Monday, February 21, 2011

Microsoft Video - A Sustainable Future

A Day Made of Glass... Made possible

 

FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search training courses provide a series of hands-on labs, presentations, and videos that demonstrate how to enable high-end enterprise search with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 for Search and Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search IT Professional Training
Learn about deployment, administration, maintenance, and about crawling and indexing content, and defining the user experience.

SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search Developer Training
Learn about crawling and indexing content and defining the user experience. By completing these modules, you can build most of the Contoso Research Demo and gain a broad understanding of how to apply these design principles to your site

Friday, February 18, 2011

Microsoft Cloud Certifications and Training

Business is moving to the cloud. According to IDC predictions for 2011, 80% of new software will be available as cloud services; by 2014, over one-third of software purchases will be delivered through the cloud.* To keep pace with their customers and employers, most IT professionals and developers will require additional skills. If you’re ready for the challenge, Microsoft is ready to help. Our new training courses will help you acquire the skills you need for success, and our new certifications will help you prove your knowledge and skills to employers and customers.

Goal
Certification Paths
Certification Availability
Required Exams
Get Training

Platform

as a Service

Build your skills

MCPD: Web Developer 4 Earning the MCPD: Web Developer 4 certification will help you gain core web development skills and better prepare you to develop for the cloud. It is not required to pursue the MCPD: Windows Azure Developer certification.

Available now

70-513, 70-515,

70-516, and 70-519

Visual Studio Training Portal

OR

MCPD: Windows Developer 4 Earning the MCPD: Windows Developer 4 certification will help you gain core Windows development skills and better prepare you to develop for the cloud. It is not required to pursue the MCPD: Windows Azure Developer certification.

Available now

70-511, 70-513,

70-516, and 70-518

Visual Studio Training Portal

Obtain new

skills

MCPD: Windows Azure Developer Show employers and clients that you are ready to support the move to cloud services by earning the MCPD: Windows Azure Developer certification. This certification validates your ability to design, build, and deploy cloud-based applications for hosting on the Windows Azure platform.

New! Available now

70-513, 70-516, and 70-583

Windows Azure Training Portal

Infrastructure

as a Service

Build your skills

MCITP: Server Administrator Earning the MCITP: Server Administrator certification will help you gain core Windows Server skills and better prepare you to support a cloud infrastructure. It is not required to pursue the MCITP: Virtualization Administrator certification.

Available now

70-640, 70-642, and 70-646

Windows Server Training Portal

Obtain new skills

MCITP: Virtualization Administrator Get ready for private cloud by earning your MCITP: Virtualization Administrator certification. This certification validates your knowledge and skills in designing and deploying virtualization solutions when using Windows Server 2008 R2 in an enterprise organization.

Available now

70-669 and 70-693

plus either

70-659 or 70-652

Virtualization Training Portal

Software

as a Service

Build your skills

MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator 20101 Demonstrate your professional messaging expertise by earning the MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator certification. Updates to include cloud-related skills coming soon.

Available now—

Updates coming soon

70-662 and 70-663

Exchange Server Training Portal

OR

MCITP: SharePoint Administrator 20102

Demonstrate your SharePoint 2010 administration skills. Updates to include cloud-related skills coming soon.

Available now—

Updates coming soon

70-667 and 70-668

SharePoint Training Portal

OR

Dynamics CRM 2011 Certifications3 New certifications will cover relevant skills for both cloud and on premise implementations of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. Certifications include Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Applications and Microsoft Dynamics 2011 Customization and Configuration. 

Coming soon

Access Dynamics Customer site or Partner site for more information

Dynamics CRM training

Obtain new skills

MCITP: Lync Server 2010 Administrator4 This certification shows that you have the skills to deploy and configure Lync Server 2010, an integral part of the Microsoft SaaS offering—Office 365.

Coming soon

70-664

and

70-665

Course 10533A

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Course 10534A

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Cannot start service SPUserCodeV4 on computer

Error occurred in deployment step 'Retract Solution': Cannot start service SPUserCodeV4 on computer 'SHAREPOINT'.

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You can do the following steps to resolve it.

1. Go to Central Administration

2. Open "System Settings"

3. Open "Manage services on server"

4. Locate the service “Microsoft SharePoint Foundation User Code Service”

5. Start the service  “Microsoft SharePoint Foundation User Code Service”

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/is/sharepoint2010general/thread/2af4352a-7379-44c8-99e3-0a33ed1a1db1

Monday, January 17, 2011

AzureUG.SG Meeting at 26th Jan 2011

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Date : 26th Jan 2011

Location : Microsoft Singapore   Level 21 Auditorium

Time : 7:00pm to 9:30pm

Session Agenda

Building, deploying, and managing Windows Azure Applications

Wely, Solution Architect (Azure MVP)  - NCS (P) Ltd.

In order to take full advantage of Windows Azure Platform, you need to know more than just how to write the code. You need to know how to incorporate your application in a team environment, deploy, monitor, manage and retrieve diagnostic information back from the cloud. In this session, you will learn everything you need to know to be successful with a project that utilizes Windows Azure Platform including setting up your development environment, automating build, and deployments to different deployment environments from staging to production, and managing credentials and user roles using the Windows Azure Portal. You will also learn how to use the Windows Azure Portal to monitor and manage your application to discovers issues and how to use diagnostics and Remote Desktop to monitor and resolve those issues

Exploring Windows Azure Storage

K.Mohamed Faizal, Lead Consultant - NCS (P) Ltd.

In this session, you will learn the persistence storage services offered by Windows Azure, called Windows Azure Storage. Windows Azure Storage consists of Tables for storing tabular data, Blobs for storing large binary data, and Queue for asynchronous processing.

Please RSVP to confirm your registration and attendance by 25 Jan 2011. ( kmdfaizal@gmail.com )  No email response will be sent for your registration.

Friday, January 14, 2011

Azure Hands on Labs

I am happy that we are one of the early group tried and given feedback on these HOL.

Moving Applications to the Cloud – Hands on Labs

This series of Hands-On Labs is related to the guide "Moving Applications to the Cloud on the Microsoft Windows Azure™ Platform" available from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff728592.aspx

The individual labs correlate with the chapters of the guide, and demonstrate or expand upon the techniques shown in the guide. The Labs are designed to enhance your understanding of the Windows Azure platform through practical, hands-on work with the complete, sample a Expense application developed by the fictitious Adatum company Moving Applications to the Cloud – Hands on Labs

Developing Applications for the Cloud – Hands on Labs

This series of Hands-On Labs is related to the guide "Developing Applications for the Cloud on the Microsoft Windows Azure™ Platform" available from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff966499.aspx.  

The individual labs correlate with the chapters of the guide, and demonstrate or expand upon the techniques shown in the guide. The Labs are designed to enhance your understanding of the Windows Azure platform through practical, hands-on work with the complete, sample Surveys application developed by the fictitious Tailspin company.