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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.

The Windows Phone Marketplace have been ever growing since the date it was launch. In this growing bulk of application, we found many student developers who have come out with awesome applications. I am going to share one of the application, ToiletPaperGame application developed by Wong Kin Seng, one of our Microsoft Student Partners from Temasek Polytechnic. His application have recieved wonderful response from the users worldwide and to date, it have reach up to 1.9K download in just one month. Kin Seng shared with us on what inspired him and how easy was it to develop on Windows Phone 7. ...

Want to be part of the 1st ever TechFest in SP? Want to be part of an event filled with fun and laughter? Want to find out what’s next for technology? Come join us now at TechFest @ Singapore Polytechnic, where regional speakers will be sharing their point of views for the future. Our guest speakers include Ziriad Saibi, Director of Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE), Microsoft Singapore, and Vincent Quah, DPE Academic and New Markets Lead, Microsoft Asia Pacific. Hear from them first-hand. Join us now and stand a chance to win attractive prizes such as Xbox Kinect, Arc touch mouse and many more! This event is open to all Singapore Polytechnic Students, please register at http://bit.ly/sptechfest. For any enquiries, please contact the organising team via sp@student-partners.com.sg. Another event by Microsoft Student Partners Singapore

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.

Our first Microsoft TechDays Singapore held on 13 October 2011 attracted more than 1000 delegates! If you missed the event, do check out the highlights.We hope to see you in TechDays Singapore 2012. (you may register your interest here) TechDays Singapore 2011 highlights Keynote video Watch Ziriad Saibi’s keynote on Microsoft’s cloud story. Breakout sessions videos and slides Track 1: Infrastructure Self-Service Private Cloud Management through Integrated Processes with Service Manager 2012 Maarten Goet and Raju Chellam (Dell Singapore) The Future of Infrastructure Monitoring: A Look at Application Monitoring and SCOM 2012 Raymond Chou, Simon Skinner and Wong Poey Yong (NetApp Singapore) Configuration Manager 2012 Technical Overview Teh Wei King SCVMM 2012 Building of Private Clouds and Federation to the Public Cloud Lai Yoong Seng Automating your Infrastructure: Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 Technical Overview Kwan Thean Keong F5 Optimizations for Microsoft Platform Leslie Wong(F5 Networks) Track 2: Platform Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform Ryan Crawcour Cloud Management with System Center Application Controller Lai Yoong Seng Microsoft Exchange Server and Office 365: Hybrid Deployment Sanjeev Thakur and Ram Muthkaruppan SCDPM 2012: The new feature of data protection Mike Resseler How to Run Middleware in the Cloud? Story of Windows Azure AppFabric Hammad Rajjoub Simplified Infrastructure Solutions Thomas Chua (Hitachi Data Systems) Track 3: Application HTML5: All the Awesome Bits Michael Kordahi Mango, Mango! Developing for Windows Phone 7 Mingfei Yan Revealing WebMatrix 2.0 Beta – the Swiss Army Knife of Web Development Thye Yeow Bok OData with WCF Web APIs: “There’s a URI for That” Alvin Lau NUI, Gooey and Louie Michael Kordahi Revenue Generator Suite Niger Tan (aZaaS) Making your first step to the cloud? Go Private or go Public? Check out the resources that will take you there. Private cloud resources: http://weshipcode.com/private Public cloud resources: http://weshipcode.com/public

Michael Kordahi is an Evangelist for Microsoft Australia. He has a strong background in web development and now focuses on working with passionate early adopters of Microsoft’s emerging web technologies. A tech guy at heart, he lives on the corner of geek and thinker, where often, he rolls his sleeves up and makes stuff. A software industry aficionado… [more] [slideshare id=9875555&doc=mstechdays2011-html5alltheawesomebits-111025104808-phpapp01]

Mingfei Joined Singapore DPE team as a Developer Evangelist, responsible for driving excitement of Microsoft technologies to technical audiences in Singapore and worked with customers and partners to help them innovate and build cool stuff. She has many experiences with cloud computing, having showcase such as putting TVB Miss Hong Kong 2011… [more] [slideshare id=9875603&doc=mstechdays2011-mangomangodevelopingforwindowsphone7-111025105148-phpapp01]