March 2007 - Posts
Thanks to Steve Clayton in MS UK for the plug to his readers for Frank and me. Welcome if this is your first visit to my blog. Steve's blog is a brilliant read so I'd encourage all my readers to subscribe to Steve's also. For new visitors, you might be
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With our awesome Expression Design and Dev tools line up, we are of course looking to engage the web agency community more and more, and lots of work is already going on in this area. Microsoft UK have been at this a little longer and I found this useful
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Via Mark Harrison : http://markharrison.co.uk/blog/2007/02/moss-2007-external-sites.htm "Update 2 The Body Shop - http://www.wise-woman.net/ - built by ContentAndCode Update ... another great looking UK external facing website powered by MOSS Fifteen
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UPDATED: See the video on Channel 10 and see the Deepfish website. Now this I like the sound of - as a regular user of web on my smartphone, I think there is great potential to improve the user experience. Here, maybe, is the solution: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/mar07/03-28Deepfish.mspx
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http://blogs.msdn.com/shanemo/archive/2007/03/26/age-of-user-exerience-sydney-brisbane-2-and-melbourne.aspx Shane Morris has got his first round of UX briefings lined up: " Well, we've finally got our act together and scheduled the Age of User Experience
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There's been a Small Business Summit running in the US for customers and partners. Some useful content now available in replay format: http://blogs.msdn.com/mssmallbiz/archive/2007/03/28/1984004.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/small-business-summit/FY07/SummitVideo/Watch.asp
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Firstly please note that whilst we call this 'enterprise' search we encourage partners to think 'business' search - this applies to all sizes of customer not just the biggest ones. Found this great offer and realised I hadn't promoted it beforehand. Basically
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We've had amazing levels of interest and excitement around our search proposition to partners, but we want more ! So we've put together an offer to get more and more partners signing up for Quick Start for Search, and to reward those that have done it
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Via Lorna's SBSC blog : " Hot off the press - Corp have just launched an Action Pack Managed News Group for support around Action Pack! They have committed to a 1-day turnaround on responses - which given its based in the US will be a bit longer here
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Via the UC Blog but the whole post in here as it's so important ! I'll keep saying it, "there is gold in them there UC hills for partners".. :-) " Today is a really exciting day for the Office Communicator team because it marks the first time we have
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http://www.microsoft.com/australia/health/default.mspx Love it - in Australia our industry marketing team have pioneered delivery of a clear and exciting vision for what Microsoft can do to help healthcare customers deliver better services. This of course
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I am volunteering for this - and we are hoping our partner community can help extend the reach of Microsoft staff getting involved. Go on, give it a go !! www.thinkuknow.com.au
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http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/itanalyst/docs/01172007ForrMSFinancing.pdf We knew this of course but this very important way for partners to help customer finance both software and services has now had a strong 3rd party analyst's thumbs up. Definitely
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From Mark Harrison : " Six detailed presentations on enterprise search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Download Enterprise Search Strategy and Opportunities ... This session starts with an overview of Microsoft's enterprise search strategy,
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Via Angus : Well done to the guys at Unique World who built this. www.microsoftsharepoint.com
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Found this via Steve Clayton's blog . Very funny - involving Orlando Ayala who is one of our senior execs in Redmond. Fun for Friday afternoon :-) Video: Extreme Makeover: Server Room Edition
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We are very excited about getting these off the ground - driven by feedback received directly from our partners, who asked for better opportunities to network with other partners, and to engage with Microsoft staff. Hear from our industry managers and
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This was some recent news we were all very excited about. We work hard to make Microsoft a truly great place to work and build your career and it was recognised as such alongside some other great companies. http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=47706&r=rs
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Are you an ISV curious or interested in taking your application to Software as a Service delivery ? This will be a great way to start. If you need extra help, please email me through this blog as we are very keen to support in this area wherever we can
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Just found this to add to my RSS feeds. http://blogs.technet.com/uc/ UC is of course one of THE biggest areas of growth for us and our partners going forwards, as we bring our Unified Communications vision to market. Coming soon is Office Communications
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Do you know anyone who might be interested in this ? We have a great intern program and it could be a fantastic opportunity for someone to learn all about Microsoft and technical marketing in our company: Great Solutions - Great Team – Great Company –
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Your invitation to attend a Virtual Earth Seminar, including a masterclass with Johannes Kebeck! Never before has it been so easy to track your assets, find your customers, manage your mobile sales force & engineers or make sure your customers find
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As we gear up for the Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver 10-12 July, it's worth noting that if you are a Small Business Specialist and/or a Certified/Gold Partner, you can submit for an award. See here for details: http://www.microsoft.com/partner/events/wwpartnerconference/awards.htm
