November 2008 - Posts

Windows Vista - Springboard Series of Resources
30 November 08 09:56 PM | mepprecht | 0 Comments   

Can’t find all the resources you need to Plan, Deploy and Manage Windows Vista? Well, the Springboard Series of Resources is available to help you. Discover, Explore, Deploy and Manage resources, are all in one place, to make your job easier. Monthly Read More...

Filed under: SpringBoard series, resources, Windows Client

SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide
30 November 08 08:26 PM | mepprecht | 0 Comments   

The SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide is now available. This 490-page white paper covers the essential phases and steps to upgrade existing instances of SQL Server 2000 and 2005 to SQL Server 2008 by using best practices. These include Read More...

Filed under: SQL Server, Reference Guide

Azure - How does Microsoft build, provision, monitor and run the environment
28 November 08 10:17 AM | mepprecht | 0 Comments   

A recorded session from the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is available that discusses the Microsoft Azure platform from a technical perspective. In this session you will about the internal service management system and virtualization Read More...

Filed under: Azure, cloud computing, data centers

TechDays 2009 Switzerland - Save the dates
28 November 08 10:14 AM | mepprecht | 0 Comments   

Microsoft's TechDays Switzerland, the premier event for IT Professionals, Developers and Architects, will be held on the following dates: 1-2 April 2009 Geneva (French) 8-9 April 2009 Bern (German and English) Sessions, speakers and exact details will Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro, TechDays, Architects, Developers, Switzerland, Microsoft Event

IT Pro User Group Event - Unified Communications and Virtualization Security
28 November 08 09:24 AM | mepprecht | 0 Comments   

Subject: Unified Communications and Virtualization Security Language: Deutsch / English Tuesday - 2 December 2008 17:45 - 21:00 Digicomp Academy AG (Zürich) Limmatstrasse 50 CH-8005 Zürich Participation is free. More details and registration here . Abstract: Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro, OCS, User Group, Virtualization

SQL Server 2008 Compliance Guide
16 November 08 08:03 PM | mepprecht | 0 Comments   

The Microsoft SQL Server Customer Advisory Team ( SQLCAT ) have published a compliance guide for SQL Server 2008. The guide covers: Understanding Compliance Implementing IT Controls with SQL Server 2008 Securing the Platform Controlling Identity and Separation Read More...

Filed under: SQL Server, compliance

SharePoint Guidance – November 2008
09 November 08 12:25 PM | mepprecht | 0 Comments   

The SharePoint Guidance has just been published on Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices Developer Center . This guidance helps architects and developers build SharePoint intranet applications. The guidance contains a reference implementation (RI) that demonstrates Read More...

Filed under: MSDN, patterns, practices, SharePoint

SQL Server Energy 2008 Vienna
05 November 08 12:57 AM | mepprecht | 0 Comments   

SQL Server Energy 2008 Dates: 25.-26. November 2008 Venue: Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria Information und Registration: www.sqlserverenergy.at Note: The web site and registration is in German, the sessions at SQL Energy will be in English. Rafal Lukawiecki, Read More...

Filed under: Conference, Business Intelligence, SQL Server

Tech-Ed EMEA IT Pro
05 November 08 12:25 AM | mepprecht | 0 Comments   

Videos from Tech-Ed 2008 EMEA IT Professionals , currently on in Barcelona, are now online on Tech-Ed-TV Day 1, Monday 3 November, was dominated by the keynote address from Brad Anderson . Brad spoke about Windows Server 2008 R2, Online Services and the Read More...

Filed under: Conference, Tech-Ed

Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (Volume 5)
05 November 08 12:17 AM | mepprecht | 0 Comments   

The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) provides an in-depth perspective on the changing threat landscape including software vulnerability disclosures and exploits, malicious software (malware), and potentially unwanted software. Using data derived Read More...

Filed under: Security