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The Windows Server Operating System Management Pack provides the fundamental monitoring basics for computers running the Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 and 2008 Operating System.

Overview

The Windows Server Operating System Management Pack consists of the following five management packs: Microsoft Windows Server Library, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Discovery, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Monitoring, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and Microsoft Windows 2000 Server. The Microsoft Windows Server management packs monitor the performance, health, and availability of Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, and Windows 2000 Server.
By detecting, alerting on, and automatically responding to critical events and performance indicators, management packs reduce resolution times for issues and increase the overall availability and performance of your Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, and Windows 2000 Server operating systems, thereby helping to reduce the total cost of ownership.
Feature Summary

Availability
- Key Operating System Services: Required services are checked for status (for example, running, not running, or paused).
- Storage: Logical hard drives are checked for availability, sufficient free space, and integrity of the NTFS partition.
- Network: Network adapters are checked for connection health, name and IP address conflicts.
Performance
- Processor: System processor(s) performance is checked system-wide. Processors can optionally be monitored on a per processor basis.
- • Memory: Memory consisting of physical memory and virtual memory (also known as page files) is monitored using the following performance indicators:
  - Available memory (in MB)
  - Pages per second
  - Page file percent usage
- Disks and Partitions: Logical disks/partitions and physical disks are monitored, and performance data is collected for average disk seconds per read, disk seconds per write, and disk seconds per transfer. Depending on which version of the operating system is being monitored, either logical or physical monitoring is enabled by default. Refer to the MP guide for more detail.
- Network Adapter: Network adapters are monitored for the number of bytes received per second, the number of bytes sent per second, and the total bytes per second. In addition, the health state of the network adapter is evaluated and is set to Healthy if connected and Critical if disconnected.

Management Pack Release History:

3/23/2007 - Initial Release, version 6.0.5000.0
9/28/2007 - Updated release, version 6.0.5000.25
10/23/2007 - Updated MP Guide - Software Version still 6.0.5000.25
11/8/2007 - Updated MP Guide - Software version still 6.0.5000.25
1/15/2008 - Updated MP Guide - same version
2/22/2008 - Updated release, version 6.0.6278.0, and released on SP1 media
5/27/2008 – Same version as released on SP1 media, version 6.0.6278.0, and released on Microsoft Download Center.
7/27/2008 - Updated version, 6.0.6278.22: Introduced support for the Windows Server 2008 Operating System and addressed some issues from the previous release. Refer to the MP guide for further details.
10/20/2008 – Updated release, version 6.0.6321.3: Refer to the MP guide for further details.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3529d233-5e3e-4b51-8f66-5d6f27005ec3&DisplayLang=en

Windows Springboard Series: Configuring Windows Vista for Performance - Part 1 of 2

Brief Description

Windows Springboard Series: Configuring Windows Vista for Performance - Part 1 of 2
Mark Russinovich leads a roundtable discussion on Windows Vista Performance. Segment 1 is “Configuring Windows Vista for Performance (part 1)”

Overview

Mark Russinovich leads a roundtable discussion on Windows Vista Performance. Segment 1 is “Configuring Windows Vista for Performance (part 1)”

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=605e1f7e-2334-4f7c-9ee5-d8cf8db09417&DisplayLang=en

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Release Notes

Brief Description

This download contains the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 Release Notes.

Overview

The Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Release Notes contain late-breaking information about VMM 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=513cdbcf-09a3-4a6e-b5c5-9301c02b54a1&DisplayLang=en

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 – Evaluation Software

Brief Description

SCVMM 2008 provides a management solution for the virtualized data center that helps enable centralized management of IT infrastructure, increased server utilization, and dynamic resource optimization across multiple virtualization platforms

Overview

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 provides a management solution for the virtualized data center that helps enable centralized management of IT infrastructure, increased server utilization, and dynamic resource optimization across multiple virtualization platforms.
Highlights of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008

Support for VMs Running on Windows Server 2008
Multi-Vendor Virtualization Platform Support
Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO)
Host Cluster Support for “High Availability” Virtual Machines

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ed012990-6e86-4b43-9842-da5c02ff1c83&DisplayLang=en

Windows HPC Server 2008

Brief Description

Windows HPC Server 2008 (HPCS) provides enterprise-class tools, performance, & scalability for a highly productive HPC environment. HPCS provides a complete & integrated cluster environment including the OS, Job Scheduler, Message Passing Interface v2 (MPI2) support, cluster management & monitoring.

