Microsoft UK Government Blog
News and information about Microsoft related IT for people who work in UK government from the Microsoft UK Government team.
Live Meeting - Virtualization in the Public Sector - 12th February, 10am
During last year’s IT Forum in November of 2007, Dell’s Guillaume Field said something along the...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 01/28/2008
What does PerformancePoint Server 2007 have to offer you?
Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 is an integrated performance management application...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 01/25/2008
Microsoft Flight Simulator - 25 Years Young
I attended the Microsoft MOD Security Summit this week and while I was there an interesting 'pub...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 01/25/2008
Windows Server 2008 - Launch Invitation
The launch team have just released the link to be able to sign up for the Windows Server 2008 launch...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 01/24/2008
What's up .Doc?
The Burton Group - a US technology research organisation - have released an interesting report into...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 01/16/2008
Microsoft's Dynamics CRM 4.0 launch
I've noticed how the use of CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems have been growing rapidly...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 01/14/2008
Live Meeting on Secure Mobile and Remote Working - Tuesday January 15th, 2008 - 10.00 - 11.00
I hope everybody had an enjoyable break over the festive period. Our regular Live Meetings are...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 01/04/2008
Microsoft MOD Security Summit 2008
A Happy New Year to all of you. I am starting the blog entries for this year with a reminder that...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 01/03/2008
Enjoy a Merry 'Green' Christmas
The Microsoft UK Government blog is now going on a short break until January 3, 2008. All...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 12/21/2007
Government and Data Security - Groundhog Day
25 million personal records lost by HMRC; 7600 driver records lost by the DVA of Northern Ireland; 3...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 12/18/2007
Windows Vista SP1 is coming...
One for IT Managers: We've announced that Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista will be released in the...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 12/12/2007
How Can Data Centres Go Green?
During the recent Microsoft IT Forum in Barcelona I attended a panel discussion on the green data...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 12/10/2007
Identity Management - now for some good news
Recent high profile news about identity theft and the problems of keeping identity information...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 12/05/2007
Virtually Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
A few years ago, Nicholas Carr (a former editor of Harvard Business Review) set the cat amongst the...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 11/28/2007
The PABX is dead
Now that I have your attention with that rather sensationalist headline, let me explain: Tayside...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 11/22/2007
Live Meeting on Unified Communications – Tuesday December 11th, 2007 – 10:00 to 11:00
Back in September I did promise to run a Live Meeting (webcast) on the first Tuesday of every month...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 11/20/2007
Winter colds and flu – another business reason to encourage flexible and mobile working
My thanks to my colleague, Ray Fleming, in the Microsoft Education team for keeping us posted on the...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 11/16/2007
IT Forum: SQL Server 2008
Yes, I know you might still think of SQL 2005 as a new product, but SQL 2008 is nearly with us and...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 11/14/2007
IT Forum: Microsoft Search Server 2008
There's a phrase - "Enterprise Search" - which summarises the next step in effective use...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 11/14/2007
IT Forum: Virtualisation - it's no longer about virtualisation
"The value in virtualisation technology moving forward will be in the management and the...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 11/13/2007
IT Forum: Windows Vista and Security
In a recent survey, 70% of (male) drivers said that their driving skills were "above...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 11/13/2007
IT FORUM: Windows Server 2008
I'm at the IT Forum event this week - it's a week long tech-fest about current and future...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 11/12/2007
Microsoft Security Summit for MOD
It is not so many years ago that the words Microsoft and security were seen as a contradiction in...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 11/09/2007
Spend less on your IT
You might think it is odd for a software company to encourage you to spend less on your IT. Bear...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 11/07/2007
Introducing Windows Server 2008 – aka Longhorn
Allegedly, rule #1 of the six sigma process improvement methodology is ‘steal shamelessly all...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 11/05/2007
Information silos – yes, even in Microsoft
You might think that in a company that has wall-to-wall SharePoint Server collaboration solutions...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 11/02/2007
Live Meeting on Building the Dynamic Data Centre – Tuesday November 6th
The next Microsoft Live Meeting for the Public Sector, on the topic of Building the Dynamic Data...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 11/01/2007
Microsoft Digital Town Hall – Wakefield – Tuesday December 4th
With the kind support of Wakefield Council, we are holding a Microsoft Digital Town Hall Forum at...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 10/29/2007
Access all areas – Microsoft and Accessibility
I was talking with a colleague this week and we were discussing the topic of accessibility. We know...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 10/26/2007
Measure for measure – Microsoft Performance Management Events
If you have the willpower to pore over the detailed report Meeting the Aspirations of the British...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 10/24/2007
7 tips for working securely from wireless hotspots
Like last week's posting, on 10 ways to work more securely, was a handy way of reminding your staff...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 10/19/2007
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management Conference – 14th November
Developing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a vital way to improve business agility, using...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 10/19/2007
Getting out of voice mail jail
Customers often say to me, “There is all this talk of unified communications in today’s technology...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 10/18/2007
Government Gateway – 11 million users and growing
Last week, Microsoft and the Cabinet Office held a conference to update local authorities and...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 10/17/2007
Performance Management Live Meeting 23rd October
The next Microsoft Live Meeting for the Public Sector, on the topic of Performance Management, takes...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 10/12/2007
10 Ways to Work More Securely
What's the biggest risk to your IT system security? Probably your users! For all of the efforts that...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 10/02/2007
CRM (customer relationship management) saves lives for Kent Fire and Rescue
Figures in the Survey of English Housing report reveal that 308,000 households in England...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 09/26/2007
Local Government Software Register
We've been asked if we'd like to update the eGovernment Register website with details of which...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 09/25/2007
For our Partners - Government Briefing Day
We think that a number of our partners have started reading this blog and we wanted to make you...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 09/20/2007
Balanced Scorecards for the 21st Century
Back in 1992, Robert Kaplan and David Norton introduced the balanced scorecard methodology for...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 09/18/2007
The IT Project Uncertainty Principle
This article in ZDnet today reminded me of a conversation I had years ago with a skilled project...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 09/14/2007
Thick or Thin?
I've "borrowed" this posting from my colleague Ray Fleming and his UK Schools Blog - as I think it...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 09/14/2007
Virtual Earth in Government
Microsoft’s newly launched Virtual Earth is perfect for wannabe globetrotters. Incorporating aerial...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 09/12/2007
Making the web accessible
Socitm (the professional organisation for public sector ICT managers) have produced what looks to be...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 09/07/2007
What's in a name?
When the Scottish Parliament reconvened this week one of the first actions of the SNP minority...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 09/07/2007
Illicit Image Detection
I've just heard of a company called PixAlert who have developed some very smart tools to help...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 09/04/2007
Public Sector Mobile and Flexible Working Award Winners 2007
I've just got back from a very splendid lunch at Wembley Stadium where we held our first 'do' to...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 09/04/2007
Free Software for Charities
Apparantly one thousand charities have so far benefited from free software through one of our most...
Author: ukgovernment Date: 08/30/2007