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December 2007 - Posts

Monday, December 31, 2007 12:35 PM

Messaging User group meetings in 2008

Here are the details of the January MMMUG meeting. This event will be held in London at the MS offices near Victoria. Ben Appleby from MCS will be back to talk us through all things backup and recovery. The session will take a detailed look at the System
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Friday, December 28, 2007 6:50 PM

Reflecting and learning

It's nice to work when the majority of the world are taking some time off - I can get time to catch up with bits and bobs, read those mails and look at the sites I've been meaning to look at for some time. I found this site on Gimundo and thought it was
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Monday, December 24, 2007 11:26 AM

Christmas - the 9 day weekend...

Well everything is winding down for Christmas. In the UK the roads have been jam packed all weekend with cars loaded with Christmas presents and extra duvets have been wending their way around the country to get to relatives. Everyone tends to finish
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Friday, December 21, 2007 4:55 PM

USB Wine for the holidays

Well its fairly obvious that everyone is winding down for Christmas as I'm starting to get some really daft things sent to me by mail. I've been sent loads of emails from my friends and family who have turned themselves into elves with Elf Yourself ,
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 5:16 PM

Female gamers and developers

I've been sent this interesting article about women gamers and women developers. They're a rare breed (we have no female developers in Microsoft UK and that's a huge shame). I do like the reasoning about why there aren't more female develoipers: " One
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 11:50 AM

Have you got a male or female brain for DesignIT?

Phew. This is me... You're a genius! Results indicate that you have a predominantly female brain; and could be the next Nobel Prize winner, like Marie Curie. Using the right hand side of your brain, you're often innovative, rational and demonstrate amazing
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:12 PM

The Vista showcase lounge

Oh Heck, Georgina has beaten me to it and has already blogged about our trip into the Vista showcase on campus today. We were clutching our coffees in hand looking for a comfy sofa to have a catch up meeting in the main atrium on campus. We wandered into
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 6:14 PM

Office Webcasts January 2008

TechNet Webcast: Administration and Management of the Live Meeting Service (Level 200) Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time Andres Delgado, Learning & Dev Specialist, Microsoft Corporation Jay Brummett, Supportability Program
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 6:12 PM

Sharepoint Webcasts January 2008

TechNet Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 1 of 6): Planning and Deploying SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200) Friday, January 18, 2008 - 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time Kevin Remde, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032363086&Culture=en-US
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 6:02 PM

Exchange Webcasts for January 2008

TechNet Webcast: Exchange Server 2007 in Depth (Part 1 of 8): Overview (Level 200) Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Pacific Time Chris Avis, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032363557&Culture=en-US
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 5:46 PM

System Centre Webcasts January 2008

TechNet Webcast: Optimizing Desktop Management with System Center Configuration Manager and Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization (Level 300) Tuesday, January 15, 2008 - 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Pacific Time Jeff Wettlaufer, Senior Technical Product
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Monday, December 17, 2007 6:11 PM

Click and Go with your own customised marketing campaign

I was having a coffee with Judith who works in our partner marketing team today. I tend to view partners as people in our audience and I do forget that partners run their own marketing campaigns to bring in business to their own companies. Well Judith
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Friday, December 14, 2007 9:40 AM

Coffee and a Chat at Starbucks

Well after last nights get together at Starbucks I'm going to volunteer to do more of them. The cosy coffee atmosphere meant I got to talk to everyone there, we had a private room upstairs in the centre of Cambridge and a mix of people giving lots of
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:16 PM

Enabling NDR's

This made me smile last night. I'd asked a colleague in the Exchange team for the name of one of the program managers in corp. I'd had to resort to email as his presence indicator showed that he was online and working, but all of my attempts to contact
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 4:59 PM

Holiday templates in Excel

We use shared calendars quite a bit at Microsoft, and everyone gives read access to their calendars. We also have group calendars which are team based calendars. Some of our customers use Excel instead to track team holidays though, and with the ability
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:53 PM

Microsoft Coffee Chats

I love coffee, And I love talking about technology. Usually I'm to be found in one of the 5 coffee shops we have around campus in the UK having various coffee meetings and chatting about technology. Well we've decided to expand on this a bit and chat
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Monday, December 10, 2007 7:50 PM

Proving Turings computer

I've always been fascinated by unanswerable questions, and I'm totally convinced that there are answers and they must be somewhere. Alan Turing , the father of the computer and the man who helped to break the enigma machine (ciphers) spent a lot of time
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Friday, December 07, 2007 12:27 PM

Free your buddy

I like this new viral thingy that someone in the MSN team has released. it's called Free your buddy . There's a video up on YouTube too showing how badly he dances. My only gripe is the site seems to use Flash, not (fabulous) Silverlight - although I
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Thursday, December 06, 2007 11:54 AM

Management Excellence

I've been in Paris since yesterday afternoon for a meeting of the Management Excellence team across EMEA. This is a team of managers that have volunteered to "inspire, advise and assist the Management Excellence Community and HR to create a culture of
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 10:19 AM

Eurostar to Paris - from the loveliest station in the world

It's not often I go on about architecture. It passes me by most of the time. I don't often notice the lovely buildings around me when I'm wandering around London. But getting to and coming back from Leicester yesterday took me through the newly refurbished
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007 6:53 PM

Sharepoint and Office Webcasts December 2007

TechNet Webcast: An In-Depth Look at SharePoint Server 2007 Search Technology (Level 200) Monday, December 17, 2007 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Pacific Time Matt Hester, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032359951&Culture=en-US
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007 6:51 PM

Exchange Webcasts December 2007

TechNet Webcast: Disaster Recovery in Exchange Server 2007 (Level 200) Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Pacific Time Chris Avis, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032359939&Culture=en-US
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007 6:44 PM

System Center Webcasts December 07

TechNet Webcast: Deploying and Upgrading to System Center Configuration Manager (Part 1 of 2) (Level 300) Monday, December 03, 2007 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Pacific Time John Baker, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032359933&Culture=en-US
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Monday, December 03, 2007 11:56 AM

Blogging for business

I’m presenting in the Midlands tomorrow – in Leicester. I'm going to be talking about how blogging can be good for business and how blogs fit with business in this Web 2.0 world. Whether you’re a large enterprise or a tiny company, blogging can present
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