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EduCoMS is the higher and further education community website for IT professionals using Microsoft technologies.

This is your place to share knowledge and best practice with like-minded peers in the education community. You’ll find relevant news, events and case studies to help you in the planning, deployment and management of Microsoft technologies.

Featuring contributions from Microsoft experts within the community, EduCoMS also heavily relies on your contributions to grow and be a useful resource for everyone – so sign up and start posting today!

To celebrate our launch, we will be rewarding every new library post, forum topic and news item with National Book Tokens and awarding a contributor of the month with a ticket to Microsoft Tech Ed 2008 in Barcelona (worth €2,245 exc VAT!) For full details, see our About page.

EduCoMS has been built by Eduserv in association with UCISA and Microsoft. Eduserv is a not-for-profit IT Services group supporting learning and research in the UK.

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Latest Forum

Qualifying Operating Systems - Mac's and Windows created 34 day(s) 17 hour(s) ago by dwatts - /DesktopTools/Vista
Unfied Communication in OCS 2007? created 37 day(s) 23 hour(s) ago by geoffbouch - /CommsCollab/OCS
Unified Messaging in Exchange 2007? created 37 day(s) 23 hour(s) ago by geoffbouch - /CommsCollab/Exchange
Group Policy Preferences created 43 day(s) 21 hour(s) ago by jonoble - /Infrastructure/WindowsServer
Sharepoint as a VLE created 49 day(s) 1 hour(s) ago by dwatts - /CommsCollab/SharePoint
Not able to change "Users must change password at next logon" attribute for Multiple Users simultaneously server 2008 ADUC created 54 day(s) 21 hour(s) ago by IanS - /Infrastructure/WindowsServer
Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer and trouble shooting tools Biztalk created 56 day(s) 22 hour(s) ago by IanS - /ServerApps/BizTalk

News

Vista training video

/DesktopTools/Vista

There's a potentially useful link for Vista training here:

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/snacks

Release Date: 23/10/2008

Year 1 Vulnerability Report

/DesktopTools/Vista

The paper analyses the vulnerability disclosures and security updates for the first year of Windows Vista and looks at it in the context of its predecessor, Windows XP, along with other modern wo...

Release Date: 19/09/2008

Windows Vista Power Savings

/DesktopTools/Vista

Tune Vista and Active Directory power settings to achieve a ‘greener’ IT, as well as references to a case study from the UK.

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