Overview

Windows HPC Server 2008
Microsoft® Windows® HPC Server 2008 (HPCS), the next generation of high performance computing (HPC), provides enterprise-class tools, performance, and scalability for a highly productive HPC environment. HPCS provides a complete and integrated cluster environment including the operating system, a Job Scheduler, Message Passing Interface v2 (MPI2) support, and cluster management and monitoring components. Built on Windows Server® 2008 64-bit technology, HPCS can efficiently scale to thousands of processing cores and includes a management console that helps proactively monitor and maintain system health and stability. Job scheduling interoperability and flexibility enables integration between Windows and Linux-based HPC platforms, and supports batch and service-oriented architecture (SOA) workloads. Enhanced productivity, scalable performance, and ease of use are some of the features that make Windows HPC Server 2008 best-of-breed for Windows environments.
Windows HPC Server 2008 can help shorten user time-to-insight for HPC workloads through easier deployment and management. By using the existing Windows-based information technology (IT) infrastructure, HPCS simplifies management, security, and storage for the cluster, and provides seamless access from the desktop.
HPCS includes improved provisioning based on the Windows Server 2008 Windows Deployment Services technology, a faster Microsoft Message Passing Interface (MS-MPI) that includes new NetworkDirect support, an advanced Job Scheduler, and a new management interface built on the Microsoft® System Center 2007 user interface (UI), which has support for Windows PowerShell™ as a preferred scripting interface.
Windows HPC Server 2008 integrates with other Microsoft products to help increase HPC productivity and improve the overall end-user experience. This includes collaboration through Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and the Windows Workflow Foundation, as well as improved management and efficiency by integrating with System Center 2007. Through integration with the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows HPC Server 2008 allows developers working with SOA applications to harness the power of parallel computing offered by HPC solutions.
HPCS uses the failover clustering capabilities of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise and of Microsoft® SQL Server® to provide high availability and redundancy of the head node in your HPC cluster.
Windows HPC Server 2008 is a two-DVD package comprised of Windows Server 2008 HPC Edition and the Microsoft HPC Pack 2008.
Windows Server 2008 HPC Edition
The first DVD contains the setup for a 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008 that is restricted to an HPC workload
Microsoft HPC Pack 2008
The second DVD contains Microsoft HPC Pack 2008, which provides the additional interfaces, tools, and management infrastructure described below:
Systems Management
• The new Administration Console based on System Center UI framework integrates every aspect of cluster management.
• Node grouping allows administrators to categorize and batch operations on compute nodes.
• Monitoring heat map allows viewing cluster status at-a-glance.
• Scriptable control of cluster using Windows PowerShell and other command-line tools.
• High availability for multiple head nodes.
• Improved compute node provisioning using Windows Deployment Services.
• Built-in support for cluster-wide updating.
• Built-in system diagnostics.
• Built-in cluster reporting.
• Extensible reporting, allowing for job scheduling analysis using external database tools like SQL Server Analysis Services.
• Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack.
Job Scheduling
• Integration with WCF, allowing SOA application developers to harness the power of parallel computing offered by HPC solutions.
• Job scheduling granularity at processor core, processor socket, and compute node levels.
• Performance improvements for large clusters.
• Support for external databases for Job Scheduling.
• New job scheduling policies.
• Support for Open Grid Forum’s HPC Basic Profile interface for Job Scheduler interoperability.
Networking and MPI
• NetworkDirect, a new Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) network interface providing dramatic performance improvements for MPI applications running over high-speed fabrics.
• Improved Network Configuration Wizard.
• New shared memory MS-MPI implementation for multicore servers.
• MS-MPI integrated with Event Tracing for Windows.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2c6db4f3-b604-461f-9170-43e9cee062c5&DisplayLang=en

Executing A Successful Virtualization Plan

Brief Description

Executing A Successful Virtualization Plan

Overview

A practical approach on managing and planning a successful implementation. It will cover the considerations as well as the challenges leading to a beneficial virtualization implementation.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3228a78c-a5c8-421e-b951-0e7df9991eaa&DisplayLang=en

Virtualization 360

Brief Description

Virtualization 360

Overview

A 360 view of virtualization covering technologies that enable an integrated, end-to-end virtualized environment. Includes a showcase of Windows Server virtualization technology and the new hypervisor.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7c7f4443-6b3a-4c44-9cc2-d5d206a40642&DisplayLang=en

The Virtualization Journey

Brief Description

The Virtualization Journey

Overview

Essential and practical understanding of virtualization, physical and virtual management, and how to benefit from a successful virtualization plan.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=34a4160c-b227-4204-af72-eb8a1c9fc351&DisplayLang=en

Starting the Virtualization Journey!

Brief Description

Starting the Virtualization Journey!

Overview

Get technology details, deployment and management advice.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1c45f7e9-465a-4111-942a-f109cb4eee79&DisplayLang=en

Managing A Virtualized Environment

Brief Description

Managing A Virtualized Environment

Overview

Practical approaches of how you can integrate and centralize management of both physical and virtual resources, and how to juggle and optimize them. Covers tools such as Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager and integration with System Center Operations Manager.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a557f37c-f222-4d17-b3e1-5491a1718a60&DisplayLang=en

Windows® Vista™ Language Interface Pack - Reference information for LIP languages supported by Windows Vista English.

Brief Description

Below are links to LIPs in languages that are supported by Windows Vista English.
Windows Vista Language Interface Pack (LIP) for English versions of Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Enterprise. Many Vista LIP languages are also available for Windows Vista Starter.

Overview

Windows Vista Language Interface Pack (LIP) for Windows Vista provides a partially translated version of the most widely used areas of Windows. After installing the LIP, portions of the text in wizards, dialog boxes, menus, Help and Support topics, and other items in the user interface will be displayed in the LIP language. The text that is not translated will be in English. You can install more than one LIP, so each user of the computer can display the user interface in their desired language. Just click on the language below that you want to install.
(Languages denoted by an asterisk (*) are also available for Windows Vista Starter versions. Windows Vista Starter Edition balances the needs of first-time PC owners in developing technology markets by delivering proven Microsoft technology at a more affordable price, and optimized specifically for lower end hardware. )
This package applies to the following languages:
• Albanian*
• Assamese*
• Azeri*
• Bengali (India)*
• Bosnian - Cyrillic*
• Bosnian - Latin*
• Gujarati*
• Hindi*
• Icelandic
• Indonesian*
• Inuktitut
• Georgian*
• Kazakh*
• Macedonian*
• Malay (Malaysia)*
• Malay (Brunei Darussalam)
• Marathi*
• Oriya*
• Serbian - Cyrillic*
• Tamil*
• Uzbek - Latin*
• Vietnamese*
• Welsh

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94b6c536-e49c-4602-8d3c-37e8bdbe12db&DisplayLang=en

Windows® Vista™ Language Interface Pack - Reference information for LIP languages supported by Windows Vista English.

