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I was in a bit of a quandary when I was asked to do a Unified Communications session at Tech Ed Sydney. Do I take 7 VM’s, a shuttle with 12Gb memory, worry about all of the software, hardware and images? Take a RoundTable device, build Exchange...
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I started typing this blog post at 07:21. Outlook has already received the first 50 items of the day. Most of which were from night-owls in the US, a few from Asia/Pacific, and only a couple from European insomniacs. Yesterday it pulled down at least...
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We're running a little competition in the UK where all the team have been given promotional codes to give out so that you can get 30% off the cost of a new TechNet plus subscription or 10% off your renewal subscription either Online or on DVD Steve...
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There's always something you can learn about in technology - even with tools you've been using for years. so when the It evangelists from around the world got together for a summit day, we had to create a fun video about being an evangelist. So...
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IT Professional Community Days The 3 rd in a series of user led IT Professional Community Days is happening at Microsoft Campus in Reading on Tuesday 8 th and Wednesday 9 th April. Whilst Microsoft is hosting the event all the content and sessions are...
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Steve, who reads my blog mailed me with a problem he's got with Outlook Voice Access. It made me giggle... We’re delighted with our in house Outlook Voice Access, but it’s caused great amounts of laughter in the office all at my expense! Sometimes we...
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This made me smile last night. I'd asked a colleague in the Exchange team for the name of one of the program managers in corp. I'd had to resort to email as his presence indicator showed that he was online and working, but all of my attempts to contact...
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This mail was caught by my junk mail folder. I'm copying it here because it made me smile: Good day, my friend This letter is of great importance. I am here in order to build my own Planet which will be called a Planet of Love. My future family will live...
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I don’t t think I’m an email ostrich – I currently have about 220 mails in my inbox at the moment which I’m trying to get down below 100. I clear my server folder once a year and archive off old stuff to a .pst file which I delete when it’s 2 years old...
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We're in Manchester today at the Science museum with another packed house for this part of the Exchange unplugged tour . It was really great to meet up with Guy yesterday who is a regular contributor to my blog, it's always great to put faces to names...
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I was amused to see that *** thinks I know "Jack about spam" after my post the other day. I don't need to prove myself technically or get into a willy waving contest, but I was interested in his comment: " They shouldn’t let marketing people have blogs...
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I know I mentioned the Outlook connector the other month and I finally got round to installing it onto my mate Hil's machine. Wow. total simplicity. On starting Outlook, the wizard politely told her that it had found her Hotmail account and did she want...
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Aah, this is sweet. Kittens could be used to solve the spam problem. This is a much better idea than Captcha and much more user friendly. If you like kittens of course. This is Felix, who would be easy to recognise... Brett and Ewan (also cat lovers)...
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As evangelists, we work a lot with customers who don't have the luxury of full account management, technical support or sales guys. These smaller customers, some who don't even get to use a set of our partners from the partner community, still manage...
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Eileen asks " So how do I get my team to read my emails ? " Actually, she overlooks something very simple and important. Rule one: the nearer the author is to the reader in the company hierarchy the more likely the message will be read. If someone at...
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I like this. No more web mail. Offline access to Hotmail messages. Yay! We released this a couple o0f weeks ago... With Microsoft Office Outlook Connector Beta, you can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to access and manage...
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I've been running in between two places today, half my time was spent at today's user groups day , and the other running around sorting out pink t-shirts for tomorrows Digigirlz event. I'm actually terrified about tomorrow, put me in front of an audience...
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No sense denying it, I like Mary Jo Foley linking to something I wrote . Although being cast as a member of the thought Blog Police seems odd. I doubt if many people think of me as someone who filters what he says inside Microsoft :-) I searched for an...
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Eileen blogged a few days back about her frustration that we can't roll out Unified Messaging any quicker, and I want it for one reason and one reason only. A while back I wrote about Stupid phones . I listened to Gurdeep at TechReady saying that his...
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