Nick MacKechnie

Hi All, Administering large corporate environments is an important and sometimes challenging job. With the release of Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer tools, network administrators now have new utilities to help them proactively maintain the health and...

Microsoft IT Showcase is pleased to announce the publication of SharePoint Performance Optimization: How Microsoft IT Increases Availability and Decreases Rendering Time of SharePoint Sites , which discusses how Microsoft IT discovered opportunities to...

The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has been working on a new guide - Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 with R2 . Get the beta guide here . This guide targets key information to bring your infrastructure up to date, thereby...

Hi All, Some good news for those of you who have been asking about the availability of App-V 4.5, it is now available on the volume Licensing Site for customers to download. Just a week Shanen Boettcher wrote about virtualization and its role in the Optimized...

Hi All, I thought I’d share the following information, as a lot of customers has been asking for it in the last few months. The Profile Sync Tool has finally been release as the User Profile Replication engine, part of the new v2.0 release of Sharepoint...

Microsoft IT Showcase is pleased to announce the publication of Service Management at Microsoft, which discusses how the IT Service Management Office was established to bring governance, consistency, and improved quality to IT services, aligning Microsoft...

Microsoft IT Showcase is pleased to announce the publication of Deploying the Live Meeting Service Portal at Microsoft , which discusses how Microsoft IT made changes to the security configuration and developed best practices for deploying Live Meeting...

Today more than 20 partners announce plans for Microsoft virtualization solutions; Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 available within 30 days. New Server Virtualization and...

Hi All, Debugging a dump from a hung server may not be something you do every day so you may want to engage with one of our debug experts, however with this information as your guide you may find that you can narrow down a problem and save yourself a...

On Monday, Sept. 29, Microsoft is launching the SQL Server 2008 Experience online at http://www.SQLServerExperience.com . With more than 500 short videos in 11 different languages, the SQL Server 2008 Experience is a Web site that helps Microsoft’s global...

Hi All, This week Microsoft released Cumulative Update package 1 for SQL Server 2008 containing hotfixes for the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 issues that have been fixed since the release of SQL Server 2008. CU1 contains almost 80 fixes including fixes for...

Microsoft IT Showcase is pleased to announce the publication of Using Microsoft Dynamics CRM to Reduce Non-Value-Add Activities at Microsoft , which discusses how Microsoft IT has used CRM to reduce non-value add activities for the Sales and Marketing...

Hi All, Managing compliance issues imposed by regulations and statutory requirements can be difficult to reconcile with regulations and standards such as PCI DSS, ISO 27002, AICPA GAPP, and COBIT. An additional challenge is the lack of a single source...

Hi All, We were very lucky to have Matt Heller down from the US to talk at Tech.Ed and join us on a road show across the country to raise awareness, educate, discuss features, functionality and answer questions. Matt Heller works with the Windows Product...

Hi All, Please find attached the listings of new or updated downloads for the week ending 19th September 2008.  Key ones include Infrastructure Development & Operations • Microsoft Network Monitor 3.2 • Installation of Fedora Samba for Windows...

Hi All, Here are 3 free webcasts which offer tips to reduce clutter in your email inbox, write more effective email and increase productivity. Microsoft Office System Webcast: Tips for Reducing Your Inbox from Thousands to Just a Few Emails http://msevents...

Microsoft IT Showcase is pleased to announce the publication of Exchange Hosted Services at Microsoft, which discusses Microsoft IT uses Exchange Hosted Services to manage thousands of Exchange Server mailboxes for the global organization.  This...

Microsoft IT Showcase is pleased to announce the publication of Improved Business Analytics Solution Enables Faster Decision Making , which discusses how Microsoft IT uses Excel Services and InfoPath Forms as well as SQL Server® 2005 Analysis Services...

Hi All, You can catch all the action, watch interviews with top speakers, popular breakout sessions, behind the scenes footage , download technical PowerPoint's and much more at Tech Ed Live . If you weren't able to make it to Tech.Ed - we have recorded...

Hi All, Please find attached the listings of new or updated downloads for the week ending 29th August 2008.  Key ones include Infrastructure Development & Operations • Service Level Dashboard Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager...

Hi All, Please find attached the listings of new or updated downloads for the week ending 5th September 2008.  Key ones include Infrastructure Development & Operations • Internet Explorer Administration Kit 8 Beta • Microsoft Exchange Server...