May 2008 - Posts
With Australian Partner Conference coming round fast, we are excited by the quality of the submissions we have had for the awards already BUT WE WANT MORE ! We know there is such great work going on in the Aussie partner world so please take the time
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[You will see the acronym WPC used a lot in the coming weeks = Worldwide Partner Conference ! ] As many of you know we are running an online web initiative, Digital WPC , in the build up to the full event in July, to help extend coverage of the event
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Many of our local partners will known Mike Fiztmaurice from the corporate Sharepoint team (previously here ). Probably one of the most well known Microsoft people worldwide in the Sharepoint space. Well he has just just joined an Aussie-HQ'd ISV that
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http://blogs.msdn.com/sbsc_australia/archive/2008/05/29/sbs-2008-public-beta-now-available-come-get-it.aspx
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Via David Dembo's new health partner blog - congrats to the partner listed below. "Microsoft Health Partners Win AIIA iAwards I am proud of the fact that a large number of the nominees for this years AIIA iAwards were Microsoft Health and Human Services
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http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/05/27/microsoft-demonstrates-multi-touch.aspx for commentary or see the video here: Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7
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Good spot by Ross Dembecki - this video comes from the recent keynote at Office DevCon in the US Video: CRM Demo during Kurt DelBene's keynote at Office Developer's Conference
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With the public beta for both products now available, we’re happy to announce the first official Microsoft training sessions for Windows Small Business Server 2008 and the new Windows Essential Business Server 2008. Led by Robbie Upcroft, Microsoft
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Announcing a new blog aimed specifically at health partners in Australia launched by our health services industry manager David Dembo, with help from my team. You can subscribe via RSS or email and do let me know if you find this valuable. http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoftinhealth/default.aspx
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Ensuring your customers’ websites are ready for Internet Explorer 8 Consistent with our efforts to promote further interoperability across the Web, Microsoft will be releasing Internet Explorer 8 to render content in its most standards-compliant
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The licensing training is next week - a reminder to register to secure your spot: http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmayhew/archive/2008/05/14/free-volume-licensing-training-for-partners-in-partnership-with-ingram-micro.aspx " Want to maximise your revenue
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https://partner.microsoft.com/global/40063406 Allison Watson, who runs partner worldwide for Microsoft, talks in this Digital Worldwide Partner Conference (Digital WPC) video, to Rob Bernard our Chief Environmental Strategist. "Overview View this
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See Christian's blog for an opportunity to win a TekSkin : http://blogs.msdn.com/chlong/archive/2008/05/21/win-a-tekskin-for-your-laptop.aspx
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There is a huge buzz around Live Mesh - I've been using it myself to test it out and the concept is superb, and the technology works well, even though only a tech preview. the basic idea is to synch devices and documents that you define, but with the
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Harvey blogged about this - looks awesome... http://blogs.technet.com/harveys/archive/2008/05/13/microsoft-worldwide-telescope.aspx Press release here: http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/may08/05-12WWTPR.mspx
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http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2008/05/20/hyper-v-rc1-release-available-on-microsoft-download-center.aspx
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There is a Microsoft-hosted forum going on right now for the leaders of the online advertising business - http://www.advance08.com/home.html And as part of the event there are a few announcements of interest to partners tracking the developments in this
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We made an announcement yesterday on this exciting initiative that connects partners and customers to get Sharepoint deployed: " Microsoft Boosts Investment in Partner Channel to Enhance Customer Experience in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
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I had an enjoyable day today at Remix08 in Sydney - attended a web agency breakfast and then watched the keynote with many of these people . It was great to see such a fabulous array of Australian innovation in the web area. www.bigbrother.com.au , www.abc.net.au
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Help Microsoft raise $100,000 for the Smith Family’s Learning for Life program, to help Aussie kids get the education they need for a brighter future. From May 15 2008, for every short Microsoft® Office 2007 Charity demo that is viewed, Microsoft
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Video: Bill Gates Demonstrates Touch Wall http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/ceosummit/default.mspx
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We opened the APC (=Australian Partner Conference) awards up for submissions this week. Partners have a month or so (until 16th June) to enter their solutions in for awards. See here for all the details: https://partner.microsoft.com/Australia/40043064
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" REDMOND, Wash. — May 13, 2008 — Healthcare developers can take the next step toward increasing patient safety and clinician effectiveness with the new version 1.3 of Microsoft Health Common User Interface (CUI), available today from
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http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/2008/05/07/partner-tv-remix08.aspx Finula and Michael from our developer & evangelism team talk briefly about the forthcoming Remix event - I will be there in Sydney on Tues - come up and say hi if you are
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For all Gold Certified & Certified Partners, Please note that the leading Feature article in this month's Gold Certified & Certified newsletter contains information which is not applicable to you as our Gold & Certified Partners, only to our
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Note this year is only for Gold and Certified partners only... I am SO excited about this year's event - my team is working hard to bring you the best ever conference.... https://partner.microsoft.com/australia/40043021
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Want to maximise your revenue and build stronger customer relationships? We have 1 hour training events scheduled in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Come and hear directly from our Microsoft Licensing specialist how you can sell Volume Licensing.
