Two case studies in a row, I apologise. However, you might find this one interesting – we saved about $12k every meeting by using RoundTables and Office Live Meeting. Microsoft Office Live Meeting and Microsoft RoundTable have enabled managers to avoid costly travel expenses and yet still attend important...

  Comic Strip : exCHANGE your Career The comic is good… not sure it makes me want to work on the exchange team though. Toaster Printers -  Really? Maybe if we renamed it Outlook Bread Access, but then we already have an OBA acronym.

No man is an island, and an Office Technology Specialist like me never works alone. Allow me to introduce some of the team that makes up our BPIO ( Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimisation ) specialist team.  (and their blogs): Gayan Peiris - Our resident specialist for all things SharePoint...

Tired of waiting for months for your local technical bookshop to stock the book you need to learn the skills, finish the project and go home and play GTA IV? Sick of waiting weeks or months for Amazon to ship books to the antipodes? Well the australian MSPress shop is now online!   Microsoft Press...

I haven't blogged for a while, so I will just stream out what is front of mind lately... Seattle is smaller than I imagined. It reminded me of Adelaide, but with less good wine. Its bizarre to think that Boeing, Starbucks, Amazon.com and Microsoft are all headquartered in a little city. IE8 to support...

Looking forward into the refreshing, nurturing Seattle weather? Running low on Zunes? Make sure you catch my Groove session, with Mary Marks, on Monday Afternoon : OFC214. You won't even need to be a wise-psychedelic-monk-with-a-door-in-your-head-to-prove-it to enjoy. It is guaranteed* to be... Groovy...

In the words of Keanu Reeves, "whoa".  I am still digesting this - it is like having a "Reef and Beef" steak washed down with a pint of Guinness. The feeling is very satisfying... but just give me a moment here... Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. agreed to buy Norway's Fast...

I mainly work with large enterprise customers, so when we talk about enabling unified communications, it usually involves Exchange servers and Office Communicator and all sorts of cool enterprise class kit. But for small businesses there is now Response Point (*Point is in this season. It is the new...

As someone that has multiple hotmail/passport/live.com accounts, I think this is really really cool! Do you have multiple Windows Live IDs? Maybe an older one and a new one, one for work & one for home? A public one and a private one? If so, you know that in the past it has been difficult to manage...

I've been with Microsoft for about five weeks now (but only about 3 weeks of face time at the Sydney Office) - as a recent resident of Sydney, my whole life pretty much revolves around work at the moment - I haven't yet settled in. I had dinner with friends tonight and was asked the obligatory question...

So, yesterday was my first day working for Microsoft. I've decided to set up (yet another) blog on the msdn server as well. I'll be cross posting a lot of content to wss.alspeirs.com , so if you're a long time reader, you won't miss much! If you aren't, well hello there! This blog will focus mainly...