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Is your field sales force chartered with growing the business in an increasingly competitive environment, as well as holding the line on operating costs? Mobile Sales Force Automation solutions based on the Microsoft Windows Mobile platform can help increase your sales team's productivity, and arm them with critical information where they need it the most - in the field. In this webcast we will examine the areas where mobile sales solutions can offer real business value, and the options for ext...

Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Driving Field Sales Productivity with Line of Business Solutions on the Windows Mobile Platform

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40% of application development projects are canceled before completion, and a third of the remaining projects are challenged by cost/time overruns. This webcast looks at the new features in Microsoft Project Standard 2003 that can help you avoid pitfalls and minimize IT project manager pains. Learn to use templates to set up projects quickly, track edits easily between different project versions, and import resource information from other applications. Find out how Project 2003 Standard can s...

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Successful Project Management in Information Technology (Level 100)

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This is the tenth webcast in the series entitled "Modern Software Development in .NET and C#", designed for Java, VB6 and C++ developers moving to .NET. This session explores the concept of inheritance and how to use it effectively. The discussion covers a range of topics including inheritance and "is-a", polymorphic programming, design reuse with abstract base classes, code reuse with concrete base classes, and inheritance in the FxCL using Collections and Exceptions. We also demonstrate how...

MSDN Webcast: Inheritance: Design and Code Reuse (Level 200)

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Learn about the process and business management components of secure coding practices and gain an understanding of Microsoft's vision for future secure software development solutions. This session will offer best practices for development within an organization's Application Security Assurance Program (ASAP), including an outline for launching an ASAP in your own enterprise. We will provide resources for developers to keep up-to-date on the latest secure coding techniques as well as updated inf...

MSDN Webcast: Developer €:tm:s Defense: Application Security Assurance Programs (ASAP) (Level 200)

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Since its release as part of Microsoft SQL Server 2000, SQL Server Reporting Services has evolved. This webcast is your opportunity to learn about the new capabilities and improvements to SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, including enhancements to performance and scalability, tighter integration with Microsoft Office and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, and new features like Report Builder for end user, self-service reporting. Developers will also benefit from closer integration with Micro...

TechNet Webcast: Overview of SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (Level 200)

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This webcast will contrast two of Microsoft's own hosted portal offerings: a high density shared hosting service and a dedicated customized portal service offering. The discussion will detail the business requirements for the service offerings, the technical details on implementation and execution, and finally discuss the realized value of our current service offering. Demos will be shown of both the enterprise central portal (MSWeb) and the Microsoft Sales Portal. Presenter: Scott St. Jean, S...

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Does SharePoint Portal Server Hosting. (Level 300)

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In part one of a three-part episode we lay out the options and terminology associated with Exchange migrations and interoperability. Once that is established, this presentation proceeds to discuss the tools and techniques to use, followed by a demonstration of the Exchange deployment tools. Presenter: Chris Henley, IT Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation Chris Henley is a member of the TechNet Seminar Sales Team, having worked in networking for the past 12 years. With experience emphasizing Wind...

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You have learned about networking and recovery options in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), now we will show you how to maintain your Windows desktop. This webcast will show you how to set up your Windows desktop for easy and quick reboots using the hibernation feature, and how to protect your files during a power outage.  Presenter: Ed Faulkner, Business Development Manager, Microsoft Corporation Ed Faulkner was formerly the IT director for the school district in Palo Alto, Californ...

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This series describes how identity management solutions can be used to create and manage user account information efficiently and securely across multiple systems within an enterprise. Having described the principles and concepts of Access Management in the first webcast, this presentation shows in more detail how to apply these principles and methods specifically to your organization's intranet, and how to apply them to an external network.    Presenter: Chris Avis, TechNet Presenter, Micr...

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Recorded April 19th, this webcast featured a demonstration of the Visio Connector for Microsoft's Baseline Security Analyzer and Orbus Software's iServer for Visio   Visimation Visimation, who partnered with Microsoft to develop the  MBSA Connector for Visio, demonstrated how this tool enhances the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer by displaying scan results on network diagrams.   Orbus Software iServer for Visio allows teams working on business process management, network design or ot...

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Recorded April 19th, this webcast featured a demonstration of the Visio Connector for Microsoft's Baseline Security Analyzer and Orbus Software's iServer for Visio   Visimation Visimation, who partnered with Microsoft to develop the  MBSA Connector for Visio, demonstrated how this tool enhances the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer by displaying scan results on network diagrams.   Orbus Software iServer for Visio allows teams working on business process management, network design or ot...

