• Technology Fire Side Chats with Senior Microsoft Executives

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Tom Mertens}

    Microsoft Corp recently started running a series of Live Meeting sessions where senior Microsoft executives talk about the areas they are working on and where you get the opportunity to pose questions to them. You can pre-submit your questions when you register or ask them live during the chat. The chats are specifically designed for and with technical community experts. Each chat is an hour in length.

    Register here for these upcoming Fire Side Chats with senior Microsoft executives:

    Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 - Solution Accelerator
    Dec 3rd – 18:00 CET – Michael Niehaus

    SharePoint 2010 for Developers
    Dec 8th – 17:00 CET – Paul Andrew

    What’s new in Office 2010 and Implications for IT Pro’s
    Dec 10th – 17:00 CET – Reed Shaffner

    What’s new in Office 2010 for Developers
    Dec 15th – 17:00 CET – John Durant

    SharePoint 2010 for IT Professionals
    Dec 17th – 17:00 CET – Jie Li

    Microsoft IT: Chief Architect and CTO
    Jan 12th – 17:00 CET – Barry Briggs

    You can find more details on each of these (and register) at  http://ug.gitca.org/sites/FireSideChats.

    Note: These chats are organized by the User Groups and Communities Support team at Microsoft Corp but can also be attended by technical people from Microsoft partners…

  • Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 is RTM

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Tom Mertens}

    Forefront Threat Management Gateway On 16 November 2009, the Forefront Threat Management Gateway product team released their product to manufacturing. Forefront TMG is the next generation of ISA Server. Here are some of the new functionalities in the product:

    • Secure Web Gateway
    • URL filtering
    • Anti-malware
    • Network Inspection System (NIS)
    • HTTPS scanning
    • Works well with the Windows 7 BranchCache feature

    Read more about the RTM of Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 or download and evaluate Forefront TMG 2010 yourself.

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  • Event with Scott Guthrie in Brussels on 4 December

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Tom Mertens}

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    Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft and well known .NET guru, will be in Belgium for a free event by MSDN and VISUG on 4 December in the afternoon. Scott will be covering topics such as Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4 as well as the latest on web development with ASP.NET 4.0 and the next version of Silverlight.

    For the full agenda, registration and more info, please visit the MSDN Belux event page.

  • PowerPivot for Excel 2010 – November CTP

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Tom Mertens}

    Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010, formerly known as Project “Gemini”, is a data analysis add-in that delivers unmatched computational power directly within Excel 2010. PowerPivot gives users the power to create compelling self-service BI solutions. The PowerPivot team just released the November CTP (Community Technology Preview)…

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    PowerPivot for Excel is a data analysis tool that delivers unmatched computational power directly within the application users already know and love: Microsoft Excel. It’s the user-friendly way to perform data analysis using familiar Excel features you already know, such as the Office Fluent user interface, PivotTable and, PivotChart views, and slicers. It’s the fast way to generate rich and interactive analysis tools, easily mistaken for IT solutions after weeks of effort. It’s the right way to achieve deeper business insight and shorter decision cycles.

    In a nutshell:

    • Take advantage of familiar Excel tools and features
    • Process massive amounts of data in seconds
    • Load even the largest data sets from virtually any source (including Access, Excel, SQL Server…)
    • Use powerful new analytical capabilities, such as Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
    • Make the most of multi-core processors and gigabytes of memory

  • TechNet Roadshow on Exchange 2010

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Tom Mertens}

    The New Efficiency

    The TechNet Belux team just announced that they will visit 3 cities in Belgium to let you discover the recently launched Exchange 2010. Ilse Van Criekinge will guide you through the product and give an overview of the rich set of technologies related to Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010.

    Registration

  • Register for the session on 8 December 2009 in Brussels
  • Register for the session on 9 December 2009 in Gent
  • Register for the session on 10 December 2009 in Mons

    • Agenda

    13:30 - 14:00 Introduction in Exchange 2010

    In a time, when your organization requires its communication tools to be cost-effective and flexible, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 enables you to achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that can simplify your administration help, protect your communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands for greater business mobility.

    In this presentation, we will introduce you to Exchange Server 2010 -- the cornerstone of Microsoft’s Unified Communications solution -- and highlight how this latest release can help you realize the new efficiency, by enabling you, with less, to do more.

    14:00 - 15:00 Flexible and Reliable Messaging Infrastructure with Exchange 2010

    IT organizations are looking for ways to provide a more reliable messaging infrastructure, while reducing their costs and streamlining administration. Using Exchange 2010 is a great way to achieve those goals. In this presentation,  We will explore in more details how Exchange 2010 gives you the flexibility to provide a Reliable Messaging Infrastructure which meets the needs of your organization at a lower cost.

    15:15 - 16:15 Information Protection and Control

    Based on customer feedback, we focused on e-mail protection and compliance as one our 4 key investment areas in Exchange 2010.  In this session we will show you how Exchange 2010 can help reduce the complexity of this increasingly important workload.  You will get acquainted with using the improved Transport Rules, Moderated Mailboxes, MailTips, and how Information Rights Management is done in Exchange 2010.

    16:15 - 17:30 Migration & BPOS

    We will walk you through the process for introducing Exchange 2010 servers into an Exchange 2003/2007 organization.  You will learn about the prerequisites, steps required, and the impact to client access for MAPI, Outlook Anywhere, OWA, ActiveSync, and POP/IMAP clients after the upgrade has occurred. In addition, we will introduce you the features provided for Exchange in the cloud, as part of BPOS.

     

    Also check out our related posts on Unified Communications.