July 2007 - Posts
Try this: http://www.microsoft.com/communities/blogs/portalresults.mspx?ResultPage=1&k=%F0%92%8F%90&blogpart=blog&charset=iso-8859-1&blogkeywords=&blogcategory=0d02efdb-60f0-4d05-b3c7-8e6676ac778e&resultpage=1&BlogPart=Blog&BlogCategory=897417b3-fdd3-48b4-8c45-06cb93154874&BlogKeywords=
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From Markjo : "I've finally got round to uploading some short MSDN Nuggets looking at particular features of Silverlight (1.1 on the whole). Here they are: Silverlight Streaming Silverlight - Linking Silverlight and ASP.NET Projects Silverlight - Debugging
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I've just heard from my team that we are running out VERY fast of spaces for the partner conference - we may have none left by the end of this week - seriously. So please book quickly if you really want to go : https://partner.microsoft.com/Australia/4004302
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At last week's AiiA presentation I was asked by a couple of ISVs how they could make Microsoft aware of their products - with a view of broad business collaboration and including possible strategic partnerships. Well there is a well defined process to
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Click here: http://members.microsoft.com/partner/roadtosuccess/default.aspx for an interactive journey through the dimensions of growing your business in partnership with Microsoft. You''ll hear more from us on this framework over the coming weeks - here
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Watched Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer's sessions and there was one nugget from SteveB's that really caught my eye: During our financial year 2008 (July 1 2007 to June 30 2008) there will be a milestone of 1 billion Windows PCs around the world ! Then Steve
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Mary Jo has summarised nicely Ray's outline of the Live platform plan at the recent financial analysts meeting. "Microsoft is — almost — ready to explain what Windows Live “the platform” looks like. Last year at Microsoft’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting
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Our IW partners hardly need reminding that Sharepoint is hot - we are in constant discussions about lack of resources - but this was a great read: " REDMOND, Wash. — July 26, 2007 — Today, at Microsoft’s 2007 Financial Analyst Meeting, the company reported
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New website launched yesterday: www.microsoft.com/opensource You'll see a clear tone (reflecting the strategic position) around participating and partnering with the Open Source world. Remember that more technical content will remain on port25.technet.com
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Via Christian : " There is some new content on the worldwide Microsoft Partner Portal for Web Partners, built in Silverlight, which highlights the resources available to you. It addresses the different audience types - IT Generalists , Custom Development
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Check out the latest on the Silverlight community site where more demos and news is coming fast: Includes a quick start on using Silverlight in Expression.
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Via On10.net : " How cool is this? The BananaScreen software lets you login to your computer using facial recognition software. All you need to use the softare is a PC and a webcam. BanananScreen will lock your computer when you move away from it, and,
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This got quite a bit of press at the Worldwide Partner Conference - a new partner-facing licensing tool. "Quickly Generate Reliable Customer Quotes Microsoft LicenseWise for Volume Licensing is a “one-stop shop” that can help you recommend product and
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Spotted Angus providing some good details on this new Live developer offering: http://dev.live.com/quickapps/ "Windows Live Quick Applications provide customizable out-of-the box solutions for specific Web scenarios. Each Quick App is built on Windows
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Looking forwards to my breakfast presentation tomorrow for the AiiA NSW cluster- hope to meet a few blog readers there.. "Macquarie University Graduate School of Management Sydney NSW How can SMEs partner with MNCs to mutual benefit? Join Leigh Angus
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I got an email yesterday (our staff are registered in the normal way) to let us know that the Australian Partner Conference (APC) agenda is finalised and given a link to the website where you can customise the agenda sessions to your business focus. Watch
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Reading Steve Clayton's post today on his offering a Blue Monster business card to Steve Ballmer prompted me to take a photo of my laptop, proudly displaying one of the now famous BM stickers. Steve and I had a beer together in Denver at the partner conference
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Good spot by Steve Clayton - I hadn't seen this either - it's just been published, probably off the back of all the content at WPC on Software Plus Services (S+S). " Learn how you can participate in Microsoft’s strategy to increase customer value through
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Please note that the closing date for submissions for awards for Australian Partner Conference is: THIS FRIDAY - 27th !! Click here for the submission tool: https://partner.microsoft.com/Australia/40043064 So please do take a moment to submit your solutions
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Jeff Alexander has just posted a new screencast in his series - this one the first of what I am sure is many on Windows Server 2008.
