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 planning process going with automated discovery and...

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 partner and systems integrator to perform a 5-day...

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 professionals, architects and ISVs. After a short...

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.“

  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: the Early Bird pricing period has been extended...

The session recordings of TechEd Europe 2010 are now available online . Here are already the top 10 best rated sessions of TechEd Online, but you’ll find many more on the website: The Case of the Unexplained, 2010: Troubleshooting with Mark Russinovich Useful Hacker Techniques: Which Part of Hackers...

LiveMeeting in Dutch - TechNet Licensing: Server virtualisatie (25 November) Servervirtualisatie: de basisprincipes van het licentiebeleid voor servers in een virtuele omgeving zijn vrij eenvoudig. Maar de technologie wordt ingewikkelder en dus ook de licenties: Kort overzicht van de basisregels voor...

Check out the full website: French website Dutch website And detailed topics (French is below): 1. Jobverlies 8. Kostenbesparing 2. De rol van IT verandert 9. Cloud Types 3. Jobvooruitzichten 10. Aan de slag met de cloud 4. Datacontrole 11. Virtuele machines = Cloud Computing? 5. Integratie 12. Veiligheid...

The increasing use of virtual machines - for purposes ranging from support of older operating system environments to power savings - has created new challenges for IT. In particular, virtual machines may be left offline (stored in a non-operating state) for extended periods of time, which conserves resources...

As part of their “Dive into it” summer campaign, TechNet Belux has posted several learning resources on Virtualization, organized per the time you can spend on it. The page is available in two languages, but most resources on the respective pages are in English: Dutch version French version

The System Center User Group Belgium invites you to their next free event, where they’ll show you how we can use Opalis and the System Center suite together to make your life easier! With real life examples, like maintenance mode due to server patching, using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) as...

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 is an agentless tool designed to simplify and streamline the IT infrastructure planning process across multiple scenarios through network-wide automated discovery and assessments. This Solution Accelerator performs an inventory of heterogeneous...

Even though it’s summer, the MSDN and TechNet teams are not relaxing on a sunny beach. Instead they are providing you some nice learning materials to sharpen your technical skills. And it doesn’t have to take a lot of your time; they start with info that can be digested in a few minutes already… The...

Download Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 . Install either the 32-bit or 64-bit version, depending on what version of Windows 7 you’re using. Next, go to Start / Control Panel and click on Programs. Next, you’ll see an option to Turn Window features on or off. Click on this option. Under...

Quantifying the business value of IT investment is vital in today's tough economic climate. Every investment is expected to show strong and tangible financial return. To help organizations assess the economic impact (business value) of deploying Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V), Microsoft...

Community Day is back with the Fourth Edition of the biggest community event in Belgium! No less than 14 Microsoft user groups combine their efforts to organize this unique knowledge-sharing and networking event . With so many new Microsoft product and technology releases, the content of this Community...

TechEd Europe announced on Twitter that the conference will be held in Berlin 8-12 November 2010 . Register before 5 July and save 500 EUR. Join the mailing list to get the latest news and get informed when registration opens. Technorati Tags: teched , teched europe , tee10 , berlin

The first version of Microsoft’s Datacenter Management and Virtualization Enablement Kit for System Integrators is now available. The System Center Enablement Kit is a new initiative that brings all the components together for Services Integration consulting partners to deliver high-quality, repeatable...

Microsoft’s Chief Information Officer Tony Scott talks about critical trends facing the IT industry in 2010, including cloud computing, virtualization, and the ongoing need to reduce costs and improve efficiency. More insights on how Microsoft Does IT at http://www.microsoft.com/itshowcase . You can...

Looking at Desktop Virtualization including VDI? Thinking about Windows 7 migration? Join Microsoft and industry experts online on Thursday 18 March from 17:00 till 18:00 CET for the Desktop Virtualization Hour .

Mitch Tulloch has updated his free Microsoft Press e-book “ Understanding Microsoft Virtualization R2 Solutions ”. Now available for download in XPS format and in PDF format . Six chapters adding up to 466 pages: Why Virtualization? Server Virtualization Local Desktop Virtualization Remote Desktop Virtualization...

Dutch sessions: (for French sessions, see below) Beste praktijken voor de installatie van OpsMgr R2, informatie uit de praktijk (12 januari) Neem deel aan deze infosessie over de uitrolling van OpsMgr 2007 R2, waarin we bespreken wat er wel en niet werkte bij de uitrolling van OpsMgr 2007 R2 in...

Download a poster that provides a visual reference for understanding key technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2 . It focuses on Active Directory Domain Services, Hyper-V, Internet Information Services, Remote Desktop Services (including Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)), BranchCache, and DirectAccess...

Dell - Enabling The Virtual Data Center Simply & Cost Effectively Microsoft and Dell team up to present how the Dell PowerEdge Servers and the Dell EqualLogic PS Series virtualized iSCSI SANs integrate directly with Microsoft WS 2008 Hyper-V to provide a fully virtualized infrastructure that simply...

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 technologies instead of technologies from key competitors...