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October 18, 2006 - Volume 8, Issue 21

2006-11-16T18:21:00Z

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October 4, 2006 - Volume 8, Issue 20

2006-11-16T18:20:00Z

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September 20, 2006 - Volume 8, Issue 19

2006-11-16T18:18:00Z

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September 6, 2006 - Volume 8, Issue 18

2006-11-16T18:10:00Z

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May 17, 2006 - TechNet Evening - Branch Office Scenarios in Depth

2006-10-26T18:37:00Z

May 17, 2006 - TechNet Evening - Branch Office Scenarios in Depth
Kurt Roggen (Consultant and trainer, Guidance)
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June 7, 2006 - TechNet Evening - Exchange Server "12" Technical Preview

2006-10-26T16:37:00Z

June 7, 2006 - TechNet Evening - Exchange Server "12" Technical PreviewArlindo Alves (IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Belgium & Luxembourg)
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The Present and Future of Client Security

2006-07-11T11:22:00Z

Check out these webcasts to get an in-depth preview of Windows Vista's holistic approach to security. From enhanced intrusion prevention to improved network access protection, learn how its new or improved security features can help you provide a usable, manageable, and secure experience in corporate, mobile, and roaming environments.

Click here to know more (in English)

8 New SQL Server 2005 Report Packs!

2006-03-27T15:58:00Z

SQL Server’s presence at Convergence represents how Dynamics is committed to enabling their customers to improve business insight through the SQL Server BI platform. In addition to providing information about SQL Server 2005 and its BI technologies, the team announced several new and updated Report Packs to help customers quickly design and deploy reports.

Based on the successful release of SQL Server 2000 Report Packs (more than 147,000 downloaded), the team has released six updated and three new Report Packs for SQL Server 2005.

They are available today as a free Web download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D81722CE-408C-4FB6-A429-2A7ECD62F674&displaylang=en.

We are also launching a new site designed to solicit customer and partner feedback: http://codegallery.gotdotnet.com/sqlrptpack (membership is free).

Customer/Partner Benefits:

Allow customers to kick start creating reports for applications and speed up report design and deployment
Greater productivity and efficiency for all users from the platform to the application
Enable partners to accelerate development of their solutions and help their customers take advantage of advanced business insight to drive business success

The 8 new/updated Report Packs include:

SQL Server 2005 Integration Services
SharePoint Portal Server 2003
Internet Information Services (IIS) Logs
Microsoft Axapta 3.0
Microsoft Great Plains 8.0
Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains 9.0
Microsoft Dynamics Navision 4.0
Financial Reporting

(re-post from Marcel's Blog in Switzerland)

Top Security/Interopability Sessions from IT-Forum now on IT's Showtime! by TechNet

2006-03-21T14:10:00Z

Top rated IT Forum presentations are now available in high resolution video on-demand at IT’s Showtime! by TechNet.

Is That Application Really Safe? -- by Jesper Johansson

How many times has a vendor told you that "Sure this app is safe. We use encryption." But is it possible to really know whether the app is safe without performing a full analysis? Yes, there are some red flags that you should look out for.

Security Policy Management -- by Jesper Johansson

In Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, Microsoft shipped its first new security policy tool in six years. The Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) can help you author, tailor and apply policy. As with any security policy tool it can also completely disable your network. To learn more about how to manage security policies and how to use the Security Configuration Wizard, watch this session where Jesper Johansson discusses the internals of the security configuration wizard and how to make use of it to author policies in your organization.

AJAX Web-Apps and ASP.NET - codename "Atlas"

2006-03-21T11:40:00Z

Here some information from the developer-world that might also be of interest to you. AJAX (short for Async Javascript And XML technologies) allows for very nice interactive web-applications (e.g. check out the beta of Windows Live Mail on http://ideas.live.com/), but in my opinion it's quite hard to implement. This is why I find the "Atlas" news from our msdn-colleagues interesting:

The ASP.NET team has just released the March CTP for ASP.NET codename "Atlas," a set of new Web development technologies that integrate client script libraries with the ASP.NET 2.0 server-based development framework. In addition, "Atlas" offers the same type of development platform for client-based Web pages that ASP.NET offers for server-based pages. And because "Atlas" is an extension of ASP.NET, it is fully integrated with server-based services. "Atlas" makes it possible to easily take advantage of AJAX techniques on the Web, and enables you to create ASP.NET pages with a rich, responsive UI and server communication. However, "Atlas" isn't just for ASP.NET. You can take advantage of the rich client framework to easily build client-centric Web applications that integrate with any back-end data provider.

Andreas

eLearning - SQL Server 2005 BI services

2006-03-21T11:11:00Z

While we don't yet have MOC-traininings on SQL Server BI, there is a limited-time offer of free Microsoft eLearning courses.

Course 2942: New Features of Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Analysis Services
Summary: This course is a technically deep learning experience for architects, systems engineers, systems administrators, solution developers, or application developers. The course is designed for either the planning/design phase of technology adoption, or on implementation issues specific to the build, deployment and management phases. The course provides detailed reference content and in-depth practical and hands-on activities.
Audience: IT Pro
Available Offline: Yes
Price: $99.00 - NOW FREE (90-day subscription)

Course 2943: Updating Your Data ETL Skills to Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Integration Services
Summary: This course is a technically deep learning experience for architects, systems engineers, systems administrators, solution developers, or application developers. The course is designed for either the planning/design phase of technology adoption, or on implementation issues specific to the build, deployment and management phases. The course provides detailed reference content and in-depth practical and hands-on activities.
Audience: IT Pro
Available Offline: Yes
Price: $99.00 - NOW FREE (90-day subscription)

Course 2944: Updating Your Reporting Skills to Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Reporting Services
Summary: This course is a technically deep learning experience for architects, systems engineers, systems administrators, solution developers, or application developers. The Course is designed for either the planning/design phase of technology adoption, or on implementation issues specific to the build, deployment and management phases. The Course provides detailed reference content and in-depth practical and hands-on activities.
Audience: IT Pro
Available Offline: Yes
Price: $99.00 - NOW FREE (90-day subscription)

New Microsoft Security Bulletin - Mar 14th, 06

2006-03-15T11:44:00Z

You find the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for March, 2006 here. It contains fixes for 1 critical (Microsoft Office) and 1 important (Microsoft Windows) vulnerability.

IT's Showtime - free DVD-quality webcasts - now with RSS feed

2006-03-13T13:05:00Z

IT's Showtime by Technet provides free webcasts. After selecting your country/language you can subscribe to an RSS feed, so that you get updated about new content automatically.

Andreas

Microsoft Security Bulletins - last update Feb 14th, next planned for Mar 14th

2006-03-13T12:46:00Z

You find the Microsoft Security Bulletin for February, 2006 here, it covers 2 critical and 5 important updates. Read the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification about the March bulletin here.

Live Webcasts: Getting to Know Exchange "12"

2006-03-13T12:42:00Z

Preview the next version of Exchange Server, code-named Exchange "12," through four in-depth webcasts taking place in March. Topics include: administrative control, client access, Web services, and more.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/tnexchangeserver.mspx#Exchange%20'12'%20Preview

This site also provides free in-depth webcasts on Exchange 2003.

Andreas