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Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals or MVPs top-ranking independent experts and resources available to YOU
Stephen.Ibaraki
There are independent experts awarded by Microsoft annually and they can be a great asset to you when you need elite support. Who are MVPs? As noted in partial extracts from a reference letter by Steven Guggenheimer Corporate Vice President Developer Experience & Evangelism: The Microsoft MVP Award...
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MVP Blog: Open Sourcing and ASP.NET with "The Scotts"
Stephen.Ibaraki
Scott Hunter and Scott Hanselman from the Web Platform and Tools division on what's new in open sourcing and ASP.NET http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mvpawardprogram/archive/2014/11/25/open-sourcing-and-asp-net-with-quot-the-scotts-quot.aspx
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MVP top tips: PowerShell and SQL Stored Procedure
Stephen.Ibaraki
From Lync MVP Desmond Lee which is the 45 th in the series. First paragraphs: Quoted from the link to the full article : “PowerShell is the window to managing many aspects of a Lync Server 201x environment. Coupled with the deployment of the Monitoring Server service (or separate role in 2010), extensive...
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MVP top tips: Visualizing SharePoint farm with PowerShell, Package management for PowerShell Modules with PowerShellGet
Stephen.Ibaraki
These useful lessons are shared from Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals: This post on Visualizing SharePoint farm with PowerShell was written PowerShell MVP Nik Charlebois Quoted from Nik’s post: “How often have you wished that you could easily press a button and get an exact picture of all the servers...
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MVP top article: Acceptance Testing Made Easy with F# and Canopy
Stephen.Ibaraki
The following post was written by Visual Studio ALM MVP Amir Barylko
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MVP top tip: Using Group Policy Objects as an Alternate Lync Policy Method
Stephen.Ibaraki
This article from Lync MVP Paul Bloem , provides useful information.
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MVP top tips: Columns in Remote Access Management, SCOM 2012 Health Script, PowerShell V5, Associations in SharePoint and Office 365, Sharing Images Phone 8.1 apps
Stephen.Ibaraki
1. Enabling New Columns in Remote Access Management Console By Enterprise Security MVP Jordan Krause 2. SCOM 2012 Daily Health Check Script By System Center MVP Scott Moss 3. More New Stuff in PowerShell V5: Extra PowerShell Auditing ...
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Top MVP Tips—Windows Server Failover, HTTPS NULL encryption and SSTP VPN, API responses ASP.NET Web API, HNV gateway, Terminator program
Stephen.Ibaraki
1. Understanding the Windows Server Failover Cluster Quorum in Windows Server 2012 R2 By Cluster MVP Dave Bermingham 2. DirectAccess IP-HTTPS Null Encryption and SSTP VPN By Enterprise Security...
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Top MVP tips--Referring to Content Control Using C#
Stephen.Ibaraki
from Visual C# MVP Ming Man Chan Referring to Content Control using C
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14 Jul 2014
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Top MVP tips: Updateable Column Store Indexes in SQL Server 2014
Stephen.Ibaraki
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Top MVP tips covering—Visual Studio, Azure, Microsoft Access, Biztalk
Stephen.Ibaraki
1. 256 Seconds with dotNetDave – Episode 1 By Visual C# MVP David McCarter 2. Accessing Visual Studio Online from YOUR Azure Account By ASP.NET/IIS MVP John Petersen 3. Developing Single Page, Real Time Websites on Windows...
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Top MVP tips covering--Windows Universal Apps, Hyper-V, Dynamics CRM 2013, Windows Phone 8.1
Stephen.Ibaraki
1. A Show-All-Or-Nothing Behavior for Windows Universal Apps By Client Development MVP Diederik Krols 2. Hyper-V Amigos Podcast By MVPs Carsten Rachfahl , Didier Van Hoye , Hans Vredevoort and...
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13 Jul 2014
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MVP top articles: web performance, SQL injection attacks, WMI namespaces, Operations Manager, PowerShell
Stephen.Ibaraki
1. MVP">Improving Web Application Performance - Part Two Users & Environment By Mitchel Sellers – Visual C# MVP 2. Protect a program from SQL injection attacks in C# By Rod Stephens – Visual C# MVP 3. Quick Hits: List All Available WMI Namespaces Using PowerShell By Boe Prox...
