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Microsoft System Center Advisor (preview)—Log Management, Capacity Planning, Update Assessment, Malware Status
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7 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
For IT executives and your teams, this is worth going to ‘ Advisor Limited Public Preview’ service: Collect, combine, correlate and visualize all your machine data. Separate the signal from the noise with simple, powerful log management tools. Collect...
Three lessons for career growth
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7 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
I am fortunate to work with top executives worldwide. I gain added insights from the hundreds of interviews with notable leaders. There are three common lessons to learn from and then implement for stellar career growth. Lesson 1: Be challenged and seek...
Register for June 17 ACM Learning Webinar: "The Marriage of BI and Big Data—Business unIntelligence"
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8 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
Register TODAY to attend our next free ACM Learning Webinar, "The Marriage of BI and Big Data—Business unIntelligence," presented on June 17 at 12 pm ET (11 am CT/10 am MT/9 am PT/4 pm GMT). Barry Devlin, Founder and Principal of 9sight Consulting...
Skype real-time translation breakthrough demoed at the Code Conference—watch it!
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8 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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As noted in this Microsoft blog , at the inaugural Code Conference (#CodeCon), Satya Nadella discussed his views on a more personal, more human era of computing, and in the blog there is a demonstration of an exciting new capability Microsoft is developing...
Chat with Leslie Lamport ACM Turing Award Recipient in 2014 (Nobel Prize of Computing); World-Renowned Distinguished Researcher
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8 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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* Bill Gates indicates “As a leader in defining many of the key concepts of distributed computing that enable today’s mission-critical computer systems, Leslie has done great things not just for the field of computer science, but also in helping make...
Ethics in IT: Making it Personal—Meet up roundtable Monday June 9th
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8 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
We assume that our employers, customers, and colleagues are be guided by ethical principles. So, we may not necessarily think too close to home. Although it would be difficult to be completely prepared for an ethically challenging situation...
New Surface Offerings: Livestream New York City Microsoft Surface event begins at 11 am EST May 20th
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8 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
The NYC livestream #surface event begins at 11 am EST. Here is the link: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us Surface -- designed to be the one device for everything in your life. Every Surface offers ports, Office compatibility, and Covers. Whatever...
Microsoft Azure and SAP expanded partnership meeting diverse needs of the enterprise
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8 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
I found this news of great interest to the enterprise after speaking to my enterprise colleagues. An extension of the 20 year partnership between Microsoft and SAP was announced today in a post from Takeshi Numoto , corporate vice-president, cloud and...
Chat with Richard Longworth, Disruptive Thinker, Educator, Community Advocate, Website Developer, Writer & Blogger
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8 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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PREVIOUS: College Professor, Capilano University Vancouver; Programmer & Systems Analyst, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Montreal; Database Designer, Federal Business Development Bank Montreal RECENT: Independent Website Developer for community based...
Microsoft Virtual Academy 2 millionth member wins for country
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8 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
Check out the latest courses from the Microsoft Virtual Academy ? MVA is approaching 2 million members! The 2,000,000 th member wins for their entire country -- all MVA users from that country will get a bonus of 100 MVA points per person!
MVP Blogs Spotlight: Mentoring Imagine Cup, PowerShell Summit, Battle of the Lowlands, Using Microsoft’s Entity Framework, Best Practices Friday 5
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8 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
Being a Mentor in the Imagine Cup Battle of the Lowlands PowerShell Summit North America 2014 Creating Unit Test for Projects Using Microsoft’s Entity Framework Friday Five - April 28, 2014
OneDrive for Business Increases Storage from 25GB to 1TB Per User
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8 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
For more details go here ! Summary of notable items quoted from the link: First , we will be increasing OneDrive for Business storage from 25GB to 1TB per user. Second , all Office 365 ProPlus customers will get 1TB of OneDrive for Business storage per...
Azure massive enhancements with VM, Networking, Storage, Remote App, API Management, Hybrid Connections, Cache, Store
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8 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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Here is a summary quoted from Scott Guhtrie’s blog post : Virtual Machines: Integrated Security Extensions including Built-in Anti-Virus Support and Support for Capturing VM images in the portal Networking: ExpressRoute General Availability, Multiple...
