This document provides information and guidelines for making decisions about system architecture for a deployment of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Subjects include system requirements, authentication, and business continuity management. The audiences...

This presentation discusses the best practices for developing games on Windows Phone 7. From a performance point of view, writing managed code can sometimes feel abstracted from the hardware. Learn how .NET and XNA Game Studio put your application together...

These white papers describe the performance and capacity impact of specific feature sets included in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=fd1eac86-ad47-4865-9378-80040d08ac55

The Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK) 9 simplifies the creation, deployment and management of customized Internet Explorer 9 packages. IEAK 9 can be used to configure the out-of-box Internet Explorer 9 experience or to manage user settings after...

The Office for Mac 2011 training downloads include Portable Document Format (.pdf) and PowerPoint (.pptx) versions of all Office 2011 tutorials and videos. Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=3bc6bade-2b14...

Learn how to plan and manage Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 projects by using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010. Also learn what to consider when setting up team development environments...

A security identifier (SID) is a unique value of variable length that is used to identify a security principal or security group in Windows operating systems. Well-known SIDs are a group of SIDs that identify generic users or generic groups. Their values...

Elevation of Privilege (EoP) is the easy way to get started threat modeling. It is a card game that developers, architects or security experts can play. Elevation of Privilege (EoP) is the easy way to get started threat modeling. It is designed to make...

Use the following commands to synchronize time in a workgroup environment or with a non-Windows time server by adding 0x8 parameter: w32tm /config /manualpeerlist: TimeServerFQDNorIPAddress ,0x8 /syncfromflags:MANUAL w32tm /config /update ...

This download contains a variety of user education and training resources for Microsoft Lync, including What's New articles and videos, Quick Start Guides, Work Smart Guides, Short Videos, and Training PowerPoint Presentations. http://www.microsoft...

Helping IT Professionals Better Understand and Maximize Microsoft Security Update Release Information, Processes, Communications, and Tools. Insight into how Microsoft tests security updates (including application-compatibility testing, rootkit detection...

The Lync 2010 training videos are Windows Media Video (.wmv) format versions of the videos presented in Lync 2010 self-paced training courses. These videos can be posted to a company’s intranet site or incorporated into a company’s training...

Web Application Configuration Analyzer (WACA) analyzes server configuration for security best practices related to General Windows, IIS , ASP.NET and SQL Server settings. Web Application Configuration Analyzer (WACA) is a tool that scans a server against...

The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance and best practices for deploying Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 in a virtualized environment with Windows Server® 2008 R2 Hyper V™ technology. This paper has been carefully composed to be...

SharePoint and Azure Development Kit is a training course to help developers integrate SharePoint and Windows Azure. SharePoint 2010 provides many ways to integrate with Windows Azure. From simple SQL Azure data-centric applications to complex workflow...

The ability to virtualize servers during a SharePoint deployment can help administrators develop an efficient architecture. This white paper illustrates best practices for virtualizing SharePoint Server 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V....

The following documentation for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 is provided here. Overview The following documentation for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 is provided here: · Deployment Guide for...

This poster provides a visual reference for understanding key Hyper-V technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. It focuses on architecture, snapshots, live migration, virtual networking, storage, RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory. http://www...

The Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administer and manage Microsoft® SharePoint® Foundation 2010 and Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010. The Microsoft SharePoint Administration...

Brief Description The Lync Server 2010 Resource Kit is the technical reference for the product. This book extends the product planning, deploying, and managing documentation in the Lync Technical Library. This book serves as a companion to the product...

Brief Description This white paper describes recommended database maintenance tasks for SharePoint 2010. The links in this section correspond to separate files available in this download. Download the files most appropriate for you. This white...

Virtual Hard Disk technology has continued to improve release-over–release, both in terms of the scenarios supported (like boot from VHD) as well as overall performance. This paper details the significant improvements in dynamically expanding and...

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 provide the communication platform for developers to rapidly build solutions that integrate and extend communications into their business processes based on familiar tools and skills. This...

This white paper describes the FILESTREAM feature of SQL Server 2008, which allows storage of and efficient access to BLOB data using a combination of SQL Server 2008 and the NTFS file system. It covers choices for BLOB storage, configuring Windows and...

This poster highlights the architecture and feature set of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Aside from showing the high-level architecture, this poster highlights the feature set of Exchange Server 2010. Sections include: Management and Monitoring...