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Friday, September 28, 2007 7:49 PM

Barcode scanning on your mobile phone

I was listening to the radio a couple of weeks ago and they were talking about a really simple way of getting websites and associated adverts onto your mobile device. They're called QR codes . I'd never heard of them. They're a really simple way to put
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 5 Comments
Thursday, September 27, 2007 10:29 AM

Web Administration using IIS 7

We had a great event on Web administration earlier this year, it was packed out with several delegates asking whether the sessions would be repeated. Well, we filmed the event and I noticed that the sessions are now up on the IT's Showtime site. We covered
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 10:26 AM

Integrating IM applications with Office 2007

You've been playing with OCS 2007 and you love it. You love it so much you've piloted it in a few places. you now really want to deploy it. So how do you upgrade the evaluation version to the full released version? This document details the steps you
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 10:01 AM

Being blocked by Hotmail

Fenia was desperate. She works for a Microsoft partner and they'd been blocked by hotmail spam filters. " We cannot send any emails out to any of our clients that have hotmail accounts. I have been trying to 2 days to find a phone number to call - I even
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 9:22 AM

Selling early copies of Halo 3...

James and I were walking to dinner last night in Newcastle when we saw this... Didn't Argos release Halo 3 early? James has his own opinions ...
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 4 Comments
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:00 PM

Tafiti and Halo 3

Now I never blog about Halo 3, and I didn't blog about Halo 2, but George and I have both blogged about how amazing we think Tafiti is. So to link the two... We just updated Tafiti with a Halo 3 skin. Ready for launch day. Which is today I believe :-)
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:15 PM

OWA and reminders

Dean mailed me. He has written a product called OWANotify and was trying to add more features to it. He asked: Is there a URL for any version of OWA 2000/2003/2007 that can bring me straight to my current calendar and task reminders? I've only managed
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Monday, September 24, 2007 12:04 PM

How to start a Technical community

I met Greg when I was out at TechEd NZ last month and we got chatting about what makes a good Technical community and how the models differ around the world. Greg mentioned he was writing a book which he kindly shared with me which talks about how Technical
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Friday, September 21, 2007 11:55 AM

Do more with your mobile phone

Do you use all the features of your mobile? I've got to admit I don't. I tend to stick with the things I know and don't go off on a voyage of discovery finding out new things. Well, I got an email pointing me to the Windows mobile Users club . All you
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Thursday, September 20, 2007 12:45 PM

Publish your Outlook calendar onto the Internet

I didn't realise that so few people knew about this feature of Outlook 2007, about sharing Internet calendars , but my friend Ian (who works for Dell) came over for some wine the other day and told me his wife was complaining as she never knew where he
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 6 Comments
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 12:56 PM

Unified Communications Webcasts for October

Momentum Webcast: A Sneak Peek at Unified Communications with Software-Powered VoIP and Unified Messaging (Level 100) Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time Bob Clancy, Mid-Market Solutions Advisor, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032351243&Culture=en-US
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 12:52 PM

Office Webcasts for October

Microsoft Office System Webcast: How Can You Become a Microsoft Office Genius? (Level 100) Tuesday, October 02, 2007 - 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time Stephanie Krieger, Microsoft Press Author and MVP, Arouet.net http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032351480&Culture=en-US
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 12:48 PM

Exchange Webcasts for October

TechNet Webcast: Message Security, Active Protection, and Compliance with Exchange Server 2007 (Level 200) Friday, October 05, 2007 - 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time Chris Avis, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032352474&Culture=en-US
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 7:59 AM

What do you do with Vista after hours?...

