Welcome to this new blog targeted at  Microsoft partners in Belgium. Goal of this blog is to distribute all partner related readiness information on Microsoft products.

We are pleased to announce that SSCM 2007 SP2 was officially released on October 22nd with Win7. This is great news because SSCM 2007 SP2 was not only released on time to support what’s likely to be the largest ever OS upgrade cycle, but it also contains...

From : http://blogs.technet.com/mdop/archive/2009/10/20/mdop-2009-r2-is-now-available.aspx Don't know what MDOP is yet . MDOP employs six innovative technologies to increase desktop manageability, reduce TCO, and improve overall infrastructure satisfaction...

Desktop Deployment Planning Services (DDPS) can help an organization deploy Microsoft Office or Windows software to increase usage, improve productivity, and lower costs. Your DDPS consultant collaborates with the customer to create a comprehensive deployment...

As of today, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 RTM is available from TechNet Plus Downloads and MSDN Subscriber Downloads . Exchange Server 2010 , the cornerstone of our Unified Communications solution, has long been the choice of organizations like yours...

Microsoft Canada's IT Manager Connection blog recently posted a 24 minutes podcast on Virtualization as part of their Align IT series for IT Managers : Although virtualization technology has been mainstream now for a number of years, it’s still...

Update July 2010 – Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.0 is now available in final version. The Solution Accelerators Team is offering customers and partners added inventory and assessment capabilities with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning...

Microsoft Corp. today announced that it will purchase the Teamprise-related assets of SourceGear LLC, which enable developers using the Eclipse IDE or operating on multiple operating systems, including Unix, Linux and Mac OS X, to build applications with...

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Evaluation Guide for IT Professionals This evaluation guide is designed to give the IT professional an introduction and overview of the SharePoint Server 2010 features that are most pertinent to installing, managing, and...

Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) protects Exchange Server 2010 and Exchange Server 2007 environments against malware and spam. Earlier this week at TechEd in Berlin, Microsoft President Stephen Elop announced the general availability...

Now available from Microsoft Press and TechNet Magazine, a free downloadable e-book with essential guidance on deploying Windows 7 . For additional resources and information on Windows client deployment, visit the TechNet Springboard Series website ....

On Thursday December 3rd, 2009, the Belgian SQL Server User Group (SQLUG.BE) and Microsoft are teaming up to organize the second edition of the Belgian SQL Server Day in Mechelen. With a strong set of sessions and speakers, the opportunity to connect...

Based on the interviews with the nine existing customers, Forrester constructed a TEI framework for a composite organization and the associated ROI analysis illustrating the financial impact areas. As seen in Table 1, the ROI for our composite company...

Based on our interviews with Microsoft customers, Forrester constructed a composite company, a TEI framework, and an associated ROI analysis. Table 1 illustrates the risk-adjusted cash flow for the composite organization based on data and characteristics...

As a partner of Microsoft you are entitled to use different types of pre-sales support. Think about : Ref. Cases, Technical Advisory Services, Technical Sales Assistance, Looking for a Presentation , … Reference Cases : In General Cases in Belgium : http...

Recently published on TechNet & MSDN Subscriber Downloads: Office Professional Plus 2010 beta MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/default.aspx?pv=1:383 TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/default...

A newly updated VMM 2008 R2 Reviewers Guide is now available. The new Guide showcases some of the new features that were shipped in R2 as well as all other core VMM 2008 R2 scenarios. The Guide is available for Field, Partners, and Customers. Please download...

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 is available for public download.  Part of this release is the Beta 2 version of Visual Studio Team System 2010 Lab Management ; an integrated solution to give you all the benefits of virtualization...

Presenters: Arno Mihm, Microsoft Senior Program Manager, Rob Simpson, Microsoft Program Manager. This webcast focuses on virtualizing Microsoft Exchange Server using Microsoft solutions and cover the benefits of using Microsoft virtualization technologies...

Presenters: Suzanne Morgan, Microsoft Senior Program Manager, Lindsey Allen, Principal Program Manager.  This webcast focuses on virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server using Microsoft solutions and cover the benefits of using Microsoft virtualization...

Learn about and download System Center Service Manager Beta 2 , through the power of its integrated platform, reduces costs and improves IT responsiveness. With built-in processes and workflow for incident, problem resolution, change control and its configuration...

The TechNet Belux team just announced that they will visit 3 cities in Belgium to let you discover the recently launched Exchange 2010 . Ilse Van Criekinge will guide you through the product and give an overview of the rich set of technologies related...

Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010 , formerly known as Project “Gemini”, is a data analysis add-in that delivers unmatched computational power directly within Excel 2010. PowerPivot gives users the power to create compelling self-service BI solutions...

Scott Guthrie , Corporate Vice President of Microsoft and well known .NET guru, will be in Belgium for a free event by MSDN and VISUG on 4 December in the afternoon. Scott will be covering topics such as Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4 as well as...

On 16 November 2009, the Forefront Threat Management Gateway product team released their product to manufacturing. Forefront TMG is the next generation of ISA Server. Here are some of the new functionalities in the product: Secure Web Gateway URL filtering...