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Windows 7 Beta expiring soon, RC Download closes Aug 15.

Folks, Windows 7 Beta is going to expire on August 1, 2009 and will begin to reboot every 2 hours from July 1, 2009. So if you are still on Beta, hurry up and download the Windows 7 RC and the product key from: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/download.aspx Read More...

Tech Ed India 2009 - How much can You Learn?

Tech Ed India 2009 at Hyderabad brings to you the best of the IT Pro technologies in-depth coverage! Day 1: May 13, 2009 Virtualization Planning, Desktop Virtualization, Application Virtualization Windows Server 2008 R2 Management, Direct Access, NAP, Read More...

TechEd India 2009

Yes, TechEd is back in India after almost three years. Unlike previous years TechEd India is different in many respects · It’s happening only in one city, Hyderabad. The dates are May 13 th , 14 th and 15 th · It’s going to be the biggest ever TechEd Read More...

$250,000 Reward for Helping Arrest the Culprit Behind Conficker (aka Downadup) worm

• As part of Microsoft’s continuing efforts to protect its customers, Microsoft announced a collaborative effort with technology industry leaders and academia to implement a coordinated, global approach to combating the Conficker worm. • This collaborative Read More...

Windows 7 gets you What you Expected!!

[Windows 7 Gives you what you Expected!!] Windows 7 gets you what you expected! Windows 7 , the next client release of Microsoft will be available in 32 & 64-bit versions. Here are some things that you asked for in your Desktop OS: For end –users Read More...

Want a Windows Mobile phone?

Yes, you heard us correct. If you have a solution build on top of Windows Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 or Microsoft Unified Communications then here is the deal. Tell us what you did, submit a paper or a video of the same to us and if your solution Read More...

Are these your problems with Windows?

Assuming most of the desktops in your current enterprise are installed with Windows XP (SP2/SP3) or Windows 2000 , here is a list of problems you (administrator) might be facing with them. Problems: 1. The users on most of the desktops use administrative Read More...

Launching Windows Essential Server Solutions

Microsoft is launching it’s new series of small and midsize server solutions on 12th of November. The two products which are part of this launch are Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008. For more details check this out link. http://www.thedreamserver.com/ Read More...

Virtual TechDays – September 2008 – Managing Virtual Infrastructure

Hi, this is Ravi Sankar ( http://ravisankar.spaces.live.com/blog ) again from the TechNet India team. This is the second blog post I am writing in response to the questions we received as part of virtual tech days ( http://www.connectwithlife.co.in/vtd Read More...

Q&A: Performance Tuning Redefined with SQL Server 2008

I am sure you folks are enjoying all the Q&A posted by my fellow Evangelists on this blog. The intentions are very much there to give you complete information even after our webcasts have got over. If you didnt get to read the Part I Q&A I wrote Read More...

Virtual Tech Days Sep 08 – Managing Windows Vista using Windows Powershell

Hi, I am Ranjana Jain ( http://ranjanajain.spaces.live.com ) . I was one of the presenters at the recently held Virtual Tech Days from Microsoft. I presented two sessions – a. Managing Windows Vista using Windows Powershell and b. A look at the performance Read More...

Virtual Tech Days – September 2008 – Virtualization Security

Hi I am Ravi Sankar ( http://ravisankar.spaces.live.com/blog ) from the TechNet India team. First of all let me thank everyone who attended the sessions under virtualization track. We have received hundreds of questions as part of the sessions and due Read More...

Q&A: Top 10 DMVs Admins must know in SQL Server

In the recent Virtual TechDays that got concluded we had a number of sessions and there were questions that couldnt be answered. You can download the PPT for the "Top 10 DMVs Admin must know in SQL Server" at: http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/1/A/61A76FEB-8035-47BC-9573-A438F7513E6A/DAY2/TRACK4/Top_10_DMVs.ppt Read More...

VTD - Gets a start !!!

Well, officially from the TechNet team we will have the ITPro tracks starting from tomorrow and there is a dedicated track on Virtualization spanning two days and we have industry speakers from our various organizations talking on different virtualization Read More...

Virtual TechDays - Countdown begins !!!

First, let me take this opportunity to Welcome all to this blog from the TechNet India Team where we try to share our experiences, information on various events/activities we do in India. This is also a channel where we solicit feedbacks from you folks Read More...