Jeremy's World of Random Stuff

It's incredibly powerful to be able to search all of your organisations information assets from a single location. One of the benefits of the Business Data Catalog (part of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server). The BDC is a simple way to integrate...

Many of our Registered Partners currently subscribe to Action Pack , our quarterly toolkits of software and sales and marketing materials, which was created to help our partners stay competitive, meet their sales goals and grow their business. To enhance...

We've recently launched the Certified for Microsoft Dynamics programme to help our ISV partners differentiate their solutions. This programme proves that the ISV solution has met our standards and awards the solution with a "Certified For Microsoft Dynamics...

We've launched a new initiative to help Microsoft Certified Partners holding the Information Worker, Microsoft Business Solutions or Independent Software Vendor competencies get up to speed on the new Office platform. Microsoft is investing an incremental...

We'll I'm back from my annual holiday and ready to get stuck back into working life! I'm off to Convergence 2007 EMEA in Denmark on Sunday, which is our annual Microsoft Dynamics customer conference. Most of my Partner Technology Specialist colleagues...

This week we've announced that the product codenamed "Centro" will be known as Windows Essential Business Server. This new product based on Windows Server "Longhorn", Exchange Server 2007 and integrated management. Targeted at typical mid-market organisations...

It's back! The Microsoft Second Shot offer allows you to take any Microsoft IT professional, developer or Microsoft Dynamics certification exams and you'll get two chances to pass. All you have to do is register before your first exam. All of the information...

The long awaited Microsoft Office Accounting product has now landed in the UK. Microsoft Office Accounting will help the large majority of small business move from paper / pencil, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, Excel, to a more comprehensive business...

We've just released a very cool plug-in for Microsoft Office Outlook for Photographers called Microsoft Pro Photoshoot . This plug-in allows any photographer to create a list of their clients and equipment in Outlook and will help ensure that the right...

Thanks to my good friend Jon, I've been enlightened by Videojug a website containing answers to many a question in video. So if you ever need to know how to make Salmon Nigiri or find out how to perform the perfect golf swing , you'll find it there. Enjoy...

I thought I should let you all know that I've recently changed roles here at Microsoft. I'm still working as a Partner Technology Specialist (PTS), but I'll now be focusing on helping our partners understand Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimisation...

If you're a Microsoft Certified or Gold Certified Partner, you can access free, unlimited competitive and technical help from our Telephone PTS service. Access to an ever-growing collection of hard-to-find reference materials, proof points, research content...

Throughout my career working with Microsoft products and technologies, I've often been asked about best practices for the configuration of administrative and service accounts.  Carefully planning your administrative and service account strategy can...

We've just added a new set of pages on Microsoft.com to help you understand the new certification programme for Windows Server 2008.  · Introducing WS2008 certifications · WS2003 to WS008 transition path · Frequently asked questions...

If you're planning to take a Microsoft Certification Exam , there's no time like the present to book and pay for it.  The Second Shot offer allows you to book your exam and get two chances to pass!  You need to make sure that you register for...

A few partners have been doing some very cool work with SharePoint and Silverlight , Microsoft's platform for building rich web experiences.  Over the last couple of days, I've stumbled across a couple of great web parts for SharePoint that harness...

I'm often asked questions about the capacity limits of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.  If you're also interested to find out how many Sites can be supported by a Site Collection, have a look at Plan for software boundaries (Office SharePoint...

The Microsoft Certification Second Shot offer that I blogged about earlier this week has been extended until 30th June 2008. Thanks to James for the update.

I thought I'd give everyone an update on my training for the Flora London Marathon 2008 which I'll be running on 13th April 2008 for Help the Hospices .  At the moment I'm training 5 times a week ending up with a long run on Sunday.  During...

A new initiative has been launched today for Microsoft Partner Programme members called Partner Skills Plus.  Partner Skills Plus helps partners develop their pool of technical professionals certified in current and new Microsoft products and technologies...

There are plenty of excellent SharePoint projects available to download over at CodePlex including a Community Kit , a SharePoint Learning Kit with full SCORM 2004 compliance and Faceted Search . Thanks to Westie for the info.

Do you need a way to offer consistency across your site collections?  Well look no further than the SharePoint Cross-site Configurator . The tool automates the process of deploying the SharePoint site settings in all or selected sites in a server...

As I posted last week, I'll be running the Flora London Marathon on Sunday 13th April.  Last week saw me run 40.08 miles in 5hr 39min 48sec with an average pace of 08.29 min/mile. In total I burned 6935 cal which is the same number of calories found...

Microsoft Certified and Gold Certified Partners can now download demos from the Microsoft Partner Portal. The Product Demos benefit will enable partners to get the right demos at the right time. The demos are available either through immediate download...

So the scores for last week's Marathon Training were: Time 6hrs 57min 49sec Distance 48.20 miles Ave Speed 8:40min/mile Calories 8292kcal My calorie burn this week equals the number of calories found in 37.69 Starbucks Grande Skinny Mochas without Whipped...