TechNet Flash India: Announcing Windows Intune & Microsoft Virtual Academy

 

Sign up for other newsletters  |  Unsubscribe  |  Update your profile Volume: 1, Issue: 08 - April 01, 2011 A Fortnightly Magazine for IT Professionals Dear Friends, What an amazing Tech.Ed 2011 it was in Bangalore last week! We had more than 3000 attendees on site and over 100,000 watching it live online. Besides this mega scale there were more than 100 speakers/experts from Microsoft and the industry sharing their wisdom with the gathered collection of IT Pros. If you missed the excitement, do watch out for the online version of the sessions coming to you soon. This Tech.Ed saw a slew of announcements for India, IE 9, Windows Intune and of course the most relevant for IT Pros being the Microsoft Virtual Academy. » Windows Intune helps manage and secure your PCs from anywhere. The Windows Intune cloud service helps you centrally manage and secure your PCs thru a simple, Web based console-whether your IT staff or end users are in the main office, at a branch office, or on the road. » The best Windows experience. Standardizing your PC environment provides a better experience for your workforce and an easier environment for you to manage. With your subscription to Windows Intune you can upgrade to the Windows 7 Enterprise operating system or run a prior release-it’s your choice. » Fits your business. Because Windows Intune is a cloud service hosted by Microsoft, you don’t have the overhead of maintaining on-site PC management servers and software-so you get "big tech" results with a small tech investment and minimal overhead. And it offers a predictable, monthly payment cycle that helps your business more accurately forecast expenditures. Learn more about Windows Intune and sign up for your 30-day trial at www.windowsintune.in Launched at Tech.Ed 2011 for India, Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) offers no-cost training for IT professionals with 100 and 200-level content. It takes you right to the heart of the latest advances in cloud computing, guiding you through real-life deployment scenarios and the latest technologies and tools. The academy will provide content tracks and progress tracking using a points and rewards system and send you to relevant official Microsoft certification offerings to further enhance your technical qualifications. Microsoft is one of the few companies providing at-no-cost training to IT professionals to advance their careers by building their public/private cloud skills and knowledge. By selecting the course that matches your needs, IT professionals can accumulate training points and earn valuable recognition amongst fellow IT professionals and build the necessary skills to grow in their role and career with Microsoft technologies within their own organizations. Do check out the academy today!! Many thanks and happy reading.. Chinmaya Saxena IT Pro Audience Marketing Manager Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt. Ltd.         Share this newsletter Subscribe to the TechNet Flash Visit our website SQL Server Wait Types and Queues by Pinal Dave, Technology Evangelist Performance is always the most important aspect of the any application. Every organization wants to keep their server tuned and every administrator wants to keep the knowledge of the performance tuning under the hood. SQL Server 2008 Performance Tuning using the Waits and Queues is a proven methodology that allows one to identify the best opportunities to improve performance. 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