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Home Server Draw - Hardware specs
25 January 08 03:03 AM

I thought I'd put up the details of the specs of the boxes we will be using and giving away at the end of the Summer Road Trip . To re-iterate - if you want to win this - you'll need to register and turn up and fill in an eval form on the day to be in Read More...

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Adam Cogan on Performance Point Server
31 October 07 03:39 AM

Adam Cogan (Regional Director and MVP from Australia) is in New Zealand this weekend for the Boot Camp in Christchurch. If you dont get to boot camp, but you want to get along to see what he's been up to with Microsoft Performance Point Server , you can Read More...

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User group events this week
16 October 07 02:12 AM

Well, its another week with several user groups on. Tomorrow night (Wednesday) the Auckland CBD .Net user group is meeting at Microsoft (22 Viaduct Harbour) at 6pm. Andrew Tokeley will be repeating his excellent Dynamic Data Controls talk from Tech Ed. Read More...

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Auckland SharePoint user group tomorrow night
08 October 07 09:18 PM

Also - just a reminder for those of you in Auckland who are interested in Sharepoint - the first ever Auckland Sharepoint user group kicks off tomorrow night - October 10. You'll want to be at Microsoft at 4pm. Details follow: Microsoft, Level 5 22 Viaduct Read More...

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Promoting your user group
19 September 07 02:06 AM

The following post was written by Rodney Lake. Rodney runs the .Net User Group in Tauranga, and recently had 54 people attend one of his user group meetings due to smart promotion. He shares his tips for you here. Promoting a user group One way to recognise Read More...

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Lots of User Groups this week!
19 September 07 12:10 AM

I was just looking at the user group schedule around the country and there are lots on this week. Just tonight there are the following user group meetings: Auckland SQL Server User Group Wellington SQL Server User Group Wellington Office User Group Wellington Read More...

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MSDN Flash - Silverlight, Rugby and Visual Studio 2008
18 September 07 02:52 AM

I know - the last one only just came out yesterday. I'll blame the spam legislation :-) Here is this weeks - should be in your mail box Friday or early next week. Silverlight, Rugby and Visual Studio 2008 Silverlight 1.0 is out! The final release of Silverlight Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Studio, Gadgets, User Groups, Community, Silverlight

Continuity, speakers and good running.
16 September 07 11:19 PM

The following post was written by Kirk Jackson who leads the Wellington .Net User Group. Kirks group is one of the most consistent and well run groups in New Zealand. Continuity, speakers and good running I organise the Wellington .NET user group, and Read More...

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Starting a user group (Lessons learnt)
14 September 07 01:43 AM

The following post was written by Chandima Kulathilake who was one of the founders and is a leader of the Wellington Sharepoint User Group. Starting a user group (Lessons learnt) Darryl from MSFT NZ sent a few of the New Zealand User Group leads an email Read More...

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Guest Blogging - Starting and running a User Group
13 September 07 05:02 PM

We've got some smart people running User Groups in New Zealand. They have been running user groups for a variety of periods from several years to several months, but they are all smart, hard working people who know how to start and run these groups well. Read More...

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Community Leader of the Year
11 September 07 02:17 AM

The user group leaders in New Zealand do an outstanding job. These are the people who out of passion for technology start and/or run a user group in New Zealand. Month in and month out they organize venues, speakers, beer, pizza, mailing lists, attendees, Read More...

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My User Group Tour kicks off... here is my schedule
08 September 07 12:36 PM

Next week my User Group Tour kicks off. This is the first one since last year , and I have more user groups to go to now too. I'm presenting on Visual Studio 2008 which is due to RTM late this year and launch next March. Title: A Lap around Visual Studio Read More...

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User Group Meeting at Tech Ed Today!
15 August 07 12:36 AM

Rodney Lake has organized a last minute User Group meeting for anyone interested at 4pm today at TechEd. If you are around, come to the Milford Room on Level 4 (its down the corridor in behind the stairways where the "Sponsors Rooms" sign is). The session Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, User Groups, Community, TechEdNZ

Day of Code will rock!
08 August 07 05:51 AM

Kirk and the guys have done a great job of promoting the Day of Code and with the fantastic speakers they have, why not?! One of the sessions I'm looking forward to is Tony Goodhew talking about how we build Visual Studio - that will be something different Read More...

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Day of Code
31 July 07 08:30 PM

I've been bad to my good community peoples and haven't posted about this (sorry guys), although Nigel did (thanks Nigel!). The .Net User Groups are having a day of Code the day before Tech Ed at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Auckland. This is a free event Read More...

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