Swiss IT Professional and TechNet Blog : Web

Shape – The Web Conference – 27 October 2009 Zurich

mepprecht — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:20:55 GMT

Everything you want to know about the latest Web Technologies.

27th October 2009, Swissôtel Zürich

This conference will show you in one day, the newest technology advances for Software and Web Developers, Web Architects, Web- and Interactive Designers, and now also Hosting Providers

One of the highlights of the event is the presentation of the Best of Swiss Silverlight Awards in the morning, plus the unique Podium discussion during lunch. With 2 parallel tracks, a Designer and Developer track in the morning, and a Developer and Hosting Provider Track in the afternoon, followed by a Networking-Apéro.

Shape ‘09 offers you the platform the see the most important technologies for the Internet, plus ideas and practical implementations and then you can network and discuss your ideas with your colleagues.

Microsoft Connection Days

mepprecht — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:46:55 GMT

At five locations in Switzerland from 28 September up to 8. October 2009, Microsoft Connection Days (ex Partner Days), an event for Partners and IT professionals will be held.

This year, Microsoft Partners and now IT Professionals will have the opportunity, under one roof, to network and make interesting contacts. Five IT professional topics will be available for you to obtain the latest information about cloud computing (key note), Windows 7, Office/Exchange 2010, Windows Server R2 and Hyper-V R2, SQL Server and Online Services (BPOS).

Azure Business Model and Pricing

mepprecht — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:39:56 GMT

At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2009, we just announced the business model and pricing for the Microsoft Azure Platform.

Have a look here for the details. Azure is available in Switzerland, among other countries.

Microsoft Bing - The Decision Engine

mepprecht — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:24:18 GMT

Introducing Bing Search by Microsoft. A Decision Engine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et0rUzRAXGE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK5IYlZECmE

http://www.microsoft.com/emea/presscentre/pressreleases/ProductLaunchPR_280509.mspx

So from 3 June 2009, don’t Google It, or Live It, Bing It!

Test Microsoft Online Services for Free for 30 days

mepprecht — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:46:27 GMT

On the 19th March, at x.Days, Microsoft Online was officially launched in Switzerland. Microsoft Business Productivity Online suite (BPOS) is this offering’s name which encompasses Services like SharePoint, Exchange and Unified Communications (IM, Presence and Live Meeting). Planned future enhancements are Online Versions of CRM.

BPOS is hosted in Microsoft Data Centers, under Microsoft Control. Currently for Europe, the data centers are in Dublin, Ireland and Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The whole suite costs about CHF 22.- per month, per user.

You have the opportunity to test the services for free for 30 days, and have a chance to win a HTC Touch Phone.

To test the service, following the following procedure:

Create a Live ID if you don't have one yet https://signup.live.com
Subscribe to the free 30 days Test Suite of Microsoft Online (“Sign up for a trial”) at https://mocp.microsoftonline.com
Wait for the confirmation e-mail. During this time, your Microsoft Online account will be provisioned.
Visit the Customer Portal to retrieve the Administrator Account Information.
Login to the Administration Center with the Administrator Account https://admin.emea.microsoftonline.com
Create your first user accounts, configure Outlook and create your SharePoint site.

Further Technical Information can be found on TechNet (English / German / French). If you want to continue to use the service after the trial 30 days, you may wish to have a Qualified BPOS partner guide you further. These Partners are capable of helping you with Migrations, further Setup and can answer questions relating to your specific needs.

Originally posted on http://blogs.technet.com/chitpro-de/archive/2009/03/20/microsoft-online-services-30-tage-gratis-testen.aspx

Internet Explorer 8 is Released

mepprecht — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:56:00 GMT

Today at Microsoft’s MIX conference, during the keynote address, Dean Hachamovitch announced that Internet Explorer 8 has been released.

To see what is new, visit http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/features/overview.aspx

This is for Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. If you’re testing the Windows 7 Beta, the next Windows Update will include a specially updated version of Internet Explorer 8 for Beta users.

You can download Internet Explorer 8 from http://www.microsoft.com/ie8

Stop Living in the Past

mepprecht — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:53:12 GMT

An interesting community movement has started to take root: Stop Living in the Past. The movement wants users who are using Internet Explorer 6 to finally upgrade to the latest Microsoft browser and stop using the outdated “dinosaur” browsers. The movement was initially kicked off by Norwegian Newspapers who no longer wanted to support outdated site coding standards.

As they say: “And if you are in fact using Internet Explorer 6, you really are living in the dark ages where web browsing is concerned.”

http://www.stoplivinginthepast.com

Are you still living in the past? Then upgrade now to the latest version of Internet Explorer for Free

You can get the code from Stop Living in the Past to add to your web site to display the following message on your web site:

Make Web Not War – Web Platform and Application Installers

mepprecht — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:01:38 GMT

The Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a simple tool that installs Microsoft's entire Web Platform, including IIS, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and the .NET Framework. Using the Web Platform Installer’s user interface, you can choose to install either specific products or the entire Microsoft Web Platform onto your computer. The Web PI also helps keep your products up to date by always offering the latest additions to the Web Platform.

The Web Application Installer Beta (Web AI) is designed to help get you up and running with the most widely used Web Applications freely available for your Windows Server. Web AI provides support for popular ASP.Net and PHP Web applications including Graffiti, DotNetNuke, WordPress, Drupal, OSCommerce and more. With just a few simple clicks, Web AI will check your machine for the necessary pre-requisites, download these applications from their source location in the community, walk you through basic configuration items and then install them on your computer

Denial of Service Attacks - New tool for blocking DOS

mepprecht — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:00:00 GMT

The Microsoft Internet Information Services Team has released the beta for the Dynamic IP Restrictions Extension for IIS 7. The tool provides IT Professionals and Hosters a configurable module that helps block Denial of Service attacks or cracking of passwords.
It supports IIS 7/7.5 on Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7.

It determines which IP addresses to temporarily block by detecting a pattern that could be conducive to such attacks. This module can be configured such that the analysis and blocking could be done at the Web Server or the Web Site level. Blocking of IP addresses is based on number of concurrent requests or on number of requests over a period of time. The requests can be logged, and you can determine the response that can be returned by IIS (403, 404 or drop the connection)
IIS Manager can display the current list of blocked IP addresses. IPV4 and IPV6 are both fully supported.

The Dynamic IP Restrictions for IIS 7.0 tool provides the same functionality that exists in IIS 7.0 built-in IPv4 and Domain Restrictions. Because of that the Dynamic IP Restrictions is provided as a replacement for IPv4 and Domain Restrictions.

To download to tool and get further information, visit the Microsoft IIS Website

New TechNet Event Calendar Web Page

mepprecht — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:20:40 GMT

Microsoft Switzerland now has a new page to show the TechNet Events/Seminars.

http://www.microsoft.com/switzerland/server/de/events/default.mspx

You now have an overview all off the Swiss TechNet events, including the Content, Session Description, Date and Venue. On each link from this page, you can get detailed information about each event, including detailed information and the Live-ID enabled registration link.

I hope to meet you are more of the TechNet events.