Windows Azure Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content to help you learn how to use Windows Azure.

August 2012 Update
The August 2012 update of the Windows Azure Training Kit includes 41 hands-on labs and 35 presentations. Some of the updates in this version include:

• Added 7 presentations specifically designed for the Windows Azure DevCamps
• Added 4 presentations for Windows Azure SQL Database, SQL Federation, Reporting, and Data Sync
• Added presentation on Security & Identity
• Added presentation on Building Scalable, Global, and Highly Available Web Apps
• Several hands-on lab bug fixes
• Added the Windows Azure DevCamp 1-day event agenda
• Updated Windows Azure Foundation Training Workshop 3-day event agenda

Download it from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8396

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Free Slide decks and lab materials designed to train developers on using the development models and APIs associated with Lync 2013, UCMA 4.0, UC Web API, Persistent Chat, and Outlook apps.

Each filename contains a substring "_Mn_", where "n" identifies the number of the module to which the file belongs.

Module 1 walks through using the Lync 2013 Managed API to programmatically start sharing and handle control requests using Application Sharing modality, and how to share and interact with slides, white boards, and files in conversations using Content Sharing modality.

Module 2 walks through using the Unified Communications Managed API 4.0 to write asynchronous UCMA code using the Async task framework, and how to build a simple phone menu workflow.

Module 3 walks through using the Unified Communications Web API to work with familiar capabilities of Lync.

Module 4 walks through working with the Persistent Chat Platform in Lync 2013, including how to create add-ins for chat rooms, and how to programmatically create, manage, and interact with chat rooms.

Module 5 introduces Outlook apps, including how to build an app for Outlook, using the Office Javascript Object Model, and different security considerations for these apps.

Download them now ! http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30465

Go to the Lync 2013 training for developers page to watch videos for each module.

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after building your SSIS project and putting it into action you just start doing some JOB Schedules through the SQL Agent, but when you have a lot of schedules updating them starts to get annoying. and you can start getting some queries to list the Jobs, tasks and schedules in our discussion now we’ll focus on table “sysschedules” as this is the one that holds the info for schedules. and we’ll focus on exactly two fields.

freq_type How frequently a job runs for this schedule.

1= One time only

4= Daily

8= Weekly

16= Monthly

32 = Monthly, relative to freq_interval

64= Runs when the SQL Server Agent service starts

128= Runs when the computer is idle

and

active_start_time: Time on any day between active_start_date and active_end_date that job begins executing. Time is formatted HHMMSS, using a 24-hour clock.

now let’s say that all your schedules are daily and they are in frequent starting 1am. then you need to add a new schedule before them but you don’t need to re-schedule all of the jobs using the SQL Agent, simply update the table adding 3000 (30 minutes) to all schedules so will be alerted.

you can as well change the frequency, active status through this table. the detailed table documentation can be found here