Derrick Buckley

I have been recently awarded a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award in the Communications Server competency.

“Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities. Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts that represents the technical community's best and brightest, and they share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others.”

Thank you Microsoft! I am honoured and really thrilled to be recognised for the community work that I have carried out over the past year.

Thank you especially to the people who nominated me.

Derrick

Hi All,

See you all at SWIG on Tuesday for great talks, prizes and free food and drink.....

We have a great talk on preparing for your Windows 2008 MCITP exam with Ken Schaefer

Ken’s Bio - Ken Schaefer is a systems engineer consultant for global systems integrator Avanade. Avanade is a joint partnership between Microsoft and Accenture and focuses on enterprise projects across the Microsoft product stack.

Ken has worked with IIS for around 10 years, and been a Microsoft MVP for IIS since 2003. He has presented at numerous Microsoft Tech.Ed events across the US, Australia and Asia, written articles for Microsoft TechNet and spent countless hours talking about IIS at other events, user group meetings and roadshows. He was lead author for Professional IIS 7 (Wrox/Wiley) and co-author of Securing IIS 6.0 (Syngress Press)

He is currently an MCITP (Win2k8 EA), MCSE+Security, MCDBA, MCTS and holds a Masters in Business and Technology from UNSW. Ken blogs about IIS at http://adopenstatic.com/blog

Our second talk is now confirmed and Amit Pawar has agreed to give us a talk on the new Windows Hyper V technology. Amit Pawar is a Technology Solutions Professional specialising in Windows Server technologies. As a technical specialist, his role involves being able to explain and demonstrate the features and benefits of the Windows Server platform as a infrastructure platform to customers and partners. In the past 7 years Amit has worked in a varied roles within Microsoft Australia ranging from Microsoft Consulting Services to Product Support Services.

We also have a Demo from Chris Mohan on File Server Resource Manager for Windows 2008. Have a look at Chris’s blog - http://www.chris-mohan.com/ The demo will  be recorded and entered into the Microsoft Demo competition....best of luck Chris!

See you on Tuesday
Derrick Buckley

I had an issue with my Vodafone Samsung Blackjack which was apparently locked to the Vodafone Australia network....I bought an Irish Vodafone SIM and popped it into the phone and used the following website to unlock the phone:

www.vodafone.com.au/unlock

It was an instant success!

I do not  mean to sound ungrateful but Tech Ed bags are useless to me....I must have 10 bags hanging around my office.

It reminds me of my mum in fact.....years ago I told her I liked Guns N' Roses the classic 80/80's rock band......she still buys me Guns N' Roses memorabilia each year 15 years on. Who told Microsoft that everyone liked Tech Ed Bags? I would prefer a keyboard every year until I have 10 keyboards :)

I like cash if any relatives are reading this...

I found this handy report from May 2007 from Gartner on the evaluation of Email Archiving Products using the "Magic Quadrant" type framework.

Click here to download the report