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April 2007 - Posts

CCS and MSFT Share price...!

Posted Friday, April 27, 2007 3:51 PM by Mike P
So whilst we run the first user group for CCS at Microsoft, look what happens to the MSFT share price! Made me smile! Read More...
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6 pillars of MOSS 07

Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:26 AM by Mike P
Saw this great online article sent through by my friend Sol - great few words on MOSS 07 and what it will be and does (see - SharePoint 2007 6 pillars of MOSS ) I particularly liked the following sentence: So the competition is in no way thin on the ground, Read More...
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Topten of Web 2.0...interesting stuff!

Posted Tuesday, April 24, 2007 11:57 AM by Mike P
Saw this site the other night and loved the list here: Top 10 Ajax Applications and the even more interesting is the top 23 Mashups Well worth a browse if you get a spare moment! Enjoy! Read More...
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Cluster Wars - Scaling Up Derivatives with CCS!

Posted Thursday, April 19, 2007 5:52 PM by Mike P
Another great article from Brian Sentance and the gang over at Xenomorph, check it out here: " Cluster Wars - Scaling-Up Derivatives " Fantastic to see the new ways people are using the power of Compute Cluster Server for. Enjoy! Read More...
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Enterprise Search Eval Kits have arrived!

Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2007 2:27 PM by Mike P
The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search (MOSSFS) 180-day Evaluation Kit is now available, this includes: · SharePoint Server 2007 for Search Standard Edition (32-bit and 64-bit) · Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard (32-bit) · SQL Server 2005 Read More...
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Worldwide Partner Conference Registration Opens!

Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2007 1:30 PM by Mike P
So for those of you who were in Minneapolis last year you will know how amazing the Microsoft Partner Conference can be, this year we are doing it all again in Denver! Instead of banging on about how good it was I thought I would give you an insight on Read More...
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TechGuys coming soon to a house near you..!

Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2007 1:41 PM by Mike P
So was out and about today and happened to have 5 minutes spare when I went past the new TechGuys shop in Woodley near Reading. Really friendly people, really cool set of services that would definitely be useful for some of my neighbours and my parents! Read More...
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Quickstart for Search - free exam vouchers - what a refreshing change!

Posted Monday, April 16, 2007 6:10 PM by Mike P
So of all the developments in Microsoft around Search this year, this is one of the coolest innovations we have seen to date. Supporting our channel partners with some great training and more, check out what you can get: Deep Technical Training Free elearning Read More...
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Funky new ads and demo of MOSS 07..New Day ad campaign

Posted Sunday, April 15, 2007 7:28 PM by Mike P
Great new site for showing your customers what MOSS 07 does and can help you to achieve in your business: Search for documents and business plans: Searching for customer contacts in 3rd party systems like SAP or Siebel: Love the UI and the business minded Read More...
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Mind the skills gap...?

Posted Sunday, April 15, 2007 3:12 PM by Mike P
Fantastic opportunity from my colleague Claire for ISV's looking for technical skills abroad, read on for more: Helping ISV’s access Microsoft Skills Overseas Following on from successful events in October and January to highlight the opportunity around Read More...
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So what is the Live Maps response...

Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2007 6:59 PM by Mike P
So I guess I thought I would check what Live Maps did and happily here's the result: http://maps.live.com/?q=london%20to%20san%20francisco&mkt=en-GB&FORM=BDRE Phew! Read More...
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London to San Fran with Google maps...

Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2007 6:54 PM by Mike P
This made me smile, doubtless there are similar 2.0 errors in Live Maps: http://tinyurl.com/2yqwz5 Step 37 is a cracker: Lol :-) Read More...
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Microsoft wins over Linux servers...

Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:09 PM by Mike P
Hat tip to bink.nu for signposting the ZDNET article on Microsoft's success in the Compute Cluster space, the full article is here but have sliced out a few of the gems I like here: "We think that's fertile ground that nobody else has hoed yet," said Read More...
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CCS SP1 trial version available on MS.com..!

Posted Monday, April 09, 2007 9:49 PM by Mike P
Just a quick post: Get your free trial version here: www.microsoft.com/hpc Read More...
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Host of Excel Services whitepapers...

Posted Monday, April 09, 2007 9:23 PM by Mike P
Righty ho for those Excel Services gurus amongst you the following will be like Christmas - great set of resources: Estimate performance and capacity requirements for Excel Services environments http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/f?en-us/library/f0ff6cc9-2f84-4d73-8ac2-390bbcb08c151033.mspx Read More...
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Business Schools and NoBs...

Posted Monday, April 09, 2007 6:47 PM by Mike P
Controversial and hilarious post entitled: 'NOBS, the end of the MBA' by Seth Godin - really amusing parody of what the old style of MBA is and doesn't do: NOBS, the end of the MBA I slightly disagree with him, not sure you can tar all MBA courses with Read More...
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Simple Courtesies..

Posted Thursday, April 05, 2007 11:09 PM by Mike P
One for the Easter weekend....sometimes life can pass you by and you have to look at what is truly important. The post below said a lot to me about how people change when they get something they didn't expect - have a read then mosy on further down this Read More...
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Software Passion...or a means to an end...

Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 6:08 PM by Mike P
I have been waiting to write about software passion for a little while now, and just recently have had two great examples of Software Passion in Business: Attending the Partnering for the Future day at Microsoft Research Cambridge - we gathered a group Read More...
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Make IT simpler - sign the Open XML petition today!

Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 8:56 AM by Mike P
I don't usually post this type of thing, but this is important for all customers and partner alike. Support the Open XML petition - many companies are trying to achieve greater interoperability between front end and back end offices - the Open XML standard Read More...
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Excel Services for Dummies...!

Posted Tuesday, April 03, 2007 4:04 PM by Mike P
Been looking for this for a while now, how good are we at documents on how to take your XFN scripts and play with your XML heebeegeebeees....well yes actually rather good. So I liked this site because it's simple: Why doesn't more of our stuff start off Read More...
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MSDN TV: Building custom solutions with Excel Services

Posted Tuesday, April 03, 2007 2:36 PM by Mike P
This video is handy as it shows a few nice things about Excel Services - it starts off by giving a good resume on Excel services as follows: Why Excel Services: Business reports need version control Excel needs server side help for sharing reports broadly Read More...
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Free Enterprise Search....eval...!

Posted Tuesday, April 03, 2007 1:45 PM by Mike P
Some of you may have seen this but it passed a few of us by, the evaluation software for MOSS 07 Search SKU is now freely available. Check it out - very handy if your customer is in the following situations: Wants to take advantage of the Microsoft Enterprise Read More...
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