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February 2008 - Posts

Friday, February 29, 2008 7:08 PM

Customising your presence information in Office Communicator

So every time I demonstrate Office Communicator, and browse to find Ewan's name during my demo, I get questions about how the heck he manages to change his status to something like "Fine and Dandy" or "Presenting and projecting". He'd actually blogged
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 10:26 AM

Digital navigation

I really love American muscle cars and have driven several big powerful beasties for years now. My current car is a 2000 Pontiac Trans Am (4th generation GM F-body if you're interested - one of the last ones to roll off the line in Ste Therese , before
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 2:51 PM

A "Very British Earthquake"

I'm off on my travels for the ebusiness group, on my second part of my tour. This week I'm in Lincolnshire and Derby talking about blogging for business (I did a couple of sessions in January ). I spent 4 hours getting to Louth , in Lincolnshire, arriving
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Monday, February 25, 2008 4:01 PM

How we deployed OCS 2007 internally

Well I've been wading through my emails and trying to catch up with things since I got back, not daring to hit the delete key in case I need it later. In addition to all the stuff I need to do for my day job, i also need to get myself sorted out for Interact08
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 7:06 PM

Expanding interoperability

Well I really wish I'd had a little bit more time to do some research into all of these announcements that we've made today about interoperability. Unfortunately I'm sitting at my hotel in Banff waiting for the bus to take me back to Calgary and my flight
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:37 AM

Unified Communications resources

Brett has blogged about the resources from the Unified Communications launch to save me a job :-) This one is a particularly useful deck if you're trying to get Unified Communications into your organisation and the boss just doesn't see the benefits of
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:58 AM

System Centre Webcasts March 2008

TechNet Webcast: Installation and Management Pack Migration of Operations Manager 2007 (Level 200) Friday, March 07, 2008 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Pacific Time Blain Barton, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032369729&Culture=en-US
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:05 AM

Office Webcasts March 2008

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Top Tips for Word 2007 (Level 100) Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time Andrew Reed, Senior Training Specialist, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032368001&Culture=en-US
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 2:02 AM

Sharepoint webcasts for March 2008

TechNet Webcast: Assure the Availability and Performance of Your SharePoint Environments (Level 300) Monday, March 10, 2008 - 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Pacific Time Sacha Dawe, Senior Technical Product Manage, Microsoft Corporation Luis Camara Manoel, Senior
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Monday, February 18, 2008 3:17 PM

Installing Exchange 2007 SP1 CCR on Server 2008

Brett has been busy with Exchange and PowerShell recently and has written this storming post about the new features you get when you install CCR onto a WS2008 cluster instead of WS2003. There's some great stuff here Brett - and the PowerShell look really
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Friday, February 15, 2008 12:44 PM

Bill Gates and the future of Technology

Well TechReady is over and I'm on my way to Banff for some skiing in Lake Louise and Sunshine mountain for a few days. I'm reflecting on the Bill Gates keynote at TechReady and I feel very sad that this is probably the last time I'm going to see him present
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 10:24 PM

Join me in Interact 2008 in San Diego

Ooh... I've been invited to attend Interact 2008 in San Diego in April. It's an event specifically about OCS and Exchange - if you remember the MEC (Microsoft Exchange Conference) conference that used to be held in Europe focusing exclusively on Exchange
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 2:34 AM

2 double beds and a film set.

No, it's not what you're thinking :-) I've had a rather bizarre day today. I was asked if I'd be willing to do a film clip for our Management Excellence community (I was one of the managers from "the field" at the workshop last week ). They wanted to
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Monday, February 11, 2008 11:11 PM

Love, Chaos and Dinner

I had a really bizarre experience last night with 15 other IT Pro's from around the world. The IT Pro role owner Orlando, invited us to join him for dinner at Teatro ZinZanni in Seattle (close to the Space Needle ). Hmm, I thought. I don't really fancy
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Saturday, February 09, 2008 1:56 AM

Your 6 word memoir

Now I've just got to share this with you to muse over the weekend. I've been catching up on our internal social alias - where you can buy everything from a slightly used sofa, find a roofer in the Reading area, sort out your tax form woes or have fun
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Saturday, February 09, 2008 1:13 AM

Live meeting User group meeting

Chris has mailed me about the next Live meeting User group meeting The next LMUG webcast is on 26th February at 4pm GMT. Thanks to everyone that attended the first meeting. We voted on content ideas for the next webcast, and the community decided! Virtual
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Thursday, February 07, 2008 11:02 PM

De fogging our Message

We've been talking about clarity in our Management Excellence meeting over the last couple of days so I was amused to see this post about how baffling we can be at Microsoft. I read the original announcement that triggered this particular post. Wow, we
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 8:06 PM

Interview with Greg Taylor about Exchange 2007

I interviewed Greg when I was at IT Forum about a piece of work he did for a UK customer, The video is now up on Edge . Greg Taylor from Microsoft consulting services (MCS) talks about a high availability Exchange 2007 solution they created for a UK customer
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 5:53 AM

Championing Management Excellence

Well I'm in Seattle, (Bellevue actually) talking about Management Excellence: How to foster and maintain a vibrant community of managers at Microsoft. It's certainly an interesting set of discussions with a collection of people with such different backgrounds
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Monday, February 04, 2008 11:49 AM

Photo sharing from the beginning

I'm on the way to Heathrow today to catch the nerd bird (as British Airways staff call it) to Seattle this afternoon. So my day will be spent people watching and wondering what they're doing - where they're going etc. And it's a good time to reflect on
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Friday, February 01, 2008 12:49 PM

Microsoft proposes to acquire Yahoo! - Woohoo!

Wow, that's smart. Microsoft are offering $44.6 billion for Yahoo!. What great news. Yahoo! pipes is just brilliant and their social networking and search offerings complement our existing search and social software proposal. The BBC has the info on the
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