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Monday, March 31, 2008 9:09 PM

Question time: with the Vice President of Exchange

So as you know, I'm off to INTERACT2008 next week and I'm looking forward to it very much. I really used to love the MEC (Microsoft Exchange conference): having the change to go to so many sessions specifically focused on the technology I love was a really
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Friday, March 28, 2008 8:07 PM

Real time avatars: virtual hand gestures

I vividly remember the first time I flew out to Seattle for our internal technical conference - Envision in 2002. I'd only been at Microsoft 3 months and I was overwhelmed with the flood of technology, and feeling like a total imposter. The closing keynote
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 5:39 PM

Groove 2007 Templates

Groove templates launched for Office Groove 2007 We've recently launched a range of tool templates for Groove 2007. The tools are built using the Groove forms tool and are set up ready to complete common tasks like time tracking , tracking project status
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 6:47 PM

Heroes and Champions

Do you know any outstanding individuals and should they be recognised? The second phase of ChampionIT , a programme that celebrates the day-to-day efforts of IT Professionals has launched again for this quarter. and our judging panel have chosen their
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 3:41 PM

3rd IT Professional community day

IT Professional Community Days The 3 rd in a series of user led IT Professional Community Days is happening at Microsoft Campus in Reading on Tuesday 8 th and Wednesday 9 th April. Whilst Microsoft is hosting the event all the content and sessions are
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 3:08 PM

Exchanging contact data between social networking sites

Now this is a really interesting concept - and one that's going to make exchanging social networking contact data a lot more easy. John Richards has blogged about an agreement that we've put in place with Facebook , Bebo , Hi5 , Tagged and LinkedIn so
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Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:26 PM

So you couldn't get to the Windows Server 2008 launch in Birmingham?

Wow, what a launch. The day felt like a mini TechEd with a buzz I haven't noticed for ages at an event. I hardly sat down all day, didn't get a chance to see James' session on Powershell , Steve's Security talk, or Andrew talk about SQL Server. I spent
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008 12:46 PM

Rumours of Microsoft's demise...

...have been greatly exaggerated This made me laugh. Mark sent this photo around - he spotted it at one of the Academic team events last week and it was too good not to share with a wider audience. (Bletchley park is where the Enigma code was cracked
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:17 PM

From soup to nuts: All you want to know about OneNote

I've been a OneNote enthusiast since I discovered it in January, and I was even more delighted to meet OneNote guru Mike Tholfsen at my Management Excellence session in February. Well Mike has been kind enough to share lots of OneNote resources with me,
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Monday, March 17, 2008 5:00 PM

System Centre Webcasts April 2008

IT Manager Webcast: How Microsoft IT Uses Using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to Extend Network Health (Level 200) Wednesday, April 02, 2008 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time Richard Dixon, Microsoft IT Sr Systems Engineer, Microsoft Corporation
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Monday, March 17, 2008 4:55 PM

Mobility Webcasts April 2008

TechNet Webcast: Windows Mobile Series: Providing Mobile Access to Corporate Data and Applications (Level 200) Friday, April 04, 2008 - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time Vik Thairani, Senior Mobility Consultant, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032370850&Culture=en-US
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Monday, March 17, 2008 4:48 PM

OCS Webcasts for April 2008

TechNet Webcast: Compliance and Archiving in Communications Server 2007 (Level 200) Friday, April 04, 2008 - 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time Byron Spurlock, Consultant - Microsoft Consulting Services, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032372164&Culture=en-US
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Monday, March 17, 2008 1:11 PM

Semantic Web: a seamless web of data in your life

I've been interested in the Semantic web concept for quite a while now as I get frustrated with search engines (all of them) sometimes when I'm looking for something random or loosely coupled information where I can't quite get the exact search string
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Friday, March 14, 2008 6:43 PM

Free entry to TechEd or IT Forum if you register early for Interact2008

Gurdeep Singh Pall , the Corporate Vice President of our Office Communications Server team has got a great incentive if you're thinking about going to Interact08. Here's the mail from Gurdeep explaining his offer. If you see yourself as a leader in the
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:40 PM

Xobni for Outlook

I've been having a look at Xobni since Viral told us about it a few weeks ago and I'm impressed. I hadn't really thought about it as a social networking tool through email until I saw Bill talking about it. The thing I like best is the Stay in Touch feature:
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:11 PM

Outlook Voice Access and the English language

Steve, who reads my blog mailed me with a problem he's got with Outlook Voice Access. It made me giggle... We’re delighted with our in house Outlook Voice Access, but it’s caused great amounts of laughter in the office all at my expense! Sometimes we
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:24 PM

Servant Leadership

We had a great question texted in to us for the panel discussion on Thursday - one that we couldn't answer. Tracy from IBM talked about how their women's group had gone out to South Africa and built two houses for the local community. She emphasised how
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:50 AM

Networking for Women in IT

I'm still really overwhelmed to the amount of interest and positive feedback which has been generated by the event that I organised on March 6th. "Connecting Women in IT" was originally an attempt I dreamed up over a glass of wine with a friend in IT.
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Monday, March 10, 2008 9:40 AM

So you can't get to the Windows Server launch?

Well come to the TechNet roadshow in the UK instead? Here's the information about what we're going to be talking about... TechNet 2008 Launch Roadshow Following the 2008 Launch event in Birmingham on 19 th March, TechNet will be going out on the road.
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Friday, March 07, 2008 5:34 PM

All connected up at IBM

I'm pleased that Jane and Louise thought that she'd been part of something special yesterday, it certainly felt great to be part of such a high energy and noisy event - so different to the technical events I attend with people (mainly men) standing around
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Thursday, March 06, 2008 10:48 AM

I've started something

...and I'm really proud of this. Today I'm driving to IBM's main campus in the UK to deliver a presentation. Nothing unusual in that you may say, but the event that I'm speaking at is the fruit of an idea I had in December about bringing women in the
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 6:45 PM

the Action Pack quarterly update toolkit for Partners

I've been having a look at the Microsoft Action pack which seems to be rather good value for partners, especially the fact you get 4 updates per year and loads of sales and marketing materials. You get loads of software included in the £199 price too
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 11:51 AM

MMMUG meeting in March

The Messaging and mobility User group are off to Warwick for their meeting in March. Here are the details,,, This month the event will be held in Warwick at the office of Berica Ltd. As promised we are finally moving out of the capital for some events,
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 6:50 PM

The simplicity of Groove

I'm working quite a lot with Groove at the moment as I'm putting together an event for women which involves collaborating with to women who work outside of Microsoft (more about this on Thursday by the way). The project involves a couple of people from
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Monday, March 03, 2008 7:17 PM

Free SharePoint books...

I found some great books about SharePoint on Angus' blog (check out the animation at the top of the blog for some really cool customisation and I thought that they were worth of repeating here: Planning and architecture for Office SharePoint Server 2007
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