Last week was good, we released this IE9 Beta thing which people like quite a lot – me included.  I’ve embedded all my IE9 videos at the end of this post .  We also flew a Spartan in by jet pack to take over Trafalgar square…I’ve spent most of the weekend playing Halo Reach, which is stunning.  Flying Spartan at the end of this post found by Sara on ubelly.com

• Human PAC-MAN (all kinds of geek awesome) so much work went into this video, I wish I’d made it.
• What Kind of Cloud are You? Huh? Hey? Yeah you. helps you find your fit
• It’s official, this guy is awesome my new Lego disco dude
• 2 Story Concrete Slide in a Home my new slide – I wish
• Get to know IE9 in one minute if only there was a way to learn about IE 9 in a minute…oh wait (it’s also embedded at the end of this post)
• Twitter.com is an IE9 Web Application and so is Facebook (#IE9) two good examples
• Internet Explorer 9 BETA for IT Professionals (#IE9) what IE9 beta means for IT Pros (it’s really important)
• Ed Bott’s on a mission to rid us of XP ‘cos he rocks
• Signature Synchronisation ‘cos someone asked me and I like to answer questions
• Reasons to deploy Silverlight #1  ; #2 ; #3 ;#4 ; #5 ;#6 ; #7

Boy do we have some great stuff coming up for you over the next week but before we get into this week lets take a look at what happened last week…

• New porridge discovered thanks to Microsoft Partner – the great thing about going to events it meeting people who give me porridge suggestions
• DNSSEC explained beautifully by Mark Minasi – DNSSEC and other cool stuff explained by a favourite windows guru of mine
• Reasons to deploy Silverlight #1   and Reasons to deploy Silverlight #2 – there are lots of these, they’ll be a special edition of the weekly wrap off to cover off the series.
• Windows Intune install in under 4 minutes – Windows Intune is quick to install, thanks to TechNet Malaysia for picking this one up too
• Tiny USB Key – I’ve got a cool 4gb USB storage credit card courtesy of @deepfat, but this is a cool nubbin
• What’s it like taking a Microsoft exam – the answer is not the most fun you can have sat in a small, grey room on your own but pretty close
• Decorate your Cubicle  – with “snazzy” wallpaper
• The argument for Silverlight as part of your corporate optimized desktop – Silverlight shoud be part of your standard.  That’s about it really.  As someone tweeted me “it’s a no brainer”
• Robot technology – smart spidery robot
• Amulet voice control hits the FCC – coolest remote ever, oh an it’s now hit RTM!!!
• Store Your Physical Media On The Cloud (Shelf) – I want this, I want this, I want this

Well that was a fun week for me, you might not have realised it but I wasn’t in the office I was enjoying the sun on the isle of Evissa.

However before I went I blogged up with all this goodness…

• The best way to enjoy Facebook chat Windows Live Messenger, the Beta Refresh and Facebook
• The best way to enjoy email Why Google is not a business platform
• The best way to help your operators with SCOM Thoughts on OpsMgr: SCOM Operators Basics SuperFlow
• The best ways to virtualise IE6 Excellent paper on IE6 compatibility with Windows 7
• The best album cover for a while Hurley by Weezer
• The best way to Attend meetings in your cowboy hat
• The best way to enjoy the future Breaking: IT Pros have a future with the cloud
• The best of the best of the best The book that stuns everyone in the office
• The best wishes It’s my birthday soon, please can I have this
• The best features Little things in Windows 7 still make me smile
• The best Geek poetry
• The best not very new thing Another not-very-revolutionary feature: Gmail does “undo send”
• The best way to get started with the best Microsoft Online Services Setup Accelerator

I can’t say it was the best week, but it wasn’t far off.

This week my boss caught me enjoying too many Chai Tea lattes (above).  You might be interested in how we work around, it’s a bit like this.  You can’t see the fancy dress stuff on the other side of the room in this shot…

• Resources for BPOS and Exchange Online are useful
• Scenarios where BPOS is brilliant helps put the tech into context
• Great looking Media Center remote for WP7 is an amazing sign of what’s to come with WP7
• Multiple email addresses and BPOS Exchange Online explains how one BPOS subscription can accept email from multiple domains
• Business Productivity Online Standard Suite Deployment Guide helps with deployment of BPOS
• Stunning list of game titles for Windows Phone 7 shows how XBOX Live on Windows Phone 7 ROCKS!!
• Manually configure Outlook 2010 for Exchange Online (BPOS) because sometimes you need to and it’s not that obvious
• 6 Steps to real enterprise email with BPOS that’s all it takes to setup Exchange Online.  Six simple steps.

