June 2007 - Posts
http://members.microsoft.com/partner/digitalwpc/
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This is now available in recorded format: http://www.msreadiness.com/coursedetail.aspx?id=6007
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http://beta.channel9.msdn.com/ What do you think about it ? For me, a huge fan of the Channel 9 concept, I do feel it's time for an update on the look and feel. Off to explore the beta to make a decision if I like it but so far so good...
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You'll notice the new addition no doubt to my left hand column: This is a very long story but Steve Clayton is the best place to start to learn more - you'll hear much more about this in Australia in the coming weeks and months. More info here: www.gapingvoid.com/bluemonster
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" REDMOND, Wash., June 26, 2007 – On Nov. 1, 2005, Microsoft announced Windows Live, a set of personal Internet services and software designed to bring together in one place all of the relationships, information and interests people care about most, with
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Via Shane Morris of our evangelism team: "Bite-sized Silverlight tutorials for designers - a perfect fit for your attention span This is big - but small at the same time. Our very own karstenj , designer to the stars, has launched " Nibbles Tutorials
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I had a great day at Remix yesterday - hope you did if you attended. Remember you can get eval copies of Expression tools here: www.microsoft.com/expression Watch this space for plenty of action in the coming 12 months around our web channel - web agencies,
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Via Siatro (=Steve Iatropoulos) on the AUSPTSIW blog : " I have harped on about this for a while and you may have seen me talk about this at the latest Partner Roadshow in Aus. Its now available on the partner portal. But Demo Showcase 2007 is now available
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This is an exciting resource for partners - a comprehensive (seriously - check it out !) set of resources like training, white papers, sales tools (like call scripts), and marketing tools (photo library, marketing templates etc). "Marketing your product
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Awesome to see the guys at Readify get this up and running. 3days of deep dive training on Silverlight. More detail here on Frank's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/frankarr/archive/2007/06/18/get-up-to-speed-on-silverlight-before-the-masses-with-readify.asp
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Well despite Christian Longstaff (previously the key person behind this UK video communication channel) leaving the UK to join our team here in Australia , the team in the UK are continuing to deliver some great content. This one caught my eye - http://blogs.msdn.com/ptstv/archive/2007/06/21/partner-tv-skinkers-demo.aspx
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"Consumer Engagement Reference Architecture becomes first stand-alone module under new blueprint; both are available for download today on the MSDN Healthcare Industry Center. LAS VEGAS — June 20, 2007 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the broad availability
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Via Angus: http://blogs.msdn.com/angus_logan/archive/2007/06/22/want-a-microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-moss-2007-virtual-image-vhd-vpc.aspx or www.microsoft.com/vhd and the full list of images for download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?pocid=&freetext=msvhds&displaylang=en
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(Updated as links weren't working) Business Intelligence - A Complete Solution This is an intensive two-day workshop. Attendees will work through practical hands-on labs, building a complete BI solution by the end of the workshop. In addition, instructor
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Well we did warn you - WPC has sold out. You'll need to join the wait list if you still want to go but didn't yet register. I am very much looking forward to it - see you there if you are coming !! We have a team of people gearing up to host our attending
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Click here for more info and to register It's the highlight of our year - getting 100s of like-minded partners all together in amazing surroundings ( www.hamiltonisland.com.au ) - with huge opportunities for networking with each other and Microsoft managers
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Just saw this on Anna's blog : " this great story just arrived my inbox: '...we’re extremely proud to announce that the www.microsoft.com site is running 100% on our next generation web platform!!' For those of you curious about the scale and availability
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(Update - make sure you check out Oscar's comment on this post - info on how actually to federate with us). Interesting post from Oscar Trimboli (Mr UC for MS Australia) Find out who is federated here: http://blogs.msdn.com/oscartr/archive/2007/06/16/which-australian-microsoft-partners-are-federated-with-microsoft.asp
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Via Mike Heald's Marketing for Partners blog : "As part of our productivity campaign, we asked our event agency (Jack Morton) to conduct a live meeting for our partners about how to conduct a successful event. We had about 60 partners on the Live Meeting
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Attend Microsoft’s High Performance Computing Seminar (HPC) Leverage Microsoft’s investment in HPC to grow your infrastructure business If you are already involved in delivering Microsoft infrastructure solutions, then this is a great chance to expand
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I am really excited about this which we have been working on for a while - here is where we help the partner community with talent through our awesome set of interns. Our intern program allows us to hire top-level undergrads, and integrate them into our
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I've said a few times that it's the year for the Solution Finder - really time to get your solutions profiled as we invest in driving more and more customers to find partners through the front end surfacing of partners' profiled data. So here is an example
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http://www.microsoft.com/australia/education/pil/innovativeteachers/awards.mspx Know of a great teacher who has used technology innovatively to help students learn effectively ? If so please nominate them or get them to nominate themselves on the website.
