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The Office 365 Beta is now open to the public. Office 365 provides a cloud-based subscription service that includes Office 2010 Professional Plus, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online. For developers and ISVs, Office 365 offers a platform for building cloud-based collaboration and communication solutions for the cloud. To get you guys up to speed, check out these training materials Office 365 Training Course for Public Beta. online training course and offline training kit from MSDN The Office 365 Developer Training Kit includes ...

Date: 27th Apr 2011 Time: 7:00 PM - 10:00PM Venue: Microsoft Singapore (Conference Room SINOMB 22CF-12) 7:00 PM to 7:15PM - Registration 7:20 PM to 8:15PM – How Headsets Enhance Productivity in the Unified Communications(Plantronics) 8:15 PM to 8:30PM - Break 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM – Considerations for Outsourcing your Organization’s Email by Alvin Ng About Alvin Ng: Alvin is a Messaging operations manager for a local organization. He has more than 10 years of messaging experience. He currently supports the MessagingTalk User Goup as webmaster of Messagingtalk.org. Highlight of the event: There will be a Lucky draw at the end of the event. The prize is “Plantronics Voyager PRO UC” by Plantronics. Registration For registration, please email to tristonwan@messagingtalk.org with the following: ...

Attain training on Microsoft Server Virtualization and Management technologies today! Course Date: 18-20 April 2011****Venue: NetAssist Services Pte Ltd298 Tiong Bahru Road #08-02/03 Central Plaza Singapore 168730 About this Course This 400-level, three-day, instructor-led course provides students with the in-depth knowledge and skills needed to design a complex data center architecture using Microsoft virtualization and management technologies, including Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V and the System Center Suite. This complimentary workshop is extended only to invited clients. Limited to two seats per organization. Please send replacement if the registered attendee cannot attend else a “No Show” fee of S$600 per seat will apply. Approval of your registration is subject to providing proof of VMware certification or years of experience in current or prior employment. Audience This course is intended for IT architects with extensive VMware experience who have the responsibility for designing and deploying virtualization data centers based on Microsoft technology with potential VMware integration. At Course Completion After completing this course, students will be able to: ...

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Why join, other than it being free? The Microsoft Virtual Academy helps you to improve your IT skill set and advance your career with a free, easy to access training portal that allows you to learn at your own pace, focusing on Microsoft technologies. What do I get for signing up? Free training to make you become the Cloud-Hero in your Organization Help mastering your custom Training Path and get the recognition Connect with other IT Pros and discuss The Cloud Where do I sign up? http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com ...

SharePoint is popular and widespread today. To help you understand how to deploy, configure and manager SharePoint 2010, we are having two SharePoint 2010 Administration Hands-on labs. It is completely free and only 21 seats per session. Register today to secure a seat! Registration link: 7th April: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032481003&Culture=en-SG 21st April: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032481010&Culture=en-SG Location: Avantus Training Pte Ltd, 79 Robinson Road CPF Building Agenda: Deploy SharePoint 2010 Understanding Server Roles Software Requirements The install process Configure SharePoint 2010 ...

To mark the global launch of Microsoft’s latest browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) poll was conducted across Asia Pacific and Europe. Result shows Asian women tend to put web browsing safety first while the men chose speed above everything else. Asians are more likely to take risks online compared to their European counterparts and majority of them want to watch online movies in high definitions – speed is imperative to pave way for future content. With these fresh insights on web surfing habits in Asia, IE9 has placed speed as the key proposition. In fact, IE9 is 11 times faster than its predecessor, IE8. An online martial arts game (http://www.masterofthewebgame.com) has been specially designed by Asian firm, The Upper Storey, allowing users to experience first-hand the remarkable speed and performance of IE9. ...