Brief Description

Overview

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94b6c536-e49c-4602-8d3c-37e8bdbe12db&DisplayLang=en

Windows Server 2008 Evaluation Virtual Hard Drive Images (for Hyper-V)

Brief Description

Windows Server 2008 Evaluation Enterprise Edition and Server Core Virtual Hard Drive Images (for Hyper-V)

Overview

The Microsoft VHD format is the common virtualization file format for Virtual PC, Virtual Server 2005 and Hyper-V that provides a uniform product support system, and provides more seamless manageability, security, reliability and cost-efficiency for customers.
This VHD release is available in English only and is for evaluation and testing purposes. Evaluating Windows Server2008 software does not require product activation or entering a product key. Any edition of Windows Server 2008 may be installed without activation and evaluated for an initial 60 days.
If you need more time to evaluate Windows Server 2008, the 60 day evaluation period may be reset (or re-armed) three times, extending the original 60 day evaluation period by up to 180 days for a total possible evaluation time of 240 days. After this time, you will need to uninstall the software or upgrade to a fully-licensed version of Windows Server 2008.
If you wish to extend the initial evaluation and testing period, please go here and follow the instructions.
As this installation requires Hyper-V, you will need to have a base install of Windows Server 2008 (64bit edition), running Hyper-V. For more information on obtaining and installing the latest version of Hyper-V, please visit the Hyper-V Homepage.
Both virtual machines available here are running Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition Evaluation. One is the default full installation, and the other has been configured as a default Core installation. For more information on the difference between full and core installation please see the Windows Server 2008 Editions Overview pages. For download options please see the IMAGE SELECTION section in the instructions below.
As both virtual machines do not have anti-virus installed, they should not be connected to any network until it has anti-virus installed. In addition, the operating system and programs installed were patched with all updates as of May 8, 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=060f0c51-339a-4c4e-bb6e-716bb7401fd4&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Hotfix KB 957707

Brief Description

This download contains an update for Microsoft Office Communicator 2007.

Overview

This hotfix download for Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 is described in the Knowledge Base article 957707.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1ad57f8f-78f7-45f6-a8c0-805936f46645&DisplayLang=en

Windows Springboard Series: Windows Vista Myths and Realities

Brief Description

Windows Springboard Series: Windows Vista Myths and Realities
Mark Russinovich leads a roundtable discussion on Windows Vista Performance. Segment 4 is “Windows Vista Myths and Realities”.

Overview

Mark Russinovich leads a roundtable discussion on Windows Vista Performance. Segment 4 is “Windows Vista Myths and Realities”.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=167bedc7-f6f7-43ec-a484-c2e817ce7ffa&DisplayLang=en

Solutions & Solution Development

Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 Workflow Integration Guide

Brief Description

This document describes how to create integrations for workflow.

Overview

The manual guides you through the steps to add a new workflow or extend an existing workflow. This document discusses the following topics:

Workflow basics: Describes the workflow architecture, the types of workflow integrations you can create, and the sample workflow integration.
Creating a new workflow: Describes how to build the components you need to create a new approval workflow for a back office document.
Extending an existing workflow: Describes how to build the components you need to add new data fields to an existing workflow.
Dynamics Workflow web service: Describes how to connect to and use the Dynamics Workflow web service from an external application.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=69625f73-58dd-4410-963a-4fdddf6ee010&DisplayLang=en

Duet: Key Design Principles

Brief Description

Microsoft PowerPoint presentation of key Duet design principles and the value they provide.

Overview

Microsoft PowerPoint presentation of key Duet design principles and the value they provide.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7f66c0ee-807e-42a6-8f2b-606015d5e22e&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 Tools Documentation: Developer Toolkit

Brief Description

eConnect, Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP, and Web Services for Microsoft Dynamics GP Manuals and Help
This documentation describes how to use the Developer Toolkit for Microsoft Dynamics GP, which you can use to build Microsoft .Net-based solutions, customizations, and extensions.

Overview

You can use this page to download the following documentation components.
Help files (Developer Toolkit Help Files.exe)
This .exe file includes the following Help files:

Microsoft Dynamics GP Web Service Reference (DynamicsGPWebServiceRef.chm): Contains detailed information about the operations, classes, enumerations, and policies that are available in the Dynamics GP Web service.
Microsoft Dynamics Security Service Reference (DynamicsSecurityWebServiceRef.chm): Contains detailed information about the operations and classes that are available in the Dynamics Security Web service.
eConnect Programmer's Guide and Reference Help (eConnectProgrammersGuide.chm): Includes the eConnect Programmer's Guide in HTML Help format.

Manuals in PDF or XPS format (Developer Toolkit Manuals PDF.exe or Developer Toolkit Manuals XPS.exe)
These .exe files include the following manuals:

eConnect Installation and Administration Guide (eConnectInstallAdminGuide.pdf or eConnectInstallAdminGuide.xps): Describes how to install eConnect and configure the eConnect services, and includes maintenance and troubleshooting information.
eConnect Programmer's Guide (eConnectProgrammersGuide.pdf or eConnectProgrammersGuide.xps): Describes the eConnect schema and XML documents, explains how to use the eConnect .NET assemblies, and explains how to supplement or modify the eConnect business rules. Also includes information about the sample applications that are included with an eConnect SDK installation.
Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP Programmer’s Guide (VSTDGPProgrammersGuide.pdf or VSTDGPProgrammersGuide.xps): Explains how to install Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP and use the tools to create integrating applications for Microsoft Dynamics GP. Also includes reference information about the resources you can access with the tools, and examples of integrations.
Web Services Installation and Administration Guide (WSInstallAdminGuide.pdf or WSInstallAdminGuide.xps): Explains how to install, administer, and run the Web services so they can be used by applications that integrate with Microsoft Dynamics GP. Also explains how to manage security for the Web services.
Web Services Programmer's Guide (WSProgrammersGuide.pdf or WSProgrammersGuide.xps): Explains how to use the Web services in your application development and includes information about the sample applications and extending the Web services.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=edb30019-85a4-4bd4-82ae-3f6835da578b&DisplayLang=en

Connected Health Framework Whitepaper

Brief Description

Whitepaper on Connected Health Framework for Health Plans

Overview

Microsoft‘s Connected Health Framework for Health Plans is a free, open, and extensible reference architecture that enables partners and health plans to accelerate new business opportunities and meet complex and changing business demands by reducing the cost and complexities of managing processes and connecting core systems, service channels, new applications, consumers, and business partners.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=58c15ea5-ae5c-4322-ab7a-3fa8d1ccc4f7&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Dexterity 10.0 Documentation

Brief Description

Dexterity Manuals and Help files
This documentation describes how to use Dexterity, which is the application development system used to create Microsoft Dynamics GP.