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We (Microsoft Australia) are actively exploring supporting the setting up of IAMCP chapters around the country. To get started we need some champions amongst our Gold and Certified partners who want to help get a chapter underway. If you are interested
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Partners who has registered for the conference who have not yet booked accommodation need to take action quickly. The conference room rate will expire next Thursday (26th) and thereafter rooms will be made available to the general public and will be at
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Christian's Vista Gadget tells me that there is only 40 days to go to our local partner conference. I am am also told that we are selling tickets fast so please move quickly if you want to secure a place. Remember that the island is an island and thus
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I've known about his for a while, and love it, but haven't yet blogged (as it's now available on Soapbox). A bit of a spoof of a certain film. Enjoy: Video: The Devil wears prada .. and does Unified Comms! Plus partners can download it for use in sales
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Download the report here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/itanalyst/docs/07-12-07MicrosoftisaLeaderinApplicationServerPlatforms.pdf We know from talking to many partners, having access to 3rd party analyst reports can be a great asset for you in the
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You'll hear much more about this from us over the next few months, but we're creating a global community of like-minded people from our partner channel and the IT industry at wide. "What is Voices for Innovation? Voices for Innovation is an open and transparent
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I know we are showing lots of concept-stuff right now, but surely you can't get enough of it ? I can't... Video: Microsoft IW - Future Desktop
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http://blogs.technet.com/homeserver/archive/2007/07/16/ship-it.aspx
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http://www.microsoft.com/australia/teched07/
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For those partners that attended WPC you might have seen a session by John Rudow on using the Demo Showcase - well now there is some online training in the partner learning centre: " Event Title : Using Demo Showcase 2007 Demo showcase 2007 is a scenario
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Just received an email stating that very few tickets are left for TechEd - we want to make sure partners can attend where they want to - so please, move quickly if you want to go. More info here - a copy of an email that has gone out to partners recently:
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Via Mark Harrison : "You don't get any bigger than this - the UK National Health Service go live on MOSS 2007 Web CM : http://www.nhs.uk/ The new portal aims to empower the public to make better use of NHS services. All content management capabilities
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Allison Watson held a keynote session at WPC called the A list where we showcased some of the really new stuff - check these little ones out from the A List section and others. Microsoft Surface Allison Watson picked her favorite demos of the week, including
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If you were following the WPC announcements you will have heard this already - the big day for the launch of SQL 2008, Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, is Feb 27th 2008. Going to be a big year !
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It was great to be at the WPC Award evening a few days ago, and many congrats to Di Data Australia for winning 2 awards - a superb achievement: Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Active Directory® and Identity Management Partner of the Year Winner Advanced
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Thanks to all the Aussie partners who came to WPC in Denver. Lots of great reports - even some WPC veterans saying it was the best conference ever. See here for info on watching keynotes and downloading presentation decks. Now onto Australian Partner
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WPC is nearly over - check out the keynotes in recorded form on the digital site: http://members.microsoft.com/partner/digitalwpc/ UPDATE: and you can find the presentation decks for the sessions on the Commnet site ( https://www. wpc 07 commnet .com
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Thanks to Christian for creating this: see here to download: http://blogs.msdn.com/chlong/archive/2007/07/09/australia-partner-conference-countdown-gadget.aspx
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Ok - here is the plan for the all up WC Twitter feed. Reader Only :To just see what is going on, go here: http://twitter.com/wpc07/with_friends (you can add it as an RSS feed if you prefer) Interested Contrbutor : If you are Microsoft staff or a parter
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UPDATE: At time of writing still not succeeding in setting up true group feed, but asking Twitter support for help. In the meantime, here is the backup plan (I will only have WPC-present 'friends' thus making it a WPC feed): http://twitter.com/WPC07/with_friends
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Spotted a reference to this on Mark Harrison's blog and it looks like a useful resource for Sharepoint partners: "MOSS: A Platform for Managing Content and Integrating Line of Business Systems Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) provides enterprises
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I may not be as active blogging as usual as I am off to Denver for the Worldwide Partner Conference . Very much looking forward to some quality time with partners, some quality content and a great social agenda. Don't forget to tune in online if you aren't
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As the new partner portal settles into it's bedding down phase we've been busy migrating over some of the content that used to be in the old version. One of the priority areas of course is partner readiness/training - we've just updated that content,
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Really good actually - see this article on the Australian Technet Blog : More info on Jeff Jones' blog
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http://www.microsoft.com/australia/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/default.mspx "What is Windows SteadyState? Share computers, not headaches What state is your shared computer in at the end of the day? Hard disk filled with downloaded files? Strange
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I missed this from a couple of weeks ago - via the official Sharepoint blog: "Announcing three CodePlex projects for community developed SharePoint WCM components There's been some buzz about the Community Kit for SharePoint during the past few days,
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I did a whole load of work with Commerce Server in my previous existence running a Gold partner so I have a 'soft spot' for the product. Anyway I noticed that SP1 is now released , and I found this relatively new Commerce Server product team blog .
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Via Shane Morris : " Chuck has aligned the planets and I'm heading west to do "The Age of User Experience" at the Perth .NET Community of Practice on this Thursday 5th July at 5pm. I'll cover the same "user experience as a product differentiator" stuff,
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