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Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.0 - CTP
The Solution Accelerators Team is offering customers and partners added inventory and assessment capabilities with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 Community Technical Preview (CTP). The MAP Toolkit 5.0 CTP provides customers and...
Posted 11-10-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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Free useful Tech-Books
Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/C/0/5C0BD0AB-040D-4C56-A60B-661001012DDA/Windows_Server_2008_R2_e-book.pdf Learn about the new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 in the areas of virtualization, management, the...
Posted 11-09-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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VS 2010, .NET 4.0 Beta2 & Channel 9
Couple of days back we did announce the availability of Visual Studio 2010 to the MSDN subscribers and there are enough online buzz around the product. I will be installing the same just like you folks sometime on Monday as I have a session to deliver...
Posted 10-23-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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PowerPivot for Excel 2010
I just installed the internal Beta of Office 2010 and couldn’t wait to see this new add-in working. PowerPivot for Excel is a data analysis tool that delivers unmatched computational power directly within the application users already know and love—Microsoft...
Posted 10-20-2009 by vinodkumar | 2 comment(s)
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IIS Media Services 3.0 is RTW
IIS Media Services is a set of extensions for Internet Information Services 7 (IIS) that provide an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform. This includes the new IIS Live Smooth Streaming and the separate IIS Advanced Logging package. Also with...
Posted 10-20-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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Extending Life of your Computer - Tips
Recently, I have had the opportunity to replace my home laptop and one of my demo Laptops because of different reasons. I have been a bit relaxed on maintaining these laptops and hence the headaches followed and some resolution had to be made. Now that...
Posted 10-15-2009 by vinodkumar | 3 comment(s)
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Two System Center Beta’s
System Center Essentials 2010 PM blog - http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenteressentials/archive/2009/09/29/sce-2010-public-beta-is-here.aspx www.microsoft.com/SCE SCE 2010 is designed specifically for mid-sized organizations and delivers a unified physical...
Posted 10-01-2009 by vinodkumar | 2 comment(s)
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Web Application Toolkits – V1.0
I think we maybe a bit late to talk about these, nevertheless it is worth mentioning. Recently a week back MS launched the WebsiteSpark initiative and this surely has brought all the buzz in the web world and it surely is catching some spark in a number...
Posted 09-30-2009 by vinodkumar | 1 comment(s)
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MapPoint Add-in for SQL Server 2008
It has been close to a month of the release and I have been wanting to drop a line on this. The MapPoint 2009 Add-in for SQL Server 2008 capitalized on the spatial data that come out-of-box with SQL Server and integrates with the maps. More about it is...
Posted 09-23-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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Estimated Vs Actual rows
I have seen this as a constant struggle to understand even when people come to the performance labs in our environments. Today I got a chance to read this post from Gail Shaw on Estimated rows, actual rows and execution count which are all a common areas...
Posted 09-22-2009 by vinodkumar | 1 comment(s)
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Sizing Tools with SQL Server?
I have seen a number of people ask me if there are tools and easy way to do sizing esp when working with SQL Server. I was browsing through the HP site and bumped into these cool resources which I felt is worth sharing. You might find a similar set of...
Posted 09-17-2009 by vinodkumar | 2 comment(s)
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Service Broker – Bookmarker
Since SQL Server 2005 this feature of Service Broker has been in the outside world but in my opinion is an underutilized feature. In SQL Server 2008 the capabilities atleast from a UI has been addressed partially via the Management Studio which was one...
Posted 09-10-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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Releases from P&P in 2009
I have been an advocate of the releases from time-to-time as I hear of them over this blog. But I thought I will consolidate the same in one post of all the releases made till date on P&P (Patterns and Practices Team) for your quick reference. Enterprise...
Posted 09-02-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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Art of Layoff ...
Is it an art? Wow, i know it is difficult for folks to layoff people and this audio from Harward school is a testimony ... Hear it when you have some time, worth it .
Posted 03-09-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments
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