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James Senior at Microsoft: Like a kid in a candy store

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Training

Day 1: · Intro · System Center / Microsoft Management strategy System Center Configuration...

Author: james Date: 02/21/2008

System Center Operations Manager 2007 Training

At the completion of this 2 day training, you will leave with knowledge, tools, and hands on...

Author: james Date: 02/21/2008

Mix 08 Excel Timetable

Long's just posted about the Mix timetable on the site which he says is way too confusing.  I...

Author: james Date: 02/20/2008

Windows Server 2008 Training

Take advantage of these limited time Launch offers from the Microsoft Readiness Team: Windows Server...

Author: james Date: 02/20/2008

DreamSpark - Free software for students

Bill Gates has just announced free developer, designer and server products for Students. ...

Author: james Date: 02/19/2008

Virtual Earth at Realcomm

  Today I had the pleasure to talk at the Realcomm Europe conference in London.  Realcomm...

Author: james Date: 02/18/2008

Loving Palm's smartphone adverts

Thanks to Jason for this.  Not many people realise all the extra servers/services/costs of...

Author: james Date: 02/15/2008

Busting Vista Myths

I'm at a Microsoft Partner office today where the team are talking to customers about Windows...

Author: james Date: 02/14/2008

Upgrade your 2003 MCSE to 2008

Upgrade Your MCSA or MCSE on Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 Certification (Worldwide) If...

Author: james Date: 02/14/2008

Office Live Small Business Launches

Microsoft Office Live Small Business is the award-winning, easy-to-use suite of Web-based software...

Author: james Date: 02/14/2008

The Diskless PC and Vista Enterprise Centralised Desktop

What's the beef here then?  Well in a nutshell Diskless PCs and Vista Enterprise Centralised...

Author: james Date: 02/13/2008

Sequencing applications in Microsoft SoftGrid

The more partners I talk to the more they tell me that customers are showing hunger for information...

Author: james Date: 02/12/2008

Windows Live Platform Services Training

The Partner Readiness team is pleased to announce the release of the Windows Live Platform Services...

Author: james Date: 02/12/2008

Demos for Partner use

Chris has got info on new product demos featuring System Center and Business Intelligence: The...

Author: james Date: 02/08/2008

BlogTalk Radio covers Windows Essential Business Server 2008

Listen to a recording of the January 25, 2008 Small Business IT Radio show on BlogTalk Radio and...

Author: james Date: 02/08/2008

Vista Backup Errors and apologies

I've been waiting for a long time to write this.  Last year I posted about the Vista Backup...

Author: james Date: 02/06/2008

Me and Surface - best buddies

Last week - what a week! I was up and down the country doing events and speaking to customers and...

Author: james Date: 02/05/2008

See you at Mix

I'm fortunate enough to be visiting our Mix conference this year in none other Las Vegas.  Mix...

Author: james Date: 02/05/2008

Virtual Earth Partner Day!

I was honoured to be invited to come along to the Microsoft Virtual Earth Partner today in beautiful...

Author: james Date: 02/05/2008

Video from Bill Gates at IoD

Following on from my post about how to present like Bill Gates - I thought you might enjoy the...

Author: james Date: 02/04/2008

Present like Bill Gates

Today was probably my best day at Microsoft to date. I got up stupidly early (4.20) to get a cab...

Author: james Date: 01/30/2008

Win a free upgrade

From the team at the Microsoft Small Business Center: Win a free IT upgrade Tell us how Windows...

Author: james Date: 01/28/2008

Reach your destination with MCPs

When you have Microsoft Certified professionals in your organisation, you can achieve the benefits...

Author: james Date: 01/28/2008

Windows Compare Webcasts

Ever wondered how Microsoft Windows stacks up against Linux when it comes to reliability, high...

Author: james Date: 01/28/2008

Top Reasons to upgrade to Windows Server 2008

  Reason Key Feature 1 Protecting your network from viruses and enforcing compliance Network...

Author: james Date: 01/25/2008

MCP Second Shot extended until June 30th 2008!

