Peter Ward (Wardy IT) will be running some free SQL 2008 R2 seminars at the end of January. Email from Peter:
I just wanted to let you know about the SQL Server 2008 R2 Hot Lap which WARDY IT Solutions will be running in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney at the end of January.
The SQL Server 2008 R2 Hot Lap will be the first SQL Server 2008 R2 workshops held in Australia. They are a ½ day catered workshop and they are free to attend.
A Hot Lap is a quick and concise way of finding out what is new in SQL Server 2008 R2 and how these changes will improve database operations, developer efficiency and enable self-service Business Intelligence solutions.
Dates
27/01/2010 - Melbourne – 1:00pm – 5:00pm
28/01/2010 - Brisbane – 8:00am – 12:00pm
29/01/2010 - Sydney – 8:00am – 12:00pm
Email: contact@wardyIT.com
One of our program managers in Redmond has a great site showcasing Powerpivot. http://powerpivotpro.com Email from Rob: “For those of you who have not seen it, I thought it was worth mentioning here, since it seems people are finding it in semi-random ways. There are case studies, how-to’s, videos, and observational posts about trends and best practices. It’s a pretty informal site, so you will also see a liberal dosage of movie quotes that help illustrate certain points”
Great job Rob!
Those of you that know me – know how much I enjoy the round ball game :-) Whilst not strictly related to my MS role – please bring the FIFA world cup to Australia!
http://www.australia2018-2022.com.au/
Hi all,
If you still have BizTalk 2004 in your environment, mainstream support ends in July 2009. In Australia, we have a partner who can do an assessment for you on what it may take to upgrade (if necessary). Email me if you want more info.
Migration tool released – if you want to consider using the BizTalk WCF adapters.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e68b8fd1-5c8a-499a-8237-4dc23a8342c5&displaylang=en
Overview
The WCF-based adapters shipped with the BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0 are the recommended solutions to integrate various LOB systems with BizTalk Server. The Adapter Pack consists of LOB adapters for SAP, Siebel, Oracle DB, Oracle EBS, and SQL Server. They are built on the WCF LOB Adapter SDK framework. However these are not the first adapters to be released by Microsoft for integration.
The BizTalk Adapters for Enterprise Applications is a suite of adapters based on the older BizTalk Adapter Framework and was released with BizTalk 2006 and BizTalk 2009. Among others, this suite has adapters for SAP, Siebel, and Oracle DB systems. BizTalk Server has a native SQL adapter.
With the release of BizTalk 2009, all these adapters are deprecated in favour of the WCF-based adapters in the Adapter Pack as the latter set has more features and support more LOB versions.
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Register by going to http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/r2.aspx and we will let you know when the CTP ships.
It’s a busy month ;-)
Overview
"Oslo" is the code name for Microsoft’s next generation modeling platform. This CTP includes:
- "Quadrant" – a visual modeling tool
- "M" – a modeling language
- Repository – a SQL Server 2008 database to store models
- UML domain models and a loader to import UML diagrams in XMI format into the repository
- CLR domain models and a loader to import .NET assemblies into the repository
New in this CTP: - The "Quadrant" modeling tool. Use Quadrant to browse and edit models in a repository database.
- Domain models for the UML 2.1 specification encompassing Use Case, Activity, Class, Sequence, Component diagrams, profiles and templates.
- An XMI importer supporting the 2.1 specifications, and covering the diagrams identified above.
- A domain model and loader for System.Runtime.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=827122a5-3ca0-4389-a79e-87af37cbf60d&displaylang=en
Just noticed that we had released to web the BizTalk 2009 guide for Hyper V. Get it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0582bc67-0bef-4a0a-99cf-4408a111c4e3
Let me know what you think….
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The BizTalk Server Best Practices Analyzer performs configuration-level verification by reading and reporting only. The Best Practices Analyzer gathers data from different information sources, such as Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes, SQL Server databases, and registry entries. The Best Practices Analyzer uses the data to evaluate the deployment configuration. The Best Practices Analyzer does not modify any system settings, and is not a self-tuning tool.
http://www.microsoft.com.au/teched
It’s on again – 8-11th September on the Gold Coast. *Nice*!
