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February 09  Use these links to connect to online training, documentation, and other information to help you make the most of Office Outlook 2007. Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access (OWA)
Short “how-to” videos to help you become acquainted with the basic features of OWA. These videos are available in English and Japanese languages only: Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Online Training
Free step-by-step training on key Office Outlook features, as well as a printable quick reference at the end of each course: [taken from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc742588.aspx] February 08 The Windows Home Server team is giving away a bunch of free swag to the first 2500 applicants. See below for a copy & paste of the offer made last night… and get your SASE in the mail quickly… these things are usually gone in 24 hours! What better way to prepare for Valentine’s Day with our extended Windows Home Server community than to help us help you show the love for WHS! We’ve got a fun Valentine’s Day promo to announce to kick off the celebrating – thru everyone’s favorite…some Windows Home Server Stickers! 
2009 has been a great year and we’re sure 2010 will be even better with the incredible combination of Windows Home Server and Windows 7 protecting, connecting and organizing everything in your digital life. Show off your love for Windows Home Server by letting us send you some of our favorite Home Server stickers including the tattoo, “Mommy book” cover, the blue house and the status houses. So how do you get your stickers? Usually were all about technology and e-mail, but this time we're going OLD SCHOOL with snail mail to avoid keeping any information about you. Just send a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) to the address below. We’ll send you all four stickers pictured above and shred your original envelope. Send me the WHS stickers!
15580 NE 31st St
Redmond, WA 98052 Make sure to include enough postage to return a sticker pack via U.S. mail. It's less than one ounce, so a standard First Class stamp will do if you're in the United States; enclose an envelope with International Reply Coupons (IRC) if you're outside of the U.S. And be sure to send your envelope in soon -- one per person please.
Microsoft will use your self-addressed stamped envelope to send you the offer materials. We will not keep or maintain your contact information. * We sadly don’t have an unlimited supply of these, so this offer is good only for the first 2,500 to respond. Limit one set of stickers per person. This offer is non-transferable and cannot be combined with any other offer. This offer ends on Feb 28th or while supplies last, and is not redeemable for cash. Taxes, if any, are the sole responsibility of the recipient. Any gift returned as non-deliverable will not be re-sent. Please allow 6 - 8 weeks for shipment of your stickers. Due to government gift and ethics laws, government employees (including military and employees of public education institutions) are not eligible to participate. [taken from the Windows Team Blog]  I want to take a moment and let folks know about the Windows Experience Pack we are making available starting today for people with PCs running Windows 7 and/or Windows Live Essentials. While we can’t send all of you on vacation, we can give you something special to help you daydream and customize your PC and online experience.
With the Windows Experience Pack, you are able create an alter-ego of yourself in a specific destination – a beach, mountain, safari, or city. When you create your alter-ego, you create a fully customized avatar for that destination that becomes a part of a Windows Live Messenger and Windows 7 theme for your PC. You’ll also be able to download a .jpg image of your avatar to share, print, or use as your icon on social networks. For a specific destination you pick, the following Windows Live Messenger elements are created for you to use in Messenger for your alter-ego: - 1 static Display Picture
- Up to 4 Dynamic Display Pictures
- A Wink
- 7 new Emoticons
- A new Messenger Scene
For Windows 7, you are given the choice between 3 desktop backgrounds for your destination and a screensaver featuring multiple photos from your destination. The Windows Experience Pack was created and optimized for Windows 7, but it can be downloaded and used on PCs running Windows XP or Windows Vista too (although performance and features may vary). [taken from the Windows Blog]  This is an 8-page high-level discussion of the fundamental challenges and benefits of cloud computing security, plus some of the questions that cloud service providers and organisations using cloud services need to consider when evaluating a new move, or expansion of existing services, to the cloud. This document presumes that the reader is familiar with the core concepts of cloud computing and basic principles of cloud security. It is not the goal of this paper to provide all the answers to the questions of security in the cloud or to provide an exhaustive framework for cloud security.
