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23rd September, Newcastle: Three fantastic Microsoft enterprise IT presentations

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:00:00 GMT

We are very pleased to be able to announce a stellar line up of technical presentations and speakers from Microsoft at the September VBUG Newcastle IT Pro meeting...

The Dynamic Desktop Experience – Windows 7, Windows XP Mode, App-V, MDT, MDOP and System Center (Dan Oliver)

Windows 7 offers Microsoft’s customers with an opportunity to deliver a platform that releases new capabilities that deliver real business benefit and significantly reduced cost of ownership. The challenge for most companies is that deploying and migrating desktops is time consuming and traditionally offers service continuity risks with Application Compatibility that can prevent progress. This presentation will show capabilities, architectures and strategies that allow companies to move forward cost effectively to the benefits of a modern operating system. Level: 100

Dan Oliver is a Pre Sales Architect within Microsoft UK’s Speciality Technology Unit with some 14 years’ experience of Microsoft-based solutions primarily in the virtualization and systems management fields. Dan has a background that covers a broad spectrum of industry sectors ranging from Financial, Telecoms, Partners, Legal, Professional Services and Healthcare. Dan has also had the opportunity to work as a Chief Technology Officer for the Faculty of Advocates in the Scottish Legal Sector.

Novell and Lotus Notes – Migrating to Microsoft (Conrad Sidey)

The business value of implementing Microsoft technologies like Active Directory, Exchange 2007 and SharePoint are clearly understood within Microsoft. For our customers that are still running their organisation on technologies like Novell and Lotus Notes they are starting to gain an understanding of the value of migrating to Microsoft technologies. The purpose behind this presentation is to provide the technical community with an insight into leading a project and architecting a solution to migrate environment that are running both Novell Netware and Lotus Notes. The presentation will discuss envisioning & planning of a Novell and Notes migration project, approaches to undertaking the migration depending upon the business drivers, providing an overview of the approach we are taking in migrating a UK Local City Council while providing coexistence, as well as presenting a number of migration & coexistence recommendations or lessons learnt from the project. Level: 200

Conrad Sidey is a Solution Architect within Microsoft Consulting Services with some 17 years’ experience of Microsoft-based solutions primarily in the infrastructure field. Conrad has a background that covers a broad spectrum of industry sectors ranging from Financial and Insurance, Manufacturing, Aero-Engineering, Defence, UK and European Government Agencies, Power Generators, Retail and Brewing. Conrad has also had the opportunity to work with large scale outsourcing services providers.

Implementing the “Black Box” – Performance Monitoring and Analysis for proactive and reactive support, server baselining and capacity planning (Richard Diver)

All current versions of Windows come with a free tool that can prevent server downtime and solve many mysteries – Perfmon!

A little bit of practice with this tool can really help to solve issues with servers that may not even be performance related. Working at the OS level, you can find cause to most performance bottlenecks regardless of server function (Exchange, DC, Web etc).

This is something that has even more focus in future versions of Windows; a brief overview of these benefits will be shown also! Level: 300

Richard Diver is a Premier Field Engineer with 10 years experience implementing and supporting a range of Microsoft technologies, specialising in Active Directory, Server Platform and Virtualisation.

Wrap up Q&A with all presenters at the end.

Location: Room 118, Claremont Tower, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 7RU, GB

Time: 18:45

Price: FREE

Please register for your place at the VBUG site so we can make sure we have enough space and refreshments. :-)

What is in my My Quick Launch bar?

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Garth posted about what is in his Quick Launch bar. I thought I would reciprocate and go a bit further.

Here’s my Quick Launch bar (left to right, top to bottom):

BlogJet
Internet Explorer
Outlook
Show Desktop
Switch between Windows component
myITforum Remote
FTP Explorer
Universal Extractor
Windows Media Center
nanoPEG Editor for Win TV
Paint.NET
Windows Media Player
Outlook (again)
Microsoft Expression Web
ImTOO DVD to Zune Converter 4.0
Screen Saver Factory 4 Enterprise
CS Gallery Upload Manager
Windows Live Writer
QuickTime Player (hate it)
Maxthon2

…And, my Notification area (left to right, top to bottom):

Snagit
Twhirl
Outlook
Xanadu (an English to Chinese translator)
Windows Messenger
Laptop battery indicator
Weather Pulse
Lightscribe Control Panel
Windows Mobile Sync Center
Windows Sidebar
Network connection component
Live Mesh
Synaptics Pointing Device
WinZip Quick Pick
Realtek HD Audio Manager
Volume component
Windows Live OneCare
“Safely Remove Hardware” component

What’s in yours?