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In an ideal world it would be possible to produce failure free commercial software but, unfortunately, there is no known development process and or language that can guarantee such software. To improve the overall quality of the Microsoft Windows operating system, analysis has been performed to understand which attributes (size, complexity, churn, etc.) have the greatest impact on subsequent product quality. Based on this analysis, a model has been developed to estimate the risks associated w...

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Are you using managed or unmanaged code or perhaps a combination of the two? Do you write your own safe arithmetic functions? In part three of this three-part webcast series, we will focus on the need for secure code; defending against Memory Issues and Arithmetic Errors. We will discuss defending against arithmetic errors such as underflows and overflows, another concern for developers, will also be covered in the final part of this three-part series.  Presenter: Mike Benkovich, Developer Com...

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Facilitate enterprise application integration (EAI) within your organization and between business partners to automate business-to-business processes using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004.  Join this webcast as we look at EAI technologies and how they can help you efficiently and effectively integrate systems, enabling them to automate and orchestrate interactions in a highly flexible manner.  A new feature of BizTalk Server 2004 is Application Integration; we will look at Maps and the BizTalk Ma...

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Explore the features and terminology of the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 and .NET programming languages.  This series offers techniques you can use to help secure, deploy, and update .NET applications.  This webcast presents a general overview of key .NET concepts, and focuses on deployment topics such as historical deployment problems and no-touch deployment. The next webcast will look at approaches to security and application updating.    Presenter: Russ Fustino, MSDN Developer Community ...

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Remember the good old days of Y2K? If you're like some Microsoft Office users, the year 2000 is alive and well in your favorite productivity applications. Let go of the past and step into a whole new era of workplace computing. The capabilities of Microsoft Office Word 2003 go well beyond what was possible in Microsoft Office Word 2000.   Join us for this informative webcast and learn how Word 2003 goes beyond Word 2000, taking customer experience and feedback to deliver innovations you can...

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Create and deploy business policies and rules using the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Business Rules Engine (BRE).  Beginning with an examination of the Rules Engine architecture and we will show how BRE integrates with and complements orchestration. Learn how to create vocabulary definitions against XML, DB and .NET objects, and how to test and publish effective policies using the policy testing tools. The webcast also covers language converters, fact retrievers, and rule set interceptors, a...

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Maintain tight control over strategic direction, support resources effectively, and ensure that projects are completed on time and within budget.  Join us for this webcast and learn how Microsoft Business Solutions Project Accounting  and Project Time and Expense, connect project activities with company financials, provide extensive reporting capabilities, help ensure accurate accounting and billing processes throughout project life-cycle, and streamlines time and expense management allowing yo...

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Does your organization still manually answer the phone to reset forgotten passwords, losing between $15 and $30 per incident according to industry analysts? Switching to a telephony-based self-service solution lowers this cost dramatically, freeing up your people to do better things. Until recently, switching to telephony-bases self-service was complicated. Now, however, Microsoft Speech Server, a member of the Windows Server System, integrates telephony-based speech recognition with your IT in...

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Your business success depends on connecting and sharing information with your colleagues, partners and customers.  Find out how Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2005 can help you work together more effectively with teams - without leaving your desk.  We will show you how Live Meeting facilitates project management, brainstorming and collaboration, and steps you can take to make your team meetings even more productive and cost-effective.  Presenter: Joelle Thompson, Business Development Manager, M...

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This webcast continues to track the processes of the Security Risk Management Guide, designed by Microsoft to help organizations establish a process for risk assessment, cost benefit analysis, and implementation of security countermeasures. This webcast provides detailed information on performing a complete Risk Assessment process at your organization, tying in best practices from both the industry as well as Microsoft's internal IT Group.    Presenter: Kai Axford, Security Specialist, Micr...

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While it would be easy to use simple metrics to assess project management performance, this approach limits an organization's ability to align enterprise projects accurately with corporate goals, values and performance. This webcast examines how AAA of Northern California utilized a highly successful portfolio management approach that involved establishing a project governance process that ties the project portfolio to business goals, and implementing portfolio management software from ProSight...

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SQL Server includes a suite of replication technologies that enable a wide range of distributed database applications. SQL Server 2005 introduces a few new scenarios including Web synchronization of merge replication for mobile and distributed data applications, Oracle publishing for integration with Oracle databases, and peer-to-peer replication. In this final webcast in our ten-part series, learn how you can benefit from these scenarios with an enhanced ability to monitor the entire distribut...

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To gain the competitive edge, organizations need to realize significant product development efficiencies. Immedient's Collaborative Product Development (CPD) Solution supports efficient product development across the entire organization, while enabling a holistic view of both the product life cycle and product design process. With visibility into the portfolio of product development initiatives throughout the organization, the solution provides management insight and control to gain a competi...

