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Microsoft Office OneNote

Uses for OneNote #1342: OneNote and Powershell.
Thanks to finally sitting down with Viral last night over some questionable nachos for reminding me to read his blog where I found the link.
Had to show you guys, you know how much I love OneNote.

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Banging the drum about DemoShowcase again…

In the last few days I’ve had some good meetings. Interestingly, both featured DemoShowcase which is a set of 24 predefined customer scenarios which you can customise in a virtual machine environment.
After chatting to the London IT Pro Group, I showed them how easy it is to talk about how five different applications in just over […]

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OEM System Builder Packs and Office Ready PCs

I get lots of information from Microsoft which I like to pass onto Small Business Partners in case you don’t get to receive it directly… so here you go… 
Any UK Microsoft System Builder Partners should keep an eye out in the post for their latest OEM System Builder Packs.
In it you should find a letter […]

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Small Business Forum | 29th November 2007

Hi Guys,
A thread has already started up regarding an event a Small Business Community event that we (as in me and the guys at Westcoast) will be hosting. So I thought I would talk briefly about it here just to give you the heads up.
Although the finer details can’t be released to you just yet, […]

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Migrating from Access 2003 to 2007

Oliver Stohr (Access MVP) has taken the time to create a website that helps users make the switch from Microsoft Access 2003 to Access 2007.
Probably the most important parts for me are the tutorials which compare, contrast, and show clear reasons why most users should upgrade to the latest version of Access.
I’m not sure whether […]

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Zero Touch Deployment of Windows Vista & Office

24 September 2007 09:30 - 24 September 2007 12:45 GMT, London
Welcome Time: 09:00

Microsoft Ltd

Chicago 1
Building 3
Microsoft Campus Thames Valley Park Reading Berkshire RG6 1WG
United Kingdom

Event Overview
A TechNet Deployment event with a difference.

You have asked us for more information helping you to understand WHY you should deploy a piece of technology.  This event is […]

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Microsoft Office and the revenue opportunity for you

Robbie sent me an email today linking to an article that talks about something what we as Microsoft Partners who play around with this stuff have always said…
I’ve always said (in Robbie’s words):

Once people use Office 2007 for a while, they won’t go back
Customers need to see Office 2007 in action before they ‘get it’
Office 2007 demo’s must focus on the […]

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The Microsoft Office Ready PC Programme

There have been a few discussions in the Community of late regarding the Office Ready PC Programme (double ‘mm’ ‘e’ because I’m talking mainly about the UK initiative!) and so I thought I would run a few facts and ideas past you so you can use them (if you like or else just read through […]

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MS Evangelist slates OneNote?!

Eileen, Eileen, Eileen,
Let’s get one thing clear… OneNote rocks!
Everyday I read a wide range of information sources that talk about things that, whilst I may not need it now, I know that I will need to refer to it at some point soon. That’s where OneNote comes in; cut and paste the quote or article […]

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Outlook 2007: Previewing PDFs

Frustrated that you can preview everything but PDFs in Outlook 2007?
Download a program that will let you do this by clicking here.
There is no official support for this add-in, but questions can be sent to Tim Heuer who helped to develop the program with Foxit.

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