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Just signing up for some of the "community groups" at the MS Australian Partner conference in early August. In the signup process we need to give a little information about ourselves - fairly normal stuff. Once of the questions made me stop...
<Rant mode on> Microsoft - why can you not realise there is a whole world outside of the United States when it comes to setting up and MAINTAINING operating systems? I have lost count of the number of times I've setup a system, telling it to...
Nick's just blogged this: http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmayhew/archive/2007/09/14/sbs-partner-training-now-with-a-date-in-canberra.aspx This follows on from my last post about the training for SBSers. If you're in Canberra please take advantage of...
Sitting in the key note this morning at the MS Australia partner conference. Nick Mayhew just announced this URL to keep an eye on (or subscribe to with RSS): http://blogs.msdn.com/ridethe2008wave/
I'm at the Microsoft Australian partner conference, being held on Hamilton Island. There are 633 Microsoft partners here and around 140-150 Microsoft staff, together with 23 exhibitors including Trend, Kaseya, Wacom, ProCurve etc. Anyway, Friday night...
Got an email from John, my MS partner account manager. He was forwarding on a newsletter called the " Microsoft Support Lifecycle Customer Informational Update". Some relevant (SBS-ised) inclusions are: SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3a — Support...
Attention Microsoft Partners, if you want to get your hands dirty with CRM 3.0 (for testing purposes only) check out http://microsoft.order-7.com/CRMpartnerBeta/ . You need to sign in with your MS Passport to get access to the downloads (462Mb for the...
I bought, and started playing with, a Microsoft USB fingerprint scanner yesterday. I've only had a little play with it but so far it looks pretty cool. I started by installing the software that shipped with it, following which you can plug in the device...
Last day of the MS/HP/Trend Micro SMB Partner Summit today. I'm sitting in the exhibition area looking at all the tired faces around me - it's been a long 5 weeks but certainly worthwhile. Firstly, David Allinson (MS Australia SBS & Windows Server...