Sep 07, 2018
Azure, Security, Tech Talks
Tech Talks are a weekly opportunity to learn how to do more, and do it securely with your cloud software and services. Each week, we host a short talk from a subject matter expert, followed by a community driven Q&A…
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Aug 31, 2018
Azure, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Tech Talks
Tech Talks are a weekly opportunity to learn how to do more, and do it securely with your cloud software and services. Each week, we host a short talk from a subject matter expert, followed by a community driven Q&A…
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Sep 23, 2011
News and Articles
I am a Unified Communications Engineer and the reason I decided to write this Guide is that, I could not really find any blog post describing its installation, except Microsoft’s own detailed guide which isn’t for newbies by any means….
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Apr 29, 2011
News and Articles
Migrate from Sybase, Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft Access to SQL Azure and SQL Server with ease! Microsoft announced today the release of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v5.0, a family of products to further simplify the user experience in automating…
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Jan 29, 2011
News and Articles
Microsoft has move to no. 1 on Ability to Execute which is heavily influenced by customer feedback on the customer survey. We are particularly pleased at this strong customer recognition and validation. Gartner credits Microsoft for the solution’s TCO, high…
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Feb 28, 2010
News and Articles
Great post by Biplab Paul on SQL joins and por/cons of each one on his blog. I love to explain things in much simpler way but SQL Joins are one of those concepts which are not so simple to…
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Oct 12, 2009
News and Articles
Microsoft has a great site on configuring your SQL server for high security or regulatory compliance. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is a secure and reliable platform for protecting data and for building compliance solutions. Conforming to regulatory legislation often impacts…
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Jul 23, 2009
News and Articles
This is a great article on improving SharePoint 2007 performance. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc964305.aspx In an ideal world, you would account for SharePoint performance optimization in the planning and design stages with adequately sized and architected servers, support teams, and underlying infrastructure. But…
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Mar 28, 2009
News and Articles
Microsoft IT has developed general provisioning templates for several different deployment scenarios for virtual machines. In general, Microsoft IT configures each of the virtual machines with a 50-gigabyte (GB) system partition that is located on a SAN, and configures the…
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Feb 24, 2009
News and Articles
Log shipping in SQL Server has been introduced since SQL Server 4.21a. But it is still good to used in replicating database in either another location or same server box. It is best used when you upgrading your database, implementing…
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Dec 08, 2008
Managed IT Support, News and Articles
Microsoft’s new System Center product provides help desk and knowledge…with ITIL/MOF capable service level reporting. Service Manager (SM) enables the automation of IT Service Management processes with its configuration driven platform. At high level SM can be divided into 3…
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Nov 13, 2008
Tech Team Tips & Tricks, Windows
A weird issue happened to me when installing SQL 2008 on a 4-Node cluster Windows 2008 x64 cluster. After having issues installing from an extracted ISO, I had to manually install .Net framework 3.5 and Windows Installer 4.5 hotfixes from…
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