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I have a healthy 'subscriber' base through the RSS feed to this blog but given the audience is mainly business and not technical people in the partner base I am conscious that not all my readers will be keen on something as technical sounding as RSS !
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Many partners have seen this great demo/concept site that uses Windows Presentation Foundation amongst others to showcase a great vision for the power of user experience to an audience like clinical front line. Well the good news is that you can get the
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To better distinguish your organisation in its areas of expertise, the Microsoft Partner Program is creating three new competencies: Business Intelligence, Unified Communications Solutions, and Hosting Solutions, effective May 30, 2008. Business Intelligence:
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https://partner.microsoft.com/global/trainingevents/wwpartnerconference/wpcdigitalwpc This is an excellent concept - in advance of the full Houston event, we have launched a worldwide digital version. For example, on the 15th May Allison will be doing
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I would love to see some of our partners submitting and winning on this: "Microsoft Australia have entered into partnership with the Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner to sponsor the Annual Privacy Awards. The “Microsoft Small-Medium Business
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We recently completed the acquisition of FAST - this summit will be of interest to many partners I am sure: When: May 21, 2008 Time: 8:00AM-12:30PM Venue: Shangri-La Hotel, Sydney I am writing to invite you to participate at the FAST forward Summit ,
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"5. NT Solutions built this solution profiled in Solution Profiler . Greenhouse Gas Administrative Workflow System based on Sharepoint 2007 for The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal in NSW. " Thanks to Shimron from NT Solutions for sending that
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http://www.microsoft.com.au/teched/ We typically have a very significant partner presence at this event and I am sure this year will be no different. My team are leading the technical labs preparation work - we have some exciting hands on labs - more
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I am sure Mike will have more on this soon but we have recently released a new version of the important Partner Marketing Centre, where we provide a huge number of marketing resources for partners. https://partner.microsoft.com/40019331?msp_id=partnermarketingcenter
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This has been blogged a lot by Microsoft bloggers all over the world but it is a great piece of technology integrated into one of the top US TV shows. So well worth a look: The above links off the official CSI website . I have seen a copy of the clip
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As the Silverlight bandwagon races on (and don't forget to check out Remix for lots more) as you can imagine more resources (lots more) are becoming available all the time. I was lucky enough to attend an internal session last week where Michael Kordahi
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Usefui post by Mike - this guide is good.. " This is an excellent guide to understanding the partner opportunity for Unified Communications. Let me know if you have any feedback or questions..or are interested in joining a Unified Communications marketing
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http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/2008/05/02/partner-tv-norbert-haehnel-s-crystal-ball.aspx Norbert runs our so-called DPE organisation = Developer and Platform Evangelism. Norbert talks about the future at a recent NSW.NET cluster event. Note
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http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmayhew/archive/2008/04/26/hosting-days-information.aspx " Hosting Days Australia Hosting Days is hitting the road. Choose from two tracks, Services or Solutions, before coming together for an afternoon of Business focused content.
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13 Days until Partner Networking Nights : Sales Opportunities in the Mining Industry! Event Overview Register for our mining partner Networking Nights in May We’re hosting a series of partner Networking Nights in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and
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I am delighted to announce that in a great collaboration with our MS Press distributor, we have gone live today with the MS Press online store. www.mspress.com.au The store is jam packed with MS Press books including the very latest releases on Windows
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http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2008/05/01/virtual-earth-imagery-release-april-2008.aspx To see the Opera House, for example, go here .
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