23 November 2009
The Microsoft UK Education team has a dozen people in it (surprised?) who are focused full-time on education – across schools, colleges and universities. Which means that we’re awfully busy and spread across many, many things all the time. But fortunately we have the help of other similar teams around the world, and a much bigger team in our offices in America. Sometimes we produce work for the rest of the world (like the Innovative Schools case studies, focusing on journeys of innovation and ...
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18 November 2009
Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Project 2010 and Visio 2010 have all reached the Beta milestone and are now available for download. Remember how sometimes you felt smug when you were running Windows 7 Beta at least 6 months before your colleagues and friends? Well, you can feel it once again! What’s new in the Office system? On Monday 9 November, Microsoft Exchange 2010 became the first product launch in wave of innovation across the Office system. The first half of 2010 will see this ...
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16 November 2009
Bookings are now open for our Higher Education Briefing day, which this year falls on 10th December in London. Microsoft will be holding our annual Higher Education Briefing on 10th December 2009 at our London offices in Victoria. The agenda for the event runs from 10:00 to 4:45 with breaks to catch up with colleagues from other universities. As well as getting the latest news on Microsoft’s product roadmap, there will be the opportunity to hear from other universities and to hear how they ...
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12 November 2009
Jonathan Noble (MVP) at Newcastle has told me of an event with Microsoft Premier engineer Richard Diver on 25 November aimed at helping IT Pros aiming to get better performance out of Windows systems and software. Details of the event are on his blog: http://www.jonoble.com/blog/2009/11/11/25th-november-newcastle-sysinternals-tools-presentation.html
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3 November 2009
The TechNet site has a growing series of Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides for all kinds of areas – virtualisation, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server, Online Services and the Optimised Desktop. The one that jumped out as me was the IPD Guide for DirectAccess in Windows 7. This is especially useful in colleges, where you have staff who are as likely to need access to your network from home as they are in university (especially if you have a large number of part time staff). With ...
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