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Building upon the previous webcasts on how to secure your enterprise's network perimeter with Internet Security Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004, this final webcast will demonstrate how ISA Server 2004 can enhance security for external-facing resources such as Exchange Server or Internet Information Services.  We will show how ISA Server can operate as a virtual private networking server for more secure remote access to the internal network.    Presenter: John Baker, TechNet Presenter, Micros...

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One strategy for improving code quality is to utilize static code analyzers that can identify potential code defects early in the development process. The earlier a bug is identified, the less it costs to fix it. This webcast focuses on Microsoft code analysis tools and the changes these tools have brought internally to the company. The discussion includes experiences of Microsoft product teams, changes brought about to the Microsoft development process, and the path code analysis and other r...

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While migration to a newer platform is recommended, many customers have key business applications that run only on legacy operating systems. This first of three presentations about mitigating threats to legacy systems provides prescriptive information on hardening Windows NT networks, with the goal to reduce the risk of Windows NT systems as much as possible.    Presenter: Harold Wong, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation   Harold Wong is a senior technology specialist with the TechNe...

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The Microsoft Small Business Center is truly the one place all small businesses should visit. It offers important information to help run your business including how to begin marketing your business online to increase sales and awareness of your products or services. Join this webcast as the Microsoft Small Business Web Director takes you through what this valuable resource has to offer.  Presenter: Frederick DeWulf, US Small Business Web Director, Microsoft Corporation Frederick DeWulf is th...

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In today's collaborative and mobile environment, access to a company's digital assets no longer ends at the edge of the company network. Partners, vendors, and employees all may have access to your company network. On this month's Security360, host Mike Nash discusses how you can manage security access rights in your organization. Learn more about the process of authentication, authorization, and audit and reduce the complexity of your digital identity life cycle. As with every Security360, thi...

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Microsoft Office Word is one of the most used software applications in the small business world.  In the previous webcast you learned how to collaborate with others using Word, building on this you will now learn how to format documents, protect the formatting and distribute your documents for use in your organization.  Presenter: Greg Randall, Business Development Manager, Microsoft Corporation Greg Randall joined Microsoft in 2001 as a business development manager on the Microsoft Across Am...

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For most not-for-profits, fund-raising is the lifeblood of the organization. Serenic Navigator, powered by Microsoft Business Solutions—Navision, fully integrates a complete Constituent Management application into its world-class general ledger. Constituent Management is the fund-raising solution you've been looking for, allowing you to maintain complete control of donors, pledges and receipts, eliminating duplicate entry and providing a seamless interface between accounting and development ope...

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Most Lotus Notes and Domino users can benefit from integrating and/or extending these applications to Microsoft technologies. This session shows how to use CASAHL tools to identify potential improvements and to implement them in the Lotus Notes environment. CASAHL ecKnowledge is a wizard-based tool to integrate and extend Lotus Notes applications to Microsoft products and to other enterprise applications such as SAP R/3. Join this webcast to learn how you can use CASAHL ecKnowledge to integrate...

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Are your field service and engineering teams being asked to increase customer satisfaction and increase utilization and productivity? Mobile Field Force solutions based on the Microsoft Windows Mobile platform can help drive customer satisfaction and productivity by providing the right customer and work order information where and when it is needed. In this webcast we'll examine the areas where mobile field force solutions can offer real business value, and the options for extending your corpor...

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Developers and IT organizations face a multitude of challenges in maintaining a healthy Access database ecosystem. Join this session to review tools and strategies for managing shared database applications in multi-user environment. We will also discuss recommended usage scenarios for Access, and when to consider a move to SQL Server, including options available to help make for a successful migration. Presenter: Zac Woodall, Program Manager, Office Data and BI, Microsoft Corporation Zac Wood...

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Learn how Microsoft's own IT organization manages Group Policies across Microsoft Corporation's own internal Active Directory Forest. In this webcast IT professionals from Microsoft will give a brief overview of its Managed Active Directory environment, discuss some of the challenges faced today, and conclude with recommendations for what you can do to manage GPOs in a large enterprise. Presenter: Odin Anderson, Microsoft IT Sr. Technologist, Microsoft Corporation To avoid possible problems, ...

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Now that you're committed to preparing the destination for full application support, join this second episode which discusses and demonstrates the use of Virtual Server as a tool to allow LOB applications to continue operation in the absence of support in the Windows 2003 environment. Presenter: Chris Henley, IT Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation Chris Henley is a member of the TechNet Seminar Sales Team, having worked in networking for the past 12 years. With experience emphasizing Windows Ne...

