Vinod Kumar Mindmap : Non-Technical

Free useful Tech-Books

vinodkumar — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:25:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Extending Life of your Computer - Tips

vinodkumar — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:28:00 GMT

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...(read more)

A’bad UG CTD and Gandhi Ashram …

vinodkumar — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:33:00 GMT

I have been planning to write the trip report from my recent trip - Community TechDays in Ahmedabad over weekend. Well, flying on a holiday Oct 2nd ( Gandhi Jayanthi ) and executing the event on a Saturday Oct 3rd was something I had to first skilfully...(read more)

ZoomIT V4.0 from SysInternals

vinodkumar — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:08:22 GMT

I do a lot of these presentations and many times I use some zomming tools to show the code and explain the concepts. And a number of times people have come back to me asking what that tool was … No rocket science :) … I have been using ZoomIT from Sysinternals...(read more)

Testing from Windows Live Writer

vinodkumar — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:20:26 GMT

How cool is to use the Windows Live writer. Testing to see if it will also display pictures without any problems :) Are we good here … I just rebuild my machine with Win7 + SQL Server 2008 + Office 2010 all x64 version. And it really rocks !!!...(read more)

My Favourite Bing Features

vinodkumar — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:44:00 GMT

I know there are tons and tons of people who have used other search engines and have been comfortable in using the same. Here in this post, I would urge you to try Bing once and look at some of these tips that I use when using Bing. One needs to understand...(read more)

MS CaseStudies for Reference

vinodkumar — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:10:00 GMT

There are tons and tons of casestudies from the MS Website, here are some handpicked from various industries and verticals that really show the value and how far the technologies can go using the Microsoft Platform. Bank Boosts User Productivity 40 Percent...(read more)

The letter SHA

vinodkumar — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:06:00 GMT

I have admired Michael Kaplan for the really great work he does around Fonts, Unicode etc. I was very fortunate to attend one of his session during his trip down to India. I was surprised to look at a blogpost around Tamil and how the font is dealt with...(read more)

Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide

vinodkumar — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:56:00 GMT

This guide targets key information to bring your infrastructure up to date, thereby enhancing user experience and delivering business benefits. Find out how new features like Application Virtualization management support and support for Windows Server®...(read more)

Do you have the Momentum?

vinodkumar — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:51:00 GMT

Are you interested in evaluating latest of Microsoft products? I would like to include esp: Windows Server 2008 - AD, Virtualization, Virtualization, IIS 7 System Center SQL Server 2008 Feel free to drop me a line and secondly, you must be from India...(read more)

Happy New Year 2008 !!!

vinodkumar — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:06:00 GMT

Wishing all you folks a happy and prosperous new year. Will promise to increase the activities over the blog and my website ... With SQL Server 2008 to be released this year ... There will be a lot to write ......(read more)

MSDN Bot

vinodkumar — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:51:00 GMT

This is really a cool stuff ... Just add MSDNBuddy [at] hotmail.com to your live or MSN messenger and get started with chatting :). Now you have the capability to search the MSDN Library from your messenger. Thanks to the MVP community (Lucas from France) to share this wonderful work.

PS: This is currently in pilot now. (dtd - 7 June - 07)

MCTS : SQL Server 2005

vinodkumar — Thu, 10 May 2007 08:58:00 GMT

I wrote an exam after a long time and it was a good experience. Nice to see a bit of simulation questions being asked in the exam. SQL Server 2005 surely has tons of new features introduced. This exam was based on technical specifics. Lovely exam for all DBA's and Developers too. Helps you get your concepts clear and if you have worked with SQL Server Management Studio for a while then you will be able to do the simulation scenarios with ease.

All the best for folks who are planning to take the 70-431 exam.

Let me next see if I can take on the BI exams too :) ... But currently I am busy with a whole bunch of activities lined up.

At Seattle from Feb 2-10th

vinodkumar — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:04:00 GMT

Not sure how many are keeping track of my blog. Anyways, I will be in Seattle from 2nd to 10th Feb. Hope to meet some PMs. Let me see how the schedule shapes. Feel free to drop me a line we can surely sync-up :) ...

Imagine Cup 2007

vinodkumar — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:45:00 GMT

The heat is on!!! This is a great exposure for the student community and this year it is in Korea. Super cool.

Details of the Imagine Cup are here.