(Reposted from Microsoft Telco Insights ) We are delighted to see that Microsoft ’s efforts in the communications space are being recognized. This week, Microsoft was honored with the Pipeline Innovation Award for Best Ecosystem, 2012. Pipeline’s prestigious...

RePosted from : The "consumerization of IT" challenges IT people to rethink systems management, shifting from a device-centric to user-centric approach. Editor's Note: The Balancing Act of a Successful Consumerization of IT Strategy Configuring...

The product and licensing changes Microsoft® introduced with Microsoft SQL Server® 2012 may prompt some enterprises to undertake a fresh comparison of SQL Server and Oracle Database licensing costs. Based on their comparison, they may reassess when and...

I would like to share the following useful resources for Data Quality Services (DQS) and Master Data Services (MDS) in SQL Server 2008 R2/2012: How to Install Master Data Services (MDS) Service Pack 1 (for SQL Server 2008 R2) Data Quality Services (DQS...

SQL Server 2012 Upgrade Technical Guide, available here SQL Server 2012 What’s new , available here (created by Joanne Hodgins) Very interesting resources on why upgrade to SQL Server 2012 are available in this link.

Microsoft SQL Server is a comprehensive database server and information platform offering a complete set of enterprise-ready technologies and tools that help people derive the most value from information at the lowest total-cost-of-ownership. Enjoy high...

From: Stephen Rose, Sr. Community Manager, Microsoft Windows Commercial Division In March, Kurt Walter did a great piece on Windows 8 and the new shortcut keys for the Windows Team Blog . Windows 8 is a great touch experience, but now that I have been...

Microsoft runs its worldwide operations on SAP ERP. With 93,000 employees and operations in more than 110 countries, the largest software company in the world runs some 25 million SAP transactions a month against its 5.8-terabyte compressed database....

(From MS Technet ) Learn how you can lay a deep foundation for your SharePoint Server 2010 Business Intelligence (BI) Insights skills in this training course. This course teaches how to use SharePoint Server 2010 as your BI platform and covers the following...

The SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit includes technical content including labs, demos and presentations designed to help you learn how to develop SQL Server 2012 database and BI solutions. New and updated content will be released periodically and...

How to Build a SQL Server 2012 Hyper-V Virtual Machine (KIWI build): http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/3402.how-to-build-a-sql-server-2012-hyper-v-virtual-machine-kiwi-build.aspx SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit BOM (en...

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The 2012 Gartner BI Summit is winding down and are excited about all the great conversations we had with the attendees. Thank you to everybody who connected with us at the Summit! http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_business_intelligence1/archive/2012/04...

Reposted Brian Harry MS article for Team Foundation Service on Azure (27/3/2012)

The Microsoft SQL Server 2012 College on Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) has surpassed its 10,000th registered student! The SQL Server 2012 College went live on March 7 to coincide with the SQL Server Virtual Launch Event that introduced the world to...

This tool asks you a few questions about your current environment and then generates customized instructions you can use to upgrade to Exchange 2010 on-premises or in the cloud. You can use it from this link.

You can reach the entire article here . The Visual Basic team is committed to “It Just Works” compatibility for Visual Basic 6.0 applications on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 including R2, Windows 7, and Windows 8. The Visual Basic team’s goal is...

Implemented Disaster Recovery in the Datacenter Microsoft builds disaster recovery (DR) into its applications and systems. Recently, Microsoft Information Technology (Microsoft IT) improved DR planning by consolidating and centralizing its DR efforts...

Free e-Book for MS SQL Server 2012 from this link

The Label Security Toolkit provides tools and techniques for using Microsoft® SQL Server (versions 2005 through 2012) to implement row-level security (RLS) and cell-level security (CLS) based on security labels. The major components of the Toolkit are...

Get Visual Studio 11 Beta today and start preparing for the next generation of development. You can’t predict the future, but you can get there first: • New HTML and CSS editors extend Visual Studio’s rich editing capabilities to make HTML 5 and CSS 3...

This guide focuses on the common issues you will encounter when building applications that run partly in the cloud and partly on-premises, or when you decide to migrate some or all elements of an existing on-premises application to the cloud. It focuses...

Technorati Tags: Microsoft Certification , SQL Server 2012 MSL Training Portal: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/training/sql-server.aspx Courses: The SQL Server 2012 courses are designed to enable database professionals to take full advantage...

FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint quickly and reliably returns highly relevant results across thousands of sites and documents. FAST also enables applications to take advantage of its capabilities to deliver business value through productivity gains...

In conjunction with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, Microsoft IT leverages BranchCache which caches local copies of content from Web and file servers to enhance performance and reduce bandwidth utilization on Wide Area Networks (WAN), eliminating...