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TechNet Belux on “Enhancing your Windows 7 deployment with GPO Accelerator”
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over 4 years ago
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Tom Mertens
During this session we'll see how you can use the GPO accelerator kit to enhance your Windows 7 deployment and what you can do to make your systems more secure, more flexible and managed using freely available GPO settings and some tips and tricks from...
System Center Day 2010 session recordings
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over 4 years ago
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Tom Mertens
Arlindo Alves posted the session recordings of the Belgian System Center Day 2010.
Duet Enterprise for SharePoint and SAP: virtual launch summit (1 Feb 2011)
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over 4 years ago
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Tom Mertens
Duet Enterprise is a highly anticipated product that blends SAP applications with Microsoft SharePoint to empower information workers with unified and simplified access to data. Join Microsoft and SAP as we introduce this new product through a one-day...
Online Hands-On Training Exchange Server 2010 for Microsoft Partners
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over 4 years ago
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Tom Mertens
These hands-on labs online (HOLOs) are provided at no charge to Microsoft partners, and provide IT Professionals with the essential information they need to setup, deploy, and configure Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. This 300 level hands-on labs online...
UC Business Value Tool v5 Now Available For Microsoft Partners
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over 4 years ago
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Tom Mertens
The Microsoft Unified Communications Business Value Tool helps partners explore and accelerate opportunities within customer organizations. Partners canto use it to identify business objectives, demonstrate how unified communications solutions can help...
New security baselines and setting packs for Windows Server 2008 R2, Office 2010, Windows 7, and IE8
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over 4 years ago
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Tom Mertens
The Microsoft Solution Accelerators team recently announced the release of new resources that you can use in combination with the Microsoft Security Compliance Manager tool: the Windows Server 2008 R2 Security Baseline and the Office 2010 Security Baseline...
Appear Offline in Lync and other Customizations
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over 4 years ago
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Tom Mertens
Ilse Van Criekinge , technology advisor on Microsoft Unified Communications, explains several customizations in Lync that can be applied via Lync Client Policies , including: appearing offline while signed in, custom presence states, warnings when starting...
New Windows 7 Themes to start 2011
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over 4 years ago
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Tom Mertens
We recently released a set of new freely downloadable Windows 7 themes in the Windows Personalization Gallery . Download: Windows 7 Artic theme Windows 7 Fireworks theme Windows 7 Snow Angels theme Windows 7 Winter theme A bit late now, but nevertheless...
MSDN Belux Live Meetings on Windows Azure
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over 4 years ago
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Tom Mertens
On January 18 and February 1 the first two MSDN Live Meetings of 2011 will take place, both focusing on the Windows Azure Platform. Every Belgian or Luxembourger attendee of either Live Meeting will get a FREE Cloud Power T-shirt . Jan. 18, 2011: The...
Upcoming TechNet Belux webcasts
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over 4 years ago
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Tom Mertens
View the upcoming TechNet Belux webcasts in: English Dutch French English 25/01 - Group policies: Enhancing your Windows 7 deployment using GPO accelerator During this session we’ll see how you can use the GPO accelerator kit to enhance your Windows...
Developing App for Monitoring Lync’s Response Group Queue
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over 4 years ago
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Tom Mertens
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 .
TechDays 2011: Early Bird Pricing Extended Until 28 February 2011
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over 4 years ago
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Tom Mertens
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...
Unified Communications case study from Microsoft IT
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over 3 years ago
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Tom Mertens
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...
How Microsoft IT Deployed FAST Search for SharePoint 2010
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over 3 years ago
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Tom Mertens
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...
System Center Management Pack catalog
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over 3 years ago
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Tom Mertens
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 .
Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 SP1 RTM
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over 3 years ago
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Tom Mertens
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.“
MSDN Belux webcasts on SQL Server self-service BI, FAST Search Server 2010 and Windows Azure
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over 3 years ago
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Tom Mertens
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...
Time Management: Use PowerPivot to Analyze Your Exchange Calendar
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over 3 years ago
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Tom Mertens
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:
Microsoft Lync 2010 Training available for download
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over 3 years ago
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Tom Mertens
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...
Evolution of the Unified Communications Competency
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over 3 years ago
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Tom Mertens
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...
Lync Server 2010 VHD available for download
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over 3 years ago
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Tom Mertens
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...
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 Beta 1 Available
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over 3 years ago
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Tom Mertens
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...
Office 365 @ TechEd 2011 Greatest Hits
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over 3 years ago
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Tom Mertens
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...
New videos on how Microsoft does IT
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over 3 years ago
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Tom Mertens
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...
Dive into the Summer with the newest Microsoft technologies
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over 3 years ago
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Tom Mertens
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...
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