Hi Friends, It’s with great happiness that Microsoft Brazil announced the date of the biggest Microsoft event of LATAM: TechEd Brazil 2009 ! The event will take place on August 25th, 26th and 27th, at São Paulo. We still don’t know more details about this great event, but we already know some topics that are confirmed: Windows 7 , Windows Server 2008 R2 , Virtualization , Office and System Center . The official site of TechEd Brazil 2009 is: http://www.teched.com.br/ . Get in touch

Hi Friends, It´s with great happiness that I share with you, as break news, that Microsoft announced the release of the RC build of Windows 7 for download! This is a moment expected by many professionals and enthusiasts, who already test and use this new OS of Microsoft. The mainly change of this release is the solved of many bugs, including driver incompatibility. So, let´s talk a little more about this new build of Windows 7, and some tips for those that already use it. General Information

Hi Friends, It's with great happiness that I invite all IT Professionals from Ceará and beneath states to attend a presentation about the new Microsoft client OS: Windows 7 Springboard Series . This presentation will be in Portuguese , and will happen on May 8th , at Faculdade Evolução in Fortaleza ( Ceará, Brazil ). Windows 7 proposes a new way to use the computer, and will be a mark in the OS world. In this presentation, the professionals will see many new features

Hi Friends, It´s with great happiness that I invite you to attend the Microsoft Technet Webcast that I will be presenting this Thursday: Migration to SQL Server 2008: 10 reasons to do it! This webcast will be present in Portuguese , and will start at noon (Brasília - GMT-3). For those who don´t know, webcasts are online events promoted by Microsoft itself, where IT professionals have the opportunity to learn more about actual and new technologies. In these events, solutions such

Hi Friends, Let´s talk about some news related to the topic of the moment: Windows 7 . I wish to share with you some news about the beta exam 70-680, available since April 27th. The first news is that this exam is the MOST CONCURRED OF HISTORY . When the registrations were open, ALL the seats were filled in ONLY TWO HOURS! Since this fact affected negatively Brazil, US and Europe professionals, Microsoft opened more seats at the same day. One of our readers ( Alex ) commented that the Promocode

Hi Friends, It's with great happiness that I share with you a victory of a great friend of our state Ceará: Yuri Diógenes , cearense who works nowadays at Microsoft Corporation in US, will release its first book about firewall by MS Press: Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway Administrator's Companion . This book should be at the shelves of American's bookstores and sites on the second semester of 2009. For those who aren't familiar with, Forefront TMG is the

Hi Friends, Finally, the first beta exams of 2009 will be available soon! Microsoft has just announced to public the first beta exam of Windows 7 for IT Professionals: 70-680 (TS: Windows 7, Configuring) . This exam belongs to the MCTS (Technology Specialist) credential, and it can be taken by professionals for free. The coolest thing about beta exams is, if you approved in a beta, you win the credential when the final version of this exam becomes available. The only problem is that the result of

Hi Friends, It´s with great happiness that I invite you to attend the two webcasts which I´ll be presenting in this month: Migrating Databases from Oracle to SQL Server 2008 and Migrating to SQL Server 2008: 10 reasons to do it . In special, the first one is a great victory that I wanna share with you all. For those who aren´t familiar with, webcasts are online events hosted by Microsoft, where IT professionals have the opportunity to develop their knowledge about Microsoft solutions

Hi Friends, First of all, I want to apologize about my missing in these last days. The classes of the Master degree course are really time-consuming, besides some Microsoft related activities. Now, let´s go to the main point of this post: News! Presentation Files: The PPTX files of my last events (Except Windows 7 presentation, which is still under construction) are available for download at the Portuguese version of this blog. All my presentations so far are in Portuguese. However, I´ll

Hi Friends, It's with great happiness that I invite all IT Professionals from Ceará and beneath states to attend a unique presentation, totally focused for professionals who manage SQL Server instances in Active Directory domains: Installing and Configuring a SQL Server 2008 Instance in a Windows Server 2008 Domain . This event will be presented by me and by my best friend Rafael Biserra, a recognized Windows Server administrator of SecrelNET. One of the most common scenarios of SQL Server