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: ...

Thank you for attending “Real World Agile Roadshow” held at Microsoft Singapore Office on 25th Nov 2011. We truly hope you found the content relevant, below are the links to the slides presented on the day. Keynote: Becoming and Being Agile – What Does This Mean? Hammad Rajjoub, Microsoft Singapore Agile in Action – Act 1: Planning, Set Up, Requirements and Architecture Colin Nah, Biz-Era Pte Ltd Agile in Action – Act 2: Development Tan Choon Ngee, aZaaS Pte Ltd Agile in Action – Act 3: Testing Tan Choon Ngee, aZaaS Pte Ltd FURTHER READING Below are some additional learning resources on the topic of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with Visual Studio 2010 for your reference:- Topic – ALM Overview What is ALM? Discover the three aspects of ALM - governance, development, and operations - and how each is vital throughout the entire lifecycle of an application. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9743693 ALM and Business Strategy - How well a firm executes its business strategies is tied to how good it is at creating new applications. See how ALM solves this business need. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9743690 ALM as a Business Process - Business processes are more dependent on software than ever, making the proper development of in-house applications - using ALM techniques - all the more critical. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9743691 ALM Tool Evolution - The old model of software development involved using separate tools. Today, those tools have been combined in powerful ways to optimize the end-to-end development process. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9743692 Adopting a Common ALM Foundation - Diverse tools are an inescapable fact of life in most development organizations today. Learn why it makes sense to adopt a common ALM foundation in a heterogeneous world. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9778321 Topic – Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server Introducing Visual Studio 2010 - Visual Studio 2010 offers a rich set of ALM tools that integrates key artifacts and provides full traceability and collaboration throughout the development process. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9743697 Visual Studio ALM Roadmap - Manage the entire lifespan of your applications with a set of proven processes supported by tools that integrate team members and activities. http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/roadmap ALM Summit 2010 Videos Discover how Visual Studio 2010’s rich profiling tools and real-world scenario modeling can ensure that your application is ready to perform. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9767119 For any enquires pertaining to Real World Agile Roadshow or related to Visual Studio 2010, please feel free to reach out to us at prakuma@microsoft.com or v-yilim@microsoft.com. We look forward to seeing you at our future events.

Due to over whelming response for the Kinect + Developer conference held in National University of Singapore, we have decided to host a “Live” Streaming of the event. This is once in a lifetime chance for you to directly interact and hear first-hand from them with Kinect experts from Microsoft Research. The conference will be stream from 2.15pm – 4pm, with a short 10 minutes break in between them. Flow of event ...

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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We had many developers coming down to the Microsoft Singapore venue to compete in the Nokia X-Calibre Hackathon conducted by Nokia Singapore on 19 November 2011. Everyone is busy coding and polishing our their best Windows Phone 7 Application for the competition within a short period of 15 hours. They were all working on application for the Windows Phone 7.5 (code-named “Mango”) using the 7.1 SDK. In the Microsoft Singapore venue, we had 4 Windows Phone 7 Champs assisting the competitors to answer technical and design issues during the competition. 3 of those Windows Phone 7 Champs are also Microsoft Student Partners - Kin Seng, Kim and myself. Lots of awesome applications were completed during the competition, I shall update on the screenshots and results later as judging is still going on. ...

Last Saturday, it had been a happening weekend at Microsoft Singapore. The Microsoft Student Partners hosted yet another great event organised by youth for youth - TEDx Youth @ Singapore in the Microsoft Auditorium. Students from different walks of life from Secondary Schools to Universities coming down together to hear from numerous speakers to share their knowledge and thoughts all revolving around the theme for this year’s conference - IDEA + ACTION. This year’s conference had aim to let students be able to explore and express how youths today see things and do things in their own special way. It also hopes to encourage students in putting their dreams into actions and make it happen! ...

On 9th November 2011, Microsoft Student Partners (MSP) have organised another awesome event – techfest @ Singapore Polytechnic. Making this the 1st ever Microsoft Techfest for IHLs in Singapore. In this event, we have over 1,000 students in Singapore Polytechnic attended and hear various representive from Microsoft. The team of MSPs decided to go all out on marketing effort from having posters with all around the school to distributing balloons at all the Food courts in Singapore Polytechnic. The entire school was filled with posters and balloon in lecture halls, walkways – practically any spot that you could think off! Students are also treated with music from Deejays, Kinects try-out, popcorn, candy floss etc. It’s just impossible to write those excitement and passion we felt on that day in words! ...