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Monday, May 14, 2007 11:34 AM

Dominic's blog is going coporate

Hi readers, This blog is now moving to: http://blogs.msdn.com/ukhe/ As in - Microsoft UK Higher Education. Thanks - Dominic
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Monday, April 16, 2007 3:36 PM

Thanks to my colleague Jason Langridge for this

Thanks Jason, another good example of why I should keep reading your excellent blog is this post: Career Education Corporation wanted to offer mobile computing to all 75 of its campuses worldwide, but, with RIM BlackBerry devices, reliability was poor
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Friday, April 13, 2007 2:34 PM

It’s Coming: Mac BU Announces Intent to Deliver Office 2008 for Mac

I've been asked by a university recently about Entourage 2008 which I previously knew even less about than Entourage 2004 – not being a Mac user. So this has led onto a number of discoveries for resources both internally at Microsoft and also on the Web
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:17 PM

Ray Ozzie Interview

This is a fascinating insight into how Ray Ozzie views the potential future of technology: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1698 I'm hugely enthusiastic about his vision and description of how technology and the process of making
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 1:19 PM

How Green is the IT on your Campus? Can Vista help?

You don't need me to tell you that across the UK universities are being encourage to make their Campus more green and to reduce the rather large carbon footprint each Campus has. Paradoxically, as each campus is looking to reduce its CO2 emissions many
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 12:17 PM

Office Communications Server 2007 - BETA is now public

Just to let you know the beta of Office Communicator 2007 and the Office Communications Server 2007 is available for public download http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F7D34DF9-29CF-4BFC-824F-7A382CE8BA8B&displaylang=en http://www.microsoft.com/uc/ocsbeta.mspx
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Monday, March 19, 2007 11:54 AM

Are you in control? ... Technet Microsoft Management Summit (UK) 1st May

Microsoft Management Summit (UK): Are you in control? How to manage and secure your infrastructure Is your customer interested in responding to the challenges of managing their infrastructure and what we have to offer? Does your partner want to understand
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007 9:44 AM

Welsh University Improves Document Control and Collaboration with New Technologies

In Preparation for St David's day, I'm posting this recently published case study with details of the project that University of Wales institute Cardiff and Morse Solutions (formerly known as Diagonal Solutions ) have delivered. I am particularly pleased
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 10:43 AM

Sharepoint Community Portal

I received this in an email from my colleague Steve Audis the other day: Not sure if any of you have seen this site: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepoint/default.aspx Great place to show the new templates that have been released for SharePoint 2007.
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 9:54 AM

More on ADFS and Shibboleth integration

Following the work on Active Directory integration with Shibboleth reported here I am now able to point you to the published paper. This paper describes the work we carried out in the proof of concept back in 2006. To access the white paper please visit
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Thursday, February 08, 2007 9:55 PM

Microsoft - managing users, computers and internet access, Learning Network Manager

The latest version of Learning Network Manager (LNM) has been updated and released for worldwide use, on CodePlex. Please direct your thanks to the EMEA team and our Gold Partner, ITWorx, for their years of good work making this application what it is
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007 8:58 PM

What does the student experience mean to you?

A couple of years ago, no, a couple of months ago, if someone talked about the "student experience" they would have been laughed off the campus. It's the sort of phrase that made listeners squirm and speakers sound pretentious. However, now - it's all
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Monday, January 22, 2007 9:12 AM

Kingston University speaks about its recent launch of Sharepoint 2007

Ian McNeice of Kingston University has recently been interviewed by Darren Strange (Microsoft's Office Rocker) about his recent experience introducing SharePoint 2007 to the research community in his university. Ian is the head of Technical Services at
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007 5:01 PM

email hosting - further update

Due to the high interest in this, I'm going to run a Webinar on 1 February at 14:30 GMT to discuss Microsoft's options for student email hosting. For more information: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/join?id=3RKQ63&role=attend&pw=2K%3E%5B-kbxW
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007 4:30 PM

Email - do you host your own?

There's been some interesting discussion this week about hosted email, and in particular Microsoft's Windows Live @ EDU http://www.imagine-wl.com/Education/en-US/ programme. In the UK there are around a dozen institutions using this programme representing
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