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Without going into all the gory details, Microsoft&#8217;s funding for rooms, etc. is not available in the way that it has been in the past, so we need to find another way to do things&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now that the summer holidays are over, I&#8217;d like to organise a &#8220;virtual&#8221; user group meeting, over Live Meeting &#8211; and have had some conversations with Microsoft about a session on &#8220;Azure for IT Pros&#8221; (how can we integrate our on-premise infrastructure with Windows Azure, etc.). 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