November 2006 - Posts

Nov 22, 2006 12:54

Le Gendarme de St. Tropez

Oh no Iwas robbed in St. Tropez For those that don't know Le Gendarme de St. Tropez is a classic French comedy, and probably the best role known of Louis de Funès. Anyway... as some of you know I have been travelling a lot lately, (even by my standards ). So after sorting personal issues back in Austalia, stopping for a business meeting in Singapore, going to the MVP open days in Moscow, and then looking at Convergence Munich and Tech Ed Barcelona, I discussed the logistics with my wife, and we worked...
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Nov 14, 2006 15:18

Tech ED IT Forums EMEA Barcelona

I am in Barcelona now, at Tech Ed. This is very different to convergence, and I will write about it as soon as I get a chance. But for now... There was a great presentation this morning "Overview of Microsoft Dynamics" it clearly showed product positioning and directions for the Dynamics family. The presenter is not directly involved with any of the Dynamics products, so his comments were very open and unbiased. A couple of interesting notes: one was that there really is a new language, currently...
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Nov 8, 2006 18:33

Convergence EMEA Day 3.

Well last day. Today was (for us at the Community Loinge) the busiest day. We had a lot of people coming wanting to know about communities, and how to get the most out of them. Again a lot of people that really don't know about the forums, or about just how many of us there are out there that give free advise. It was interesting the number of questions that I heard that could be easily answered by a search here or on mbsonline . I wanted to try to get some more concrete answers on SQL, but thinking...
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Nov 8, 2006 7:22

Convergence EMEA Day 2. - Update

Today we had a lot of activity on the booths form people asking about Communities. In yesterdays session Dynamics Communities, I became an impomptu speaker, and this generate a lot of interest in Dynamics Communities. The biggest surprise was the number of people that came to the Community Lounge, and said that they really had no idea what was available on the interent, but more importantly I was shocked by the number of people that asked "What's n It For Me" in relation to posting and asking questions...
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Nov 6, 2006 12:59

Convergence EMEA Day 1. (Bill Gates' Key Note) - UPDATE

Well Day 1 has just finished, and it was quite a day. Of course Bill's Key Note was the important bit. The morning started with a general presentation of Navision. Well its was very interestng, mostly in the fact that there was nothign new, but verything was now much more mature. More important though was the session on Communities. Clearly Micrsoft are pushing stongly for more communities (dynamics users for example is a community), Communities make it easier to deliver standard solutions and give...
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