WSSRA : Business Intelligence

NetApp released new SnapManager

Thomas K.H. Bittner — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:06:42 GMT

Find new versions with multiple enhancements for download:

SnapManager for SharePoint

SnapManager for SQL

Workflow Engine on the Cloud

Thomas K.H. Bittner — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:11:22 GMT

For a workflow engine on the cloud you need following modules:

SharePoint Developer Daschboard (can be activated with STSADM.EXE)

BizTalk for Integration of Services

SharePoint for Human Interaction

AppFabric for Business Process Integration

SharePoint Explorer (available on CodePlex to show a Directory and Folder structure View)

BizTalk Feature Pack with Extensions for AppFabric Endpoint in the cloud; works like a Reverse Proxy.

Secure Access to your Cloud Services

Thomas K.H. Bittner — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:06:24 GMT

Moving to the Cloud is going on and so we will have more and more On-Premise and Cloud environments living site by site.

Securing access to Cloud Services will be more relevant for the future.

A great article on this topic has been published by Yuri Diogenes, Senior Security Support Escalation Engineer on Microsoft Forefront Team.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg607680.aspx

More Performance with SMBv2x on Windows and NetApp

Thomas K.H. Bittner — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:22:23 GMT

NetApp has prepared an interesting performance test with new SMBv2.x available with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. The NetApp OnTap operating system has already been updated to support SMBv2.

Find here the result figures about performance increase with SMBv2.x

Compatibility with Single Label Domains, Disjointed and Discontiguous Namespaces

Thomas K.H. Bittner — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:17:34 GMT

Microsoft published several articles about supporting and compatibility of their products regarding Single Label Domains, Disjointed Namespaces and Discontiguous Namespaces.

2269838	Microsoft Exchange compatibility with Single Label Domains, Disjointed Namespaces, and Discontiguous Namespaces
2379064	Microsoft Biztalk Server compatibility with Single Label Domains, Disjointed Namespaces, and Discontiguous Namespaces
2379369	Microsoft Office Communications Server compatibility with Single Label Domains, Disjointed Namespaces, and Discontiguous Namespaces
2379367	Microsoft Forefront compatibility with Single Label Domains, Disjointed Namespaces, and Discontiguous Namespaces
2379371	Microsoft Office Outlook compatibility with Single Label Domains, Disjointed Namespaces, and Discontiguous Namespaces
2379373	Microsoft Office SharePoint compatibility with Single Label Domains, Disjointed Namespaces, and Discontiguous Namespaces
2379375	Microsoft SQL Server compatibility with Single Label Domains, Disjointed Namespaces, and Discontiguous Namespaces
2379380	Microsoft System Center product compatibility with Single Label Domains, Disjointed Namespaces, and Discontiguous Namespaces

Microsoft Dynamics Products Specialists Group on LinkedIn

Thomas K.H. Bittner — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:03:21 GMT

This group is for Microsoft Business Products Specialists.
If you work with any of the Dynamics products AX, CRM, GP, NAV, POS, RMS or SL, this is the group to be in.

Join now here

If you are running a Dynamcis User Group, feel free to post your dates in the group for all.