Journal: ITU WSIS Geneva, Think Tank LA, PACE Washington DC, IFIP GA Vienna, IEA GIS New York, FEAPO LA, World CIO Forum Beijing, EU E-Skills Brussels
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8 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
I am travelling much of this year and providing an update of my activities. The resulting articles and interviews will provides insights to you as IT executives to ensure you have the latest information to support your work and the goals of your organization...
Outlook.com best-of-breed over competitors by introducing the most sophisticated rules and features in webmail
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8 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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The Advanced Rules and three other features provide the functionality you need to keep your inbox in top shape and see the emails that matters. With typically 184 emails in a person’s inbox, 28 received each day, and Outlook.com customers using the Reply...
Canadian MVP Consumer Camp
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8 months ago
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Anthony Bartolo
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Microsoft Canada is organizing the first ever Canadian MVP Consumer Camp on Thursday, May 29 th at the Microsoft Store at Square One Shopping Centre in Mississauga from 4pm to 9pm. Members of Microsoft's Developer Experience & Evangelism team...
Chat with Simon Dixon, Co-Founder, CEO and Author of 'Bank to the Future', Global Top Innovation Leader and Entrepreneur
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8 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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Simon Dixon was originally trained as an economist before starting his career in investment banking. In his career he was originally a trader before moving into corporate finance where he helped venture capitalists exit their companies onto the London...
SecTor Early Bird Pricing Ends May 16th—Canada’s largest IT security conference
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8 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
SecTor Early Bird Pricing Ends May 16th Canada’s largest IT security conference takes place on October 21st & 22nd with an optional training day on the 20th. Take advantage of current early bird rates and Register Now . Early Bird: until May 16th ...
Chat with Yasas Abeywickrama Global Top Young Business, IT Professional, Entrepreneur and Author
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8 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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Yasas V. Abeywickrama was recognised in 2003 by CIMA (UK) as an up and coming business leader for the future. In 2009 he was named the Young Professional of the Year by Professions Australia. In 2011, Yasas was recognised with a TOYP award (Ten Outstanding...
Microsoft Azure Symbol/Icon Set and Design Patterns
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8 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
These recommendations came up via a query in one of the groups I belong to so I am sharing with you: Microsoft Azure Symbol/Icon Set: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=41937 Common design patterns: http://azure.microsoft.com...
Microsoft Canada Excellence Centre in Vancouver
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8 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
It was recently announced that MS Canada will be opening a brand new training and research centre at Vancouver’s downtown Pacific Centre mall. The Microsoft Canada Excellence Centre will create 400 new jobs, which will focus on the “mobile...
Spotlighting MVP award program blogs
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8 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
Friday Five Top Tips - April 28, 2014 1. Alternate Username for ADFS 3.0 and #Office365 By Office 365 MVP Sean McNeill 2. Office 365 Password Expiration Policy By CRM MVP Donna Edwards 3. Using the SSIS OData Source Connector With SharePoint Online...
Top Support Solutions Blog for IT Pro and Developer Products and Top Support Solutions App
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8 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
Check out the Top Support Solutions blog , which is blog that is maintained by Microsoft Support for IT Pro and Developer products. These are the top content solutions Microsoft is providing to their customers to get important issues resolved. Solutions...
MVA Course Of The Week and Live Event: Creating Windows Store Apps Using Visual Basic, DevOps an IT Pro Guide
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8 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
MVA Course Of The Week Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) offers online Microsoft training delivered by experts to help technologists continually learn, with hundreds of courses. Upcoming Live Event: DevOps: An IT Pro Guide – May 7, 2014. DevOps is one of...
Webcast Spotlight on Getting Started with Project Pro for O365 and using it with Project Online
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8 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
May 6th 2014 9:00 AM PST This session will give an introduction to Project Pro for Office 365, compare it to Project Professional 2013 and find it to be the exact same thing (almost!) and will go on to see how Project Pro for Office 365 can be used in...
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