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Good news everyone, you can now download all System Center 2012 Pre-release products from One Single Regsitration. Go to HERE to try out System Center 2012 today! Before you start, make sure you check out the available System Center 2012 technical resources on TechNet. Available System Center 2012 Products: System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 2 provides comprehensive configuration management for the Microsoft platform that can help you empower users with the devices and applications they need to be productive while maintaining corporate compliance and control. (English) System Requirements > System Center Operations Manager 2012 Beta provides deep application diagnostics and infrastructure monitoring that can help you ensure the predictable performance and availability of vital applications and offers a comprehensive view of your datacenter, private, and public clouds. (English) System Requirements > System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 Beta provides unified data protection for Windows servers and clients that can help you deliver scalable, manageable, and cost-effective protection and restore scenarios from disk, tape, and off premise. (English) System Requirements > System Center Orchestrator 2012 Beta provides orchestration, integration, and automation of IT processes through the creation of runbooks that can help you to define and standardize best practices and improve operational efficiency. (English) System Requirements > System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 RC provides virtual machine management and services deployment with support for multi-hypervisor environments that can help you deliver a flexible and cost effective private cloud environment. (English) System Requirements > System Center App Controller 2012 Beta (Coming Soon) System Center Service Manager 2012 Beta (Coming Soon)

If you look to get certified and advance your career with skills in virtualization, here is a good online training that can help you. The December class is more friendly to Singapore timezone. It is on 2nd Decemeber Friday 14:00 - 22:00. Register Now This comes with an Exam Voucher normally valued at $150 and you get free online training. New Jump Start! Microsoft Server Virtualization – Get Certified! Microsoft Learning is hosting a brand new class in the popular “Jump Start” series. We received rave reviews from the last Microsoft Virtualization Jump Start delivered earlier this year and know this new course will be another smash. Here are the details: • What? “Exam 70-659: Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualization Jump Start” • When? Wednesday, November 2, 2011 from 8am – 5pm PDT **OR** Thursday, December 1, 2011 from 10pm – 6am PDT • How? Live virtual classroom (online) • How much? $99 (includes an exam voucher valued at $150) Register Now for either the November 2 or December 1 class. Skills Covered: ...

The newest version of Windows Intune is now available. Sign up here for a FREE 30-day trial and test it out on up to 25 PCs! What are the some of the key new features we have added? Software Distribution: Deploy most Microsoft and third-party updates or applications to PCs nearly anywhere over the Internet to Windows Intune managed PCs. Remote Tasks: You can now easily and remotely perform the following tasks on Windows Intune managed PCs from the administration console: Full scan, Quick scan, Update Malware Definition, and Restart. Read-Only Access: You can now can give select administrators read-only access to the administration console so they can view PC information as needed, but not perform any configuration tasks if you choose to. Enhanced Reporting: You can easily create hardware reports based on new hardware filters for common hardware characteristics. Additionally, you can now create and save report parameters to make it easy and efficient to run a report again in the future. Alerts & Monitoring: You can now configure alert types to be reported according to a specified threshold, frequency, or percent of computers affected. Want to learn more about these new features and all the other updates to Windows Intune? Check out the following content: ...

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]

Recently I was asked few times what is the difference between virtualization and private cloud. There are distinct differences between virtualization and private cloud. They are not the same thing. Virtualization is just the first step towards private cloud. According to NIST defination, a private or public cloud should have following characteristics. These are the fundamental differences between private cloud and virtualization. On-demand self-service: the ability for a user to obtain computing resources (compute, network, storage) as needed and automatically, without interaction with other people Broad network access: the computing resources are accessible over the network and using tools widely used as thin clients and thick clients (phones, laptops, desktops, slate) Resource pooling: the computing resources are pooled together to serve different customers using a multi-tenant model. The different physical and virtual resources are assigned dynamically, based on the needs of users. This allows you to get a sense of independence from the location of resources as the end user does not have an exact idea of ??where you actually reside the resources it uses, but may indicate a high level of preferential locations Rapid elasticity: the resources can be quickly modified, often automatically, so you can quickly adapt to the waxing and waning of necessity. From an end user’s point of view, this can lead to the feeling of having unlimited resources to buy the necessary amount for the time. Measured Service: The cloud systems automatically monitor and optimize resources by exploiting the capabilities measure implemented at different levels of abstraction depending on the type of service provided. The use of resources can be controlled, measured and reported enabling the end user and service provider access to information transparently use Virtualization alone does not achieve these characteristics and does not enable efficiency. Let’s look how these cloud functionalities can be through Microsoft technologies. Base Virtualization Infrastructure The base infrastructure for private cloud is virtualization. One important thing everyone tends to take for granted is Active Directory. Active Directory provides the base for identify and security management. In the base infrastructure, there are ...

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!!” ...