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April 2008 - Posts

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:37 PM

Build your own Photo Zoom demo...

Oooooh! I've found a demo that the IT pro's will love, and the developers will have a great time creating more images. I'm at our team offsite. It's a great opportunity to find out what other parts of the Evangelism team is doing, find out our challenges
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 2:20 PM

Playing with Live Meeting 2007

I've just been showing Claire and Maxine in the Developer Marketing team how to use Live Meeting 2007 this time as a presenter instead of a participant. I often forget how confusing things may seem when viewed from the other side of the fence so to speak.
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Monday, April 28, 2008 8:18 PM

Get 30% off the TechNet plus subscription

We're running a little competition in the UK where all the team have been given promotional codes to give out so that you can get 30% off the cost of a new TechNet plus subscription or 10% off your renewal subscription either Online or on DVD Steve so
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 7 Comments
Thursday, April 24, 2008 2:08 PM

Live Mesh - the next web...

I'm really delighted that we've announced the technology preview of Live Mesh (see the article in the NY times ) after hinting about it at MIX the other week. It allows all your devices to work together - wherever you are - even on the web - you can add
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:02 PM

Exchange 2007 Prerequisites

Andy mailed me as he's having problems upgrading to Exchange 2007 I wonder if you can help. We are just starting to transition to Exchange 2007. We have three Exchange 2003 servers all with Exchange SP2 (but two don't have Windows SP2). When we run setup.com
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:33 PM

More champions in IT needed...

We announced the winners of the last Champion IT award - read their stories here. So we've started to think about our next Champion IT guy for next quarter (the 3rd time that this has been done. We are currently looking for a new Champion of ChampionIT
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:57 PM

The Warm feeling of the roadshow

This is really odd. I'm in Cardiff in a cinema (Odeon) of the first leg of our TechNet roadshow and its HOT. I'm sitting in the back row of the movies back catching up on my email and its really really hot up here at the back of the cinema. Probably because
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Monday, April 21, 2008 6:34 PM

Things you didn't know you didn't know

There's always something you can learn about in technology - even with tools you've been using for years. so when the It evangelists from around the world got together for a summit day, we had to create a fun video about being an evangelist. So our team
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Friday, April 18, 2008 10:26 AM

Thinking about Office Live?

Ben, one of our Student partners was looking for an effective solution to help him share information for a small group of people I love outlook. I've really got into using it for everything - email, calendar, contacts, tasks. I've got to a point where
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Thursday, April 17, 2008 7:32 AM

Women in Games Conference: Men welcome too :-)

Nicola who works in our Rare Office (and gets to play Games regularly) has told me about a conference that's being organised for Women in Games later this year. So if you're looking to find some women gamers, software developers and engineers for your
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 8:57 AM

Splitting the document window in Word

I've always been baffled by this so it's my turn to ask you for some ideas. I found this tip in the Microsoft at Work newsletter and I have no idea why I'd use it. Quick Tip In Microsoft Word , you can split the document window horizontally into two panes,
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 5 Comments
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 8:38 AM

Managing your mobile devices

I noticed that System Centre mobile device manager (MDM) is offering a trial download for 120 days. I'd really recommend that you had a look at this software if you're trying to manage mobile devices in your organisation. Specifically in the areas of:
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Monday, April 14, 2008 7:07 AM

Customer Satisfaction Survey

We're deep in planning for our next financial year which starts on July 1st and we've sent out some surveys to find out how you feel about what we've been doing so far this year. I'd like to see a response to the survey so we can gauge whether my ideas
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 4:05 PM

Breakfast in the Pub?

I like it here at Interact 2008. I like the atmosphere. I like the fact that there are lots and lots of Microsoft Staff around, so the attendees have loads and loads of Microsoftees to chat to. I like the transparency and the openness. Yesterday, in his
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:06 AM

Having lunch with the bloggers at Interact 2008

I had a great day today in San Diego at Interact 2008 . My work, if you can call it that :-) was to host the bloggers lunch in the harbour restaurant. down at the marina. Neeti, who works for the Unified Communications team, had done a great job, working
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 2:49 AM

DesignIT - your turn to vote

I was lucky enough to get the chance to be on the judging panel to decide which entries would be on the shortlist. I was blown away by the quality of the entries and it was really hard to decide. Well we managed to get the list down to a shortlist, and
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Monday, April 07, 2008 12:58 PM

UM and Avaya Communication manager

Well this has appeared at just the right time. Jason asked me about Avaya communications manager the other day, and I was having a look on the downloads site and found this: Microsoft Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging PBX Configuration Note for Avaya Communication
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Monday, April 07, 2008 11:10 AM

More of the Ultimate steal

I know that some of you know about the Ultimate Steal offer (Office 2007 Ultimate for College & University students for £38.95) from www.theultimatesteal.co.uk . And thought you’d like to know about this: Students of colleges and universities have
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Friday, April 04, 2008 10:04 PM

Import Outlook 2007 to Live Calendar...

I've been playing with Live Calendar today – http://calendar.live.com - and found this about importing Outlook 2007 into Live: Import your Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 calendar If you have a Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 calendar, you can export your
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Thursday, April 03, 2008 10:17 AM

UK User Groups community launch event

As you may know the UK User groups get together a couple of times a year for a joint event down here at the Reading Campus. This will be a big event involving many of the user groups in the UK. Here's the information about the event... The event will
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 7:52 PM

Exchange 2003 logs increase dramatically in size

I've had some interesting interactions from 2 seperate sources - one from Facebook and one through email talking ab out the same customer. Jonathan originally contacted me through facebook talking about an Exchange 2003 server where the log files were
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 3:04 PM

An Overview of Licensing

My friend Jackie delivers a lot of these events for Microsoft and really knows her stuff so I'd recommend that if you're in control of licensing for your company, then you tried to get down to this event. It's a really great introduction to the various
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