Overview

You can use this page to download the following documentation components.
Help files (Dexterity Help Files.exe)
This .exe file includes the following Help files:

Dexterity Help (Dex.chm): Includes information about building applications using Dexterity, and also includes contextual help for windows in the Dexterity tool.
Dexterity Utilities Help (DexUtils.chm): Describes utilities you can use to construct, compile, and query Dexterity dictionaries.
Microsoft Dynamics GP Integration Help (IG.chm): Includes the Microsoft Dynamics GP integration information in HTML Help format.

Manuals in PDF or XPS format (Dexterity Manuals PDF.exe or Dexterity Manuals XPS.exe)
These .exe files include the following manuals:

Comprehensive Index (CMPINDEX.pdf or CMPINDEX.xps): Contains a compilation of all the indexes in the Dexterity documentation set, which you can use to look up topics in any of the Dexterity manuals.
Dexterity Components (COMPNT.pdf or COMPNT.xps): Describes the components included with Dexterity.
Dexterity Utilities (DEXUTIL.pdf or DEXUTIL.xps): Explains how to use Dexterity Utilities to manage the dictionaries you create using Dexterity, and includes reference information about the utilities and reports that are included.
Function Library Reference (FUNCTLIB.pdf or FUNCTLIB.xps): Contains detailed reference information about the functions in each Dexterity function library.
Microsoft Dynamics GP Integration Guide (IG.pdf or IG.xps): Explains interface and programming conventions and describes how to develop a Dexterity-based component that integrates with Microsoft Dynamics GP in a runtime environment.
Programmer's Guide Volume 1 (PRGV1.pdf or PRGV1.xps): Describes the Dexterity development system used to create and package applications and manage development.
Programmer's Guide Volume 2 (PRGV2.pdf or PRGV2.xps): Introduces sanScript, and explains how to add scripts to a Dexterity application and work with controls and tables. Also describes advanced scripting tools, the development process for Dexterity-based applications, and the integrated source code debugger in Dexterity.
Quick Start (QSTART.pdf or QSTART.xps): Contains overview information and lessons to introduce you to creating applications with Dexterity.
sanScript Reference (SANSCRPT.pdf or SANSCRPT.xps): Contains descriptions of all functions and statements in sanScript.
Stand-alone Application Guide (STNDALON.pdf or STNDALON.xps): Explains how to create a stand-alone application. Topics include developing pathname support, online help, and security, as well as using tools such as Modifier and Report Writer. Dictionaries included with Dexterity also are described.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=65f324e5-2720-42b6-ba4e-5698bfc5d20f&DisplayLang=en

HPC Pack 2008 Fix for Job XML Import and Export Issues

Brief Description

This download fixes issues related to missing or lost properties when importing and exporting Job XML

Overview

This update to the Microsoft HPC Pack (KB958512) provides fixes to a couple of issues involving job XML export and import, namely:
• The XML sent to Submission Filters is using the v1 schema, a number of properties are missing
• When creating of a job based on a non-indented XML file, some properties may be lost during import
These issues were fixed in the following way:
• XML sent to Job Submission Filters is now using the v2 schema
• Job XML import is no longer whitespace sensitive
Impact:
Users who have written Job Submission Filters that parse job XML may be impacted since the XML output to the submission filter will be different. Such users will need to update the XML-parsing in their Submission Filter code to handle the v2 job XML schema.
For users who plan on writing Job Submission Filter, it is strongly recommended that you install this update before implementing your filter.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=50d5eef6-9716-46ee-88b5-aa55257047ef&DisplayLang=en

HPC Pack 2008 Fix for Hardcoded Service Host Port Issue

Brief Description

Customer applications that use custom endpoint bindings will not work through a firewall

Overview

Applications that used custom endpoint bindings would not work through a firewall. This change puts the binding on port 9088 which will work through the firewall.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5c295b7e-7ff0-422f-8868-9b707f48c56a&DisplayLang=en

.NET Rocks! - Ted Neward and Amanda Laucher on F#

Brief Description

Carl and Richard talk to Ted Neward and Amanda Laucher about their work with F# and separate truth from fiction about functional languages.

Overview

Ted Neward is an independent consultant specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 10-person shops. He is an authority in Java and .NET technologies, particularly in the areas of Java/.NET integration (both in-process and via integration tools like Web services), back-end enterprise software systems, and virtual machine/execution engine plumbing.
Amanda Laucher is a consultant for The Sophic Group in Columbus, OH. She has recently been focusing on coaching agile principals at large corporations. As a language geek, has spent the year traveling to code camps and user groups on the east coast and mid-west sharing her knowledge of F#. When she isn't developing, Amanda is busy promoting women in science and technology.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1a9b8ac5-2da3-4f83-beb9-a775e5f55fa7&DisplayLang=en

Internet Explorer 8 Partner Marketing Toolkit

Brief Description

The Internet Explorer 8 Partner Marketing Toolkit

Overview

The evolution of the Internet has introduced new ways to access the information people care about most—whether it is from interactive AJAX-based web pages, user-generated content, or powerful search engines.
Windows® Internet Explorer® 8 seamlessly delivers all of the experiences available from the web, and helps people browse faster, safer, and easier than ever before. Microsoft listened to Internet users and developed new platform features that reduce the steps needed to connect users with the services and information they care about most.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=75973693-9a7f-4a42-9ddd-8b029361e766&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Privacy Statement

Brief Description

Read the Privacy Statement document for Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Overview

At Microsoft, we're working hard to protect your privacy, while delivering products that bring you the performance, power and convenience you desire in your personal computing. This privacy statement explains many of the data collection and use practices of Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e7f89bf5-d80c-46b5-a12f-fade6d41330d&DisplayLang=en

Windows CE101 Training Course Materials

Brief Description

This online training is intended for two different developer communities (Embedded and Windows) who would like to start developing Embedded Windows CE devices.

