From Joel Oleson’s post at http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=0cd1a63d-183c-4fc2-8320-ba5369008acb&ID=481 “1. Disaster Recovery and Resiliency Improvements - Always On – this was the big one. At the SharePoint Conference they...

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...

(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...

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...

To help you promote your Windows Azure application, Microsoft has created a new logo program: Powered By Windows Azure. The Powered By Windows Azure program is designed to indicate to the public that your application meets a set of requirements set out...

Όπως εύστοχα διαπιστώνει και η Gartner, η πρόταση της Microsoft για το cloud computing είναι η πιο πλήρης και η πλέον ολοκληρωμένη της αγοράς. Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες διαβάστε αυτό το post.

SQL Server AlwaysOn Dashboard: The new SQL Server AlwaysOn will provide a set of capabilities to help businesses maximize uptime of their mission critical applications, simplify high availability deployments and provide better returns on hardware investments...

From Microsoft IT Showcase Published: 11/15/2010 Metadata Driven Extract Transform and Load (METaL) was developed by Microsoft IT to enable the rapid configuration, deployment, and operation of data warehouse applications utilizing evolving Microsoft...

Introducing BizTalk Server 2010 AppFabric Connect (from MS TechNet Wiki by Trace Young) BizTalk Server 2010 introduces a new feature “AppFabric Connect”, which combines rich proven features of BizTalk Server with the flexible development experience of...

Attend this webcast and learn how SQL Server 2008 can help you visualize your data on a map using a free download called DataConnector. You’re most likely already familiar with SQL Server support for spatial data and now with DataConnector viewing this...

(Copied from SQL Server Team blog ) A new Business Intelligence Semantic Model (BISM) in Analysis Services that will power Crescent as well as other Microsoft BI front end experiences such as Excel, Reporting Services and SharePoint Insights. The BI Semantic...

This training kit is a great resource for developers, trainers, consultants and evangelists who need to understand SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 improvements from a developer perspective. It contains a rich set of presentations, demos, hands...

Microsoft IT Showcase is pleased to announce the publication of 10 Microsoft IT Showcase videos and 10 TechNet Radio sessions for external consumption: Video: What Does the Cloud Mean to the CIO TechNet Radio session coming Wednesday, January 26, 2011...

As amazing as the web is, its potential is immeasurably greater. Internet Explorer 9 was designed to let that potential shine through. Click below to see how developers and designers are creating a more beautiful web using HTML5 and advancements in Internet...

Please read this great post (TechNet Wiki) regarding SQL Azure Federation Services that will allow you to scale-out your SQL Azure, horizontal partitioning or ‘sharding’ of data, across many nodes. You can find the full post here .

This is a great document for analyzing SAP Data using Microsoft’s SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel. Writers: Scott Cameron (Hitachi Consulting), Chunhui Zhu, Denny Lee Technical Reviewers: John Hancock, Lindsey Allen, Hermann Daeubler, Juergen Thomas,...

Το BizTalk Server Management Pack για το System Center Operations Manager 2007 παρέχει δυνατότητες παρακολούθησης (monitoring) των BizTalk Server 2006, BizTalk Server 2006 R2, και BizTalk Server 2009. Το συγκεκριμένο management pack εστιάζει στα ακόλουθα...

Republished from Gregory Lake ’s post on Windows Azure BLOG

Since there is confusion on SQL Server’s support for UTF-8, Unicode data etc., I would like to share the following post from QingsongYao which provides very useful content on this: “Today, I will start my series of articles about SQL Server and Unicode...

I decided to make a small exception and post a few very interesting links on Microsoft’s new private cloud offering based on System Center 2012: Transforming IT with Microsoft Private Cloud , keynote from Satya Nadella (President of Server and Tools Business...

Microsoft offers a comprehensive solution for optimizing your databases for Private Cloud. Optimizing SQL Server for Private Cloud solutions will help ensure that your computer, network and storage resources are used efficiently, reducing physical footprint...

A case study on the comparative costs of database administration for two of the premier enterprise relational database management systems. You can download the study from Alinean’s site

The Web Installer Preview for the SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit has been published to the download center at the following URL: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9785999 The first set of content includes the following: Demo: A First Look at SQL...

Covering the following areas: Microsoft® SQL Server Report Builder 3.0 for Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Microsoft® SQL Server® PowerPivot for Microsoft® Excel Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft® SharePoint® Technologies...

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