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October 18, 2006 - Volume 8, Issue 21

TechNet Archive — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:21:00 GMT

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October 4, 2006 - Volume 8, Issue 20

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September 20, 2006 - Volume 8, Issue 19

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September 6, 2006 - Volume 8, Issue 18

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

TechNet Archive — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:37:00 GMT

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

TechNet Archive — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:37:00 GMT

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

TechNet Archive — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:22:00 GMT

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.

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8 New SQL Server 2005 Report Packs!

TechNet Archive — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:58:00 GMT

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

TechNet Archive — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:10:00 GMT

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"

TechNet Archive — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:40:00 GMT

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