I have had a fairly big change and I'm now selling Microsoft Dynamics across Health, Education and Local Government plus some of the other connected bits of the public sector. Why the change? Well, looking at the current BIG requirements of the public...

Thursday 30 June 2011 (09:30-16:30) Central London 2011 is a critical year for the NHS. New commissioning models, greater patient control and the need to achieve efficiency savings...

The next Microsoft HSG webcast is discussing how our customers are improving their Operational Efficiency and financial management.  Please join us next week to learn more by registering for the webcast here. Webcast Topic – Amalga UIS Applications...

With hardly any natural talent at any sport, blame the genes, environment, school etc… One thing this taught me was that in pretty much any sport there is a level of entry for all, be it squash, cycling, walking and football is no exception –...

Just getting used to this now and not quite certain what new features I can exploit. I usually use Microsoft Live Writer ( http://download.live.com ) but I'm just having a go with the new posing tools here and what an improvement. It looks like...

Please join us for the UK Virtual Launch Event to mark the release of Microsoft Office 2010 + SharePoint 2010 to businesses across the UK.   The Virtual Launch has been designed as an online event for your convenience, and will be hosted as...

After more than 5 years in Microsoft’s UK Education team and Higher Education it’s time for a change. With complete honesty, I can say that the last 5 years have been the best of my career. With fabulous customers, great partners and a real sense of achievement...

Hi readers, This blog is now moving to: http://blogs.msdn.com/ukhe/ As in - Microsoft UK Higher Education. Thanks - Dominic

Thanks Jason, another good example of why I should keep reading your excellent blog is this post: Career Education Corporation wanted to offer mobile computing to all 75 of its campuses worldwide, but, with RIM BlackBerry devices, reliability was poor...

I've been asked by a university recently about Entourage 2008 which I previously knew even less about than Entourage 2004 – not being a Mac user. So this has led onto a number of discoveries for resources both internally at Microsoft and also on the Web...

This is a fascinating insight into how Ray Ozzie views the potential future of technology: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1698 I'm hugely enthusiastic about his vision and description of how technology and the process of...

You don't need me to tell you that across the UK universities are being encourage to make their Campus more green and to reduce the rather large carbon footprint each Campus has. Paradoxically, as each campus is looking to reduce its CO2 emissions many...

Just to let you know the beta of Office Communicator 2007 and the Office Communications Server 2007 is available for public download http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F7D34DF9-29CF-4BFC-824F-7A382CE8BA8B&displaylang=en ...

Microsoft Management Summit (UK): Are you in control? How to manage and secure your infrastructure Is your customer interested in responding to the challenges of managing their infrastructure and what we have to offer? Does...

In Preparation for St David's day, I'm posting this recently published case study with details of the project that University of Wales institute Cardiff and Morse Solutions (formerly known as Diagonal Solutions ) have delivered. I am particularly pleased...

I received this in an email from my colleague Steve Audis the other day: Not sure if any of you have seen this site: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepoint/default.aspx   Great place to show the new templates that have been released for SharePoint...

Following the work on Active Directory integration with Shibboleth reported here I am now able to point you to the published paper. This paper describes the work we carried out in the proof of concept back in 2006. To access the white paper please visit...

The latest version of Learning Network Manager (LNM) has been updated and released for worldwide use, on CodePlex. Please direct your thanks to the EMEA team and our Gold Partner, ITWorx, for their years of good work making this application what it is...

A couple of years ago, no, a couple of months ago, if someone talked about the "student experience" they would have been laughed off the campus. It's the sort of phrase that made listeners squirm and speakers sound pretentious. However, now - it's all...

Ian McNeice of Kingston University has recently been interviewed by Darren Strange (Microsoft's Office Rocker) about his recent experience introducing SharePoint 2007 to the research community in his university. Ian is the head of Technical Services at...

Due to the high interest in this, I'm going to run a Webinar on 1 February at 14:30 GMT to discuss Microsoft's options for student email hosting. For more information: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/join?id=3RKQ63&role=attend&pw=2K...

There's been some interesting discussion this week about hosted email, and in particular Microsoft's Windows Live @ EDU http://www.imagine-wl.com/Education/en-US/ programme. In the UK there are around a dozen institutions using this programme representing...

It was a great pleasure to see this Office 2007deployment programme at Durham University, Business School produce such great evidence of both the way teaching and learning have changed and also students and academics expectations of communication in a...

I came across this interesting case study about a University Clinic in Aachen, Germany. I visited Aachen once, several year's ago, and I've just been reading Bill Bryson's early 90's tavel book, Nether here nor there , where he visits Aachen too. So between...

Last week, the efforts of Microsoft , the JISC , London School of Economics , Neath Port Talbot and Oxford Computer Group delivered proof of the interoperability between Shibboleth and Microsoft's ADFS . Of course, this has been theorietically possible...