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System Center blog resources

Ben Lee — Tue, 01 May 2012 07:53:11 +0000

As part of my video for the “24 hours in the private cloud 2012” here is a list of the System Center blogs that I follow, the first section is all the official product team blogs and then the ones near the bottom are either more focused product team blogs, or written by third parties. [...]

MCSE Redux

Ben Lee — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:54:39 +0000

Recently Microsoft announced some changes to their line up of professional level exams. The changes see are return for the MCSA / MCSE acronyms that disappeared about 6 years ago when Microsoft moved away from MCSE / MSCA (Microsoft certified Systems Administrator / Engineer) to a new format. I wanted to just get down my [...]

MUCUGUK – Hitting the road again Lync tour 2012

Ben Lee — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:54:00 +0000

Recently I’ve been helping out the guys over at MUCUGUK (Microsoft Unified Communications User Group UK) with finding a venue for them to run a Lync event in Newcastle. The good news is that this is just one of a series of events they are running up and down the country in places that don’t [...]

F5521GW WWAN install on Windows 8 CP (Lenovo X220t)

Ben Lee — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:19:39 +0000

I recently upgraded from Windows 7 to the CP of Windows 8 and was surprised how well everything seemed to work. I was however having some battery life issues so decided to do a fresh install to make sure it wasn’t some driver weirdness left over from Win7. After downloading and install drivers for all [...]

Some initial impressions on Windows 8

Ben Lee — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:16:04 +0000

Having played with the Developer Preview of Windows 8 and now running the Consumer Preview full time on my laptop I was given the opportunity through work to write a small piece for The Journal’s business section – a regional paper in the North East. You can find the print version of the article here [...]

Lync WP7 minor update 4.1

Ben Lee — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:58:48 +0000

Today the first update arrived for the Windows Phone 7 Lync client. There is no change log from Microsoft at this point and it looks like there’s much new added. After digging about with WinMerge and taking a look at the binary files it looks like some minor functionality and language tweaks and hopefully some [...]

Metro (WP7) inspired PowerPoint template

Ben Lee — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:13:44 +0000

For two of the community Lync talks (NxtGenUG & NEBytes) I’d given recently I made myself a Metro inspired PowerPoint template. I thought it might be of interest to a few other people so you can download it here for use in your own presentations… Some of the slide types I’ve included: Title slide: Section [...]

Lync – A Guide slides

Ben Lee — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:49:13 +0000

I had a great time on Monday night heading down to NxtGenUG in Coventry to give my presentation “Lync – A Guide”. It was a small but very enthusiastic audience and the time just flew past (for me at any rate!). (download here – or view with notes) My presentation covered the basics [...]

Talking at NextGen UG Coventry on Lync

Ben Lee — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:53:29 +0000

This coming Monday (27th Feb) I’ll be down in Coventry presenting at NxtGenUG about Lync. My official fluff for the event: Lync – An introduction and how to get started Lync is the latest generation of Microsoft’s real-time communication server. For those who haven’t used Lync before; it is designed to enhance collaboration and information [...]

Lync Mobility Slides

Ben Lee — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:37:35 +0000

After talking at last weeks NEBytes about the new Lync mobility features I thought it would be useful to stick the slides up somewhere that people can see them. I know SlideShare is very popular at the moment but seeing as the slides were already up on my SkyDrive I thought I’d give the built [...]