Microsoft’s categorization of support and unsupported methods and operations

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Even though you have found a process or procedure that works great for what you need, what does it mean when Microsoft says that it is unsupported?

Here’s how Microsoft categorizes supported and unsupported scenarios…

Supported Scenarios:

Microsoft has thoroughly tested the product or solution, and can confirm the features or functionality work as designed/tested.
Microsoft will work to resolve the customers problem through normal troubleshooting, based on how the product or solution was designed and tested.
Microsoft will triage Hotfix requests for designed/tested features or functionality. In other words, Microsoft will investigate the effort, risk, and value in developing a Hotfix and create one if warranted. Alternatively, they might offer workarounds that the customer can employ to achieve the same desired behaviors.

Unsupported Scenarios:

Microsoft has tested the product or solution, and can confirm the feature or functionality will NOT work.
Microsoft will not provide support for customer problems known not to work. Microsoft will make a reasonable effort to provide documentation for known “unsupported” scenarios.
Microsoft has not tested the product or solution, and cannot confirm the features or functionality work as designed/tested.
Non-Microsoft products or solutions are not generally tested against Microsoft products or solutions. Therefore, Non-Microsoft products or solutions are not supported by Microsoft.

The product groups cannot test every possible scenario under the sun and there are many "edge" scenarios that Microsoft will never test, but which are perfectly reasonable solutions for customers.

Just because something is labeled "unsupported" doesn't mean that the product support will leave the customer to the wolves. Unless something is *known* not to work, they will still offer commercially reasonable support to the customer and will work to identify the root cause of the problem. In some cases, if the support engineer believes the problem is related to the unsupported configuration, they may ask the customer to repro the problem in a supported configuration before continuing the troubleshooting.

SQL Server 2008 installation vows on Windows Server 2008

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT

After I knew about the SQL 2008 RTM release news I have blogged SQL2008RTM-official here and as usual I have attempted to download the setup media from Technet which took a while (3 hours) to download the file, due to the obvious reasons of MSDN/TEchnet premium subscribers all over the world were attempting the same. Ok, I have got the setup media and to test upon I have downloaded the files for following editions: SQL Server 2008 Enterprise. SQL Server 2008 Enterprise is a comprehensive data management...(read more)

Vote in the 2008 Windows IT Pro Community Choice Awards!

Anonymous — Fri, 02 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Final voting for the Windows IT Pro Community Choice Awards is now open! Voting in this awards program is open to all Windows IT Pro Web site visitors, but vendors whose products are nominated are prohibited from voting. Click on the link below to enter the voting tool: Windows IT Pro - Community Choice Awards http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2fz97tv4rU5iY2IsYDbyCRg_3d_3d Voting will close on May 23rd, 2008 at 11:45pm MST....(read more)

Techdays Portugal 2008 - For A World 2.0

paulo — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT

Microsoft Portugal will be hosting Techdays 2008 from Mars 12^nd to 14^th, right after the Portuguese launch of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on Mars 11^th.

This is the biggest and greatest tech event in Portugal and there will be lots of national and international speakers and contests.

I'll be there. Come visit us.

MSDN events calender for the month of August 2007 in USA

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT

Upcoming MSDN events in your area: August 9 - Portland, OR Meet Your Fellow Masters with MSDN Events Connect with like-minded coders at this free, half-day of learning from MSDN Events. • Session 1: New Thinking in Data with LINQ and Visual Studio 2008 Learn the architecture of LINQ and the C# and Visual Basic extensions for writing queries within the development tool you're already comfortable with. • Session 2: Building an Effective Messaging Infrastructure with WCF Learn how to build and configure...(read more)

Discover The New Releases with Microsoft and Industry Experts - IT Pro Connections

Anonymous — Sun, 13 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT

19-20 June 2007 Post-Conference Workshops 21 June 2007 Amesterdam, The Netherlands Amsterdam RAI Explore these topics: *Windows PowerShell - Windows Vista *Windows Server "Longhorn" *Advanced Group Policy * SharePoint Portal Server 2007 *Microsoft Office Deployment & Management * Exchange Server 2003 & 2007 *Active Directory Security and Operations *SQL Server 2005 - ISA Server & ForeFront *System Center Family - SMS and MOM This is where you: *PREPARE for the newest Microsoft client...(read more)

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 is out

paulo — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 06:00:00 GMT

Go to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/ and find all about it.