Overview

This online training is intended for two different developer communities who would like to start developing Embedded Windows CE devices. These developers are:
1. Embedded Developers starting out in Embedded Windows CE
2. Windows Developers wanting to start in the embedded world of Embedded Windows CE.
There are nine module for the training. This includes the first module which provides a flowchart of how to navigate the training and what each module covers. There are 2 module 1s, 1e and 1w. Depending on what type of Developer you are, determines which Module 1 you start with. Module 2 -9 is intended for all developers. There are also Lab and Demo materials for download.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b91fa334-96f5-4298-adf8-5c0c80a927c8&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Virtual PC

Brief Description

The Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 VPC image contains a full installation of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009.

Overview

The VPC image of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 enables you to demonstrate the features of Microsoft Dynamics AX using a single PC or laptop computer.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5bbcc7fb-8ca0-43b3-86bd-0a42186e12ef&DisplayLang=en

.NET Rocks! - Michael Isard on Dryad

Brief Description

Richard and Carl talk to Michael Isard about Dryad, a grid computing and clustering project from Microsoft.

Overview

Michael Isard received his D.Phil in computer vision from the Oxford University Engineering Science Department in 1998. In 1999 has worked for Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley since 2002. The majority of his early research was in the field of visual tracking and sequential filtering, and he helped to introduce particle filters to the computer vision community with the Condensation algorithm. Current research projects cover a range from inference methods for Bayesian networks with applications in visual tracking and dense stereo estimation; to programming models for large-scale distributed systems and many-core processor architectures. Michael led the Dryad project to build a large-scale distributed execution platform for datacenters that is now widely used internally by Microsoft product groups. He has recently started working with several colleagues on AME, a new concurrent programming model that makes use of transactional memory without explicit atomic blocks. He has also been collaborating with Andrew Zisserman's Visual Geometry Group in Oxford on various aspects of object retrieval from large databases.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0449420d-0117-4b90-af1d-cc64899f5322&DisplayLang=en

Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Samples

Brief Description

This download page provides five samples for Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007.

Overview

This download page provides five samples for Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007:

PerformancePoint Monitoring Server 2007 Federal Government sample: This Dashboard sample for PerformancePoint Monitoring Server contains a labor dashboard sample based off an included sample department of labor cube.
PerformancePoint Monitoring Server 2007 Oil and Gas sample: This Dashboard sample for PerformancePoint Monitoring server contains both an executive dashboard and an operations dashboard based off an included sample cube.
PerformancePoint Monitoring Server 2007 State and Local Government sample: This sample for PerformancePoint Monitoring server contains multiple dashboards, including financial, executive, city services, IT and tax based dashboards based off several included sample cubes.
PerformancePoint Monitoring Server 2007 Dynamics CRM sample: This Dynamics CRM sample contains a sample data CRM cube and a sample dashboard based on the information. You can reuse this dashboard on your own Dynamics CRM cubes if you desire by changing the data source.
PerformancePoint Monitoring Server 2007 Dynamics AX sample: This Dynamics AX sample contains a sample data AX cube and two sample dashboards. One dashboard represents an executive overview, and the other dashboard shows a drill down into GL information. Instructions for using these dashboards on your own Dynamics AX cubes are included with the sample (see: PPS AX Monitoring Samples.doc).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=019e280a-ac1c-4182-bda2-c32730aa230e&DisplayLang=en

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Top Reasons To Step-Up from Visual Studio Professional - English

Brief Description

Overview

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 is an integrated application life cycle management (ALM) solution comprising tools, processes, and guidance. Learn how you can benefit from the Development Edition and Database Edition merge today to
• Build quality code faster
• Be more productive
• Collaborate at the next level
In this presentation, you will learn how you can take advantage of the core tools for application development as well as the necessary tools for database development, including performance profiling, code analysis, code metrics, code coverage, database refactoring, Schema Compare, Data Compare, and more.

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Pex - Automated Whitebox Test Generation for .NET

Brief Description

Automated Whitebox Test Generation for .NET

Overview

Pex explores the behavior of your .NET code and displays interesting input-output pairs to the user from a single mouse click. Pex systematically hunts for bugs – exceptions or assertion failures. You can debug bugs right away or even save all the results as a unit test suite. Pex systematic analysis discovers boundary conditions in code, which leads to a small test suite with high code coverage. Pex enables Parameterized Unit Testing, an extension of traditional unit testing that reduces test maintenance costs. Pex has been used in Microsoft to test core .NET components. Pex is developed at Microsoft Research and integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010.

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Enterprise Library 3.1 - May 2007

Brief Description

Note: If you already have the Enterprise Library 3.0 installed, you must uninstall it before installing the Enterprise Library 3.1. However, you can install the Enterprise Library 3.0 or the Enterprise Library 3.1 when 2.0 is already installed.
This release of Enterprise Library includes: Caching Application Block, Cryptography Application Block, Data Access Application Block, Exception Handling Application Block, Logging Application Block, Policy Injection Application Block, Security Application Block and Validation Application Block.