------------ As with any other technological shift or change, security benefits and risks need to be addressed before the full benefits of cloud computing can be realised. Considerations such as compliance and risk management; identity and access management; service integrity; endpoint integrity; and information protection should all be explored when evaluating, implementing, managing, and maintaining cloud computing solutions. - Compliance and Risk Management: Organisations shifting part of their business to the cloud are still responsible for compliance, risk, and security management.
- Identity and Access Management: Identities may come from different providers, and providers must be able to federate from on-premise to the cloud, as well as to enable collaboration across organisation and country borders.
- Service Integrity: Cloud-based services should be engineered and operated with security in mind, and the operational processes should be integrated into the organisation’s security management.
- Endpoint Integrity: As cloud-based services originate--and are then consumed--on-premise, the security, compliance, and integrity of the endpoint have to be part of any security consideration.
- Information Protection: Cloud services require reliable processes for protecting information before, during, and after the transaction.
While they bring many potential benefits, services provided through cloud computing may also create new concerns, some of which are not yet fully understood. Adopting a cloud service may also require IT organisations to adapt to data management no longer under their direct control. This is especially true in a “hybrid model” in which some processes remain on-premise and some are in the cloud, requiring new and extended security processes that encompass multiple providers to achieve comprehensive protection of information. Risk management and security management remain the responsibility of any organisation, but should be extended to include the cloud provider(s). Clear strategies related to these five considerations[1], as well as a strong service-level framework, will help to ensure that implemented services deliver cloud computing functionality that meets security requirements and business expectations.
[1] These are just some of the question areas which must be considered. Further details and advice on cloud computing in general can be found in the papers from The Cloud Security Alliance and ENISA. WHITEPAPER: “Cloud Computing Security Considerations”
http://bit.ly/beL73O  Today I’m pleased to announce we have shipped the RC for Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Framework 4! MSDN subscribers can download the bits immediately from this location. The RC will be made available to the public on Wednesday February 10.
We got a lot of invaluable feedback on Beta 2 through Connect as well as your survey responses. In particular many of you pointed out areas of performance where we were not at parity with VS2008 and it was impacting your ability to adopt the product. Some of those areas of feedback included general UI responsiveness (including painting, menus, remote desktop and VMs), editing (typing, scrolling, and Intelisense), designers (Silverlight and WPF in particular), improved memory usage, debugging (stepping, managed / native interop), build times, and solution/project load. Since then Brian and I have been doing daily stand up meetings with the team working through the feedback. We’ve conducted several private CTP’s with people who reported issues in order to validate the direction of the work. In December we made the hard call to extend the Beta 2 period to continue to drive improvements into the product. I had a chance to discuss the things we found and the work we did with the Channel 9 guys:  Jason Zander- Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Released- 23 minutes, 7 seconds
http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/1/3/9/5/2/5/JasonZanderVS2010RC_ch9.wmv
DOWNLOAD: Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx [taken from Jason Zander’s blog] February 07  Today, as part of our ongoing evaluation of Microsoft’s Internet search privacy practices, we are pleased to announce an important change in our data retention policy. We will delete the entire Internet Protocol address associated with search queries at six months rather than at 18 months. This new and significant step will be incorporated into our existing privacy practices, which already provide strong protections for Bing users.
