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Tuesday, February 15, 2011 1:32 PM
[Microsoft] Your Chance to be frank with Microsoft by joining the ICAB for FREE
The Microsoft Server and Cloud Division Information Experience Team are recruiting IT Pros to join their new International Customer Advisory Board or "ICAB", which is YOUR opportunity to give them honest and frank opinions about System Center...
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Sunday, January 02, 2011 4:14 AM
[MVP] Congratulations 2011 Microsoft MVP!
The start of the New Year is always an exciting time for me but the 1st of January is always a bit of a nail biting day for me as this is when I find out whether my MVP has been renewed, something I never take for granted. Well I'm ecstatic and delighted...
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Tuesday, October 05, 2010 11:07 AM
[WMUG] Wally's Back - 1st November - Cardinal Place, London
Well folks I'm delighted to finally be able to tell you that after months of planning that Wally Mead has very kindly agreed to come back and present at the next WMUG Meeting on the 1st November in Cardinal Place, London. Like most folks we've...
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010 4:07 PM
[Events] Free MMS Convention Pass for the price of an email
If you’d like to go to MMS but the price of the Summit pass is beyond you don’t worry as someone is going to win a free pass. How do you enter this free competition? Easy just send an email as detailed below: Secure Vantage Technologies (SVT) is pleased...
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Monday, March 08, 2010 2:30 AM
[MMS] New MMS 2010 Schedule Planner Available
From the MMS 2010 News page: A new download is available on the MMS 2010 site to help schedule your time at MMS 2010. The document provides a session listing grouped by timeslot, with a list of the topics being presented in that slot. To plan your schedule...
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Friday, March 05, 2010 10:03 AM
[ConfigMgr] Your chance to “Ask the Experts” at MMS
One of the Must Attend sessions at MMS each year is the ConfigMgr/ SMS Ask the Experts where a panel of Microsoft folks and MVPs are lined up ready to answer any burning questions you may have. This year Microsoft are inviting YOU to submit your questions...
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Friday, February 26, 2010 5:33 PM
[Announcement] A change to my blogging strategy
Those of you who have been following my blog (thank you), will see that I try to blog as much on the System Center suite and other topics that interest me and that I think will be of interest to you. However, the problem I’ve had for sometime is with...
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Friday, January 01, 2010 10:44 AM
[MVP] Congratulations 2010 Microsoft MVP!
Well Santa maybe a week late but I forgive him as he’s given me the best start to 2010 – I’ve been re-awarded as a MVP for the 7th consecutive, something I feel deeply humbled but also honoured about at the same time. 2010 is going to be a BIG year in...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6:38 AM
[Events] SQLBits - Thursday 19th - Saturday 21st November, Newport, Wales
We are pleased to announce SQLBits goes West , the 5th instalment of SQLBits conferences. We are making it even bigger and better than last time, now spanning 3 days, and still keeping everything that has worked so well at previous events. The event will...
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Friday, October 16, 2009 8:42 AM
[WMUG] Wally Mead in London 6th November
I’ve been BURSTING at the seams for WEEKS now to tell you all that we are absolutely delighted to be able to announce today that Wally Mead, Senior Program Manager for System Center Configuration Manager has agreed to come back to the UK to spend a day...
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Friday, October 09, 2009 8:55 AM
[Events] UK Active Directory User Group meeting - 29th October, Cardinal Place, London
Just a heads up that the UK AD User Group will be hosting their next event on the 29th October where US MVP Brian Desmond will be talking Active Directory Design. Registration at http://adugnov.eventbrite.com
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Thursday, October 08, 2009 9:02 AM
[ConfigMgr 2007] SCCM Tools - A Cool Website from a Fellow ConfigMgr MVP
I just wanted to tell you about my fellow MVP Matthew Hudson’s website SCCM Tools which contains a number of really useful ConfigMgr-related scripts and tools that either Matthew has developed himself or others have submitted to his site for sharing with...
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Friday, May 22, 2009 6:55 AM
[WMUG] Next Meeting - Thursday 18th June 2009, Cardinal Place, London
I’m delighted to be able to announce our next meeting on Thursday 18th June at Microsoft’s office in Cardinal Place London where this time we'll be kicking off with an in-depth look at Windows 7 courtesy of Viral Tarpara and Andrew Driver from Microsoft...
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Friday, May 15, 2009 5:21 AM
[WMUG] Our Next Event - Coming June 2009...
Just a quick heads up to let you all know we’re just putting the finishing touches to our next event which will be held next month (can’t give you the exact date just yet but it will be either the second or third week of June). As soon as we have more...
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Thursday, May 07, 2009 4:14 AM
[MMS] Call to Action - A Serious Poll with a Serious Outcome
Saw this on Rod’s blog which caught my attention and should also be of concern to anyone that uses the System Center products and has attended/ plans to attend MMS. Now I fully appreciate Microsoft like any business has to re-evaluate everything it does...
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