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Singapore SQL User Group is running a special meet up with industry expert to talk about their expereince on implementing Data Mining. Join your peers for a special meet up on 6th Feb. Data Mini****ng for Social Moderation The BBC (the British Broadcasting Company), a known media force in Europe, implemented an in-database data mining solution for their public-facing website. The BBC encourages users to post comments and become part of their social media community. In this project, the BBC needed a way to improve the social moderation of millions of posts on thousands of forums. This presentation covers how SQL Server helped designing a model to dramatically help improving the quality and efficiency of the moderation. We also discuss cost efficiencies obtained in this project. More and more organizations will need to use enterprise solutions to handle high-volume social networking, learn from it, and eventually take actions that make sense to achieve their goals. Data Mining is one of the areas with more potential growth for SQL Server, and perhaps one of the least known ones by the SQL Server professionals. Speaker Profile: Fernando G. Guerrero. Global CEO of SolidQ. a Civil Engineer and former lecturer of Surveying and Photogrammetry at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, he spent 15 years working in Indonesia, Morocco, Bolivia, Ecuador, the UK and the USA, in projects financed by the European Union, the European Investment Bank, The World Bank, and the Spanish International Cooperation Agency. Mr Guerrero is a published author and a frequent speaker at international conferences. He holds the honorific title of Microsoft Regional Director for Spain, and received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for SQL Server from 2000 until 2007 Venue: Microsoft Singapore Pte. Ltd. 1 Marina Boulevard #22-01 One Marina Boulevard Singapore 018989 Date/Time: 6 February 2012/7 pm onwards For confirmation please send email to sgsql@live.com

The day has finally come. Kinect is officially coming to Windows! On 9th Jan 2012, during CES Steve Ballmer announced that Microsoft would ship Kinect for Windows on February 1st and yesterday, version 1.0 of the commercial SDK and runtime were made available for download. Also, the distribution partners in twelve launch countries are starting to ship Kinect for Windows hardware, with suggested retail price $249. Kinect has changed the way people play games and experience entertainment. Now, Kinect for Windows offers the potential to transform how people interact with computers and Windows-embedded devices in multiple industries, including education, healthcare, retail, transportation, and beyond. Kinect shows the promise of Natural User Interface (NUI) and the role Microsoft plays as a thought-leader and technical innovator in this exciting space. Since the last beta, the updated SDK has picked up a number of new features including support for up to four Kinects being used simultaneously and near mode for monitoring motion from just 40cm away. See the complete product features here. Looking for great on content on how to build apps for Kinect? Visit Channel 9 where we have updated quick starts and open source projects. Get Started - Kinect for Windows Quickstart Series ...

Starting Feb 1st, all Windows Phone owners can enjoy five new self-titled Must Have Games announced by Microsoft. These great line-ups will be released across February, with one title each per week and prices ranging from $2.99 - $4.99. Complete with Xbox LIVE Achievements, leaderboards and more, Must Have Games brings more great games to Xbox LIVE for Windows Phone. Game line-up includes: ...

HTML5Plase.us : “Use the new and shiny responsibly.” HTML5Please is a newly launched website that enables developer to look up HTML5 & CSS3 features to know if they are ready for use in your actual project. This reference site represent the collective knowledge of developers who have been deep in the HTML5 trenches, to be exact, created as a community project by the people behind HTML5 Boilerplate, Modernizr and CSS3 Please!. HTML5Please provides comprehensive & straightforward guidance for each element and property, with colored flags and information regarding browser support, including for IE10+, IE9, IE8, IE7, and non-IE browsers. It also helps you out with recommendations for polyfills and implementation so you can decide if and how to put each of these features to use. An integrated filter enables you to rapidly refine your search to just the features you’re interested in. You can read more the making of HTML5Please here. Other resources: http://caniuse.com/ – Compatibility tables for support of HTML5, CSS3, SVG and more in desktop and mobile browsers. http://modernizr.com – Open-source JavaScript library that gives you the power of feature detection to help you build the next generation of HTML5 and CSS3-powered websites. http://haz.io/ – gives a quick overview of your browser’s support for recent technologies in the world of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. http://mobilehtml5.org/ – Learn more about HTML5 compatibility on mobile and tablet browsers [wiki] Cross-browser Polyfills

The definition, business value, and technology benefits of the “the cloud” have been hotly debated in recent months. Most agree that cloud computing can accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and increase business agility in the market. In 2012, cloud computing will transition from hype and discussion, to part of every enterprise’s reality, and IT is uniquely positioned to lead this transformation and help business reap the benefits of cloud computing. Join us for a virtual event designed to help you explore your cloud options. It’s your chance to interact with Microsoft experts and with IT leaders like yourself, who have been putting cloud technology to work in their own organizations. You’ll be among the first to hear the latest private cloud news from Microsoft Transforming IT with Microsoft Private Cloud Thursday,January 1__9, 2012, 11:00 A.M-1:00 P.M. Singapore Time Here’s what we have planned: •Hear from other senior IT professionals about how cloud computing can help you gain maximum competitive advantage with minimal risk. •Learn about Microsoft cloud offerings, including private, public, and hybrid cloud models. • Experience Microsoft private cloud solutions through the Microsoft Technology Center Microsoft Executive Panelists: Satya Nadella President, Server and Tools Business, Microsoft Brad Anderson Corporate Vice President, Management and Security Division, Microsoft Antoine Aguado Senior Director, Private Cloud and Server, M&O Microsoft Asia Pacific ...

Microsoft is actually the biggest beta testing customer for Microsoft. Microsoft IT deploys our pre-release product all the time. They feedback their learnings to products groups and some of them become best practices. In this video, You will see how Microsoft IT deployed System Center Configuration Manager 2012 to manage 280,000 users in the first phase of migration, which took less than 90 days. Configuration Manager 2012 was built on the vision of a user-centric client-management model with the vision of empowering the user, unifying infrastructure, and extending management control across the platform. You will hear more on how Microsoft IT benefit from these new features. Listen to the video to understand more. Download SCCM2012 to try it out.

Lync Mobile Client is now available! If you have a Windows Phone then you can open the link http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=9ce93e51-5b35-e011-854c-00237de2db9e on your phone and install it. You may ask how about other platforms like, iOS, Android? There are clients for them too!! Lync Mobile for Android https://market.android.com/details?id=com.microsoft.office.lync Lync Mobile for iOS http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-lync-2010-for-iphone/id484293461?mt=8 Lync mobile clients enable you to stay connected, communicate and conference on the go. Mobile clients for Microsoft Lync 2010 take the power of unified communications mobile—including rich presence, instant messaging, audio conferencing, and calling features from a single, easy-to-use interface. Few features worth mentioning: ...

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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.

A private cloud helps you deliver what the service consumer and the service provider want by providing a simple and effective way to deliver “IT as a Service” and today three new products in our System Center 2012 lineup that help make your private cloud experience real - specifically App Controller, Service Manager & Orchestrator. As of today, App Controller and Service Manager are in public beta while Orchestrator is available as a public release candidate. Go here to download and evaluate how App Controller, Service Manager and Orchestrator can enable your private cloud experience. If you attended TechDays Singapore 2011, we talked about all these three products. If you missed out the sessions, recordings of the sessions on App Controller, Service Manager and Orchestrator are available at link below. Cloud Management with System Center Application Controller Self-Service Private Cloud Management through Integrated Processes with Service Manager 2012 Automating your Infrastructure: Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 Technical Overview To learn more about Microsoft Private Cloud and System Center go to http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com for FREE online training.