This change is the result of a number of factors including a continuing evaluation of our business needs, the current competitive landscape and our ongoing dialogue with privacy advocates, consumer groups, and regulators – including the Article 29 Working Party, the group of 27 European national data protection regulators charged with providing advice to the European Commission and other EU institutions on data protection. Under our current policy, as soon as Microsoft receives a Bing search query we take steps to de-identify the data by separating it from account information that could identify the person who performed the search. Then, at 18 months, we take the additional step of deleting the IP address, the de-identified cookie ID and any other cross-session IDs associated with the query. The core components of this policy will not change. Our new policy will change the date at which we delete the IP address associated with search queries to six months. We will implement the new policy over the next 12 to 18 months. … Read more here: NEWS: Microsoft Advances Search Privacy with Bing
http://bit.ly/98UZyb DOCUMENT: Privacy Protections in Microsoft’s Ad Serving System and the Process of “De-identification”
http://bit.ly/anukrF  Ziff Davis released their list of the 10 Most Vulnerable Software Apps of 2009. Question the authority of the list? Here’s the first 2 items that they start out with. Read the rest and you be the judge:
- Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader
Vulnerabilities that allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors. Buffer overflow in Adobe Reader 9.0 and earlier, and Acrobat 9.0 and earlier, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document, related to a non-JavaScript function call and possibly an embedded JBIG2 image stream, as exploited in the wild in February 2009 by Trojan.Pidief.E. allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via (1) a crafted Flash application in a .pdf file or (2) a crafted .swf file, related to authplay.dll, as exploited in the wild in July 2009. - Adobe Flash Player
Does not properly remove references to destroyed objects during Shockwave Flash file processing, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file, related to a “buffer overflow issue.” Allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors, related to a “privilege escalation vulnerability.” Allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, related to a “null pointer vulnerability.” LINK: 10 Most Vulnerable Software Apps of 2009
http://bit.ly/cnHRgy  Microsoft has recently assembled a list of “how do I” videos for customers to learn how to accomplish specific tasks with Microsoft products. These videos provide step-by-step instructions to help you further develop your skillset . We currently offer videos for the following list of Microsoft products:
You can also subscribe to our TechNet videos RSS feed to learn about new videos as they are released. Please peruse at your convenience and let me know of any questions you have. 
Interesting results from the customer feedback we’ve been listening to and the hard work the product teams have been applying. Microsoft Outpaces Apple in Customer Satisfaction: Chart of the Day
By Dina Bass Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. got a bigger boost in customer satisfaction from its latest computer operating system than rival Apple Inc. did from its most recent upgrade. The CHART OF THE DAY shows that respondents giving Microsoft a positive grade for satisfaction rose to 67 percent in the week after the Oct. 22 release of Windows 7, from 64 percent the day before it went on sale, according to YouGov Plc, a London-based market-research firm. Microsoft’s satisfaction rates rose 14 percent through the end of the year. …read more at jump… FULL STORY:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aajIjMcEp.E4&pos=15  There are lots of reasons to be excited about DPM 2010. Here are a few:
- Virtualization folks get item-level restore from within VM backups, as well as support for LiveMigration (CSV) scenarios for Hyper-V R2
- SharePoint folks lose the need for a Recovery Farm and gain auto-protection of new content databases
- SQL Server administrators get auto-protection at a SQL instance level, huge scalability increases and a self-service restore utility for DBAs
- Exchange managers get support for Exchange 2010, including DAG configurations, as well as CCR/SCR
- Windows client users get protection and recovery for remote laptops, with protection online and offline
- Disaster Recovery planners get lots of new options around multi-site chaining and protection between sites
- And everyone gets new enterprise scalability, reliability and manageability enhancements
For more information, check out these resources: The System Center folks just produced a video going over the changes made to the upcoming release of the RC of DPM2010. Check it out:  Do your produce documents for customers? Do those documents have to be created and published in PDF format?
Check out the upcoming Sharepoint Service - “Word Automation Services”. It provides customers with the ability to leverage the power of a multi-threaded, multi-core server infrastructure for producing large quantities of documents that originate from Word templates, are populated from database information and are published in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Financial Services institutions? Are you reading this? [grin]  Interested in knowing how to use your Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services implementation from an end user perspective?
