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Chris Vidotto's Blog

Microsoft Solution Specialist Application Platform Melbourne Australia

May 2009 - Posts

Visual Studio Team Suite Upgrade in Aus - 45% off….
From my MSDN subscriber blast…. Dear MSDN subscribers, End of Financial Year Special 45% off  on Team Suite Upgrade Conditions Apply Update: Team Suite is cheaper in June* Benefit from a 45% discount * if you purchase a Step up license from Visual Read More...
MS now officially supports SQL Server failover clustering in a VM
Our local SQL Tech Specialist Ron alerted me to a change in policy. http://blogs.msdn.com/psssql/archive/2009/05/19/sql-server-support-policy-for-failover-clustering-and-virtualization-gets-an-update.aspx Read More...
Melbourne BizTalk 2009 Hands on Day – Sat 30th May
See the User Group site: http://www.melbiz.org/Home/tabid/79/EntryId/82/BizTalk-2009-Hands-on-Days.aspx and register! Agenda: Read More...
BizTalk 2009 Best Practices Analyser
The download package is available here . 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 Read More...
Tech Ed Australia 2009
http://www.microsoft.com.au/teched It’s on again – 8-11th September on the Gold Coast. *Nice*! Read More...
Microsoft Australia Solutions Development Centre (SDC) Open Day May 2009 - presentations online
If you were not able to get to the SDC Open day in Sydney earlier this month – you can watch the webcasts here: http://www.microsoft.com/australia/services/microsoftservices/sdc_openday.mspx Read More...
Geo-Replication Performance Gains with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Running on Windows Server 2008
Thanks to my colleague Ron Dunn for bringing this MSDN article to my attention: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd263442.aspx **Snippit** The Microsoft.com Engineering Operations (MSCOM Ops) team is continuously searching for ways to improve the Read More...
SQL Server 2008 for Oracle DBA’s – online training…
Given that a lot of our customers here in VIC have experience around Oracle, this might be some interesting training? This 15 modules, level 300 course provides students with the knowledge and skills to capitalize on their skills and experience as an Read More...
REMIX 2009 – Star City Sydney (11 June 09) – Next Generation Web
Remix 09 is on in June in Sydney. The details and registration site can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/australia/remix/   REMIX09 THE NEXT WEB NOW What’s it all about? Ever since REMIX commenced it’s been a hit, with delegates returning each Read More...
Codeplex BizTalk SFTP adapter
Worth a look…. http://sftpadapter.codeplex.com/ CV Read More...
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