Get your Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista skills up to scratch! You can still get a free second...

Author: james Date: 01/25/2008

HTC Touch - 2 million sold

The HTC Touch which I had the pleasure to use/touch when it was launched a month or so before the...

Author: james Date: 01/24/2008

Find it hard to navigate the Partner Portal?

One of the things I hear regularly from partners is the difficulty with which they find information...

Author: james Date: 01/24/2008

Why Management and Security is important for partners and why Microsoft is about to change the game

I've been doing a little light reading on my flight to Edinburgh this afternoon.  I'm in...

Author: james Date: 01/23/2008

New Solution Accelerators

Check these out for tools and guidance on rolling out Microsoft technology in the most efficient and...

Author: james Date: 01/22/2008

Windows Vista + Windows Server 2008 = Great IT

I was perusing the Windows Server 2008 Launch site and came across this list of things that make...

Author: james Date: 01/22/2008

Windows Server 2008 Certifications

Here are some useful links on Windows Server 2008 Certifications! Introducing WS2008 certifications...

Author: james Date: 01/21/2008

Partner Training for System Center Mobile Device Manager

As one might expect, Mr Mobile - aka Jason Langridge has details on upcoming training for System...

Author: james Date: 01/18/2008

Windows Vista Facts

It's always nice to have a few throwaway stats about Windows Vista that you can give to someone when...

Author: james Date: 01/17/2008

Small Businesses are the fastest to adopt Vista

A new article published by InfoWorld reports that half of businesses are in some phase of upgrading...

Author: james Date: 01/16/2008

USMT gets a GUI wrapper

The User State Migration Tool (USMT) is what you use to move lots of users from one operating system...

Author: james Date: 01/15/2008

IMM Core Ontology 1.0

I've talked about IMM (Interactive Media Manager) before - it's software based on SharePoint that...

Author: james Date: 01/14/2008

Tough times ahead for Windows Server 2003

When a new operating system like Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 is launched to much fanfare...

Author: james Date: 01/11/2008

Problems renewing on the Partner Membership Centre?

The Partner team are having some performance issues with the Partner Membership Center, particularly...

Author: james Date: 01/11/2008

More information on NUMA

I first heard about NUMA (nonuniform memory access) when watching the Mark Russinovich video I...

Author: james Date: 01/10/2008

Mark Russinovich talks Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V and Windows Vista

Mark Russinovich is the founder of SysInternals the software company that was acquired by Microsoft...

Author: james Date: 01/09/2008

To Vista or not to Vista? What is your answer?

Susanne has gone and written a blog post asking what customers are doing regarding their Vista...

Author: james Date: 01/08/2008

Microsoft Forefront Partner Technical Airlift

Does your organization design, deploy, customize, or support security solutions for business...

Author: james Date: 01/08/2008

Reading gets Birds Eye View on Virtual Earth and use your Wii remote to control Virtual Earth!

An historic moment happened over Christmas - Reading got Birds Eye View imagery on Virtual...

Author: james Date: 01/08/2008

Virtual Earth UK Partner Day

The Microsoft Virtual Earth EMEA team are holding an event on 6th February 2008 at the Great House...

Author: james Date: 01/08/2008

Happy New Year - and a late Christmas Present for you - Windows Vista Ultimate

Welcome back to the blog - I hope you had a great festive season with well earned time spent with...

Author: james Date: 01/02/2008

Building an app that uses Office documents? Win an Xbox!

If you're a partner or company developing an application that does stuff with Office documents -...

Author: james Date: 12/14/2007

T5M - possibly the coolest Silverlight app to date

T5M (The 5th Medium) is an online magazine that merges the worlds of print and video in a very rich...

Author: james Date: 12/07/2007

Geek Dinner with Scoble and Dave Winer

Tonight I'll be at the Coach and Horses in Soho knocking back a few glasses of Blue Monster wine...

Author: james Date: 12/07/2007

Windows Live PhotoZoom

Via the LiveSide guys, I came across this neat video of software that allows users to zoom smoothly...

Author: james Date: 12/05/2007

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