Topic: SQL Server Technology update & roadmap – focus on TDE, integration with SAP, SQL Server Audit, security best practices & resources A deeper look at SQL Server Security – investments, developments, benchmarks, performances where possible. Date: March 18th, 2011 Time: 7:00PM – 9:00 PM Registration starts at 6:30 PM Venue: NTUC Building 22CF-12 Microsoft Office One Marina Boulevard, Singapore 018989 Please confirm your attendance by sending email to SGSQL@LIVE.COM Speaker profile: Il-Sung Lee, Senior Program Manager, SQL Server Engine Security, Microsoft Corp. Il-Sung Lee is a Senior Program Manager for the Engine team in the SQL Server product group and is the PM owner for SQL Server Engine Security component. Il-Sung has over thirteen years of experience in the database industry as a developer and a program manager focusing on database security and database communications. His current focus is to advance the capabilities of SQL Server in areas such as authentication, authorization, cryptography, audit, and data leak prevention. He is a regular presenter at TechEd and SQLPASS and has spoken at numerous other domestic and international conferences over the past several years. Il-Sung graduated with an M.Eng degree from McGill University and subsequently worked for several years at IBM in their Information Management group prior to joining Microsoft, initially with the SQL Server Protocols team before moving to the Core Security Infrastructure area. We welcome for any feedback to improve interaction and activity in our user group. We are looking for a brave speaker too! If you have anything to share, something interesting from your daily jobs, please share and present for us. Send your thought to SGSQL@LIVE.COM. If you have changed to another role or not around in Singapore anymore and want to be removed from our list, please email us at SGSQL@LIVE.COM. Thank you and have a nice day ahead!

Date: 22nd March 2011 (Tuesday) Time: 7.00pm to 9.30pm Venue: 1 Marina Boulevard #21-00,MS Singapore – Auditorium 6.30pm: Registration 7.00pm: Session 1 – Introduction to Windows PowerShell 8.15pm: Break 8.30pm: Session 2 – Introduction to Windows Intune 9.30pm: Home Sweet Home Session 1 – Introduction to Windows Power Shell (June Blender) Abstract: Windows PowerShell is a powerful weapon which all IT Pros should be equipped with. It combines the interactivity of KSH or BASH, the programmability of Perl or Ruby, and the production-orientation of AS400 CL or VMS DCL. Whether you’re solving the problem at hand or scripting, standardizing, and automating your IT processes, Windows PowerShell can help. Join us for this informal, interactive session. It’s filled with demos so don’t expect too many slides from us, and you should be able to pick up some knowledge that is going to be useful in your work. A little about the speaker: June Blender, Senior Programming Writer for the Windows PowerShell Core Engineering Team, writes the help that you see when you type “Get-Help.” A fifteen-year veteran Microsoft employee, June has written about performance optimization, the Windows registry, command-line tools for system administrators, and tools for driver developers, in addition to writing widely about Windows PowerShell. She’s visiting SEA to share her experience in Windows PowerShell and to invite you to participate in developing the future of Windows PowerShell scripting and collaborative documentation. Session 2 – Introduction to Windows Intune (Matthew Hardman) Abstract: We presented to you the new cloud service, BPOS, sometime last year and now we have something new for you. Windows Intunes targets to help in simplifying PC management for business. Join Matthew Hardman for an introduction to Windows Intune, Microsoft’s cloud solution for managing desktops remotely. In this session we will examine how Intune can help you do patch management, endpoint security and reporting. 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.

We will be running the following two TechNet Live Meetings in March. Register today! Innovating Virtualisation - Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Live Meeting Session - Friday, March 11, 2011 1:00 PM, Singapore, Duration:60 Minutes Dynamic memory and RemoteFX are two exciting new capabilities in Windows server 2008 R2 SP1. In this session, we will cover more in details on these two new features and help you to understand their benefits. Optimizing SharePoint® Collaboration - SharePoint Live Meeting Session - Monday, March 14, 2011 1:00 PM, Singapore, Duration:60 Minutes In this session, we will cover the SharePoint flexible deployment options and how to manage and monitor your SharePoint farm with a centralized browser-based interface.