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The purpose of the MS Bluelight blog is to provide relevant and timely information from Microsoft, its partners and the technology industry in general to UK Police and Fire & Rescue Services.  

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    Technical Update for the Microsoft Platform 2013

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    Click here to register for this event Date - 06-Mar-2013 Session - Morning Time - 9:30 Registration | 10:00 Start | 13:00 End Location - Cardinal Place, London Ever wanted someone to explain the Microsoft Roadmap across the whole platform? Black Marble...
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    The Cloud is a journey, not an ultimatum

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    Servers & Services Through previous posts we have discussed ‘what is cloud’ and examined Infrastructure, Platform and Software as a Service, with the relative benefits and comparisons of these approaches to cloud computing. We also...
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    Delivering the right services to the right users

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    In previous posts we have covered how cloud enables organisations to segment users, roles and workloads and to place these in the most appropriate place.  Highlight secure workloads can be run on a customers own datacentre, shared services can be...
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    Fire Brigades Union select System Center – Apajove Case Study

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    The Fire Brigades Union wanted to reduce license cost and standardise on the products contained in their Microsoft Licensing Agreement. The IT Department replaced its antivirus software with System Center Endpoint Protection 2012 to net a £8,500 annual...
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    Public Sector PSA12 - What's in the box?

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      Public Sector PSA12 - What's in the box? Join Microsoft and Risual at this public sector focused event to talk about what PSA12 really means to Public sector organisations and also discuss how to make best use of technology to deliver real value...
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    Windows Server 2012: The Definitive Cloud OS

    Posted 7 months ago
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    From: http://blogs.forrester.com/richard_fichera/12-09-05-microsoft_announces_windows_server_2012     Microsoft Announces Windows Server 2012 By Richard Fichera The Event On Tuesday, September 4, Microsoft made the official announcement of Windows...
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    Cloud Computing for Fire and Rescue Services

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      Cloud Computing for Fire & Rescue Services Microsoft Technology Briefing Tuesday December 11 th , 2012 Microsoft Customer Centre, London   As Fire & Rescue services continue to look for cost savings and more innovative ways of working...
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    Exploring Office and SharePoint 2013

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    Thursday, November 22, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM (GMT) London, United Kingdom Explore the Office applications and business services with Office 2013   Would you like to see and learn about the new features in Office 2013? Are you interested to...
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    Public Safety & National Security Newsletter: Nov 2012

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    Welcome Welcome to the first Public Safety and National Security newsletter from Microsoft. In this edition we have quotes from the Prime Minister, the Windows 8 and Surface launch, New social media solutions with Yammer and of course the Cool Corner...
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    Next Steps in Identity for UK Police

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      Introduction With the recent Police National Database (PND) and Identity and Access Management (IAM) initiatives a number of Police forces  chose to deploy local IAM technologies, integrated with the Central Services PKI infrastructure and...
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    STL PoliceWorks Launch Event: February 27th, Leeds

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      STL has spent a lot of time listening to Forces to understand the changing nature of their business and the part that technology can play in the challenge of maintaining front-line services in today’s economic climate. Our new PoliceWorks® suite...
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    Office 365 Receives G-Cloud IL2 Accreditation from Cabinet Office for Use Across the UK Public Sector

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    M icrosoft’s public cloud productivity suite for email, collaboration and unified communications, including web conferencing, is now accredited to store and communicate data securely up to the UK Government’s Impact Level 2 classification Microsoft’s...
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    GIS: An Introduction

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    This is the first in a series of guest blog posts examining the use of GIS in public safety and national security organisations.  The author, Gary Birchall, is a subject matter expert (formerly with South Yorkshire Police) and is currently working...
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    How enlightened is your application migration strategy?

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    As customers start to think seriously about moving away from Windows XP then application migration becomes a critical area to consider.  In this guest blog post from application migration specialists Camwood we investigate how blue light organisations...
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    Remember Windows XP goes out of support soon…..

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    Why is Cloud of interest to Emergency Services?

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    The adoption of the PC by businesses in the 90s dramatically changed the traditional mainframe/mini-computer environment that dominated the world of enterprise IT. It empowered individuals to apply technology creatively and broadly across organisations...
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    Delivering IT as a Service

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    The role of any IT department in an organisation is to deliver business value through information technology. This distils down to delivering a set of applications to the business users to enable them to do their roles more efficiently. Anything outside...
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    Infrastructure v Platform (as a Service)

    Posted 11 months ago
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    In this post we will compare and contrast Infrastructure and Platform as a Service delivered from public cloud. Infrastructure as a Service delivers raw compute power in the form of virtual machines. Organisations can go to an IaaS provider and request...
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