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September User Group Meeting Speaker profile: Prakash S Sawant, Microsoft Technology Solution Specialist with ten years of experience in providing database solutions; Prakash is a subject matter expert in SQL Server Migration/ Upgrade and Performance Tuning. Prakash is also an active member for the development of content and methodology for the SQL Server 2008 R2 Upgrade and Application Compatibility Testing program. He has worked with more then 100+ Lab participants across India, USA, APAC and Middle East to assess Upgrade readiness and provide guidance on Upgrades from SQL Server 2000/2005 to SQL Server 2008. He has also created and delivered trainings for Microsoft’s SQL Server support engineers from various verticals. ...

Date: July 28th, 2011 Time: 7:00PM – 9:00 PM Registration starts at 6:30 PM Venue: NTUC Building 22CF-12 Microsoft Office One Marina Boulevard Speaker profile: Renaud HARDUIN is ESSILOR European IT Singapore Developement Service Manager, in Singapore (ESSILOR ITSS / 38 people / 6 teams). He is in charge of Europe IT Development Team and provides support for various Business Support. Renaud is MVP on SQL/BI since 2005. Michael LABASTIDA is ESSILOR BI Technical Leader & BI Expert In charge of one of the major BI ESSILOR Project in ESSILOR ITSS. ...

Apart from real time monitoring, AVICode also provides intelligent information on each of those alerts. These detailed information can be access by click on each alert and select “Click here for additional Event details” In the detailed event view, Distributed Chains shows the average total time for each page. This information helps developers to understand which page takes most of the time. Performance Counters has a timeline view for different metrics which provides more insights to the developer team. Intelligent report in AVIcode provides Summary Failure Analysis, Summary Performance Analysis, Summary user Analysis. These reports helps to identify quick wins and address application issues that can make big impact. Summary Failure Analysis – It shows the top failures of a particular application. Like below example the top 1 failure is counted for 50% of the failure of the applications. Developer team and infrastructure team may want to address that failure issue immediately and application availability can be improved. Summary Performance Analysis - Similiarly Summary Performance Analysis shows the top performance issue. As below example address the top 1 issue can address 44% of the application performance issue. Summary User Analysis – It has details on Security, Connectivity, Performance, and Failure that related to each individual user. It perticularly useful for development team to resolve issues for VIP end users.

Thank you for everyone who attended the CTU on 25th June. We have 91 registered and 84 attended the event. A group of passionate MVPs started and lanned this together. I would like to thank them for their time and contribution to the community. A big thank should go to Desmond who played a important leading role in this CTU 2011, below are words from him. “Community Technology Updates 2011 has been a wonderful event. This is the first time I am taking up the leading role of organizing CTU and it has been fruitful for me. Apart from the usual IT Pro, Dev and Special Track, this CTU we have added in HOL and ChalkTalk sharing session. These sessions aim to share useful industry experiences with attendees and great feedbacks were collected for these sessions. We will try to arrange more of such session in coming CTU if possible. It touches my heart to see attendees leaving at the end of the event with useful information and making new friends friend. These motivations will keep me going forward and push on to organize a better CTU for the community from the community again next time. For those who have missed this CTU, join us for CTU in Dec as we learn, share and make friends in this BIG community!!” ...

AVIcode delivers market-leading .NET application performance monitoring capabilities to help ensure the availability of business-critical applications and services, regardless of where they are deployed. It is part of System Center Operation Manager (SCOM) and can be installed as a Management Pack. To download the AVIcode management pack, go to HERE. AVIcode really allows the infrastructure team to provide more valuable information to the application engineering team. The process of sending these valuable information can be as easy as right click on the alert in SCOM and select send to engineering team. This is achieved through SCOM TFS connector (Read my post on TFS connector to know more). More importantly, it helps to identify where the real problem is. We don’t have to second guess whether the problem comes from infrastructure or application. AVIcode has capabilities like ...

Tech·Ed North America 2011 just happened this week. If you attended the event, please share with us your experience. For many of us who cannot go, the contents are available online now. Go to HERE to see all the videos available. Make sure you watch the Keynote as Corporate Vice President,Server and Tools Marketing,Robert Wahbe and Corporate Vice President,Visual Studio,Jason Zander showcase a broad array of technology There is a wide swath of topics for IT professionals especially on Private Cloud and System Center 2012. Below list only covers some of them (view full list on System Center here). To try out System Center 2012, join the Community Evaluation Program today! ...

