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January 2007 - Posts

Wednesday, January 31, 2007 10:17 PM

Want to try out Sharepoint -for free?

If you have been dying to try out Sharepoint but don't want to be bothered to install it WebCentral has got a great deal on offer - Try out Sharepoint for FREE through March 1st! If you want to try it visit their site: http://www.trialsharepoint.com
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007 8:55 PM

Windows Vista ISV Summit

Melbourne 22 February 2007 Register Now! Sydney 27 February 2007 Register Now! Brisbane 1 March 2007 Register Now! 8.45 - 10.15 Keynote IT Business Decision Maker 10.15 - 10.30 Morning Tea 10.30 - 11.15 New Opportunities with the Windows Vista development
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007 12:32 PM

Queensland Usergroups

Queensland VSTS User Group www.qvstsug.org Anthony Borton [anthonyb@abtraining.com.au] Brisbane Infrastructure Group: www.aususergroups.org/big - Andrew Dugdell BizTalk user Group: www.briztalk.org/ - Queensland MSDN User Group: www.qmsdnug.org – Mike
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007 6:41 PM

Darwin Vista Launch Feb 15th

As I mentioned earlier we will be doing a Windows Vista/Office 2007 launch event in Darwin. The event will be broken down into two separate events. The first event will be focused on the IT Professional and the second on the Developer. Both events are
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Monday, January 29, 2007 11:51 PM

Australian PDC Roll Call

I know the PDC is a ways out but a couple people have already indicated they are going to the PDC with me! So far we have Joel Pobar Mitch Denny Adam Cogan Drop me a line if you are going and from Australia!
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Monday, January 29, 2007 11:11 PM

Tasmania Windows Vista launch

The Windows Vista marketing team asked me to help create a Tasmania Windows Vista Launch event. Fortunately for the Tasmanians the first thing i did was mention this to Dave Glover who begged me to let him run this event. Dave is just starting to put
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Thursday, January 25, 2007 2:10 PM

Setting the page for new tabs in Internet Explorer

Yesterday i had a neighbor asked: "Should I upgrade to Internet Explorer 7.0." I replied -"Absolutely! I am not certain how i surfed the net before tabbed browsing!" This got me thinking about my own internet habits with tabs and i realized most of the
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:42 PM

Brisbane ACS Vista Event March 14th- Topic Windows Vista for the Developer

Following my Townsville ACS invitation the Brisbane ACS Developer SIG has invited me to present at the Brisbane ACS meeting. Similar to the Townsville meeting I will be covering What is new for the developer in Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Office
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Monday, January 22, 2007 2:53 PM

Teched Australia Sessions -How they are determined

I just read Michael Still's blog post " That's one way of doing it... " and i have to agree with him it is kinda creepy (and sad) that the US is using a secret "hand shake" arrangement for submitting Teched papers. Luckily in Australia we have not done
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Monday, January 22, 2007 2:38 PM

Australian Architect Forum Keynote Speaker

Last week we had our weekly conference call and one of the agenda items were "Keynote" speaker. During the call we each agreed to put forth our own suggestions (below). If you have a person you would like to see as our keynote drop me a line and i will
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 8:13 AM

Going to the PDC in Los Angeles

Yesterday i had my weekly One on One with Frank and i mentioned wanting to go to the PDC Oct 2-5 -he indicated that would be great idea! -Yeah! I realize this is very early days but if you are Australian and plan on going to the PDC drop me a line with
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:12 AM

Can not Hibernate with 2 gig of RAM on Windows Server 2003 (Fix)

Late last year i was using my Dell laptop for a Team Foundation Server and having issues with it not going into hibernation...In my case it turned out to be the ATI video driver i was using. Uninstalling this driver fixed my problem but there other folks
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:04 AM

Reinstalling Team Foundation Server after Expiration

Yesterday I fell victim to a trial edition of Team Foundation Server rudely up and expiring . Unfortunately there wasn’t a repair option under “Add remove programs” to turn it into workgroup mode. And I didn’t have easy access to the internet to grab
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Monday, January 15, 2007 10:33 AM

Perth User Group Conference Call-this Wednesday 3:00pm (WA time)

I have set up a conference call for the Camp Vista event in Perth. If i have missed any of the user groups/members that want to be invited please drop me a line and i will add you!
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Monday, January 15, 2007 10:22 AM

Sharepoint Content in Perth?

