Craig Swartz on Microsoft

Views and News for the Northern California Financial, Legal, and ISV Community

January, 2010

  • 2010 Microsoft BI Conference

    The 2010 Microsoft BI Conference will be in New Orleans June 7-10, topic areas include: · Empowering End Users · Improving Organizational Effectiveness · Increasing IT and Developer Efficiency · Partner Services and Solutions Delivery ...
  • 3 Screens & the Cloud in New York

    Bill Zack spoke regarding Microsofts Technology Vision at a penel in NYC. This vision is he convergence of content and protocols across all devices - see Bill's post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/billzack/archive/2010/01/18/3-screen-the-cloud-in...
  • Migrating from Exchange 2003 to 2010

    Now that Exchange 2010 has released, many are looking for guidance on migration, includng some who are evaluating moving from Exchange 2003. Here is a technical article on the subject in Technet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exdeploy2010/default...
  • Branch Infrastructure Deployment Guide

    The Branch Infrastructure Deployment Guide has been updated with new guidance for the Server R2, including Branch Cache. IThe new guide can be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/branchoffice/default.aspx
  • Taking the Virtualized environment to the next level - Automation of event handling

    Now that Virtualization and Live Migration are commodity capabilities across the virtualization landscape, its time to make life easier for the operations of these environments, and a little less manual, by monitoring and making systemic changes in an...
  • Sharepoint Public Website Webcasts

    Here is a list of Webcasts to address many of the persistent questions I receive related to Sharepoint implementation for Public sites - SharePoint Internet Business Live Webcasts TechNet Webcast: Staffing, Methodology, and Governance for...
  • Web Analytics with SharePoint

    Many clients have asked about Web analytics wit SharePoint sites, Here is a whitepaper on the topic: whitepaper .
  • Developer training - Performance, Web, and Management using Windows Server 2008 R2

    Channel 9 is featuring a training course with hands on labs to take advantage of the servces in Windows Server 2008 R2 featuring: -Many Core scaling -Trigger started services -Windows Powershell features -Web Platform Extensions -Automation...
  • SharePoint for Public-facing Sites - Design Considerations

    SharePoint is widely used for intranets, now an increasing number of companies are using it for their Public-facing site, leveraging the heavy lifting SharePoint can do in the background to add more time to the creative. There is a technet webcast which...