TechNet Virtual Labs are 90 minute online labs that enable you to learn and/or gain insight into our newest products and technologies. There is no setup or installation required, although a decent internet connection helps… Recently released...

Overview Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP2 helps IT Professionals achieve new levels of reliability with greater flexibility, enhanced user experiences, and increased protection for business communications. Flexible and reliable - Exchange Server...

Applications are still being accepted for the Microsoft® System Center 2012 Private Cloud Community Evaluation Program (CEP) for our cloud and hosting partners. This is a fantastic program to enable our hosting and cloud providers to install, evaluate...

If you ever have the need to describe the concepts or benefits around virtualization on Hyper-V, this handy zoomable poster is sure to help. It breaks down virtualization concepts into easy to understand terms: http://zoom.it/12u8

The System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta was released at MMS at the end of May and since then, there has been a number of great resource made available to help you get started. Here are some of them: Installing SCVMM 2012 SCVMM 2012 - Beta...

The entire Virtualization Jump Start series for VMware professionals is now available to stream online. It is difficult to argue with free training; and this training is well worth the time to review. Virtualization Jump Start (01): Virtualization...

http://www.implement.com/blog/bid/62472/Hosted-CRM-2011-Deployment-Guidance-Posted Thanks to our friends at Implement.com for this documentation on standing up partner hosted Dynamics CRM

Many of our US-based providers have been invited to attend one of the DDC Boot Camps that have been schduled around the United States. A few months ago we posted a short video discussing the benefits of attending one of these boot camps. To help boot...

On February 22nd, Microsoft released Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 service pack 1 (SP1). The Windows 7 SP1 includes some minor updates including some already pushed out through Windows Update. The service pack for Windows 7 also includes client...

Hello all, our good friends at Microsoft Consulting who have created the DDC Toolkit have provided us some resources that will help prepare you for building your own cloud solution based on Hyper-V and System Center. Begin your DDC education by...

Have you been looking at standing up a new cloud environment or perhaps just getting into hosting on Windows? Activation is a topic that comes up very frequently, so I wanted to put down my top resources so that our hosting partners could leverage them...

We recorded a short webcast that outlines some of the business opportunities that are available for hosters (service providers) when they engage in the Dynamic Data Center (DDC) program. If you haven't heard of the program or are still contemplating moving...

Yes, LYNC is coming, but for those Hosters who arent early adopters and are going for stability: a great blog post about OCS 2007 R2 and the associated data flow, click here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/ucedsg/archive/2010/02/03/very-cool-ocs-2007-r2-architecture...

I have been looking around for sizing guidance on RDS Session host for some of my hosting partners. I located this document, which has proven to be a great resource to get started: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID...

I am pleased to announce the Hosted Exchange Migration guide . It will provide you the latest and greatest migration assistance spanning Conceptual Architecture, Migration overview, Migration guidance and HMC specific migration guidance. Chris Samson...

Our good friend Kip Ng shares his latest exploration into hosting SharePoint 2010 multitenancy: http://blogs.technet.com/b/provtest/archive/2010/08/06/sharepoint-2010-multi-tenancy-support-for-hosters-it-is-there-if-you-want-it.aspx Please read...

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/glengordon/archive/2010/08/09/windows-phone-7-developers-free-training-and-app-building-workshops.aspx If you are looking forward to WP7 like we are, this should be great news for the Devs out there. Please pass it on!

Anyone interested in this blog post probably knows Henriks work with hosted exchange over the years. This is a good summation of the status of Hosted Exchange today from the Microsoft perspective and will hopefully shed some light on this topic going...

The first version of Exchange with native multitenancy capabilities built in is now available for download and test in your lab: Download Exchange 2010 SP1 Beta http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a0965fc9-2723-4947-ae6b-74bc3808e72a&displaylang...

More and more of our Hosting partners are moving Hyper-V deployments out of their labs and POC environments into production. If you are currently running Hyper-V or thinking about it, here is a great toolset that will help guide you towards a better,...

Overview This document describes the concept of a hosted deployment of Microsoft Dynamics AX and discusses the factors that partners should consider when planning for one. Factors include the customer's IT infrastructure, the components of the business...

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Check out this upcoming event to boost your Software as a service knowledge: What is SaaS? Where does your organization fit in? What is the Current State of the SaaS/Cloud Revolution? What is the Perspective of the End User-Buyer toward...

The following rollups are now tested and approved for use in HMC 4 and 4.5 environments respectively. This will enable HMC hosters to run Exchange 2007 SP2! HMC 4.0 - RU3 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979702/en-us HMC 4.5 - RU6 http...

The linux Integration Components version 2 are available now. They include Synthetic Network devices for both network and Storage. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c299d675-bb9f-41cf-b5eb-74d0595cc c5c&displaylang=en...