Events

We had many developers coming down to the Microsoft Singapore venue to compete in the Nokia X-Calibre Hackathon conducted by Nokia Singapore on 19 November 2011. Everyone is busy coding and polishing our their best Windows Phone 7 Application for the competition within a short period of 15 hours. They were all working on application for the Windows Phone 7.5 (code-named “Mango”) using the 7.1 SDK. In the Microsoft Singapore venue, we had 4 Windows Phone 7 Champs assisting the competitors to answer technical and design issues during the competition. 3 of those Windows Phone 7 Champs are also Microsoft Student Partners - Kin Seng, Kim and myself. Lots of awesome applications were completed during the competition, I shall update on the screenshots and results later as judging is still going on. ...

Last Saturday, it had been a happening weekend at Microsoft Singapore. The Microsoft Student Partners hosted yet another great event organised by youth for youth - TEDx Youth @ Singapore in the Microsoft Auditorium. Students from different walks of life from Secondary Schools to Universities coming down together to hear from numerous speakers to share their knowledge and thoughts all revolving around the theme for this year’s conference - IDEA + ACTION. This year’s conference had aim to let students be able to explore and express how youths today see things and do things in their own special way. It also hopes to encourage students in putting their dreams into actions and make it happen! ...

On 9th November 2011, Microsoft Student Partners (MSP) have organised another awesome event – techfest @ Singapore Polytechnic. Making this the 1st ever Microsoft Techfest for IHLs in Singapore. In this event, we have over 1,000 students in Singapore Polytechnic attended and hear various representive from Microsoft. The team of MSPs decided to go all out on marketing effort from having posters with all around the school to distributing balloons at all the Food courts in Singapore Polytechnic. The entire school was filled with posters and balloon in lecture halls, walkways – practically any spot that you could think off! Students are also treated with music from Deejays, Kinects try-out, popcorn, candy floss etc. It’s just impossible to write those excitement and passion we felt on that day in words! ...

November Meet Up Agenda Date: 09 November 2011 Time: 7.00pm to 9.30pm Venue: 1 Marina Boulevard #22-00,MS Singapore – 22CF12 6.30pm: Registration 7.00pm: Session 1 – SCOM2012 New Application Monitoring Capabilities 8.15pm: Break 8.30pm: Session 2 – TCPIP Printer Deployment via GPP & GPO 9.30pm: Home Sweet Home Session 1 – SCOM2012 New Application Monitoring Capabilities (Richard) Abstract: In a world where systems are constantly made into web applications for easy access, the need to monitor and fault find is ever more difficult to detect. SCOM 2012 Application monitoring allows us the visibility to detect these errors and performance points into a structured way. We will discover how we can move from the unknown to a quick and easy way to bypass the unknown to the problem then onto the solution in easy steps. This helps to stop finger pointing and allow Dev and Infra team to work together more constructively. Come and see for yourself how it works. Session 2 – TCPIP Printer Deployment via GPP & GPO (Tan Chee) Abstract: Ever wonder how to deploy TCPIP printer to client machine without manually installing them one by one? Most will say script do wonders. But what if you are not familiar with scripts? Can this be done without the help of script? Tan Chee will share on his experience on using GPP and GPO to deploy TCPIP Printer on Windows 7 Client Machine. Registration For registration, please email to admin@sgwindowsgroup.org with 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.

Our first Microsoft TechDays Singapore held on 13 October 2011 attracted more than 1000 delegates! If you missed the event, do check out the highlights.We hope to see you in TechDays Singapore 2012. (you may register your interest here) TechDays Singapore 2011 highlights Keynote video Watch Ziriad Saibi’s keynote on Microsoft’s cloud story. Breakout sessions videos and slides Track 1: Infrastructure Self-Service Private Cloud Management through Integrated Processes with Service Manager 2012 Maarten Goet and Raju Chellam (Dell Singapore) The Future of Infrastructure Monitoring: A Look at Application Monitoring and SCOM 2012 Raymond Chou, Simon Skinner and Wong Poey Yong (NetApp Singapore) Configuration Manager 2012 Technical Overview Teh Wei King SCVMM 2012 Building of Private Clouds and Federation to the Public Cloud Lai Yoong Seng Automating your Infrastructure: Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 Technical Overview Kwan Thean Keong F5 Optimizations for Microsoft Platform Leslie Wong(F5 Networks) Track 2: Platform Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform Ryan Crawcour Cloud Management with System Center Application Controller Lai Yoong Seng Microsoft Exchange Server and Office 365: Hybrid Deployment Sanjeev Thakur and Ram Muthkaruppan SCDPM 2012: The new feature of data protection Mike Resseler How to Run Middleware in the Cloud? Story of Windows Azure AppFabric Hammad Rajjoub Simplified Infrastructure Solutions Thomas Chua (Hitachi Data Systems) Track 3: Application HTML5: All the Awesome Bits Michael Kordahi Mango, Mango! Developing for Windows Phone 7 Mingfei Yan Revealing WebMatrix 2.0 Beta – the Swiss Army Knife of Web Development Thye Yeow Bok OData with WCF Web APIs: “There’s a URI for That” Alvin Lau NUI, Gooey and Louie Michael Kordahi Revenue Generator Suite Niger Tan (aZaaS) Making your first step to the cloud? Go Private or go Public? Check out the resources that will take you there. Private cloud resources: http://weshipcode.com/private Public cloud resources: http://weshipcode.com/public

TechDays Singapore2011 is getting closer - to be exact its just one week away! The team is working very hard on getting the latest and greatest bits together and install them on our demo machines but most of all looking forward to meet everyone on 13 October! Take this opportunity to explore new ideas from 18 breakout sessions, 22 hands-on-Lab topics and Ask-the-expert sessions we have put together for you. Discover new possibilities, strengthen your knowledge, learn what’s new in System Center 2012, Windows Azure platform and Windows Phone 7.5 and much more. See full schedule here. get your geek on and register HERE if you have not! remember to follow @GoSpiffy on twitter and use #SGTechDays to tweet! [caption id=“attachment_5749” align=“aligncenter” width=“587” caption=“TechDays Singapore 2011”][/caption]

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. ...

The 8th iteration of CTU is back – It’s the time of the year User Group of Singapore come together and put up a full day technical sharing event for the community. Organized by the community for the community, we have sessions that suits IT Professionals, Developers and Database Administrators. We have arranged for you a full day of contents to help get you up to date with the latest technologies in the Microsoft stack. If you are someone who like hands on more than anything, you are welcome to sign up for our Hands-on Lab on the actual day itself! Don’t miss this chance and start registering today! Why you should attend this event: ...