Recently, we’ve highlighted quite a number of blog posts from MVPs within the Americas, so we thought this week might be a great time to highlight some of the great insight offered by our MVPs from around the world. 1. Preserving Input Sequence...

The new MVP Award Web site is going live this month and promises to offer a fresh view of this exemplary technical community. Built on Microsoft SharePoint, the new site is highly flexible, so it can better reflect the dynamic and global nature of the...

Editor's Note: The following MVP Monday post is by Exchange MVP J. Peter Bruzzese Even after years of availability, the Unified Messaging role still holds a mystery to it. Many IT admins have shied away from it in many cases. Perhaps there are simply...

How long have you been an MVP? 1 year How did you first start in community? Have been working on MS technologies for 12 years Which technical community or communities are you most active in (where can people find you)? Provide links if necessary...

  Two new books on Microsoft’s enterprise search solution, FAST, have hit the stands with MVPs as authors. Dutch SharePoint MVP Gustavo Velez brought us Lightning FAST Enterprise Searches in SharePoint 2010 , which offers a 360-degree view of FAST...

1. System Center 2012: Tighter integration between private cloud components By System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP John Joyner | @john_joyner The article covers how to setup the integration between the components and how to manually...

BizTalk MVP Mick Badran How long have you been an MVP? 6 years How did you first start in community? I started as a BizTalk developer/integrator and ran the Sydney BizTalk User group. I also had equal in depth knowledge in SharePoint. I also...

To close out this month’s Friday Five post, we’ll cover Forefront, Visual C# and Microsoft Project. 1. Translate and Compare Object SID : Download SIDTranslator By Forefront MVP Olivier Detilleux Olivier introduces us to the SID Translator tool which...

Windows Azure MVP Ming Chung Chu How long have you been an MVP? I have been an MVP for 9 years (2004-2012) How did you first start in community? My community experience started with the Programmer-Club managing “Training and Certification”...

Congratulations to Data Center Management MVP Dave Sanders and the Carolina IT Pro Group (CITPG) on being awarded the CompTia National Award for Excellence. For 12 years, this exemplary user group has contributed to helping countless people—within...

This week we're taking a look at some great blog posts from our MVPs on AJAX, Excel, Windows Phone 7, Windows 8 and Windows Azure. 1. Calling Web Services Using AJAX By Visual C# MVP Jonathan Wood Jonathan presents an ASP.NET WebForms application...

  Editor’s note: The following post was written by Community Program Manager Kari Finn The world’s leading conference aimed at learning how to be a better presenter took place last week in Scottsdale Arizona and Microsoft PowerPoint MVPs were there...

1. My Review of the Microsoft Surface for Windows RT By Microsoft Integration MVP Maxime Labelle 2. Microsoft shares considerations for extending AD into Windows Azure By System Center: Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP John Joyner 3, How Will Windows...

Guest blogger Mike Hickman is Microsoft’s director of Global Community Engagement, including the MVP Award. I’m in Brazil right now for the launch of Windows 8, surrounded by an enthusiastic MVP community. There are so many reasons that today—and this...

  Editor’s Note:  In partnership with Microsoft Press, MVPs have been contributing to an ongoing guest series on their official team blog based on monthly themes. This month’s theme is Windows Server 2012.  Today’s article is from Directory...