July 2008 - Posts
http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/2008/07/29/partner-tv-david-dembo-on-health-and-social-services.aspx And don't forget David's blog which is targetted specifically at Aussie partners interested in health.
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http://blogs.msdn.com/livemesh/archive/2008/07/30/service-update-new-build-coming-today-0-9-3103-9.aspx Includes the important change allowing you to add as many friends as you like.
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https://partner.microsoft.com/Australia/40074846 And the winners will be announced next Thursday at the conference - bring it on !
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Those of us have seen this demo'd have universally in my experience been extremely impressed - and in some cases, me included, have said that this is perhaps a turning point in TV over IP. What am I talking about ? Well the NBC Silverlight player for
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So Australian partners, what do you think of the story that is all over the worldwide press and blogosphere - The Mojave Experiment - where Microsoft showed what was purported to the be the next version of Windows to some Vista skeptics. In fact it was
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Coming on Partner Academy Live in August and whilst not great time for Aussie partners you can see it on demand soon afterwards.. WES01PAL: The Small and Midsize Business Server Platform: Which Is Right for Your Customer? Presented by David Fabritius,
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I have been quite deeply involved in building out the 2 keynotes for next week's local partner conference and I am pleased to say we have a great line up of speakers and content for you if you are coming. We will have over 700 people in the 2 keynotes,
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Carpe-Diem are delivering sales training in collaboration with the AiiA which is open to non-AiiA-members as well as members. More info and registration links are on Bruce's blog here but here are the key topics, of use for many MS partners: 1. An Introduction
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One of our team internally pointed this article out - very interesting. Showing that Australian customer momentum for virtualisation is higher than the rest of the world average - by a factor 2 ! This means enormous opportunity for Microsoft partners
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http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/2008/07/23/partner-tv-nick-mayhew-defines-software-services.aspx Recorded this Monday down in the gorgeous Sydney harbour, check it out for a short and hopefully useful summary of software plus services and some
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Christian Longstaff (ISV Marketing Manager) is running an ISV Pre-Day the day before the Australian Partner Conference officially opens in Port Douglas. The day will focus on readying partners for our Software+Services vision. If you are interested
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Robbie beat me to it on the SBSC blog - this is a great resource for partners selling products like EBS and SBS: http://blogs.msdn.com/sbsc_australia/archive/2008/07/21/latest-demo-showcase-for-smbs-now-available.aspx or download directly here .
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Good spot by Jamie Thomson (via Steve Clayton ) - the BBC using VE for their interactive Olympics map: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/7493757.stm Want to find out more about Virtual Earth ? Attend the pre-day at Australian Partner Conference
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These are typically not at a great time for Aussie partners but are available shortly after the live time on demand so worth a look: FOR31PAL: Overview of ISA Server 2006 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Presented by Adam Jung and Jim Harrison Tuesday, July
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This announcement on the LiveMesh blog shows that anyone in US-English mode (i.e. not just US based people, Aussie s can get it too - but you need to be in US-English right now) can now have a Mesh account on request - no more waiting. More from the Liveside
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At the Virtual Earth sessions at the Australia Partner Conference pre days Microsoft Regional Director Dr Neil will be demonstrating a Windows Mobile application that uses GPS to log tracks and plot them on Virtual Earth. By attending the session you
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Nice offer from Robbie : "I'm very happy to announce that every attendee of our SMB Servers day at TechEd Australia 2008 will receive a free copy of the soon to be released Small Business Server 2008 Standard . Not kidding. Yours to take & use
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I spent some time today looking at the new Software + Services Partner Evolution Interactive Guide and would encourage you all to go check it out. The tool is packed with useful IDC analysis, Microsoft perspectives and strategic insight into the underlying
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With all the announcements last week on the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) as part of our Software+Services strategy (S+S) we know there will be questions arising in the minds of Australian partners large and small, from value-added resellers
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2 weeks ago I left a 'tease' on my post about APC . Well I am delighted to announce that the worldwide leader for the partner channel at Microsoft, Allison Watson , is coming to our Australian partner conference, together with Ross Brown, VP of Solutions
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Whilst perhaps the most significant announcements from Worldwide Partner Conference relate to Software Plus Services and cloud services, there are many outside that topic that are very relevant to Australian partners of course, so I hope I can help by
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Lots of information coming out from WPC of course. The one stop shop for the latest news is the virtual press room: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/wwpc/default.mspx In my opinion the big stuff is all around S+S - see Stephen Elop's keynote
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To quote the director of our developer and evangelism team yesterday on stage in front of all our Microsoft Australian staff, 'ozzie, ozzie, ozzie', with respect to the brilliant news to come out of the Imagine Cup . Team SOAK, from Australia, were the
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If you weren't able to get to Houston for the worldwide partner conference then you can still watch the keynotes if you wish to - tonight 11pm Sydney time. www.microsoft.com/digitalwpc
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The Imagine Cup final is on . Team SOAK from Australia is representing us all. Good luck ! Find out more here: http://imaginecup.com/Default.aspx and here: http://imaginecup.com/About/WhatIs.aspx
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The Environmental team in our HQ has recently launched a great new section on their website outlining a number of technical resources for customers and partners to leverage - examples include white papers, guidelines, tools & utilities etc. Take a
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Well, the awards submission tool closed last night and we have had a fabulous quantity and quality of submissions. Many thanks to all the partners who submitted. We had over 140 submissions - more than 20% up on last year ! And also you've all added your
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For the lucky ones attending Worldwide Partner Conference this is not for you. However for the rest of us (me included) the way to get involved, albeit without the parties, networking and conference coffee, is Digital WPC . The site is now ready to go,
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Partners in Australia will hear much more on this in the next 3-6 months - but this blog post from the CSP team tells a little about what is coming at Worldwide Partner Conference on CSP. So what is CSP ? CSP=citizen services platform. Think of it as
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Bianca has posted an interesting interview with Jonathan Lewis who runs our local IT operation - on the topic of environmental improvements and policy in the IT space: http://blogs.technet.com/lmeg/archive/2008/06/27/green-it-video-interview-with-microsoft-it-manager-australia.aspx
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I would like to personally thanks Dean Calvert for his passion and commitment to being the PAL (=partner area lead) for the SBSC(=small business specialist community) channel over the past 12 months. See his sign off post here. Dean - thank you - we really
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Tease: we have one more significant announcement to make - watch this space - it's one that will be quite exciting for the partner community attending APC. Now a quick more general update APC - we are very nearly sold out so please move fast if you want
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