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Tech Days, a joint effort between Microsoft and the IT Pro community, is bringing exceptional up-to-date technical content to Galway and Cork. Register and learn more about these evening events @ http://www.microsoft.com/ireland/technet/techdays.aspx
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The countdown is on for MS Community Tech Days!... only two weeks until Galway and Cork at the time of posting this (Galway 10th and Cork 12th March). Blindingly good technical content to be caught! Learn more and register @ http://www.microsoft.com/ireland/technet/techdays.aspx
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Finally, the Windows 7 Beta is available for public download! I am about to download it myself and I have heard lots of positive reports from my colleagues, so I’m very encouraged! Windows 7 Beta Has Officially Launched! After much anticipation, Microsoft
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Here's some more interesting footage from TechEd that I missed before... Mark Russinovich, technical follow, about Windows 7, WS08 R2, virtualization and Vista. It's about 8 minutes long. You can watch Mark's interview here . In this interview from Microsoft
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You will recall that on the 23rd October we released the out-of-band update MS08-067 . Deployment of this update has been high, but a worm, Worm:Win32/Conficker, has been detected across the world with increasing frequency. If you have not done so already,
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Incredible!! ...lightning does actually strike twice! Kimberly Tripp is visiting Ireland for the second time in three months and Niall Flanagan was not going to let an opportunity like this pass the SQL Server Ireland User Group . Those of you who attended
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See the 'Spingboard Series' to learn about some of the highlights of Windows 7 for the IT professional including improvements in manageability, security and compliance, and deployment.
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Wahoooo!... Last night saw the inaugural meeting of the SharePoint User Group in Ireland and it got off to a flying start! The meeting took place in Sandyford in Dublin and the introdcutory topic was 'Setting up a MOSS Farm'. Stephen Cummins (local SharePoint
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Now to Tech Ed...over 5,000 IT Professionals were at this annual conference, a small portion of whom were Irish! The keynote delivered by Brad Anderson, focused on the key to a 'Dynamic Enterprise in Changing Business Conditions' - this was ok...there
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I was away all last week in Barcelona at my first Tech Ed , and although PDC slightly stole its thunder the previous week with some major headlines around Windows 7 and Windows Azure, I was still very impressed by the Tech Ed experience! Before I give
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Calling all SBS Partners! On November 12 th Microsoft is launching the next version of Small Business Server & the New Essential Business Server . These are known together as Windows Essential Server Solutions. To celebrate this Microsoft Ireland
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On Thursday, October 23, 2008, Microsoft released an Out-Of-Band Security Bulletin (MS08-067). To meet the customer demand for information relating to this release, Microsoft conducted three customer webcasts. Two of these webcasts were conducted on Thursday,
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Bob Duffy (SQL Ranger and friend of TechNet), got a chance to pose some probing questions to SQL gurus Kimberly Tripp and Paul Randal, on how they felt about their experience in rainy Ireland last week and their opinions on the best bits of SQL Server
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Tech · Ed IT Professionals 2008, 3-7 November, Barcelona registration will be closing down shortly! Last year many Irish IT professionals were disappointed as no more registrations were taken after mid-September, so please act fast. Microsoft Tech·Ed
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I'll have to admit when I first started using Office 2007 I did find it difficult to deal with the new ribbon task bars and find the functionality that I had downpat with Office 2003. If you've just deployed Office 2007 and you're getting some resistance
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