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For those of you who have sat in or got involved in Microsoft conference calls, this will definitely bring on a smile: http://blogs.technet.com/usefultechnology/archive/2006/08/08/440787.aspx Never say that Microsoft can't poke fun at itself :-)
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This came via the Early Start email for Performance Management: "Utilize this new customer-ready presentation to demonstrate the value of Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007. Information about the components of PerformancePoint available with
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This was an interesting press release from Convergence (the conference for Dynamics partners), with an explicit announcement of our growing investments in industry relevant solutions with the launch of Microsoft Dynamics Industry Solutions (replacing
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We are running some partner briefings via Live Meeting for a range of partners to help you understand the benefits on offer to you: First one up is for Certified and Gold partners - learn all about what is on offer to you: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032329881&EventCategory=4&culture=en-AU&CountryCode=AU
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Install Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office system at a Loadfest Event! If you have not yet deployed Windows Vista, or the 2007 Microsoft Office system in your working environment, then a Loadfest Event is for you! Simply bring your laptop to
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http://www.microsoft.com/australia/partner/training/readiness_4.aspx Find out all about the fantastic training schedule we have laid on for Dynamics partners - both ERP and CRM - in our new addition to the main readiness portal . Remember you can subscribe
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Speech remains for me one of the biggest opportunities for partners going forwards - as our platform provides new capability this will open up whole new dimensions for user interaction with applications. Thus I was delighted to read this press release
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We’re looking for the most innovative, partner-built solutions out there. Enter yours now for a chance to be recognized at the Microsoft ® Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) 2007. It’s an exciting opportunity to showcase your best solutions. Be one of
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I just love this video - one of our global People Ready ads - a powerful statement on our vision of the importance of people to any business. Video: "Don't Forget Your People" - A Microsoft People-Ready Business Video
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Lots of news emerging from Convergence, the global conference for Dynamics partners. Here are some of the biggest stories so far: Main Convergence Website Klaus Holse Andersen to Lead Microsoft Dynamics Worldwide Sales and Operations Microsoft Details
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http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032323071&Culture=en-AU You will begin to hear more and more from us on the massive opportunity for partners to take our amazing search technologies to help customers be more productive.
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https://partner.microsoft.com/global/40030406 "Use this tool to quickly produce a cost/benefit analysis of deploying Exchange Server 2007 at a customer site, including Unified Messaging. The tool guides you through the data collection process and highlights
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http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=79bb78b3-2064-4575-97ea-d36e5d37ee4a Like it ! Step 1: Install by following the link above Step 2: Type search term into small little box (no need to launch IE) Step 3: Watch the results pop out !! Easy.
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Not much of a secret based on email enquiries I've had into this blog, but Angus has posted some details. [Note: I need to provide a little more details to the sponsorship point - if you are an Australian Gold/Cert partner then you can contact your account
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Most readers of this blog will know I am a big fan on this great forthcoming solution that helps profile your expertise and then allow you to connect to people with defined expertise of their own. We are now at the RC (release candidate) stage - getting
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"Webcast: Microsoft Business Division President Jeff Raikes discusses the power of software, and the potential of products like Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communicator 2007 to improve business communication with enhanced voice
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Many thanks to the many ISVs who attended our Innovation Days around the Eastern Seaboard. It was a truly successful event and we had great feedback on the content, the speakers and the overall days. Dave Glover one of the key presenters from our Evangelism
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Via Brian Jones' (Office Program Manager) blog: "I just saw that the Novell folks have released a version of OpenOffice with support for the Ecma Office Open XML formats ( http://download.novell.com/SummaryFree.jsp?buildid=ESrjfdE4U58~ ). They announced
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"One thing that strikes those even casually acquainted with Microsoft Research is the immense scope of the work performed by the hundreds of researchers spread among the organization’s five labs worldwide. Whether it be high-level conceptualization about
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"Last week I posted a top 10 list of unknown features in Live Maps. At number 1 was the ability to drop a dynamic map with a custom data layer on your website in just a few minutes. Extra cool in that you can make real-time updates to the data layer by
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http://www.learn2asp.net/ We are running a global initiative in conjunction with Dr Dobbs to help PHP, JSP and Cold Fusion developers make the step up to .NET development. There is also info on our Expression tools and the new ASP.NET AJAX as well as
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Via the official Sharepoint blog: [Note: to find Australian CPLS partners more easily, go here: http://www.microsoft.com/australia/learning/default.mspx ] " Hi, I’m Patrick Hines, a Technologist with Microsoft Learning . I’d like to give everyone an overview
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