Jim Glynn demonstrates how to explore Microsoft Online Services and demos the basic BPOS feature set. During this webinar, Jim does the following: - Install the sign in application
- Send and receive e-mail via Outlook and Outlook Web Access
- Create and receive a meeting invitation
- Create a SharePoint site collection and a SharePoint workspace
- Schedule a Live Meeting
- Start a Meet Now meeting and invite an attendee
- Install and start Communicator
WEBCAST: BPOS 101
http://blogs.technet.com/msonline/archive/2010/01/19/webinar-bpos-101.aspx Interested in Cloud Computing? Here’s a quick slide that’ll help you understand the technology space and how Microsoft’s offerings addresses these areas: 
The space of most immediate impact for many organizations currently running their messaging, collaboration, and real-time communications services on-premise is the area of “Software as a Service” or SaaS. This is a space where Microsoft has made demonstrable investments in to ensure customers can choose to move part or all of their investment in these infrastructure services into the “cloud” and into a hosted datacenter environment. managed & monitored by Microsoft. This is an area not fully understood by many customers however a great way to get an understanding of these technologies is to review this 3rd party webcast recording done by SaaS-IT Consulting. It goes over the importance of this area of cloud computing, what Microsoft offers, and why they believe the Microsoft SaaS implementation to be the best available on the market: (The recording is also downloadable – it’s about a 8MB file)  This was unique enough to highlight: An overview of our motion capture controller, “Project Natal” for Xbox 360
There really hasn’t been much in the way of an explanation on how Natal works until now. This interview with Scientific American goes over the components of the Natal “camera” along with the technology that enables the device to interpret movement in real time across multiple body types and differentiate between individuals even when the overlap. Instead of trying to preprogram actions, Microsoft decided to teach its gaming technology to recognize gestures in real time just like a human does: by extrapolating from experience. Jamie Shotton, a researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge in England, devised a machine learning algorithm for that purpose. It also recognizes poses and renders them in the game space on-screen at 30 frames per second, a rate that conveys smooth movement. Essentially, Natal-enhanced Xboxes will do motion capture on the fly, without the need for the mirror-studded spandex suit of conventional motion-capture approaches. Training Natal for this task required Microsoft to amass a large amount of biometric data. The firm sent observers to homes around the globe, where they videotaped basic motions such as turning a steering wheel or catching a ball, Kipman says. Microsoft researchers later laboriously selected key frames within this footage and marked each joint on each person's body. Kipman and his team also went into a Hollywood motion-capture studio to gather data on more acrobatic movements. "During training, we need to provide the algorithm with two things: realistic-looking images that are synthesized and, for each pixel, the corresponding part of the body," Shotton says. The algorithm processes the data and changes the values of different elements to achieve the best performance. To keep the amount of data manageable, the team needed to figure out which elements were most relevant for training. For example, the system doesn't need to recognize the entire body mass, but only the spacing of skeletal joints. After whittling down the data to the essential motions, the researchers mapped each unique pose to 12 models representing different ages, genders and body types.   
 With the Microsoft cloud strategy, organizations can now move towards cloud computing models with the confidence that their existing investments in their datacenter are safe, and can be leveraged in this new paradigm. Existing applications and services will be able to move to the private cloud without the need to learn unproven technologies, or introduce unnecessary complexity. At the same time Microsoft will evolve its private cloud offerings by bringing learning and technology from running Microsoft’s global datacenters and the Windows® Azure platform.
The Microsoft Private Cloud enables: - Management of the datacenter fabric as a single pool of resources.
- Delivery of scalable applications and workloads.
- Focus on the management of the datacenter service and it’s dependencies.
HOW TO BUILD A PRIVATE CLOUD TODAY
Today customers can begin their journey to the private cloud by deploying the Microsoft products and technologies they know and trust. The flexible and familiar platform and tools you use today will be the foundation for your private cloud. As we enable our customers on this path, Microsoft will deliver the technologies that allow enterprises to build private cloud within their existing datacenters based on enhancements to Windows Server and System Center. Microsoft is enabling customers to build the foundation for a private cloud infrastructure using Windows Server® and System Center family of products with the Dynamic Infrastructure Toolkit for System Center (availability scheduled in the first half of 2010). WHAT IS THE DYNAMIC INFRASTRUCTURE TOOLKIT FOR SYSTEM CENTER?
The Dynamic Infrastructure Toolkit for System Center is a free, partner-extensible toolkit that will enable datacenters to dynamically pool, allocate, and manage resources to enable IT as a service. Whether you’re an enterprise customer, a systems integrator, or an independent software vendor, the toolkit will help you create agile, virtualized IT infrastructures. You’ll get: - Tested guidance and best practices to help configure and deploy a private cloud infrastructure.
- Automated web portals and a light provisioning engine that are tightly integrated with System Center products.
- Guidance to help partners easily extend functionality.
