NIMTUG

As you may have heard Jesse Liberty (Silverlight Guru) is over this side of the pond during April and will be coming to Belfast on Thursday 22nd April . We have a choice on the talk we want Jesse to do on the night and we’re opening it up to the NIMTUG...

As you may have heard Jesse Liberty (Silverlight Guru) is over this side of the pond during April and will be coming to Belfast on Thursday 22nd April . http://blogs.silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/archive/2010/02/15/the-united-kingdom-amp-the-republic...

This session will give an overview of Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform offering: Windows Azure. The session will explain what’s included in Windows Azure and the Windows Azure application Fabric and why these developments important to customers of...

This is a fairly common error. For the most common causes you will find you solution here . Recently however I found that the article was not 100% the solution to my problem, but it reminded me to look in the Sft-server.log file. In this instance the...

Last month Damien blogged about an offer for NIMTUG members from O’Reilly ( Special offer from O'Reilly for NIMTUG members - Damien McGivern ). We also have an some offers from Apress DISCOUNTS OFF APRESS BOOKS : User Group members receive a 35% discount...

Along with your 35% discount off print books, you can now get 45% off all ebooks you purchase direct from oreilly.com for a limited time. When you buy an O'Reilly ebook you get lifetime access to the book, and whenever possible we make it available...

There is a good blog on TechNet Ireland - IT Pro Blog by our mate Wilbour Craddock with links to a Resource Guide to Free Microsoft Software and Online Services. Have a look I’m sure that you’ll find something new!! Microsoft TechNet Ireland Blog : Resource...

Last nights NIMTUG event was great and we had a great turn out. Thanks Darragh for speaking and Ciaran for organising it. We’ve posted the slides and photos to the NIMTUG site and we’ll get the recording of the event up as quick as we can.

After a bit of a break ;), we’re back with an event next week on Thurs 26 Nov where Daragh Morrissey from Microsoft Ireland will be giving an overview of the up and coming SharePoint 2010 product due for next year. For more details and a link to the registration...

As the App-V landing page suggest, App-V 4.5 SP1 is out (late october has passed it seems). The release notes make interestinng reading. Most anticipated are support for the Windows 7 and 2008 R2 platforms. The Applocker feature is interesting, and Tim...

Earlier today I received an error while running an update script on a client's SQL Server 2008 database. The script was trying to add FTS to a new field in the table The error code 30080 had the message The full-text population on table [table name...

I was looking up some documentation on MSDN today I noticed a new button has appeared in the bottom right hand corner named Switch View. (Not sure how long it has been there!)     Clicking on the button give you the option of changing the style...

Digital Circle are hosting a Windows 7 Lunchtime Launch to celebrate the release of this operating system on Thursday 22 October, a major milestone for Windows, with some finger food and some networking (and possibly some presentations) For more information...

Just had the MS Press email land in my email this morning and again there is another free eBook offered this time on SQL Server 2008. You can find the link half way down the MS Learning: SQL Server -Training Portal under Special Offers. I was asked last...

One of the questions I get asked lot is { our kid | son | daughter | parent | granny | dog | add own tag } (* delete appropriately) is wanting to start programming what’s the best place to start this thing called .Net? I while back I posted about the...