Preview edition of Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript , by Kraig Brockschmidt Download a PDF of the ebook here (4.34 MB). Download the ebook’s sample code here (27.5 MB). This first preview contains the first four chapters...

  Introducing Windows Server 2012 , by Mitch Tulloch, is now ready for free download! Please see the links below to download one or all of the available formats. FORMAT LINK PDF Introducing Windows Server 2012 PDF ebook EPUB Introducing Windows Server...

  Here are some MS Press Free Ebooks for your reference. You can download them. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2012/05/04/free-ebooks-great-content-from-microsoft-press-that-won-t-cost-you-a-penny.aspx

  In continuation to my blog post few days back, I am pleased to share that last week Microsoft released a brand new track on Understanding Microsoft’s High-Availability Solutions .  This course covers the best ways to provide continual availability...

  A few days back I wrote about the Lync 2010 mobile been released . A few of my friends asked me on how can they plan and implement it in their organization. So here I am sharing some information which Microsoft has shared on Planning and Deploying...

The Monday (12-Dec-2011) did not gave much blues as Microsoft released the Mobile Client for Microsoft Lync. If you have a Windows Phone then you can open the link http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=9ce93e51-5b35-e011-854c-00237de2db9e on your phone and...

  It’s been a long time that I have written anything here. I am glad to be back. I have changed my role and am now working as a Technical Account Manager, managing Premier Customers in India. During one of my interactions, I came to know about Microsoft...

Just one week after TechEd 2011, Microsoft Learning hosted another exclusive three-day Jump Start course and we are excited to announce the availability of the HD-quality video recordings—FREE—on TechNet Edge , MS Showcase, the Zune Marketplace, and iTunes...

The Microsoft Lync 2010 Adoption and Training Kit provides a one-stop shop for resources for IT pros, project managers, help desk agents, and trainers. The kit provides: A workbook that provides step-by-step guidance for each phase of the rollout and...

Microsoft is relaxing its volume licensing rules to allow customers to move existing servers to the clouds without paying extra. Dubbed "license mobility", the changes come into effect 1 July. The changes are for customers with Volume License deals...

Summary: The Office 365 Beta is now open to the public. Office 365 provides a cloud-based subscription service that includes Office 2010 Professional Plus, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online. Office 365 also provides developers and ISVs...

Windows Server 2008 (and R2) Failover Clustering supports virtually every workload which comes with Windows Server, however there are many custom and 3 rd party applications which take advantage of our infrastructure to provide high-availability. Additionally...

SQL Server 2008 Client Tools Installation Run the setup program from the installation media to load the SQL Server Installation Center. Once the SQL Server Installation Center loads navigate to the 'Installation' option and select the 'New SQL Server...

Partner Technical Services is pleased to present the following live series events. Each event consists of a webcast, or series of webcasts, delivered using Office Live Meeting. These events will help you to sell or deploy Microsoft products or technologies...

Tuesday 23rd - Wednesday 24th November 2010: Virtual Partner Day - Collaboration and Unified Communications Partner Technical Services are pleased to present this special Live Series event. This virtual partner day provides the opportunity to attend a...

IT Pro Resources http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/pages/default.aspx Main Microsoft site (running on SharePoint 2010) http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/product/capabilities/Pages/default.aspx Capability overview http://sharepoint.microsoft.com...

This whitepaper provides prescriptive guidance and detailed steps for planning and implementing SQL Server virtualization with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Live Migration. The document also communicates strategies for managing a SQL Server virtual...

Migrate from MySQL to SQL Azure or SQL Server with ease! On 12-August Microsoft announced the release of first version of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for MySQL! Along with this release, Microsoft refreshed the existing SSMA family of products...

If anyone wants to upgrade/refresh their SQL skills and would like to do so using any webcasts\training videos\technet videos for SQL Server 2008; they can refer to the following resources: Analysis Services Videos (SQL Server 2008) Analysis Services...

Brief Description This download contains a two Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Virtual Machine set for evaluating and demonstrating Office 2010 , SharePoint 2010 and Project Server 2010 . Overview Virtual machine “a” contains the following pre-configured...

Underscoring its commitment to providing midsize businesses with cost effective solutions for managing both physical and virtual IT environments, Microsoft today announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of System Center Essentials 2010 and System...

A new IDC white paper is available at http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/B/D/5BD5C253-4259-428B-A3E4-1F9C3D803074/IDC_Business_Critical_Workloads.pdf which documents what’s happening in the world of x86-based Servers; why they are THE platform businesses...

UK Partner Technical Services team are excited to announce the upcoming “ Virtual Partner Days ” , running 27 to 29 April 2010 for Microsoft Partners. The events will focus on content for Technical Pre-Sales, Business Decision Makers, IT Professionals...

Last week Microsoft made some major announcement around Virtualization and one of the announcements was around an update to Windows XP mode which makes it more accessible to PCs in small and midsize businesses who want to migrate to Windows 7 Professional...

In virtual environments, all products in the Per Processor licensing model are licensed by virtual processor. If you run the software in virtual Operating System Environments (OSEs), you need a license for each virtual processor used by those OSEs on...