For individuals interested in the Microsoft “Private Cloud” concept, pay close attention to what’s happening with Microsoft’s Dynamic Infrastructure Toolkit for System Center which will provide customers with a great blueprint for laying down the necessary elements to create such an infrastructure. For more details on the Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit for System Center, visit:
http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/en/us/private-cloud.aspx  Microsoft Office Communicator empowers users to communicate and collaborate easily using a range of tools accessible from a single application, including instant messaging (IM), voice & video, and desktop sharing.
This virtual, instructor-led session introduces key Office Communicator usage scenarios through live demonstrations and hands-on activities. In this high-level overview, we will explore the following features: - Instant Messaging: Need a fast answer to a question? Use Office Communicator to easily find a contact and start an Instant Messaging (IM) conversation.
- Presence: Use presence status to determine if and when a contact is available for an IM conversation or audio call. Set your own presence status to indicate how and when contacts can reach you.
- Contact Management: Build your Communicator contact list for the way you work. You can add distribution groups or organize contacts into your own custom groups.
- Audio and Video: Make or receive audio calls using your computer. If you have a webcam, you can add real-time video to your conversation.
- Desktop Sharing: Share your desktop during an instant messaging session to collaborate or edit documents with a single colleague or an entire team.
- Office Application Integration: View a contact's presence status and start communicating from within your Office applications, including Microsoft Office Outlook and SharePoint.
- Add a Live Meeting: Use the Meet Now option to quickly start a new conference and invite people who are either inside or outside of your organization.
- Communicator Web Access: Stay connected with Communicator while at home or traveling -- all you need is an Internet connection.
Join us to learn more about Office Communicator and what it can do for you! DATES/TIMES:
Various… See registration for availability. REGISTRATION:
https://events.livemeeting.com/967/15027/reg.aspx?pc=04  Back by popular demand, we're bringing PDSA's Paul Sheriff to you for an afternoon on WPF.
Learning XAML for use in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or Silverlight can be a little daunting. This seminar will introduce the basic concepts of XAML and show you how to get started quickly and easily. You wil be given an overview of XAML tools such as VS.NET 2010 and Expression Blend. If you are new to Silverlight and WPF you need to attend this seminar to see how to move to these powerful new platforms. The focus on this seminar is using XAML to build business applications. After the initial XAML introduction we will then dive deep into the data binding features of WPF. We will explore the many ways to retrieve and present data using data binding in WPF. You will see examples of loading data into combo boxes, list views, and the WPF DataGrid. You will learn how to populate WPF controls using a DataTable, Collection Classes, XML, LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework. The next deep dive we will do will focus on creating standard Login and About dialogs, menu systems, toolbars, status bars, etc. At the end of this seminar you will walk away with tons of samples that you can put into use right away. You will Learn: - Introduction to XAML, WPF and Silverlight
- XAML Controls used in Business Applications
- Introduction to Styles
- Data Binding Techniques in WPF
- Building standard business forms, dialogs and tools
LOCATION:
Microsoft - Los Angeles
333 S. Grand Ave. Suite #3300 (33rd Floor)
Los Angeles California 90071 DATE/TIME:
Thursday, March 18, 2010 1:00 PM - Thursday, March 18, 2010 5:00 PM REGISTRATION:
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032439055&Culture=en-US More about Paul Sheriff:
Paul D. Sheriff is the President of PDSA, Inc. (www.pdsa.com), a Microsoft Partner in Southern California. Paul acts as the Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California assisting the local Microsoft offices with several of their events each year and being an evangelist for them. Paul has authored several books, webcasts, videos and articles on .NET, SQL Server and SharePoint. Paul can be reached via email at PSheriff@pdsa.com or at Paul Sheriff's Inner Circle (www.PaulSheriffInnerCircle.com). *Parking is NOT hosted for this event*
Parking is available at Joe’s Auto Parks (Lots 220 and 240) located on the corner of Hope and Gen Thaddeus Kosciuszko Way (lot address: 220 S. Hope Los Angeles CA 90071). Please park in the Joes Auto Parks lot; you will need to pay a parking fee of $12.00 (cash only) for the full day.