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Are you seeking ways to reduce costs for your business? Would you like to connect more efficiently with customers and partners while reducing travel to and from off-site meetings? Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2005 can help you and your employees run and participate in interactive meetings with remote teams, prospects, customers, partners,  and colleagues, across town or across the country-in real time and at a moment's notice. Join this webcast on Live Meeting 2005 and learn how it can provide...

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Does user input help you to build your SQL statements? If so, you may be a victim of SQL injection. This is just one of the many items we will discuss in part two of this three-part series. In this webcast, you will learn established best practices for applying security principles throughout the development process. Join us to learn effective strategies for defending common security threats such as buffer overruns, cross-site scripting, SQL injection, and denial of service attacks.  Presenter:...

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Want to get a better understanding of the basic concepts of Microsoft Active Directory?  Join this webcast as we explain the logical concepts as they relate to domain, trees and forests and the physical concepts of domain controllers and sites.  You will also come away with a better understanding of the relationship between the Active Directory and Domain Name System, and why it is important to you.  We will conclude with an examination of the operation functions such as replication-inter-site ...

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Database mirroring is a new technology in SQL Server 2005 that provides very fast, automatic failover to a standby system.  In part nine of this series we examine this new enhancement in detail, and will show you how to configure and use it. Presenter:  Bryan Von Axelson, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation Bryan Von Axelson joined the SST Team last September as a TechNet Presenter. Before that, Bryan consulted for the last seven years throughout the Midwest and Western United States, ta...

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DotNetNuke (DNN) is a highly dynamic, stand-alone open source Microsoft ASP.NET portal application. Building on the DNN architectural overview and summary of the new features in custom module development for DNN v3 covered in part four, this webcast teaches you the basics of creating your own custom modules for DotNetNuke. Learn how to set up the Microsoft Visual Studio development environment, create the database objects, structure your user controls, and package and deploy your custom m...

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This series describes how identity management solutions can be used to create and manage user account information efficiently and securely across multiple systems within an enterprise. In this first webcast you will see how identity information may be shared and synchronized even when distributed across several different locations. The webcast will also show how access management solutions can help to ensure that user accounts are granted the appropriate access to resources across different s...

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Sales organizations are under intense pressure to accomplish challenging sales goals in highly competitive markets. To succeed, companies need to arm their sales staff with the ability to respond effectively to more customers in less time. Join this 30-minute webcast to learn how a portal solution can help your sales team quickly and easily access key customer information. We will show you how to shorten a critical stage of the sales cycle by collaborating across an organization to create more ...

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Remember the good old days of Y2K?  For you, and other Microsoft Office users, the year 2000 is alive and well in your favorite productivity applications. Let go of the past and step into a whole new era of workplace computing with tips and tricks for the Microsoft Office System. Discover a new world of possibilities in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003.   This webcast will highlight how Outlook 2003 surpasses Microsoft Office Outlook 2000 by delivering innovations you can use to manage your ...

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Service-Oriented Architecture represents a new style of software development architecture, design and implementation. In this webcast we will cover four principles which guide the architecture, three patterns for SOA and two anti-patterns which represent common mistakes that you should avoid.    Presenter: Ron Jacobs, Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation   To avoid possible problems, we suggest you temporarily disable pop-up blocker software before viewing the webcast.       Questio...

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After briefly touching on graphics in the previous webcast, the fourth webcast in this series will focus on a specific graphical element called "sprites."  Many games utilize sprites for everything from characters to game meters. This portion of the series looks at how the creation and implementation of animated sprites are incorporated into the game project, including background art production, view ports, definition of frames, frame delay, transparency, and alpha-blending. We then apply the...

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Define and change business rules without recompiling or restarting your application.  The Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Business Rules Engine (BRE) provides a new framework enabling the implementation, deployment, and versioning of your solution's business logic in an agile and extensible manner. This webcast focuses on the most effective ways to incorporate BRE in your BizTalk solutions. You will learn tips, tricks, and best practices for developing, testing, deploying and maintaining BRE ru...

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When it comes to financial management for state or local government agencies, you need a consistent and flexible infrastructure that can meet regulatory compliance and doesn't require months of training to implement. That's where Microsoft Business Solutions-Great Plains comes in. From sharing information across multiple departments to providing auditors with budget transaction information, Great Plains is effortlessly controlled, easily automated, and integrates tightly into existing systems. ...

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Previously we discussed how to connect a network and other network essentials you need for your small business.  This webcast will continue with some of the tools Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) provides for recovery options.  We will create system recovery points and establish backup policies that will help protect your data. We also discuss the automated system recovery and Windows backup tools built into Windows XP.   Presenters:Greg Boyd, Business Development Manager, Microsoft C...

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