Happy Blogiversary

I’ve been blogging for exactly one year. October 21st marks the date of my very first blog post There have been one two posts recently around the “why do i blog theme” from Susanne Danesy, Darren Strange and Steve Clayton Reading these was very timely as I’ve been reflecting about the previous years blogging It originally

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Microsoft Roadshow Event – Nottingham 17th Oct

Vijay beat me to it when blogging on this event (he lives closer to Nottingham than me :-p ) but just thought i’d add my thoughts (focusing on the SBSC pre-event) So it all started at lunch with Vijay Riyat, James Harbidge, Richard Tubb and Susanne Dansey. It was great to spend a little time catching up

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If the experts are giving this sort of advice what chance do we stand?

Wireless security is something pretty important to us all. Most people understand that we need to make sure we’ve covered to stop other people jumping on the network (which your paying for!) However most end users / business owners don’t understand what to do to make them the most secure Why should they understand the

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Hosting Opinions Please

Could i have your opinion please? You can do all the research you like but nothing beats hearing real world experiences  This season i agreed to create (and maintain!) a web site for the football team i play for. So far the reception has been pretty good but lots of people are used to sites like myspace,

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Small Business Forum – November 29th

Susanne just posted to say that the registration site for the Westcoast Small Business forum is now open (as also reported by Richard) Spaces are limited so if your planning on going don’t waste any time! Here is a list of some the people who are presenting / attending Microsoft Jackie Elleker, Chris Parkes, Emma

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Infopath form template not upgrading after changes?

An Infopath solution wasn’t quite behaving as expected. I wanted to make some changes and try some things out so i copied some of their XML files into my sharepoint document library so i’d be able to test against real data I made the changes to the template but when i tried to edit one of

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My Second Meeting

While i’m not trying to make this a series of posts (first one here!) Tuesday night was my second Amitpro / Midlands SBS Group meeting and since i’m still pretty new to it all i thought i’d post about my experiences (thats sort of the point of having a blog right?!) The guest speaker at the event

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Source code available

I’m not exactly sure how important this annoucement is as i don’t class myself as a developer but over on Coding4Fun there is news on Microsoft releasing the source code for the upcoming release of the .Net  framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 The idea is that you’ll be able to debug directly within the development environment by

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Upcoming Live Meeting Event (Partner Outreach)

Susanne has already blogged about this but i promised David Houston i’d spread the word The event is scheduled for the 12th October at 1pm to 5pm The three speakers are: Susanne Dansey Mark Mulvany Wayne Small The topics include Exchange and Windows Mobile for the Small Business and Patch Management from a business and technical perspective.

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