Overview

The patterns & practices Enterprise Library is a library of application blocks designed to assist developers with common enterprise development challenges. Application blocks are a type of guidance, provided as source code that can be used "as is," extended, or modified by developers to use on enterprise development projects. This release of Enterprise Library includes application blocks for Caching, Cryptography, Data Access, Exception Handling, Logging, Policy Injection, Security and Validation.

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Enterprise Library 3.0 – April 2007

Brief Description

This release of Enterprise Library includes: Caching Application Block, Cryptography Application Block, Data Access Application Block, Exception Handling Application Block, Logging Application Block, Policy Injection Application Block, Security Application Block and Validation Application Block.

Overview

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Windows 7 Software Logo Program for Client

Brief Description

Technical Requirements
Proposed technical requirements for the Windows 7 Software Logo for Client

Overview

Windows has a broad ecosystem of products and partners that all support Windows. Displaying the Windows brand on your product represents a relationship and a shared commitment to quality between Microsoft and your company. Customers trust that seeing the Windows brand on your product ensures that it has been verified to work well on Windows.
The Windows 7 Software Logo program is made up of policies and requirements that help ensure logo’d applications are easy to install and reliable on PCs running Windows 7.
The purpose of this document is to outline the technical requirements an application must meet in order to participate in the Windows 7 Software Logo Program.

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Guidance Automation Extensions

Brief Description

July 2007 Community Technology Preview
The Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) enable you to run guidance packages, such as the Guidance Automation Toolkit or those included in Software Factories. You can use the Guidance Automation Toolkit (GAT) to author or customize guidance packages.

Overview

The Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) enable you to run guidance packages, such as the Guidance Automation Toolkit or those included in Software Factories. You can use the Guidance Automation Toolkit (GAT) to author or customize guidance packages.

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Composite UI Application Block in Visual Basic .NET

Brief Description

The Composite UI Application Block provides proven practices to build complex smart client user interfaces based on well known design patterns such as the Composite Pattern.

Overview

The Composite UI Application Block is a reusable, source code-based component based on the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. It provides proven practices to build complex smart client user interfaces based on well known design patterns such as the Composite Pattern in which simple user interface parts can be combined to create complex solutions, but at the same time allowing these parts to be independently developed, tested, and deployed.

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Guidance Automation Toolkit

Brief Description

July 2007 Community Technology Preview
The Guidance Automation Toolkit is an extension to Visual Studio 2005 which allows architects to author rich, integrated user experiences for reusable assets including frameworks, components, and patterns.

Overview

The Guidance Automation Toolkit allows you to author guidance packages and software factories which expose reusable code and pattern assets directly in Visual Studio 2005. It is designed to simplify integrating reusable code into applications, by automating development activities that developers would usually perform manually. By using the toolkit, architects can ensure repetitive and often error-prone activities are performed in a consistent way, streamlining and accelerating the development process.

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Mobile Client Software Factory July 2006 (refresh)

Brief Description

The Mobile Client Software Factory provides an integrated set of guidance that assists architects and developers in creating mobile line of business solutions.

Overview

The Mobile Client Software Factory provides an integrated set of guidance that assists architects and developers in creating applications on the Windows Mobile platform. The software factory includes a reference implementation, how to's, patterns, and Visual Studio .NET extensions.

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Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 - January 2006

Brief Description

This release of Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 includes: Caching Application Block, Cryptography Application Block, Data Access Application Block, Exception Handling Application Block, Logging Application Block, and Security Application Block.

Overview

The patterns & practices Enterprise Library is a library of application blocks designed to assist developers with common enterprise development challenges. Application blocks are a type of guidance, provided as source code that can be used "as is," extended, or modified by developers to use on enterprise development projects. This release of Enterprise Library provides similar functionality to the previous releases for the .NET Framework 1.1; however, Enterprise Library has been redesigned to use the new capabilities of the .NET Framework 2.0.

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patterns & practices Enterprise Library - June 2005

Brief Description

This release of Enterprise Library includes: Caching Application Block, Configuration Application Block, Cryptography Application Block, Data Access Application Block, Exception Handling Application Block, Logging & Instrumentation Application Block, and Security Application Block.

Overview

The patterns & practices Enterprise Library is a library of Application Blocks designed to assist developers with common enterprise development challenges. Application Blocks are a type of guidance, provided as source code, that can be used as-is, extended or modified by developers for use on enterprise development projects. The June 2005 release of Enterprise Library is a minor update of the original version released in January 2005. Enterprise Library features new and updated versions of application blocks that were previously available as stand-alone blocks. All blocks included in Enterprise Library have been updated with a particular focus on consistency, extensibility, ease of use and integration.

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Smart Client Software Factory - May 2007

Brief Description

The Smart Client Software Factory provides an integrated set of guidance that assists architects and developers in creating composite smart client applications.

Overview

The Smart Client Software Factory provides an integrated set of guidance that assists architects and developers in creating composite smart client applications. The software factory includes: QuickStarts, reference implementations, how to's, patterns, and Visual Studio .NET extensions.

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Web Client Software Factory Source Code — June 2007

Brief Description

The Web Client Software Factory provides an integrated set of guidance that assists architects and developers in creating composite Web client applications.

Overview

The Web Client Software Factory provides an integrated set of guidance that assists architects and developers in creating composite Web client applications. The application blocks, software factory includes reference implementation, how tos, patterns, and Visual Studio .NET extensions.

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Web Client Software Factory — January 2007

Brief Description

The Web Client Software Factory provides an integrated set of guidance that assists architects and developers in creating composite Web client applications.

Overview

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Web Client Software Factory — June 2007

Brief Description

The Web Client Software Factory provides an integrated set of guidance that assists architects and developers in creating composite Web client applications.

Overview

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.NET Rocks! - Billy Hollis on WPF and Silverlight 2.0

Brief Description

Carl and Richard catch up with Rev. Billy (just kidding, Billy) to talk about the state of WPF and Silverlight 2.0. Billy always has great stories from the field, and real-world insight.

