Microsoft’s approach to stuff is to ship the basic product as part of a license and then provide you with lots of other add-ins, packs, resource kits and so on which are all free to use on top of what you just paid for e.g. Windows has the Live platform which gives you basic photo editing (Live Photo Gallery) , a really good off-line blogging tool (Live Writer) and e-mail client and there's a free consumern orientated anti-virus tool to come. Office puts out several add-ons under the office labs

Excel and analysis services are pretty open technologies so it’s very easier for anyone to grow their own stuff in for a richer experience, and even Microsoft provide things like the data mining add-ins which follow this principle. These add-ins are not confined to Microsoft and they are not always free.  What caught my eye recently is PTPower which free from SQL Server Power .  This is actually a Microsoft guy,Tyler Chessman.  What it does is to allow you to create calculated members

Der Support für Microsoft SQL Server 2000 ist ausgelaufen. Das Produkt wird somit nur noch im Extended Mode (Vertrag) unterstützt. Wie können Sie Ihren Kunden dabei helfen, veraltete Datenbanksysteme in deren IT-Infrastruktur aufzuspüren? Wäre es nicht schön, wenn Sie die Möglichkeit hätten, die gesamte IT-Landschaft zu untersuchen und eine Liste mit allen Versionen von SQL Server inklusive Edition, Service Pack und Instanzen zu bekommen? Möchten Sie zusätzlich Empfehlungen haben, wie Sie die SQL

Microsoft Office: Business Intelligence with SharePoint and Excel A good business intelligence strategy can both streamline business processes and boost productivity and profit. And rolling out a solution with tools that you already have may be easier than you think. Find out how you can integrate Microsoft Office Excel and Excel Services with SharePoint to create a business intelligence solution.A good business intelligence strategy can both streamline business processes and boost productivity and

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Working for Microsoft is strangely like working for the government, yu are essentially trying to please everyone, but there are significant minorities on any given issue who aren’t that satisfied. Let me explain with a real world example.. The lack of 64 bit jet and odbc drivers mean that anyone trying to get data into 64 bit SQL Server from Excel and Access has to do all sorts of chicanery.  Clearly those affected feel this is a big issue - after all this is simply a case of moving data from

No IT project can be successful unless the specific network environment is well understood.  To help IT professionals and Microsoft Partners solve common migration issues and assist them in planning their virtualization efforts, the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team is proud to announce the release of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 Beta . The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (or MAP) is the next-generation version of the agent-less assessment platform from Microsoft.

Ladies and Gentlemen, If your WSUS 2.0/3.0 Server synchronized with Windows Update between Sunday November 11th at 5 PM PST and Monday November 12th at 11 AM you may be unable to access your administration console. If your servers did not synchronize during this time, you should be unaffected, if you have access to your WSUS Administration Console you are unaffected, if you do not have access to your WSUS Admin console and you believe the cause was synchronization during this window please continue

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