Editor’s Note:The following post was written by PowerPoint MVP Glenna Shaw . PowerPoint 2013: Visualizations Part 3: Creating Infographics with SmartArt and Apps for Office In the previous two parts of this series, we discussed creating infographics specifically from data. But infographics...

1. Using Bit Fields in C# By Visual C# MVP Filip Ekberg - @fekberg 2. Top 5 Tips & Tricks for Surviving TechEd 2013 By Silverlight MVP Michael Crump - @mbcrump 3. Comments and Descriptions in DAX By SQL Server MVP Chris Webb - @technitrain 4. Method Overloading...

Editor’s note: The following post was written by PowerPoint MVP Glenna Shaw PowerPoint 2013: Visualizations Part 2: Creating Data Infographics with Charts and Graphs In Part 1 of this series, we discussed creating data infographics using shapes. In this part we’ll take the next step...

1. How to turn ON/OFF the Microsoft Two-Step Verification? By Silverlight MVP Kunal Chowdhury - @kunal2383 2. Windows Phone 8 navigation part 2-routing, route details, tombstoning-and testing By Windows Phone Development MVP Joost van Schaik - @LocalJoost 3. Clash of the Clouds...

MVPs from around the world gathered in Belgium to judge and participate in the Windows 8 Super Hackathon . Nearly 200 developers amassed to test their skills building Win dows 8 and Windows Phone 8 applications. A small group of MVPs were asked to participate as judges for the event. The hackathon...

PowerPoint 2013: Visualizations Part 1: Creating Data Infographics with Shapes We’ve all sat through presentations that contain slide after slide of charts and graphs. The chart may be well designed and clearly display the data, but still, all it’s displaying is the data in relational...

1. Windows Azure Bootcamp is Coming Soon By Visual C# MVP David Giard 2. Notes from the Field: Exchange 2003 to the New Office 365 (Wave 15) Migrations By Office 365 MVP Sean McNeill - @S_McNeill 3. Microsoft Using Crowd Sourcing in their Windows Compatibility Center By Windows Expert Consumer MVP Richard...

MVPs and the Windows Azure community are coming together Saturday, April 27 for an exciting and unique event, the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp. Nearly 100 bootcamps in over 30 different counties are scheduled to take place on the same day. An estimated 7,000 people will participate in the FREE event...

How do you find the next generation of passionate, community oriented, technology leaders? The Microsoft Community Rising Star began its search among 10 universities in Taiwan where over 800 students were interviewed to qualify for 10 teams to compete for the title. MVPs Demo Fan, How Lin, Aska Su...

Today, 885 exemplary community leaders around the world were notified that they have received the MVP Award! These individuals were chosen because they have demonstrated their deep commitment to helping others make the most of their technology, voluntarily sharing their passion and real-world knowledge...

1. Using Sencha ExtJS 4.2, Sencha Architect 2.2, Add CRUD to REST client for calling Microsoft WebAPI server By ASP.NET/IIS MVP Peter Kellner 2. Simple reverse geocoding with Windows Phone 8 and MVVMLight By Windows Phone Development MVP Joost van Schaik - @LocalJoost 3. Asynchronous Commands in Windows...

Editor’s note:  The following post was written by Dynamic CRM MVP Gus Gonzalez Scheduling Recurring Workflows in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Online and On-Premise If you have read some of my previous posts you will notice that I am a big fan of utilizing out of the box functionality within Microsoft...

1. How to allow a regular user to manage recipients in Exchange Server 2013 and other stuff… By Exchange Server MVP Anderson Patricio - @apatricio 2. Restoring NuGet Packages for External Dependencies By Visual C# MVP Adil Mughal - @adilamughal 3. Using VMM 2012 SP1 Baselines & Compliance To Orchestrate...

What do you get when you combine 20 select MVPs, 10 Microsoft Teams and 800 of your MVP peers? The 2013 MVP Showcase! Congrats to all those who presented.

Outlook MVP Diane Poremsky and Visio MVP John Marshall are no strangers to the MVP Summit. Between the two, they’ve attended 23 total MVP Summits. We asked them to share a few tips for all those first-time summit attendees. Diane Poremsky So you’re a first time attendee to the MVP Summit...

Editor’s note:  The following post was written by MVP Events Manager Paulette Suddarth This is always an exciting time for everyone at Microsoft who is lucky enough to engage with technical communities—the run-up to the MVP Global Summit. And this year’s Summit coincides with the kick-off to the...

Happy New Year! Today, 943 exemplary community leaders around the world were notified that they have received the MVP Award! These individuals were chosen because they have demonstrated their deep commitment to helping others make the most of their technology, voluntarily sharing their passion and real...

Guest blogger Mike Hickman is Microsoft’s Director of Global Community Engagement, including the MVP Award. This has been a momentous year for the MVP community. We are poised to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the MVP Award and, as I look back on 2012, it serves to highlight the remarkable...

This year, more than 850 MVPs representing 17 countries gathered together in cities across the globe to participate in 10 Open Days events. These events feature technical sessions designed to enhance the community’s understanding of new Microsoft products, existing tools and new techniques. But...

1. Manipulate Taxonomy objects using SharePoint 2013 Client Object Model By SharePoint Server MVP Sundararajan Narasiman 2. Control for having Live Tiles on Home Page By Client Application Development MVP Thomas Lebrun - @thomas_lebrun 3. Office Web Apps Server: How to deploy, manage and integrate with...

Editor’s note: The following post was written by Community Program Manager So Young Lee The University of Seoul was home to 78 MVPs during a two-day event in which 12 MVPs received the 2012 Korean MVP Contribution Award. The Korean Open Days event started off with a knowledge donation seminar...

It’s been a busy month for Microsoft. Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, Surface, the recent BUILD conference and just when you thought Microsoft might take a breather, it’s time for the SharePoint 2012 Conference in Las Vegas. MVPs rank among attendees and speakers at this year’s conference...

Editor’s note:  The following post was written by Windows Server – Virtualization MVP Anil Desai Intro: High Tech at Low, Low Prices! What do driver-less cars , invisibility cloaks , and 3D Printing , have in common?   They’re all amazing examples of technology that is just of out of reach...

Editor's Note: The following MVP Monday post is by Dynamics CRM MVP Donna Edwards   Those of us who deploy, administer or configure CRM know that updating Security Roles can be a time consuming process. We also know that It doesn’t take long for security role updates to become laborious, tedious...

It’s no surprise that MVPs were center stage at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference this summer in Toronto, Canada. The conference recognizes achievements in solutions built on Microsoft technologies. Each year, the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference offers Microsoft partners the opportunity...