Overview

Billy and Rockford Lhotka had the first VB.NET book on the market from Wrox Press. Since then, Billy has taught VB.NET classes and done consulting for major companies, as well as authoring (or co-authoring) at least 8 books on .NET. He is the MSDN Regional Director (RD) for Tennessee, and was RD of the year in 2001. He authors many articles, including a regular column at MSDN called Adventures in VB.NET.

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Using the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Adapters in BizTalk Server

Brief Description

This paper describes the use of the WCF adapters in BizTalk Server.

Overview

The new Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) adapters in BizTalk Server 2006 R2 bring the flexibility of WCF to the world of BizTalk Server messaging. The WCF adapters make it possible to define send ports and receive locations that use WCF behind the scenes to integrate with the BizTalk MessageBox database.

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.NET Rocks! - Frans Bouma on ORM!

Brief Description

Carl and Richard talk to Frans Bouma about his thoughts on the ORM revolution, his products, and the Entity Framework. Great stuff!

Overview

Frans Bouma started programming in 1986 on a Toshiba MSX-1, at the age of 16. After graduating with a bachelor degree in Computer Science from the 'Hogeschool Enschede' in the Netherlands in 1994, he started working with 4GL systems and post-relational databases, like uniVerse. In 1996 he founded Solutions Design, a company for database driven web-application development. As the lead developer, he developed medium to large enterprise web applications using SqlServer, AS400, COM+, VC++, Visual Basic and Asp. In 2001 Solution Design produced a content management system completely based on Microsoft technologies like SqlServer 2000, COM+, VC++, VB6 and asp. In 2002 Frans developed in C# his first .NET application, the open source LLBLGen code generator for SqlServer stored procedures and .NET classes. Due to the worldwide success of LLBLGen, Frans designed and developed in 2003 for Solutions Design the O/R mapper and code generator LLBLGen Pro, which is currently one of the market-leading data-access solutions for .NET, C# and VB.NET. Frans received for his community efforts the MVP reward for C# in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 and works full time on LLBLGen Pro enhancements. In 2006, HnD, a full featured support system/forum system for ASP.NET 2.0 was released as open source (GPL), written and designed by Frans Bouma.

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BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Documentation

Brief Description

Newly released documentation for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 in two formats: CHM and HxS.

Overview

This download includes updated and new content for BizTalk Server 2006 R2.

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Consuming and Hosting WCF Services with Custom Bindings in BizTalk Server

Brief Description

This paper provides an in-depth explanation on how to use the BizTalk Server WCF adapters for hosting and consuming Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services with custom bindings.

Overview

This paper provides an in-depth explanation on how to use the BizTalk Server WCF adapters for hosting and consuming Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services with custom bindings. The paper compiles a series of lessons learned based on a real-world implementation of integrating a custom WCF binding with the WCF adapters. Furthermore, key industrial infrastructure concerns such as transaction management and security are discussed in the context of integrating custom WCF bindings and behaviors with the BizTalk Messaging Engine. Also emphasized are a few pragmatic paradigms such as the use of dynamic ports in consuming WCF services. Finally, some key integration challenges are discussed to streamline the correct use of the adapters for solving complex business problems.

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Microsoft Sync Framework 2.0 CTP (October 2008) Documentation

Brief Description

Download documentation for Microsoft Sync Framework 2.0 CTP (October 2008). Documentation is available for Sync Framework core components, Sync Services for ADO.NET, Metadata Storage Service, Sync Services for File Systems, and Sync Services for FeedSync.

Overview

Microsoft Sync Framework is a comprehensive synchronization platform that enables collaboration and offline access for applications, services, and devices. The documentation available from this Web site covers the following technologies:

Sync Framework core components, which are used to create synchronization providers for any type of data store.
Sync Services for ADO.NET, which is used to synchronize databases for offline and collaborative scenarios.
Metadata Storage Service, which is used to store synchronization metadata in a lightweight data store.
Sync Services for File Systems, which is used to synchronize files and folders in a file system.
Sync Services for FeedSync, which is used to synchronize RSS and Atom feeds with data in a local store.

This release includes the following new features, which are described in the topic “What's New in Sync Framework 2.0” that is included in the core and metadata storage documentation sets:

Simple provider API: enables developers to quickly implement providers for stores that do not support change tracking or that support basic tracking.
Change unit filtering: enables a replica to store only a subset of the change units that are defined for the items it synchronizes.
Provider-negotiated filters: enables the source and destination providers to negotiate which filter should be used by the source provider during change enumeration.
Provider converters: enables providers that implement different base interfaces to synchronize with each other.
Updated knowledge structure and additional interfaces: provides backwards compatible changes to how synchronization knowledge is stored and manipulated.
Serialization for Metadata Storage Service: provides interfaces that serialize and deserialize metadata for a replica between a canonical metadata file format and version-specific Metadata Storage Services store formats.

Note: This CTP does not include any updates to Sync Services for ADO.NET.

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UI Automation Community Promise Specification

Brief Description

This download contains the Community Promise Specification for UI Automation.

Overview

This download contains the Community Promise Specification for UI Automation.
Microsoft UI Automation is the new accessibility framework for Microsoft Windows®, available on all operating systems that support Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). UI Automation provides programmatic access to most user interface (UI) elements on the desktop, enabling assistive technology products such as screen readers to provide information about the UI to end users and to manipulate the UI by means other than standard input.
UI Automation also allows automated test scripts to interact with the UI. UI Automation client applications can be written with the assurance that they will work on multiple frameworks. The UI Automation core masks any differences in the frameworks that underlie various pieces of UI. For example, the Content property of a WPF button, the Caption property of a Win32 button, and the ALT property of an HTML image are all mapped to a single property, Name, in the UI Automation view.
UI Automation provides full functionality in Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. UI Automation providers offer some support for Microsoft Active Accessibility client applications, through a built-in bridging service.