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9 Jun 2014
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MVP Blogs Spotlight: Mentoring Imagine Cup, PowerShell Summit, Battle of the Lowlands, Using Microsoft’s Entity Framework, Best Practices Friday 5
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
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17 May 2014
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Spotlighting MVP award program blogs
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 Authentication By SharePoint MVP John White 4...
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2 May 2014
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Essentials from the MVP award program blog
Stephen.Ibaraki
I did an article for IT World Canada about MVPs, Most Valuable Professionals. Here are great examples of their expertise through shared insight that can help you: //build/, //learn/ and //publish/ Automating Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2013 Backlog Setting Internet Explorer Trusted Site...
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25 Apr 2014
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SP24 - 24-hour global online SharePoint Conference
Stephen.Ibaraki
As an MVP, I get curated content which I am sharing with you … Check out SP24 - a 24-hour global SharePoint Conference co-organized by Canadian MVP Vlad Catrinescu. SP24 is an original online conference that will start in New Zealand on April 16th at 10pm GMT and will finish 24 hours later. SP24 will...
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4 Apr 2014
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Free e-book from Canadian SharePoint MVP Benjamin Niaulin
Stephen.Ibaraki
Check out Ben’s e-book 111 HOT NEW FEATURES IN SHAREPOINT 2013 and download it for free!
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Blog Post:
Paul Orlando, Renowned Global Start-up Wizard, Serial Entrepreneur
Stephen.Ibaraki
Paul Orlando [ about.me/porlando ] runs a lean startup bootcamp called Startups Unplugged [ startupsunplugged.com/bootcamp ] and is also co-founder of AcceleratorHK [ acceleratorhk.com ], a mobile startup accelerator. Previously, he co-founded a startup in New York and worked in telecom in China. He...
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Neil Leslie MS GM on Ballmer, World CIO Forum, the Cloud, MVPs, Best Resources WCF Channel 9 MIX MSDN TechNet, Leadership
Stephen.Ibaraki
This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Neil Leslie, General Manager Microsoft Developer & Platform Evangelism Group (DPE), past Vice President of MSIT, Microsoft Corporation. Enjoy! Stephen Ibaraki ...
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Daniel Nerenberg, Leading Authority in Microsoft Technologies, Microsoft Certified Trainer and Consultant/Advisor to Corporations, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award Recipient
Canadian IT Managers
This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Daniel Nerenberg, Leading Authority in Microsoft Technologies, Microsoft Certified Trainer and Consultant/Advisor to Corporations, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award...
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2008 MVP Fast Facts
Canadian IT Managers
I thought you might be interested in some quick facts about the MVP Summit, the program and the impact the MVP community has on diverse communities worldwide. With the summit quickly approaching, here are data points on the significant role MVPs play. Worldwide there are more than 100 million participants...
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11 Apr 2008
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MSDN & TechNet -- What's New!
Canadian IT Managers
Here's something different. Two video links from the MVP Newsletter courtesy of Canadian MVP Lead Sasha Krsmanovic! There's a new MSDN & TechNet infrastructure that allow for social media tagging and more. Two Canadian MVPs, Donald Belcham and Dave Woods lead a project that provides empowerment for...
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20 Jun 2008
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Professionalizing the Profession
Canadian IT Managers
Graham Jones (Surrey, BC - IT Professional and President of VANTUG ) The Opportunity to Spread the Word Last week Stephen Ibaraki (blogger extraordinaire – congrats on being named one of the top 10 in Canada ) and I attended the "Global" MVP Summit and a "World" UG Management Summit in Redmond...
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24 Apr 2008
Blog Post:
Strategic Architecture Forum 2008
Canadian IT Managers
I'm back having completed more than 10 keynotes/presentations the last few weeks. I'm providing a blog series from these keynotes--lessons to be shared. This blog will focus on the SAF (Strategic Architecture Forum). Ruth posted a blog on the Strategic Architecture Forum where I keynoted on the opening...
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10 Jun 2008
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