The Belgian community has a very strong reputation internationally with many individuals making their mark in their fields of expertise. Lots of individuals, like yourself, are hungry for more information about the many Microsoft products and technologies. In addition to the technical information, there is also very often the need to just socialize with other persons within the same domain of expertise. Five belgian usergroups, BIWUG, VISUG, SQLUG, IT-Talks, and Pro-Exchange , have decided to combine

Watch the latest recorded funcasts: Implementing messaging policies using Exchange 2007 Exchange Server 2007 provides new tools for coping with a growing number of legal, regulatory, and internal policy and compliance requirements that relate to e-mail. Most organizations must be able to filter e-mail delivery based on several different criteria and manage e-mail retention and deletion. This funcast provides details on how to configure the Exchange Server 2007 e-mail policy and compliance features.

Being an earlier adopter can sometimes be painful because you have to do a lot of the learning and path finding on your own. Microsoft IT are the best example of early adopters and it's good to see they are sharing their experiences with the rest of us so we can learn from their mistakes and knowledge. They've compiled all these resources in the following website http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itshowcase/getready.mspx You will of course find all these resources and more in the Vista Deployment

I just received a mail from Heather Schwenk through my blog about the Microsoft Global Hosting Summit 2007. Here is an excerpt of that mail that I wanted to share with you: Today at the Microsoft Hosting Summit, Microsoft announced updates to two solutions for hosting service providers: Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC) Version 4.0 and Microsoft Solution for Windows-based Hosting Version 4.5 . Following are key highlights: The solutions take advantage of the enhancements

First month over and done with and the sales were better than the analysts expected. That's only for business customers too remember, hence why the sales were slightly behind XP's first month. Should be interesting once the public can get there hands on Vista from the 30th this month! This is exciting, what with all the negativity over uptake in the press - some people were really sceptical about how quickly it would be adopted but this seems to prove them wrong. Partners who want to find more about

Yesterday, we presented the first of five cinema events featuring Exchange 2007, Office 2007 and Vista. The gig itself was at the Bristol iMax which had a spectacular screen onto which we presented the fabulous. One of the AV guys informed me that the screen was made partly of Silver and cost £3000 per square meter!!! Today we're in London at the Kensington Odeon to deliver the message to partners based in the "big smoke". Here are some of the questions I got from partners at the Bristol Event. Questions

If you want to relive the biggest event in Belgium & Luxembourg well now you can. During our Business Innovation Day we recorded 4 sessions: Ready for a new Day Keynote Optimizing Windows Vista & Office 2007 Deployments Managing Windows Vista and Office 2007 Securing the Infrastructure Closing Keynote of Bill Gates You can discover or relive all these sessions on our IT's Showtime site. Technorati tags: Bill Gates , Ready for a new day , Office 2007 , Vista , Exchange 2007 , Forefront , Microsoft

The launch website for Office 2007, Vista and Exchange 2007 has just been unveiled and amongst other things you can view the official product launch at the NY stock exchange later today. Other useful resources are the videos and the forums where the business value propositions of all three products can be discussed with Microsoft experts. Check it out here: http://msnewday.com

You know it's getting serious when they give you a "crew" t-shirt for the upcoming Cinema tour! We've nearly sold out on this tour so make sure you book your ticket immediately! Book me a seat and get my popcorn ready!

Windows Vista, Exchange 2007 and Office 2007 - they're just round the corner now - are you and your teams ready? Check out these courses which can help get you prepared: Are you ready? Prepare now by taking the Windows Vista 101 mini-course. You'll learn the basics in just 10 minutes and know what to expect from this exciting new release. The Windows Vista operating system will be available in five versions, targeting segments from small business and enterprise to retailers and software developers,