August 2006 - Posts
Was reading another article today in a study discussing whether data thefts can be prevented . I agree that many businesses could do more if they tried and I also think the apps can be secured appropriately if they wanted to. Now in my previous life before
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I did a little interview with Damien Murdoch on the future plans in Longhorn Server with Windows Server Virtualisation (Hypervisor). He's posted it at the Australia and NZ Virtualisation Community site. Take a look if youre interested!
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At TechEd there was a number of great interviews and podcasts released. Heres a couple of them... Nick Randolph (Mobile MVP) interviewed by Hugo Ortega Stacks of Podcasts hosted by Charles Sterling Enjoy!
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Greg Low has posted a new one! Don Vilen rocked TechEd AU with some awesome sessions and scored well! "...SQL Down Under show 18 with guest Microsoft SQL Server engine team product manager Don Vilen (recorded at TechEd Australia) is now available for
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Lately on TV here, Apple have been spinning their usual propaganda...dont they know how to market a product without slamming someone? Anyway the PC folk have responded....thanks to Frankarr for showing me this one .
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Yes Derrick Ill be presenting! :) Derrick asked me some time ago to present on MIIS at the Sydney Windows Infrastructure Group. More than happy to mate! Also will be presenting at the Victorian chapter of SAGE-AU on Exchange 2007. Should be a great overview
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Im on my way home from TechEd on Saturday morning. As usual I take my server and laptop bag as carry on luggage on the flight because I just dont trust them to keep it safe and un-damaged . Its not exactly big after all.... I proceed to check in for the
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Well I have to say a lot of people have emailed and asked about this one! Everyone is interested in getting the presentation decks of TechEd Australia! Short answer is that we wanted to get them posted on CommNet as the sessions happened or shortly after.
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Today Steve Riley walks into the speaker room at TechEd Australia and makes the claim (based on feedback he heard in NZ) that TechEd NZ is still bigger than Australia. Hmm. Apparently some in NZ are claiming that our number of 2500 attendees includes
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Well after months of planning TechEd NZ kicks off the tour with an excellent keynote by Rowan Simpson and Scott Guthrie Lots of famous faces were there including Steve Riley, Greg Low and newcomers like Dele Akinsade And now Australia kicks off today!
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A lot of people come up to me after presentations and ask what sort of hardware I use. Im a big AMD fan - I have an HP nx6125 laptop which is AMD 64 bit powered and for ages Ive had a small server in an Antec NSK1300 case that I take around with me too.
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A number of people ( including Mitch Denny ) have emailed us and indicated that the website for CommNet which runs our event scheduling for TechEd is running extraordinarily slow - unusable in fact. In every case so far its because of Windows Vista's
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I have to announce that despite our earlier intentions of having Jesper present, he is now not able to make it to our TechEd's in AU and NZ. This was a last minute decision and we do sincerely apologise to all attendees who were planning on seeing him
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Ive been watching the news lately on the terrorist arrests in the UK and Pakistan and of course the mayhem on the security clampdown with hand luggage. So what was the threat here? Liquids, gels and other powders (though not baby formula...wonder if that
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Due to demand (and the fact that some people cant seem to use a perfectly good RSS feed :) ) Ive collated all the sessions into a full session list. Thanks go to Frank Arrigo for helping me in removing all the irritating explicit formatting that Office
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Yes youre right Susan ...there will be a full track dedicated to SBS. The community pushed for this and got it. So on the Thursday 24th of the event, SBS'ers will be able to get a day pass to the exhibition area to see it - but be aware that spaces are
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With the completion of content planning, CommNet has now released to attendees - this allows you to plan your sessions and export them to Outlook. It also gives us the ability to monitor room allocations and make minor changes where necessary to ensure
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