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Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 4:48 PM by James Senior
Our very own Mr Lamb keynoted at the recent event on "Building a Security Infrastructure with Microsoft Forefront".  The main sessions were delivered by Ronald Beekelaar MVP on Security and Virtual Machines.  I'd recommend checking Read More...
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Moonlight Available (that's Silverlight for Linux)

Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:08 PM by James Senior
The interop momentum is growing now with news of the release of Moonlight which is in a nutshell Silverlight for Linux allowing designers and developers to create rich experiences and applications once and land them on Windows and now Linux.  Moonlight Read More...
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Forefront training available

Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:06 PM by James Senior
We still have some spaces available on the Deploying and Administering Forefront Client Security, Forefront Security for Exchange and Forefront Security for SharePoint Training course. Overview of the course – Learn critical deployment and administration Read More...
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SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 Pricing Announced

Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 4:00 PM by James Senior
We've just announced the pricing for the versions of Small Business Server 2008 and the brand new Essential Business Server 2008.  You can read the full press release here , but essentially these are important bits you need to take away: Windows Read More...
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Healthcare Silverlight Demo

Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:43 AM by James Senior
Loving the work from the team in the UK on this demo app to show off Microsoft's Common User Interface for healthcare applications based in Silverlight 2.  Follow the demo guides and it'll take you through all the key aspects of the app. Check it Read More...
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Worldwide Telescope released

Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:18 AM by James Senior
Great news today that the Worldwide Telescope project is now unveiled and you can download the software yourself and explore amazing scenes in space.  It's based on some of the best telescopic imagery on the planet and provides a rich way of navigating Read More...
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Licensing Training for Breadth Partners

Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 3:49 PM by James Senior
The Microsoft Licensing Sales Specialist (MLSS) accreditation is made up of seven modules.   Each module has a test that you must take which has 25 questions and you have 30 minutes to complete.  In order to pass the module you require Read More...
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Virtual Earth Features Video

Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 2:16 PM by James Senior
Put the volume to 11 and press play... Via Mark Brown's Blog. Read More...
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Startups Live 2008

Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 8:16 AM by James Senior
I've just been reading the Microsoft Small Smart Business newsletter ( sign up here ) and they are advertising the StartupsLive events that are running up and down the country during May and June.  They look pretty good with interesting speakers Read More...
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Focus on your business, not IT Security

Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 4:42 PM by James Senior
The Smart Business Newsletter is full of useful tidbits this month!  I've been having internal conversations with people at Microsoft arguing that small businesses can have mature IT practices and fit on the IO model - in addition to using Small Read More...
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Microsoft hiring Ninjas

Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 9:27 AM by James Senior
I was chatting with my pal Viral today and he pointed out an employee at Microsoft who had the title "Zune Ninja" stored in Active Directory.  What a cool title I thought - I wonder if I can change my title to become "Partner Technology Read More...
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Changes afoot for UK Live Maps

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:40 PM by James Senior
The product managers for Live Maps in the UK have taken a slightly more proactive approach than last time to let you and I know that they will be changing the way that you get to Live Maps or Multimap.  Here are the golden rules you need to remember: Read More...
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Virtual Earth's new features

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 2:28 PM by James Senior
I'm always reading the blogs from Chris Pendelton and Johannes Kebeck because they are rich with information about the latest happenings on the Virtual Earth platform (a part of the Live Services from Microsoft ).  One of the interesting additions Read More...
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Learn about System Center Operations Manager and Licensing

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 11:12 AM by James Senior
A quick headsup that I posted a new interview on the Partner TV blog on System Center Operations Manager where I cover off with Andrew Driver topics like: Product overview How to position it to customers Differences to MOM Key Features How ISVs can hook Read More...
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Bit of a result: Microsoft platform is best to develop web apps on

Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 6:35 PM by James Senior
Well I never.  Having been at the Future of Web Apps conference last year and hearing a "leading" web 2.0 company say they had no idea what Microsoft had in the form of authentication and identity APIs having reeled of options from Google, Read More...
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MDOP Technical Training for Partners

Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 9:27 AM by James Senior
Two new courses have just been released for MDOP Technical Training.  Not only do you find out how to implement and configure the tools in MDOP but you get a free 120GB external hard disk too! Here are the dates: 15 th -16 th May - 09.30am                     Read More...
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Pro Photo Tools

Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 9:11 AM by James Senior
Chris has details on the recently released Microsoft Pro Photo Tools that provide extra functionality beyond Windows Live Photo Gallery.  The Microsoft Pro Photo Blog provides some more insight on what the tool can do: Microsoft has released the Read More...
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Photosynth in CSI

Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 9:07 AM by James Senior
A new CSI episode was aired in the states last week and I've been waiting for a certain clip to appear on YouTube.  This weekend it appeared and I thought you might like it.  They use Microsoft's Photosynth techno logy to rebuild the 3D world Read More...
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Web 2.0 Pattern Mining workshop

Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 9:05 AM by James Senior
The Live Labs team have news of a Web 2.0 Pattern Mining workshop taking place in Zurich at the end of June.  The overview is this: Web 2.0 features are now commonplace—blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, social bookmarking and the like are almost everywhere Read More...
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New videos on Partner TV

Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 3:05 PM by James Senior
This week I've posted a couple of new videos on Partner TV.  The first is an interview about the New World of Work - and the research and concepts behind the now famous Bill Gates keynote at the CEO summit a couple of years ago. View the video here Read More...
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Running Terminal Services on SBS 2003

Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 2:16 PM by James Senior
I just had a customer question routed to me about running Terminal Services on SBS 2003.  Quick answer is to check out the official deployment guide on how to achieve this: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0a06e845-57ef-43eb-802f-f274fd937400&DisplayLang=e Read More...
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