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Here is a link to Dan Holme's articles on his experiences with Microsoft Online Services. The report card: "Final Report: "A" for Effort & Service; "A-/B+" for Features – Absolutely Worth Exploring What Microsoft has attained in this first release...

The Beta 2 release of Internet Explorer has been let out of the door here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/default.aspx Worth checking out from both an end user experience perspective but also to check that if you own a website...

An updated implementation of hosted CRM 4.0 has been released to demo and allow trial of a hosted CRM 4.0 platform. The new site can be found here: http://www.hostedmicrosoftcrmtrial.com/ Note. This is not a Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online platform...

So we all know in the hosting field that power is a huge factor. In 2006 according to the EPA in the US, datacentres used 61 billion Kilowatt hours (KWH) which is the equivalent to 5.8 million households! Growing to 100Bilion KWH by 2011. This is...

Yesterday Tuesday 19 th of August we made some announcements around the change to support running on Virtualisation for our server applications. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897615 http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/svvp/ As far as I can see...

A 48 hr conversation all about the 'Next Web', what it means today and the potential impact of technologies, tools and techniques for the future. Inspiring designers and developers to take the media they love to new levels of user experience. http...

MSDN downloads are available here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/default.aspx More details here: http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/default.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/aug08/08-06SQLServer2008PR...

Mike has written an article that's been posted on Technet on the above topic found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc745952.aspx

Missed this a few weeks ago, but the Microsoft.com team have published performance data on their experiences with IIS 7. All found here: http://blogs.technet.com/mscom/archive/2008/06/09/microsoft-com-operations-performance-analysis-of-iis-7-0-windows...

http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/ What is your perception?

Found this posted on the MS Exchange team blog : White Paper: Continuous Replication Deep Dive : Continuous replication is a key feature of Exchange Server 2007. Read about the technical details and inner workings of continuous replication technology...

I was having a chat with the guys over at Mural Consulting about some activities they have been doing with Microsoft in enabling ISV's for CRM in the S+S world. Check out the landing page here: http://crm.dynamics.com/microsoft_ISV_readiness/index.html...

All details relocated from the IIS.NET website: IIS7 is faster and more efficient than any other version of IIS. With IIS7 you can manage whole Web farms from one place . IIS7 allows you to delegate management workload with site owners . Site...

So I was fortunate to attend this year's worldwide partner conference over in Houston, Texas For those of you who don't know what this event is all about it's basically the big show of the year for Microsoft partners, 12000 of them in fact I believe...

I caught this post up on my colleague's blog on Hyper-V and support for Exchange. http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/2008/06/27/hyper-v-is-here-what-about-exchange.aspx For those hosters who are considering delivering a Hyper-V based solution...

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtualisation was "released to manufacturing" today - i.e. its done! Expect a lot more resources on Microsoft.com to be updated overnight as the sites become live with info. For now please see the press release: http...

I haven't blogged about this document before but it's a great resource to get a good understanding about everything in Windows Server 2008 Here

I wanted to highlight this section from the new HMC 4.5 documentation: There are two types of service providers who can make money from selling Microsoft Hosted Messaging and Collaboration version 4.5 based services, those who run the service themselves...

Ok so not hosting related in anyway but just a great video playing around with megapixel images on a Surface device using Seadragon technology. http://www.gottabemobile.com/GBM+Shortcut+Live+Labs+Seadragon+On+Surface.aspx

The new site looks fab: hopefully it will make it easier to find the content! http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/serviceproviders/default.aspx

Following up on the news that the support policy has changed for hosters using the HMC solution: http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/solutions/hmcpremiersupport.mspx If any hoster in the UK has trouble contacting PSS for support post this change...

The Business Applications Services Enablement (BASE) Team is proud to announce the official release of the Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC) 4.5 HMC 4.5 brings together powerful Microsoft enterprise products such as Microsoft...

Folks, I hear that the release of HMC 4.5 is very close. In fact potentially hours away. Keep checking back on the MS website www.microsoft.com/hosting and http://www.microsoft.com/technet/serviceproviders/default.mspx for the bits. I will post...

http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/VARs-Eye-Boom-in-Hosted-Microsoft-Exchange-Business/ Interesting article from the VAR perspective of Microsoft's move into delivering services to customers. " they said, the fact that Microsoft was getting...

Folks, getting a lot of requests for details on HMC 4.5... It's coming really soon just hold on a little bit longer!!! In the meantime make yourself aware of the HMC 4.0 docs as a lot of the base architecture will remain the same, and will provide a...