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September 2006 - David Overton's Blog

  • SBS R2 Webcasts from the US

    Small Business Webcast: The Benefits of Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 (Part 1 of 3): Get the Green Check of Software Health and Keep Your Business Up and Running (Level 100) Wednesday, October 11, 2006 - 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time Jeffrey Lin, Business Development Manager, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032308419&Culture=en-US Small Business Webcast: The Benefits of Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 (Part 2 of 3): Save Time and Money by Doing More with Less (Level 100) Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Pacific Time Greg Randall, Business Development Manager, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032308416&Culture=en-US ttfn David
  • Microsoft Office Tips and Tricks, including Office 2003 and Office 2007

    The Office Tips and Tricks website is up and running and now has content on both Office 2003 and Office 2007. What's New: 2007 Microsoft Office release Live Webcasts! Tips & Tricks for the 2007 Microsoft Office release: Great Document Formatting Made Simple with Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint Thursday, September 21, 2006 A First Look at Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Tuesday, September 26, 2006 Advanced Tips & Tricks for the 2007 Microsoft Office release: Customize Your Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Documents in No Time Thursday, September 28, 2006 Source: Microsoft Office Tips & Tricks ttfn David
  • Training tools for Windows Vista

    I have found the tips and tricks website and found these items that I think might be very useful - the learning whitepaper is a great example. If you are responsible for training employees in your company this is the place for you! Take a look at the tools below that can help you develop a customized tips & tricks presentation or plan for your company. Windows Vista Tips & Tricks Demo Script Windows Vista Tips & Tricks Intro Slide Deck New Learning Resources for Windows Vista White Paper: Learning Windows Vista in the Workplace Enterprise Learning Framework on TechNet Source: Windows Vista™ Tips & Tricks
  • Do you want to help your customers use more of Office and value your advice more?

    This is a fab tool - for example, the page has: Inside Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Stop the Press -Microsoft Office Excel 2007 - making working with numbers easier than ever! Where minutes are kept and hours are wasted Well-planned and organised meetings can be very useful. However, not all meetings leave attendees feeling like their time has been well spent! Internet Explorer 7 RC1 Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) RC1 is now available with new features. Download it today! Making the most of Virtual Meetings with Live Meeting Transform the way you operate at work Get more done in meetings Edit Data quickly Instead of using the formula bar to edit the contents of a cell, you can edit directly in the cell by double clicking it. View archive Have a look for much, much more. ttfn David
  • Got SBS 2003 R2 and need to update it to the current version - look at this KB

    http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/923432/ SYMPTOMS The initial release media for Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 contains the wrong version of Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2). This update installs the correct version of the affected Exchange Server 2003 SP2 files. Different versions for some of these files can be found in other folders on the server. For this update, only the installation folders in the following table apply. Note This update applies to you if the version level of any of the following files is 06.05.7638.1. This update does not apply to you if the version level of all the following files is 06.05.7638.2. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924000/en-us This article describes the steps that you must take to upgrade the initial release media of Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 (Windows SBS 2003 R2) to include the final release version of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Workgroup Edition ttfn David
  • Financing help from Microsoft for customer - partners can finance the whole deal, services, software and hardware - get the 1st 6 months for £50 per month followed by 36 monthly payments

    Buy now pay later '6/50' promotion from Microsoft Financing This attractive low-start offer will help drive adoption of new product releases, providing you with a simple, compelling way to sell IT solutions, including software, hardware and your own services. Customers pay just £50 each month for the first six months, and the loan balance is then paid in 36 monthly installments. Financing is available for the complete Microsoft solution, not just the Microsoft product elements. This is not always the most competitive rate a customer can get, but it is extremely useful especially when the rates the customer has been offered is not so good. ttfn David
  • Microsoft Windows Vista Help and Support Beta - online

    I found this on the web today and thought people should know that they can get help and answers. HARDWARE AND DRIVERS PROGRAMS PERSONALIZE YOUR COMPUTER PRINTING FILES AND FOLDERS PICTURES AND VIDEO SECURITY INTERNET NETWORKING MAINTENANCE MUSIC GAMES Source: Microsoft Windows Vista Help and Support Beta ttfn David
  • Want to understand the details about Windows Vista's changes to the network stack, IP6, diagnostics etc

    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/netw... will be your answer. ttfn David

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