In response to my post "Spending more time in Perth" I was asked: "These are good. It’d be nice to have a session on dev in Sharepoint if possible – maybe April?)" Thanks for that Alan, As for a Sharepoint presentation/tour great idea the reason I didn’t
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:17 PM

I am 40 years old?

Well almost. It was Janurary 12 1967 in San Bernadino California Charles William Sterling II was born! So i guess I am not offically 40 until Friday but i have taken a tradition from the Arrigo Family and am celebrating a birthday week! So far this week
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 1:23 PM

SL12S Big Game Hook Review (Offshore Fishing)

I realize i have not been doing much fishing blogging lately for which i apologize! But i do have a very good excuse, all my free time has been spent actually fishing! Since December i have been going out every day possible and one day in early December
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 10:27 PM

Webcast: Creating WPC clients calling WCF Services

A while back i did a webcast called: Worlds Easiest Windows Communication Foundation Service . This webcast is part II and continues on by creating a client in Windows Presentation Foundation to call this Service using the utiltiy: svcutil.exe You can
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 5:05 PM

Web Designer User Group meeting in Brisbane

Ben Maden just created a "Web Designer User Group" and is having our Scott Barnes be the first presenter! If Web Design work is your cup of tea then this meeting is NOT to be missed! To RSVP please see their site: http://webdesign.meetup.com/429/?gj=sj5
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 12:45 PM

Vista/Office 2007 Launch in Towsnville Feb 22 -confirmed!

In my earlier post i mentioned the possibility of going up to Townsville Feb 22 to have a Windows Vista Office 2007 launch with ACS Townseville. ACS have just confirmed the date! So if you want to attend, please send email to the ACS Townsville Chapter
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 12:09 PM

Congratulations to Tracey Fellows -Our new Microsoft New Zealand/Australia Managing Director

Big congratulations to Tracey Fellows ! Tracey is currently the director of BMO, a treat to work with and I am sure will do a great job! Tracey will be replacing Steve Vamos and starting her new role Feb.
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Monday, January 08, 2007 5:06 PM

Spending more time in Perth

As you may have seen David Lemphers will be changing his role and will be focusing on Microsoft Dynamics . As a result we needed somebody to cover Western Australia -and I instantly volunteered! In talking to Dave he had a plan where he was coming out
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Monday, January 08, 2007 2:28 PM

WCF clients generated with svcutil.exe failing with error: SecurityNegotiationException

I have been having challenges creating Windows Communication Foundation (WFC) Clients on my Windows Vista computer using Svcutil.exe and just found the cause: It was due to the identity tag the SVCUTIL utility is adding to the clients app.config. Removing
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Friday, January 05, 2007 3:41 PM

Forum Software for ASP.NET 2.0

A local non profit organization wanted to create a website primarily for forums and discussions....I indicated i would be more than happy to volunteer some of my time if they needed a hand. They were ecstatic and indicated if i could add a small section
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Friday, January 05, 2007 1:04 PM

hmm 5 things about me....

Well Kleefy tagged me with the meme challenge and i promised him i would deliver. So here goes nothing. 1. I suffer from stagefright so badly i once fainted during a presentation. 2. I once attended a formal microsoft evening event wearing a shawl passing
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 5:38 PM

Development environment virtualization

More than one customer has asked me about “Development environment Virtualization”. Basically this scenario consists in the ability of a developer to log on a “Terminal Server” or run a Virtualized environment and have access to everything he/her needs
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