found out that I was also featured on woman's hour (which is preceived as being middle England, middle aged) on Friday talking about girly geeks with Sarah . For those of you not in the
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 8 Comments
Friday, June 22, 2007 9:39 PM

Digigirlz Day

Phew! - I don't think I've ever worked so hard in my life! I'm totally exhausted, wired, pumped and brimming over with energy after today's Digigirlz event (press release here. ..). We had over 200 girls on campus for the day. Katie got everyone fired
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Thursday, June 21, 2007 6:39 PM

User groups day

I've been running in between two places today, half my time was spent at today's user groups day , and the other running around sorting out pink t-shirts for tomorrows Digigirlz event. I'm actually terrified about tomorrow, put me in front of an audience
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 6:27 PM

Digital girls...

On Friday we've got over 200 girls attending campus for our first Digigirlz day in the UK. For the first time since I've delivered sessions to audiences, I've realised that I don't actually know my audience at all! The planning team have spent the last
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 6 Comments
Tuesday, June 19, 2007 1:16 PM

Office, Groove and Sharepoint Webcasts for July

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Top Tips for Word 2007 (Level 100) Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time Andrew Reed, Senior Training Specialist, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032343875&Culture=en-US
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 1:04 PM

System Centre webcasts for July

TechNet Webcast: Deploying System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (Level 200) Monday, July 02, 2007 - 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Pacific Time Wally Mead, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032343568&Culture=en-US
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 1:01 PM

Exchange webcasts for July

TechNet Webcast: Giving the Administrator More Control with Exchange Server 2007 (Level 200) Monday, July 02, 2007 - 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time Chris Avis, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032343422&Culture=en-US
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Monday, June 18, 2007 6:46 PM

UK community day - UK user groups get together

I'm really impressed with the way that the User group community has pulled together in the UK and are holding their 2nd community event at Microsoft campus on Thursday 21st June (the longest day of the year by the way). Registration for the event is done
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Friday, June 15, 2007 8:42 PM

Exchange 2003 calendar connector for Lotus Notes

Hare's another tool if you're migrating from Lotus Notes to Exchange 2003. Useful to add to the other tools I blogged about recently. The Calendar Connector for Lotus Notes is a tool designed for organizations that need to coexist during a migration from
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Friday, June 15, 2007 7:57 PM

Hallam Foe

I left my world of chickens and kittens yesterday (I was working from home) to go into London and watch a pre-screening of the film Hallam Foe . Hugh kindly invited a load of really creative and arty people and some Microsoftees including Tony, who managed
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Thursday, June 14, 2007 1:25 PM

More best of MMS coming to the UK

It's good that the UK are keen to find out more about windows management. We're putting on more dates in the UK for the best of MMS events that we ran earlier this year... Microsoft TechNet Management Summit (UK) - Are You in Control? How to Manage and
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Thursday, June 14, 2007 9:09 AM

SharePoint utilities: "filling in the gaps"

I found this interesting resource on a newsletter now that I'm starting to deal with the hundreds of mails in my inbox. I thought this was worth sharing. We get a lot of feedback from people who install SharePoint and then don't know where to start to
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 7:09 PM

Luggage labels

I've just ordered my personalised luggage labels from the KLM website. I saw that Steve has the Blue Monster on his and I wanted some too. All bags seem so alike at the moment that I wanted something to stand out from the rest (taking a dive bag on non
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 5:57 PM

View pdf's in Outlook preview pane

Ever since I've been testing Office 2007 I've loved that I can preview office documents in Outlook and frustrated by the fact that I can't preview pdf's without opening the attachment completely. Well Tim (who "just likes writing code") has worked with
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 8:31 AM

How we name products

Damn, this is a catchy tune. The concept makes me smile too. I've sat around in loads of brainstorming meetings coming up with precisely nothing :-) Little video about how Windows Server Longhorn got it's new name ...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 10:02 PM

Office Webcasts for June

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Top 10 Tips for Excel 2007 (Level 100) Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time Andy Reed, Senior Training Specialist, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032337596&Culture=en-US
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 10:01 PM

System Centre webcasts for June

TechNet Webcast: System Center Operations Manager 2007 Technical Overview (Level 200) Monday, June 11, 2007 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Pacific Time Chris Avis, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032340807&Culture=en-US
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 9:58 PM

Sharepoint Webcasts for June

TechNet Webcast: Upgrading and Migrating to Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200) Friday, June 01, 2007 - 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Pacific Time Shawn Travers, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032341241&Culture=en-US
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 9:57 PM

Exchange webcasts for June

TechNet Webcast: Exchange Server 2007 Client Access and Web Services (Level 200) Friday, June 01, 2007 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Pacific Time Kevin Remde, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032341207&Culture=en-US
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 9:25 PM

Hubdog: RSS feeds on your smartphone

I've been meaning to blog about this for ages since Tony pointed me to this site. He found a button on a blog that took him to this tool. It’s a RSS reader for the PocketPC/SmartPhone but a clever one: You create a profile online, add your favorite channels
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Monday, June 11, 2007 7:06 PM

How British?

This made me smile. For those of you frustrated by the US centric words in the Microsoft dictionary, here's your chance to get some local words into the lexicon. We're creating downloadable dialect dictionaries for 2007 Office system. As a native Teesside
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 4 Comments
Friday, June 08, 2007 11:20 PM

Women, business and blogging conference

I came back from Orlando yesterday, landed in London, drove home. Spent 5 hours unpacking my stuff from last week, packing business clothes for today, taking a shower, having a nap, then went on the train to Leicester (I was far too tired to drive for
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 8 Comments
Thursday, June 07, 2007 2:08 PM

My WOW moment

I had an amazing day yesterday. It began relatively normally (apart from someone getting me a coffee out of kindness which started the day off well with a smile). I went off to my sound check for the Women in Technology luncheon to brief the panel ( Ani
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 12 Comments
Wednesday, June 06, 2007 2:45 PM

Meeting and greeting...

I love being here , mooching around in the community lounge during coffee breaks meeting up with colleagues and customers. It's great that people stop and chat to me: either they've seen my photo in the Conference guide (one of the perks of being a keynote
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007 9:03 PM

Mobile device security concerns

I'm sitting in Jasons session at TechEd today. He's talking about Windows mobile 6 and the top 10 security concerns about going mobile (and how to overcome them). An interesting session if you're trying to convince your company to use Windows mobile and
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 6 Comments
Monday, June 04, 2007 7:33 PM

The TechEd buzz

I'm overwhelmed by TechEd this year. You know, I've been going to TechEd / IT Forum for years now, but this one feels a little bit different. For one thing its huge. There are about 12,500 people here in total which is much bigger than the European events
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Monday, June 04, 2007 9:31 AM

Attend TechEd - Virtually

A lot of people work for companies who won't pay for them to attend paid events like TechEd. they go to free events like TechNet events, but that seems to be their limit. Well, Virtual TechEd may just give you a flavour of what you're going to be missing.
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Saturday, June 02, 2007 1:31 PM

Things you don't want to hear whilst undressed...

I've been spending a few days in St Pete Beach (Gulf coast of Florida), hoping to get some scuba diving in and catch some sunshine. Tropical storm Barry has put paid to the sunbathing and the sea is a bit rough (!) to go diving, so I thought I'd go down
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Friday, June 01, 2007 11:40 AM

Live meeting user group meeting - via Live meeting...

Chris has been really busy setting up the Live Meeting user group, and true to it's tenets, he intends to hold most of the meetings on Live meeting (logical really). Here's the information about the User group event: Join the Live Meeting User Group on
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