TechEd is for technology professionals involved in building, deploying or maintaining IT solutions using Microsoft technologies. TechEd Europe will offer four days of more than 1,000 education opportunities and hands-on training across the full range...

We’ve recently announced the availability of brand new Lync awareness and end-user education materials , including posters, table tents, stickers, and multiple quick reference cards. These kinds of materials are typically leveraged in readiness &...

Paul Andrew recently blogged about two training courses for implementing SharePoint solutions . Each of these courses contains 15 modules representing 5 days of instructor led training and each module includes video lessons, hands-on labs, and a quiz...

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is an agentless inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that can securely assess IT environments for various platform migrations - including the Windows Azure Platform. It gets your cloud migration...

The Belgian SQL Server User Group has announced their SQL Server Days 2011 on 14 & 15 November. With top Belgian and international speakers, this event is not to be missed by SQL Server experts.

SQL Pass invites SQL Server professionals to their 24 hours webcasts series as a preview on their 2011 summit . From their website “ 24 Hours of PASS: Summit Preview ”: Indulge in free online SQL Server training with the upcoming 24 Hours of PASS: Summit...

We are publicly announcing the release of an update to the Desktop Virtualization with System Center and Citrix Systems Integrator Partner Enablement Kit . This kit provides the Virtual Images and documentation required for a consultant of a Microsoft...

The Belgian Information Worker User Group ( BIWUG ) has announced their next session about SharePoint 2010 on Thursday September 8th 2011 in Huizingen at RealDolmen. Agenda 18:00-18:30 Welcome 18:30-19:30 SQL Server for SharePoint Geeks (speaker: Thomas...

Microsoft Press announced that they are offering Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime by Katherine Murray, as a free eBook. You can read the full announcement at the Microsoft Press blog . Table of contents Part I...

The System Center User Group Belgium is getting ready to start again after the summer holidays. If you want to get updates via e-mail from them directly, please sign up ; it’s free! System Center Orchestrator: notes from the field Date: September 29,...

News from the MSDN Belux & TechNet Belux teams… Make the most of your summer: this quieter part of the year means there's time to spend on something that really interests you. Stay tuned on the very latest Microsoft technologies for developers, IT...

Microsoft IT Showcase released new videos on different topics over the past months. These videos explain best practices and experiences from Microsoft IT that give a unique, inside view into how Microsoft plans for, deploys, and manages its own enterprise...

Some great sessions on Office 365 from TechEd 2011 North America: Overview Microsoft Office 365: The Future of Productivity , Eron Kelly Microsoft SharePoint Online Overview , Mark Kashman Microsoft Lync 2010: In the Cloud , Ziv Fass Developer Collaboration...

The next version of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit - version 2012 - is available for beta download since a few weeks. To participate, register for MDT 2012 Beta 1 at Microsoft Connect. Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 Beta 1 rides the next wave...

The “ VHD Test Drive - Lync Server 2010 ” download comes as a pre-configured set of VHD's and enables you to fully evaluate Microsoft Lync Server 2010. Microsoft Lync Server 2010 combined with Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1 Unified Messaging and Microsoft...

A few weeks ago, Ian Hameroff announced on his Exchange Partner Marketing blog that the Unified Communication competency in the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) will split to become the Messaging competency and the Communications competency in October...

The Lync Training Download Package contains all of the available training and user education resources for Lync. The training strategy and resources that offer the best return on investment vary depending on the user profile and the product features deployed...

From the BizIntelligence.TV blog: “Calendar Analytics is a time management application that pulls information from Exchange and visualizes that data in a very easy to use Excel dashboard.” Read more about it or watch the video:

May 10, 2011: SQL Server self-service BI Abstract In this fast paced and ever changing world, insight in your company’s data becomes more and more crucial to stay ahead. Power users need this insight in data now, not in the next week or month. Due to...

Michael Kleef announced the RTM of Service Pack 1 for Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 : “SP1 will be made generally available for download on February 22.“

If you are looking for information on the different Management Packs that are currently available for the different products in the System Center suite, check out the list of System Center Management Packs on Microsoft Pinpoint .

As part of its migration to SharePoint 2010, Microsoft IT recently deployed FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 and the enterprise search service for its hosted environments. The goal was to provide an experience that is more efficient and effective for its...

Microsoft IT used a business value framework developed by Forrester Research to more precisely measure the overall business impact and the return on investment of unified communications at Microsoft. The analysis showed that the UC solution was generating...

  Register now with extended Early Bird pricing Discover new technologies and increase your knowledge about current technologies on April 26, 27 and 28 at Metropolis, Antwerp. Do you want to attend at a discounted price? We have good news for you...

Frederik Lefevre wrote a post on how he could easily create a Response Group Service queue monitoring application using queries on the databases used by Lync .