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Microsoft .NET Micro Framework SDK Version 3.0

Brief Description

Download the .NET Micro Framework Software Development Kit to develop for embedded devices using Visual Studio, C#, and .NET technology.

Overview

The Microsoft® .NET Micro Framework is a platform that enables developers to more quickly develop embedded systems that are smart, securely connected, and easier to manage. With the version 3.0 release, the .NET Micro Framework enables developers to create powerful embedded systems that are more securely connected through a variety of wired and wireless protocols.
The Micro Framework SDK lets you can combine the reliability and efficiency of managed code with the premier development tools of Microsoft Visual Studio® to deliver exceptional productivity for developing embedded applications on small devices.
The Microsoft .NET Micro Framework SDK supports development of code, including device I/O, in the C# language using a subset of the .NET libraries, and is fully integrated with the Microsoft Visual Studio® development environment.
This download is the full SDK, which lets you develop C# code for the .NET Micro Framework and run it on our extensible emulator. Then choose from several development kits to deploy your code to real hardware.

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Windows HPC Server 2008 Experience Counts Program Promotion Part Numbers

Brief Description

Windows HPC Server 2008 Experience Counts Program Promotion Part Numbers

Overview

Windows HPC Server 2008 Experience Counts Program Promotion Part Numbers

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Security, Policy & Compliance

Identity Integration Feature Pack for Microsoft Windows Server Active Directory with Service Pack 2 (SP2)

Brief Description

Identity Integration Feature Pack for Microsoft® Windows Server™ Active Directory® with Service Pack 2 (SP2) helps you synchronize identity information and easily provision and deprovision accounts and identity information.

Overview

Identity Integration Feature Pack for Microsoft® Windows Server™ Active Directory® with Service Pack 2 (SP2) manages identities and coordinates user details across Microsoft Active Directory, Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM), Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, and Exchange Server 2003 implementations. Using Identity Integration Feature Pack, you can combine identity information for a given user or resource into a single, logical view. Identity Integration Feature Pack also automates the provisioning of new and updated identity data, eliminating time-consuming, repetitive administration and the need to manually add, delete, or update identity information, groups, and user accounts.

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Windows Firewall with Advanced Security Design and Deployment Guide

Brief Description

This guide helps you design and deploy Windows Firewall with Advanced Security settings and rules that meet your goals for network security.

Overview

This document contains both the Design Guide and the Deployment Guide for Windows Firewall with Advanced Security. These guides help you to design and deploy Windows Firewall with Advanced Security settings and rules in your organization's network to help you to meet your goals for network security. It includes procedures for configuring Windows Firewall and Internet Protocol security (IPsec) settings commonly used in server and domain isolation scenarios. The Design Guide answers "what", "why", and "when" questions. The Deployment Guide answers the "how" questions.

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Security, Policy & Compliance

Identity Integration Feature Pack for Microsoft Windows Server Active Directory with Service Pack 2 (SP2)

Brief Description

Overview

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Windows Firewall with Advanced Security Design and Deployment Guide

Brief Description

This guide helps you design and deploy Windows Firewall with Advanced Security settings and rules that meet your goals for network security.

Overview

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Other

Blowing Stuff Up the Bungie Way

Brief Description

GameFest 2008 Visual Arts Track
Presentation from GameFest 2008

Overview

This session examines the tools, techniques, and challenges of producing special effects for Bungie’s Halo 3 from an artist’s perspective. The Halo engine’s custom particle system was rebuilt from the ground up to take full advantage of the Xbox 360 hardware. We take a look at the editing tools that are at the heart of that system. Beyond particles, we look at other graphical elements that are orchestrated to create some of the more complex effect events in the game.

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EMEA Case Study Resources

Brief Description

Case Study Resources

Overview

Word documents and PowerPoint presentations for GCRP

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Shape Documents

Brief Description

Shape Documents

Overview

Please download documents from Shape - The Web Conference

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Excel 2007 Add-in: Get Started Tab for Excel 2007

Brief Description

This add-in adds a Get Started tab to the Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Ribbon. Commands on this tab give you easy access to free content on Office Online that helps you learn Excel 2007 quickly.

Overview

This add-in adds a Get Started tab to the Excel 2007 Ribbon. Commands on this tab give you easy access to free content on Office Online, such as training courses, video demos, and other Office Online content designed to help you learn Excel 2007 quickly. An Office Online interactive command mapping tool, also available on the Get Started tab, shows you where to find Excel 2003 buttons and commands in Excel 2007. Office Online Community discussions are also available directly from Excel with this add-in.

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Microsoft Dynamics Case Study

Brief Description

Multitenant CRM Enables Rapid Deployment, Flexible Foundation for Field Sales Team

Overview

Facing rapid growth, U.S. Dynamics Field Sales needed a sales force automation tool that would map to the team’s unique solution-selling process and drive adoption among sales staff. Working with Microsoft® IT, U.S. Dynamics Field Sales deployed Microsoft Dynamics® CRM and integrated it with its legacy customer relationship management system, providing the team with greater flexibility and an improved user experience, while laying the groundwork for enterprisewide adoption. With Microsoft Dynamics CRM as a service, Microsoft IT provides administration and support, enabling U.S. Dynamics Field Sales to benefit from a low total cost of ownership. Compared to managing the solution on its own, Microsoft Dynamics CRM as a service helped the field sales team reduce deployment time by 67 percent, lower administrative and support costs by 82 percent, and achieve greater business agility.

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Microsoft Pre-Split and Post-Split Closing Stock Prices

Brief Description

List of weekly closing stock prices.

Overview

List of weekly closing stock prices, including unadjusted prices and prices adjusted for all stock splits.

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