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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Chris Bowen's Blog : Windows Server</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/Windows+Server/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Windows Server</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Got Tech Posters?</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/2007/12/09/got-tech-posters.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:58:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:6717129</guid><dc:creator>cbowen</dc:creator><slash:comments>14</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/comments/6717129.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/commentrss.aspx?PostID=6717129</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=6717129</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;Have a blank wall (and access to your company's color printer)?&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;There are plenty of technology posters and charts for developers available on MSDN.&amp;nbsp; I didn't realize just how many until I &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?freetext=Poster&amp;amp;productID=&amp;amp;categoryId=&amp;amp;period=&amp;amp;sortCriteria=popularity&amp;amp;nr=20&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en"&gt;searched for "poster" on MSDN downloads&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Here's a list of the more recent ones:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=4&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d7b645f3a-6d22-4548-a0d8-c2a27e1917f8%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=4&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d7b645f3a-6d22-4548-a0d8-c2a27e1917f8%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 5px; border-right-width: 0px" height="190" alt=".NET Framework 3.5 Types" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/GotPosters_F62E/Framework35Types_3.png" width="244" align="right" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=4&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d7b645f3a-6d22-4548-a0d8-c2a27e1917f8%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;.NET 3.5 Namespaces Poster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;The .NET Framework 3.5 Common Namespaces and Types Poster  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=5&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dfdcdf6e5-de47-4b58-8086-282101bcdde9%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;Exchange Component Architecture Poster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This poster highlights the architecture and feature set of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=1&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d255b8cf1-f6bd-4b55-bb42-dd1a69315833%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;Visual Basic 2008 Keybinding Poster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Printable wall poster containing list of useful keyboard shortcuts for Visual Basic 2008 developers  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=2&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d4411bbfc-0e3c-42b3-bd05-af1d292c986f%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;Visual C++ 2008 Keybinding Poster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;List of keybindings for Visual C++ language within Visual Studio and Visual C++ Express 2008  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=3&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3de5f902a8-5bb5-4cc6-907e-472809749973%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=3&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3de5f902a8-5bb5-4cc6-907e-472809749973%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 5px; border-right-width: 0px" height="184" alt="Visual C# 2008 Poster" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/GotPosters_F62E/CSharp2008_3.png" width="244" align="right" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=3&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3de5f902a8-5bb5-4cc6-907e-472809749973%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;Visual C# 2008 Poster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Wall chart showing useful keyboard shortcuts for Visual C# programming language  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=6&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dff468298-64be-4947-a086-f61584caf995%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Scale-Out Configurations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This poster illustrates typical scale-out configurations and options.  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=7&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d8790e652-1da5-4e80-88fe-b87606233db4%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Runtime Architecture Poster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This poster provides a detailed illustration of the modules and components that make up the BizTalk Server 2006 R2 runtime architecture. It shows typical message flow and data flow that occurs between these components at run time.  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=771aeb45-9d27-4d1f-acd1-9b950637d64e&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 5px; border-right-width: 0px" height="166" alt="2007 Office Developer Map" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/GotPosters_F62E/OfficeDevMap_3.png" width="244" align="right" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=771aeb45-9d27-4d1f-acd1-9b950637d64e&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en"&gt;2007 Office System: Developer Posters&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;Download these posters to learn more about the new features and enhancement to the 2007 Microsoft Office System.  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=8&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d34f41573-c552-466f-b531-32cb09a57cdd%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Poster&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;This poster lists the BizTalk Server 2006 R2 capabilities.  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=10&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dc2b9e44e-0bbd-47cb-bc09-b3d48be7f867%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;Windows Server 2008 Component Posters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Windows Server 2008 Component Posters, originally printed in the July 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine.  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=14&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d811d8ad6-8d48-4684-b08c-686462d58a56%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 (&lt;em&gt;Ed: Make that 2.0&lt;/em&gt;) Developer Reference Poster&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=14&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d811d8ad6-8d48-4684-b08c-686462d58a56%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=14&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d811d8ad6-8d48-4684-b08c-686462d58a56%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 5px; border-right-width: 0px" height="157" alt="Silverlight" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/GotPosters_F62E/Silverlight_3.png" width="244" align="right" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Microsoft Silverlight Developer Reference Poster  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=11&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dae60b18d-c7f0-4089-aeb3-6bc652a3b898%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;BizTalk Server 2006 Legacy Modernization with Host Integration Server 2006&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;Overview of BizTalk Server Legacy Modernization Scenarios.  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=3&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3de5f902a8-5bb5-4cc6-907e-472809749973%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;BizTalk Server 2006 Capabilities&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;Lists BizTalk Server 2006 capabilities  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=13&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d65ab53ce-78c1-4cc4-96fd-a492dd7f3f4a%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;BizTalk Server 2006 Runtime Architecture&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;Illustration of the modules and components of BizTalk Server 2006 &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=18&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dc236336d-ab43-44b1-ad6f-a2f668fb8c02%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;TechNet Magazine Active Directory Component Jigsaw Poster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Active Directory Component Jigsaw poster, originally printed in the March-April 2006 issue of TechNet Magazine.  