Eek I totally forgot to post the wrap up for last week, here we go

• 6 Steps to real enterprise email with BPOS will help you get started with BPOS, more on BPOS this week
• Tech·Ed 2010 is coming #TEE10 will fill you in on TechEd Europe 2010
• When to use i.e. and e.g.  will help you out with good explanations and examples and is funny
• Blog Wrap Up Creator (a tool by me) will create posts like this in a single click
• SharePoint Saturday will give you something to do on a Saturday in Birmingham
• Windows Intune Update Management will help you understand Windows Intune some more
• Gingerbread porridge will make your tummy feel nice and we all like that.

Week 6 at Microsoft was, predictably, brilliant.  Great stuff going on here.

• One love for OneNote shows how good a personal productivity tool OneNote is
• Getting to know Windows Intune part 2 shows how to use more of Windows Intune
• User Account Control explained really well shows you why its a good idea and what it’s really doing
• Porridge flavours shows you I’m a porridge geek
• Travel Coffee Maker shows you I’m a coffee geek
• IE9 Platform Preview 4 shows you that Chrome is far from revolutionary (along with this video from @andspo)
• Learn more about Windows XP video shows you that Windows XP is as older than DVD and streaming video
• Getting to know Windows Intune shows you what Intune is all about
• The Goonies 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition shows you that I know how to do the truffle shuffle
• Team night out shows you that softies know how to kick it!

A great week recovering from a massive internal conference and getting to learn what this Microsoft place is all about.  With my chip firmly implanted (there is no chip by the way.  I’m Joking.  No I’m not. Yes I am) I’m getting into swing.  Most of this week I’ve spent delving into Intune and setting up my new demo beast…a Core i7 720 8GB monster from HP…un-boxing coming soon,  when I can find my camera.  So with that most of this week was fun stuff rather than technical depth.

• Voice activated cars because you talk to yourself so why not have someone listen
• Back to the Future–the hover board lives! because they really are very cool
• The largest photo on earth care of Silverlight, Azure and Sony. because you NEED 1 billion pixel photography in your life baby!
• Apple boo boo? Try a band aid because it’s fun
• Kinect for Xbox 360  because it’s the most fun you can have jumping about like a loon unless your Steveb
• Why VHDs are ace because they’re virtual and hard and disky
• Bring on the wooden phone because organic based resin has the potential to do more than you can even think about right now
• Microsoft Certification Videos because I’ve interviewed the last guy and not the rest and that’s the effect of certifications

Next week I’ll have stuff on the Intune Beta (no I will have it this time) and some other stuff.

As usual this is my weekly wrap up of all the stuff I’ve posted to my blogs over the past week, a week where I was at a massive internal conference that was super awesome (you won’t believe what this picture is)  All the following were pre-posted, so nothing overly topical but some fun stuff, like mad-as-a-bag-of-frogs coffee and some really good pointers to great office resources.

• Tools to help you deploy Office 2010
• Have you ever seen a cooler watch?
• Why all Exchange ActiveSync experiences aren’t the same…
• Confused about deploying Windows 7? Try this…
• Ten principles for good design
• Office 2010 Compatibility
• How to Take Full Advantage of Your Solid-State Drive
• Maple Bacon Coffee
• Windows Azure Platform Appliance great vid

What’s on the cards for this week….InTune (hopefully), more on Windows 7 deployment and a little BPOS and probably some random stuff as well as some Atlantan thoughts and the usual helping of off topic fun.

Something I want to post is a wrap up of the week for the stuff I’ve blogged – long may it continue – this includes everything from my fire hose and not just tech stuff.  This week was my 3rd week at Microsoft and I already know I’m going to like it here…they’re a good bunch.  So to the stuff…

One thing that’s helped me get to know people here is the Outlook Social Connector: Get your social updates in Outlook

PDC10 is happening in Seattle this year, getting attendees closer to the dudes who make the cool stuff

What ever you do WAIK me up before you go go if you’re looking into deployment its the starting point…sorry for the puns awsome as @marcholmes described them!

Azure in a box is some info and thoughts on why containers are cool

What am I doing here… still not too sure, but it’s fun!

Brilliant video from top race drivers on why your really need a top team behind you Lewis & Jenson, one car, no team

Walk the tube because it’s healthier and you get less black snot!

I finally have a blue badge… enough said there I think

Water Walking Ball because all evangelists must learn to walk on water and this seems like a great hack.