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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 ...

This post will get you up and running apps for Kinect connected to PC using open source libraries. Mine is running on Windows 7. We’ll assume that you don’t know what you’re doing, and you couldn’t care less about what libraries you’ll use to run this. (You can learn that later). You just want to follow the instructions, run that demo, and start to impress your friends, right? Obviously you need to have the Kinect sensor device with the power adapter for this. ...

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! ...

Microsoft Cloud Day was held on April 27th 2011 with 170 attendees representing 130 companies. It was a full day event with the aim of updating our community on Windows Azure Platform. We had extensively covered a mix of business and technical contents, from introducing the importance of cloud computing to deploying and monitoring Windows Azure application on the cloud. Highlights of the event includes the participation of Windows Azure AppFabric product team sharing the roadmap which was beneficial to our customers. We had excellent speakers from our SI Partner aZaaS, NCS and we also invited our customer Yolk for showcasing its Azure solution. All training partner booths (aZaaS, NCS and NetAsset) showcasing MS learning and cloud courses were well received. ...

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. ...

Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects. Startup Weekend Singapore 2 happened this weekend, from April 29 to May 1. This time we had over 40 participants spending the whole weekend building their startups, networking and having fun. The weekend started Friday night, with Joey from Startup Weekend and Meng Wong opening the night to get everyone warm and fuzzy, breaking the ice and getting their creative juices flowing. Six teams were formed and started hacking away to get their ideas up and running for the final presentation on Sunday night. ...

Startup Weekend is back. After last years’ success, Startup Weekend is back in Singapore. This time we will be joined by Joey Pomerenke from Startup Weekend to facilitate the event. We’ll also be joined by some awesome mentors from Singapore. Register here

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 ...

Thank you to everyone who attended the Visual Studio & .NET sharing event on 13th Aprl 2011, apologies for the long delay in getting this post up…had been away for business travel. Hope you found the content presented useful. Below are the links to the slides presented and some other information. .NET 4 Demystified - Sandeep Joshi View more presentations from Microsoft Innovation Centre Singapore ASP.NET Overview - Alvin Lau ...