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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.

Microsoft IT Camps is coming in 2012. It is a series FREE workshops for IT Professionals to learn and understand Microsoft technologies. There are three different themes: Datacenter Virtualization Implementing Private Cloud Enabling Consumerization of IT Join your peers for a hands-on, highly-interactive and engaging learning experience around Microsoft technologies and solutions. Have real-world discussions and work with technology experts and your peers to solve scenario-based problems. Date Theme Request an Invite ...

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: ...

This is way COOL! From Nokia’s official site. On Monday 28th November Nokia Lumia 800 with Windows phonehttp://nokia.ly/uBVXxw brought deadmau5 and the world’s most advanced 4D technology together and created an amazing free light show at Millbank Tower, London. Millbank was plunged into darkness with the iconic tower acting as the canvas for a never-before-seen spectacular. Each of the 120 metre high building’s 800 windows were covered with vinyl as 16 powerful projectors, stationed 300 metres away on the other side of the river, beamed 3D images onto the structure. Huge butterflies flew across the London skyline and the tower was twisted, pulsated and even fell down. Billed as the “future of live events” the spectacular show was accompanied by music from super producer deadmau5, who created exclusive remixes for the performance — adding the 4th dimension. ...

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Backup and Restore is the last defence, when everything fails everyone is relying on backup and restore. Hear from our TechDays Singapore 2011 speaker Mike Reseller on his exprience. Mike is DPM MVP, Consultant, trainer and well-known speaker. Data Protection Manager provides the capability to protect virtual machines in your IT environment, as well as the applications running on them. With the 2012 release Data Protection Manager grows these existing capabilities with support for item level recovery, even when Data Protection Manager is running in a virtual machine. Start from FREE online training - http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com To familiar yourself with new System Center 2012 Pre-release – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-sg/evalcenter/hh505660.aspx Learn about System Center 2012 Technical Resources – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-sg/evalcenter/hh478202.aspx

You know him as a well-known international speaker for System Center at TechDays Singapore 2011. He is Simon Skinner, System Center MVP, Principle Consultant and trainer with passion in Technology and IT. Very few people knew that he used to be a truck driver. Hear from himself on how he built his successful career with System Center. Inspired and want to advance your own career? Start from FREE online training - http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com To familiar yourself with new System Center 2012 Pre-release - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-sg/evalcenter/hh505660.aspx Learn about System Center 2012 Technical Resources - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-sg/evalcenter/hh478202.aspx

Maarten is a System Center MVP, Consultant, Trainer and Well-known international speaker. Hear from him on some interesting projects that he did over the years. Excited about the capabilties of System Center? Learn about System Center 2012 Technical Resources – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-sg/evalcenter/hh478202.aspx Join FREE online training - http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com Familiar yourself with new System Center 2012 Pre-release – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-sg/evalcenter/hh505660.aspx

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.