Microsoft Resources To Help You With Your Career

Last week I presented at the Pacific Northwest Data Professional's Council, and the topic we selected was "The Data Professional's Career". It was pretty non-technical, and during the presentation I gave out lots and lots of resources from Microsoft where we help with your IT career from a technical perspective. I'm not sure of the other technology companies that do this, but I think we do a pretty good job of it.

I promised the group to share the links I used for some of the resources, so I figured if I posted it here I could help not only that group but all of my readers:

General Meetings and Events:  http://tinyurl.com/dgu9qu
SQL Server 2008 New Features:  More info: http://tinyurl.com/cus4nr

Help from Microsoft with your Career: http://www.microsoft.com/click/thrive/
IT Manager Events Site: http://tinyurl.com/ckewdy 
IT Manager Technet Resources: http://tinyurl.com/4bjsq7
Team System: http://tinyurl.com/cw4c2m
SQL CAT: http://sqlcat.com
Patterns and Practices for Operations: http://tinyurl.com/ae4djw
Patterns and Practices for Design: http://tinyurl.com/5mbjv5
Enterprise Architecture: http://tinyurl.com/agfzwy
How Microsoft does IT: http://tinyurl.com/2xpgkz
Blogs, Blogs, Blogs: http://tinyurl.com/d4fea4 
Forums: http://tinyurl.com/czqcow
TechNet Magazine: http://tinyurl.com/cy99n6
Learn SQL Server: http://tinyurl.com/djadu7
Virtual Labs: http://tinyurl.com/3w4vty
Demos and Videos: http://tinyurl.com/b4moal
Starter Schemas: http://tinyurl.com/advv25