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Well my friends - I have good news. MS Press has released the first book for Longhorn Server, now officially Windows Server 2008. Remember Microsoft Partners get special pricing from our local distributor Woodslane. (Call them on 02-9970 5111) From the
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http://blogs.technet.com/homeserver/archive/2007/06/12/release-candidate-goes-live.aspx Quote: "That's right...we've reached another important product milestone! The highly anticipated Windows Home Server Release Candidate is available today. The product
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Amusing - this was shown at TechEd: Video: Microsoft Back to the Future Parody Full version here: http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0706/29992/teched_.asx
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Via Mary Jo : "On Saturday, June 9, at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers, Microsoft let the public see, touch and test-drive the Surface interactive tabletop system that the company unveiled at the end of May. " More...
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http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/jun07/06-11FinalistPOTYPR.mspx Many congrats to the strong Aussie showing: DiData , Data3 , WebCentral and Eclipse - and good luck in the finals. I'll be there at the Worldwide Partner Conference to see the
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Note the times are not that favourable for Aussies, but the recorded versions will be there as well after the dates shown. Event ID: 1032343756 Title: Microsoft Virtual Server Install and Configure Walk-through Microsoft is presenting new information
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You are invited to a unique one day event that provides an unprecedented opportunity for architects from the enterprise, government and IT community to discuss and share ideas on the experiences and challenges in today's practice of solutions architecture
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http://www.microsoft.com/australia/business/financialservices/default.mspx
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https://www.microsoft.com/servers/faces/default.aspx The face morphs across multiple uploaded faces - you can upload yours too (click the button called Faces) !
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In case you missed the Aussie one, never fear, the dates for the next US one are now released: http://www.mssharepointconference.com/
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Via Shane Morris : " Free online Expression training! Arturo Toledo, our UX technical product manager back in Redmond has pointed out some free Expression training on from Lynda.com and TotalTraining. The Lynda.com Expression Blend training is presented
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Lots of news coming out of US TechEd - some highlights via Microsoft-Watch on Office Live Meeting, Forefront Stirling and .NET Micro. http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/developer/what_else_happened_at_teched.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
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The US TechEd started today (australian time - 4th June in the US). For those not there you can get involved via the VirtualTechEd website, and then of course lock yourself in for our very own Australian TechEd . Headline from today is Bob Muglia's keynote
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Many of our partners know about the initiative to have Ecma Office Open XML approved as an ISO standard. One of the key strategies to help the decision making bodies understand the level of broad support for this important standard is to engage with our
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A few weeks back now I attended a roundtable wit ARN on the topic of partner profitability. It's now published online here: http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php/id;1124272855 The four key topics: Six of one, half a dozen of the other Deal registration:
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No secret that I think UC is HOT HOT HOT for the partner ecosystem. Here's some of the backup for that thinking - from Oscar Trimboli's blog : "UPDATED One demo is better than 5 presentations It’s great to see the announcements this week on Channel 10
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http://www.nswdotnet.com.au " NSW.Net is an ICT industry cluster which brings together local software companies to engage in co-operative activities, achieve collective competitiveness and develop new opportunities for Australia's software industry. NSW.NET
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We have specific focus on Financial Services and Government customers. http://www.microsoft.com.au/enterprisesearch
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The whole world is buzzing with the Microsoft Surface announcements which is a brand new concept for 'Surface Computing devices' (based on the Play Anywhere research work which has been public for a while). There are some amazing videos already of the
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