Please note that Joe’s Auto Park is an unaffiliated, independent vendor and that Microsoft is in no way liable for any negligence or any damage that may be incurred by attendees who utilize this parking facility. 
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 is a landmark release of the premier development toolset for Windows, Web and Cloud development. Join us for a comprehensive overview of Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010. Microsoft has made significant investments to and improvements of Modeling and Testing/QA tools in Visual Studio. Team Foundation Server is the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) core of Team System and we’ll present enhancements in version control, reporting, project management and build management. Spend a day with us to learn how to take software development to next level with Visual Studio 2010. Agenda - 8:30 – 9:00 AM Registration
- 9:00 – 10:30 AM Lap around Visual Studio 2010
In this end-to-end demo, learn how the innovative features of Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 enable the production of modern applications with an unparalleled level of quality and collaboration. - 10:45 AM-12:00 PM Agile Management with Team Foundation Server:
Team Foundation Server2010 takes integrated Application Lifecycle Management to next level. See how painless reporting, metrics and configuration & project management can enable you to build applications in a way that embraces change and promotes visibility and transparency. - 12:00 – 12:30 PM Lunch
- 12:30 – 1:45 PM No more “No Repro”
How many times have you used or heard the line, “It works on my machine” or “I can’t recreate that bug”? During most software projects, countless hours are spent (wasted?) trying to communicate bugs – what happened, when, why, how – between testers and developers. Many bugs get swept away because they can’t be reproduced, only to be found the bugs really do exist – when the end users are running the system in production. In this session we’ll take a look at how Visual Studio 2010 will help eliminate this game of “no repro ping pong” and streamline communications between developers and QA. - 2:00 PM-3:15 PM Architecture for Everyone
Even before the ink is dry most software architecture documents are out of date. All it takes is that first line of code to be written. The team comes up with great designs. How can the design principles be enforced? How can you see what the architecture of the system really looks like, as it has been written, beyond just the high-level design? In this session, we’ll examine the architecture tools in Visual Studio 2010 that provide practical support for software architecture. DATE/TIME:
Thursday, March 04, 2010 9:00 AM - Thursday, March 04, 2010 3:30 PM LOCATION:
Microsoft Los Angeles Office MPR 1
333 S. Grand Ave. Suite #3300
Los Angeles California 90071
United States REGISTRATION:
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032439180&Culture=en-US  Is your organization planning to deploy either Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 or Microsoft Office in the near future? If so, are you aware of the deployment tools and resources available? Microsoft wants to help your organization maximize the business value out of your technology investment with deployment guidance and best practices.
Come join your local Team of Experts for a ‘Technology Deployment Day’. Attendees will learn how Microsoft Deployment can benefit your IT environment with integrated solutions from the desktop to the data center, management of physical and virtual IT environments, knowledge-driven management, and rapid time to value. This half-day workshop will be full of product demonstrations to show you how to: - Discuss the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit methodology and tools
- Understand the latest technologies for Windows OS Imaging (server and desktop)
- Use System Center Configuration Manager to deploy Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 quickly and cost effectively
- Create a Windows 7 image with Driver support in System Center Configuration Manager
- Create a Windows Server 2008 R2 image
- Image systems from network (bare metal deployment)
- Create an Office App-V package and deployment
Date/Time/Location/Registration Details:
If you’re a customer of mine, please contact me for information about this event as it is an invite only opportunity for our Enterprise customers that requires registration. 
 Join Microsoft and IDV Solutions at the downtown Los Angeles Microsoft offices Tuesday or the Irvine Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) Wednesday for a morning discussion on IDVs Visual Fusion, and Microsoft's SharePoint and Bing Maps.
Learn how these three products combine to form an enterprise platform to flexibly and agilely develop business-focused applications that unite disparate data sources visually, in the context of location and time, for more informed, faster decision making.
Attention to business user experience and empowerment is a hallmark of solutions built on this platform, making rapid adoption and ongoing user satisfaction fundamental characteristics of these business applications.
The use of interactive data visualization combined with business intelligence will be demonstrated and applied to numerous real world scenarios. Current case studies from several organizations across a number of industries will be examined, as well as specific return on investment evidence.
