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Operations Manager cross platform Extensions demo at MMS

I've finally got round to having a look at this video about Operations Manager cross platform extensions. Wow. I wish i'd seen this before. Just look at how easy it is to manage and report the health of Oracle, MySQL, Solaris, Apache, Unix and Linux systems

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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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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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

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

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.

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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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

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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