So Matt and James are busy testing their kit ready for their "Vista After hours" sessions at the roadshow. Well, they're they going to be demoing all of this stuff at the evening event. They also have a Home Server appliance, some Sideshow devices, some
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 7:25 PM

Learning Word 2007 if you're visually impaired

Sometimes I receive an email that stops me in my tracks and makes me realise that there is so many things I just haven't considered about our software in my day job. Denny works at Gateway For the Blind and is trying to get to grips with Word 2007: "
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 4 Comments
Monday, September 17, 2007 7:47 PM

Blue monster wine

I was chatting to Hugh this morning about our session coming up at IT Forum in Barcelona. I'll be moderating the blogging panel session and I've asked Hugh to represent the business side of blogging and how this helps marketing (as it has with Stormhoek
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Friday, September 14, 2007 8:51 PM

Swimming to France

There's some very hardy souls who work for Microsoft in the UK and they've decided to swim to France for the weekend. They'll be swimming from Dover to a place west of Calais called Audinghen. The Channel is 22 miles at it's narrowest part, and this part
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Thursday, September 13, 2007 6:55 PM

Take a second shot at your Technical exams

I got a mail from our learning centre today with a good offer from the exam team. It's called second shot. Here's how it all works (from the Prometric web site) Get a Second Shot for Free! On September 15th, we will be launching Microsoft's Second Shot
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 7:12 PM

Giving too much information to Social Networking sites...

Sometimes I get a bit concerned about the amount of information people freely share on Facebook . I've got a Facebook account, but my social life seems rather boring compared to those of most of my Facebook friends who all seem to lead much more interesting
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 7 Comments
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 5:52 PM

Read Hotmail from Outlook

I know I mentioned the Outlook connector the other month and I finally got round to installing it onto my mate Hil's machine. Wow. total simplicity. On starting Outlook, the wizard politely told her that it had found her Hotmail account and did she want
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 13 Comments
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 5:36 PM

OCS 2007 Learning Portal

I've noticed that Microsoft learning have published their OCS learning portal with resources for OCS, books and sessions. I'm not too impressed with the name "clinic" though, but at the moment I can't think of another name that would suit better. Thomas
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Monday, September 10, 2007 6:11 PM

Women in Technology: Thought provoking articles...

Dugie sent me a mailshot from O'Reilly which led me to their Women in Technology page (I totally love the logo, love the strapline Tatiana ). "O'Reilly Media aims to celebrate and give voice to the real-world experiences and concerns of these female trailblazers
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Friday, September 07, 2007 5:19 PM

TechEd / IT Forum promotional video

Ooh I like this. It's our promotional video for TechEd and ITForum in November in Barcelona. The video is available in different formats and can be accessed from this page . 2 criticisms though... Lots of formats - not Silverlight though (I'm now a fan
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Friday, September 07, 2007 10:00 AM

Exchange 2007 Unified messaging deployment

I get asked this question more than almost any other when I'm out on the road "yes but is that what you've done at Microsoft?" when I chat about some feature of Exchange or other. So I'm always pleased when we publish one of our own internal case study
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 4:04 PM

Exchange 2007 demo resources

Thanks to everyone who attended our Academic day on campus - it was really interesting to talk to IT Admins from universities and to talk about their challenges with infrastructure. I promised to share the resources that I talked about at today's session
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007 4:47 PM

What the heck is Live Meeting 2007

Sometimes I wonder if all the money we spend on marketing reaches the people we're trying to reach. We're heading towards the launch of our Unified communications product set and Live Meeting 2007 is one of the products in our UC camp. In the UK, Chris
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Tuesday, September 04, 2007 6:57 PM

September and October Messaging and mobility user group dates

Nathan (of the Messaging and mobility User group ) sent me a mail reminding me about the next user group meetings in London after my trip up to Liverpool last week: Our September MMMUG meeting will be held in London at the new MS offices near Victoria.
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 9:20 AM

Unified Communications webcasts fgor September

Momentum Webcast: Revolutionize Your Business Communications with Communications Server 2007 (Level 100) Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time Tim Armstrong, Mid-Market Solutions Advisor, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032347544&Culture=en-U
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 9:18 AM

Exchange webcasts for September

TechNet Webcast: Exchange Server 2007 Deployment and Migration (Level 200) Wednesday, September 05, 2007 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Pacific Time Bryan Von Axelson, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032348652&Culture=en-US
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Monday, September 03, 2007 10:38 AM

UC Unplugged roadshow dates...

At last! Mark has released the dates of our Unified Communications roadshow tour in October so you can now go and register using the links below. Here's the agenda: Agenda 09.30 – 10.00 Registration 10.00 - 10.20 Warm Up Act & Welcome - Mark Deakin
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