Learn how your organization can benefit when these tools are applied to better understand and act on the key information driving your business.
All attendees are eligible for up to 60 hours of FREE services work from IDV Solutions, and one attendee will leave the event with a FREE Zune HD 32 GB Video MP3 Player.
Both events will conclude with lunch, and the Irvine event also includes a tour of the Irvine Microsoft Technology Center. Los Angeles Details:
Date: Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Time: 9:30 AM to 1:00 PM PST
Location: Los Angeles Microsoft office
333 South Grand Ave, Suite 3300
Los Angeles, CA 90071
(213) 806-7300
 Locate on Bing Maps>
Attendee Benefits: REGISTER TODAY!> LOS ANGELES Irvine Details:
Date: Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Time: 9:30 AM to 1:00 PM PST
Location: Irvine Microsoft Technology Center (MTC)
3 Park Plaza, Suite 1600
Irvine, CA, 92614
(949) 263-3000
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Attendee Benefits: REGISTER TODAY!> IRVINE  Found this and thought I’d share it with a few of you guys that do presentations a lot. These tools essentially embed within Powerpoint and can provide an interesting level of interactivity between attendees & the presenter by leveraging Twitter & the attendee’s phones.
Kind of like a LiveMeeting, you can dynamically show on a Powerpoint slide: - What the worldwide Twitterati are saying about the topic you’re discussing, refreshed in real time
- Live survey results simply by having an audience tweet to a specific keyword of your selection.
- Written audience feedback in real time with automated filtering to prevent idiots from swearing or saying profane things.
There are currently eight tools – you can easily cut and paste them into your own Powerpoint decks: - PowerPoint Twitter feedback slides
- PowerPoint Twitter ticker bar
- PowerPoint Twitter voting — bar charts and pie chart
- PowerPoint Mood meter
- PowerPoint Crowd meter
- PowerPoint Zoom text
- PowerPoint Twitter update bar
- PowerPoint AutoTweet
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[Taken from http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay/archive/2009/12/15/free-powerpoint-twitter-tools-by-sap-web-2-0.aspx]  Ribbon Hero is a game for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel 2007 and 2010, designed to help you boost your Office skills and knowledge. Play games (aka "challenges"), score points, and compete with your friends while improving your productivity with Office.
As a concept test, this add-in is not supported, but is an opportunity for you to try out an idea we are working on and let us know what you think. For additional challenges and the opportunity to earn more points, download Office 2010 Beta. Apparently the press seems to agree that this is a pretty cool idea for training: Requirements: Vista or Windows 7 (32/64 bit), Office 2007 or Office 2010 (32/64 bit) Limitations: English only, Works with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint only, Does not support versions of Office earlier than Office 2007 The Windows Performance team did a monster article about comparing system states across multiple servers to try to differentiate them and understand what could possibly be causing different results to the same tests. --------------- There often arises a need to figure out what may have changed on a system, either due to a specific issue or even to compare the difference between two systems. Today I would like to introduce you to the Windows System State Analyzer utility. Unless you are a developer or tester, you probably have never heard of this tool, as it is part of the Windows 2008 R2 Logo Software Certification and Windows 2008 R2 Logo Program Software Certification toolkits. The basic functionality of the System State Analyzer tool is to allow you to compare two snapshots taken at different points in time. This allows you to compare the state of a machine both before and after an application install for instance. Today I will give you a run-through of what the tool looks like while doing a compare of a system both before and after installing a software package, in this case Virtual PC 2007. The initial UI will look something like this: 
 Do you use the Windows Server Print Server role in your environment? Are you using the either of the print server management packs for OpsMgr 2007? Do you use the print management console? If you answered yes to any of these questions then we would greatly appreciate your input to help form the future manageability plans for the print server role. Head over to the OpsMgr public Connect site and fill out the "Print Server Management Survey".
Registration to the Connect program only requires a Windows Live ID. The survey is anonymous and should take about 5 minutes to fill out the 11 questions. Thank you in advance for your time and your feedback.
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