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=19&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dd99fb3dd-e753-4500-bdad-e59ac0cea903%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;PnP Overview Poster&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;Patterns &amp;amp; Practices Overview Poster  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=20&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d523bf8a4-2b48-459b-9a2a-19cfabad08dc%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;Smart Client Poster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=20&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d523bf8a4-2b48-459b-9a2a-19cfabad08dc%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=20&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d523bf8a4-2b48-459b-9a2a-19cfabad08dc%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 5px; border-right-width: 0px" height="149" alt="SmartClient" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/GotPosters_F62E/SmartClient_3.png" width="244" align="right" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Patterns &amp;amp; Practices Smart Client Poster  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=15&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dc15d210d-a926-46a8-a586-31f8a2e576fe%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;Visual C# 2005 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This poster contains the default keybindings for Visual C# 2005, and is available as a PDF download in either color or grayscale for you to print.  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=16&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d6bb41456-9378-4746-b502-b4c5f7182203%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;Visual Basic 2005 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This poster contains the default key bindings for Visual Basic 2005, and is available as a PDF download in either color or grayscale for you to print.  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&amp;amp;p=17&amp;amp;SrcDisplayLang=en&amp;amp;SrcCategoryId=&amp;amp;SrcFamilyId=&amp;amp;u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dbccf84f4-4136-48b2-b4ec-83eaa484da20%26DisplayLang%3den"&gt;Visual C++ 2005 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This poster contains the default keybindings for Visual C++ 2005, and is available as a PDF download in either color or grayscale for you to print.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;-Chris&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:08d10348-4305-4750-b7ef-9e267c129b6e" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;Technorati tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Visual%20Basic" rel="tag"&gt;Visual Basic&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/C#" rel="tag"&gt;C#&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/C++" rel="tag"&gt;C++&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/BizTalk" rel="tag"&gt;BizTalk&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/.NET" rel="tag"&gt;.NET&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Exchange" rel="tag"&gt;Exchange&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Office" rel="tag"&gt;Office&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows%20Server" rel="tag"&gt;Windows Server&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Silverlight" rel="tag"&gt;Silverlight&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=6717129" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/Office/default.aspx">Office</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/Silverlight/default.aspx">Silverlight</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/C_2300_/default.aspx">C#</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/.NET+3.5/default.aspx">.NET 3.5</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/Windows+Server/default.aspx">Windows Server</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/Visual+Basic/default.aspx">Visual Basic</category></item><item><title>Save the Dates - Northeast 2008 Launch Events Announced</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/2007/12/07/save-the-dates-northeast-2008-launch-events-announced.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:16:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:6694532</guid><dc:creator>cbowen</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/comments/6694532.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/commentrss.aspx?PostID=6694532</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=6694532</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/SavetheDatesNortheast2008LaunchEventsAnn_9E9F/logo2_VS_2.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border-right-width: 0px" height="70" alt="logo2_VS" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/SavetheDatesNortheast2008LaunchEventsAnn_9E9F/logo2_VS_thumb.gif" width="190" align="right" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We've just announced the schedule for the 2008 Launch Events across the country, following the kickoff event in Los Angeles on February 27th!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;T&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/default.mspx"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;hese events are a great way to learn about what's new with three major products, Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008, and SQL Server 2008.&amp;nbsp; You'll have a chance to attend sessions, speak with experts, and test drive the software.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/SavetheDatesNortheast2008LaunchEventsAnn_9E9F/logo2_WS_2.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="70" alt="logo2_WS" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/SavetheDatesNortheast2008LaunchEventsAnn_9E9F/logo2_WS_thumb.gif" width="190" align="right" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Here are the in-person events for the northeast:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;April 15&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;March 11&lt;/font&gt;:&amp;nbsp; Manchester, NH&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;March 18:&amp;nbsp; Boston, MA&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;April 17:&amp;nbsp; Hartford, CT&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;March 20&lt;/strike&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;May 13&lt;/font&gt;:&amp;nbsp; Albany, NY&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;May 15:&amp;nbsp; Rochester, NY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/SavetheDatesNortheast2008LaunchEventsAnn_9E9F/logo2_SQL_2.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="70" alt="logo2_SQL" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/SavetheDatesNortheast2008LaunchEventsAnn_9E9F/logo2_SQL_thumb.gif" width="190" align="right" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Registration &lt;strike&gt;will be available soon &lt;/strike&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;is now available for most events&lt;/font&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Details are on the &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/default.mspx"&gt;Heroes Happen Here&lt;/a&gt; site.&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/SavetheDatesNortheast2008LaunchEventsAnn_9E9F/logo2_WS_2.gif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cbowen/WindowsLiveWriter/SavetheDatesNortheast2008LaunchEventsAnn_9E9F/logo2_WS_2.gif"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;-Chris&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Update 1/11 - Noted registration is open and corrected changed dates (thanks John Ross!)]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=6694532" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/New+England/default.aspx">New England</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/Events/default.aspx">Events</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/Visual+Studio/default.aspx">Visual Studio</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/New+York/default.aspx">New York</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/Massachusetts/default.aspx">Massachusetts</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/Windows+Server/default.aspx">Windows Server</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/SQL+Server/default.aspx">SQL Server</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/New+Hampshire/default.aspx">New Hampshire</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/tags/Connecticut/default.aspx">Connecticut</category></item><item><title>VS2008, SQL 2008 and Windows Server 2008 Launch Date Announced</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/2007/07/10/vs2008-sql-2008-and-windows-server-2008-launch-date-announced.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:12:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:3801533</guid><dc:creator>cbowen</dc:creator><slash:comments>3</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/comments/3801533.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3801533</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=3801533</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;Today (July 10th) at the Worldwide Partner Conference, Kevin Turner announced that &lt;a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx"&gt;Visual Studio 2008&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/default.mspx"&gt;Windows Server 2008&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/futureversion/default.mspx"&gt;SQL Server 2008&lt;/a&gt; will be launched on February 27th at an event in Los Angeles, followed by a series of launch events around the world.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;For details and press coverage see:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/jul07/07-10WPCDay1PartnersPR.mspx"&gt;Microsoft press release&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=46136"&gt;The Server Side&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=564"&gt;ZDNet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/10/Microsoft-next-product-wave_1.html"&gt;InfoWorld&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;-Chris&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:a44b18d7-560b-42c7-a707-6d08744281fa" contenteditable="false" style="padding-right: 0px; 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