It’s Time For CTU 2011!! It is time of the year again that we hold CTU for our local community. CTU 2011 is set to be on 25th Jun 2011 (Sat). It will be a full day event covering 3 track, IT Pro, Developer and Special Track. Early bird registration is set at $12/pax and onsite registration at $20/pax. Interesting topic have been planned for the community. Attendees can expect to walk away with valuable and latest information on the new technology in the market. Do join us in May meet up as Desmond share with you more detail for this upcoming CTU. Meanwhile, mark down on your calendar and you won’t want to miss this valuable yet interesting event. More detail will reach you in a separate email, so do keep a look out for that. May Meet Up Agenda Date: 11th May2011 (Wednesday) Time: 7.00pm to 9.30pm Venue: 1 Marina Boulevard #21-00,MS Singapore–Level 21 Auditorium 6.30pm: Registration 7.00pm: Session 1 – System Center Management Suite 8.15pm: Break 8.30pm: Session 2 – System Center Configuration Manger 9.30pm: Home Sweet Home Session 1 & 2 – System Center Night (Sainath) Abstract: System Center Management Suite is a solution for Mid-Size and Enterprise Organizations which provide end-end management of both Physical and Virtual Infrastructures. You will learn the different products embedded into one management suite along with their features which include SCOM 2007 R2, SCVMM 2008 , SCCM 2007 R2 , SCDPM 2007. In the second session we concentrate on one of the best products of System Center Suite, System Center Configuration Manager. We will discover in detail about the abilities which SCCM would bring in for the administrators and the features it provides. We also make quick comparison between Microsoft and IBM BigFix product. Registration For registration, please email to admin@sgwindowsgroup.org the following: - SWUG ID - Name - Email Address Note: There won’t be an event confirmation. Just turn up, we don’t turn people away. However, please register if you’re coming. ...

Yes. It is absolutely FREE. 15 hours of HD-quality videos from the “Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals” Jump Start course are now available for free on TechNet Edge for IT Pros. Additionally,every module will be made available with assessment questions on the Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) later this month. The 15-hour course is broken into three sections: (1) Platform, (2) Management, and (3) VDI “Team-teaching” approach led by Microsoft partner and virtualization architect, Corey Hynes,and Microsoft Technical Evangelist**, Symon Perriman.** Every module is an engaging discussion, packed with best practices and real-world demonstrations Over 2,300 people joined the three-day course in U.S., 86% said the course improved their perception of Microsoft’s approach to virtualization ...

Date: April 28th, 2011 Time: 7:00PM – 9:00 PM Registration starts at 6:30 PM Venue: NTUC Building 22CF-12 Microsoft Office One Marina Boulevard Speaker profile: Renaud HARDUIN is ESSILOR European IT Singapore Developement Service Manager, in Singapore (ESSILOR ITSS / 38 people / 6 teams). He is in charge of Europe IT Development Team and provides support for various Business Support. Renaud is MVP on SQL/BI since 2005. Michael LABASTIDA is ESSILOR BI Technical Leader & BI Expert In charge of one of the major BI ESSILOR Project in ESSILOR ITSS. Alvin Lau is your average Joe in the application space and is a large advocate of .NET technologies since 2005. In his spare time, he runs SGDOTNET, a Singapore-based .NET user group, and loves to share his experience and knowledge. His area of interests includes ASP.Net, Agile development, SharePoint and Microsoft BI. ...

Date: 27th Apr 2011 Time: 7:00 PM - 10:00PM Venue: Microsoft Singapore (Conference Room SINOMB 22CF-12) 7:00 PM to 7:15PM - Registration 7:20 PM to 8:15PM – How Headsets Enhance Productivity in the Unified Communications(Plantronics) 8:15 PM to 8:30PM - Break 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM – Considerations for Outsourcing your Organization’s Email by Alvin Ng About Alvin Ng: Alvin is a Messaging operations manager for a local organization. He has more than 10 years of messaging experience. He currently supports the MessagingTalk User Goup as webmaster of Messagingtalk.org. Highlight of the event: There will be a Lucky draw at the end of the event. The prize is “Plantronics Voyager PRO UC” by Plantronics. Registration For registration, please email to tristonwan@messagingtalk.org with the following: ...