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- IT Showcase On: Microsoft
IT's Hybrid Cloud Strategy (Published March 13, 2013)
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How CIOs Can Benefit from Cloud Computing - Part 2 (Published October 02, 2012)
- Using New Features found within SQL Server 2012 (Published October 02, 2012)
- Using Public and Private Cloud Services to Better IT Operations (Published October 02, 2012)
- Transforming the Microsoft Workplace in Singapore (Published September 12, 2012)
- Building Reliable Background Processes for a Business Critical Application with Windows Azure (Published: July 17, 2012)
- Operations Managers Discuss How Microsoft IT Integrated Cloud Solutions (Published June 14, 2012)
- Microsoft CIO Discusses Transforming IT with Cloud Services - Part 1 (Published May 11, 2012)
- Microsoft CIO Discusses Transforming IT with Cloud Services - Part 2 (Published May 11, 2012)
- User-Centric Client Management with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager in Microsoft IT (Published April 20, 2012)
- Microsoft IT Integrates Windows Azure BLOB Storage for Real-time Document Management (Published: May 11, 2012)
- IT Showcase On: Adopting Cloud Services at Microsoft (Published April 03, 2012)
- How Customers Are Thinking and Acting with the Cloud (Video published January 14, 2011)
- How Microsoft IT is Moving to the Cloud to Meet and Exceed the Needs of the Business (TechNet Radio published October 26, 2011)
- Measuring and Driving Microsoft IT Using Microsoft BI Solutions (Published September 30, 2011)
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Migrating the Microsoft Hong Kong Company Store to Windows Azure Simplifies
Maintenance and Decreases Costs (Published July 06, 2011)
- How Microsoft IT Manages Project and Portfolio Management (Published June 30, 2011)
- How Microsoft IT Built Application Segmentation and Migration Strategies for the Cloud (TechNet Radio published April 01, 2011)
- Cloud Driven IVR (Published March 21, 2011)
- How Microsoft IT is Using SQL Azure to Enable Self-Service BI (TechNet Radio published March 17, 2011)
- Microsoft IT Developing Applications with Microsoft Azure (TechNet Radio published March 17, 2011)
- Delivering Data as a Service from the SQL Azure (Cloud) and self-service BI at Microsoft (Published March 01, 2011)
- How Customers Are Thinking and Acting with the Cloud (TechNet Radio published February 28, 2011)
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Microsoft IT’s Lessons Learned: Moving Applications to the Cloud
(Published January 20, 2011)
- How Microsoft IT Built Application Segmentation and Migration Strategies for the Cloud (Video published January 14, 2011)
- How Microsoft IT is Using SQL Azure to Enable Self-Service BI (Video published January 14, 2011)
- Microsoft IT Developing Applications with Microsoft Azure (Video published January 14, 2011)
- Microsoft IT Accelerates Migration of Microsoft.com to the Windows Azure Platform (Published September 02, 2010)
SQL Server 2012
SQL Server 11
SQL Server 2008 R2
- Using New Features found within SQL Server 2012 (Published October 02, 2012)
- Using Public and Private Cloud Services to Better IT Operations (Published October 02, 2012)
- Designing & Maintaining SQL Server Transactional Replication Environments (Updated June 21, 2012)
- How Microsoft IT Runs Private Cloud (Published May 30, 2012)
- SQL Data Compression Provides Improved Performance and Capacity Management (Published May 11, 2012)
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Inside Microsoft IT - Implementing Disaster Recovery in the Datacenter
(Published April 23, 2012)
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How Microsoft IT Centralized Disaster Recovery in the Datacenter
(Published April 13, 2012)
- IT Showcase On: Business Intelligence (BI) (Published December 12, 2011)
- How
Microsoft IT Centralized Disaster Recovery (Published December 12, 2011)
- Enabling Self Service BI from EDW using SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2 (Updated October 04, 2011)
- Measuring and Driving Microsoft IT Using Microsoft BI Solutions (Published September 30, 2011)
- Developing a Strategy to Simplify Planning and Improve Performance and Reliability (Updated September 22, 2011)
- How Microsoft IT Implemented Disaster Recovery in the Datacenter (Published June 09, 2011)
- Microsoft Deploys Innovative Solution That Reports Near-Real-Time Data (Published June 07, 2011)
- New FAST Search Solution Speeds Retrieval of Relevant BI Data (Published May 09, 2011)
- Microsoft IT CIO Office Scorecards – Delivering Dashboards from KPI Catalog to the Masses (Video published May 04, 2011)
- Creating Scorecards to Report Organizational Rhythm of Business (Published April 01, 2011)
- Enterprise Scale Clickstream Analysis Running on SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse (Published December 10, 2010)
- Deploying SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse at Microsoft (Published November 05, 2010)
- SQL Server 2008 R2 Improves Performance and Flexibility of Microsoft.com Data-Analysis Solution (Published July 01, 2010)
- Automated Data Quality Checks Using SQL Server and Visual Studio (Published June 29, 2010)
- Enterprise Data Warehouse: A Patterns Approach to Data Integration (Published May 26, 2010)
SQL Server 2008
- How Microsoft IT is Moving to the Cloud to Meet and Exceed the Needs of the Business (TechNet Radio published October 26, 2011)
- Maintaining High Availability for Microsoft.com (Updated October 26, 2011)
- Dynamics CRM in Microsoft IT (Published May 04, 2011)
- Microsoft IT CIO Office Scorecards – Delivering Dashboards from KPI Catalog to the Masses (IT Pro Webcast published March 22, 2011)
- Realizing Performance Improvements Using 64-bit SQL Server 2008 (Published February 25, 2011)
- Delivering Revenue Reports Faster and Reducing Costs by Automating Business Rules (Published December 10, 2010)
- Reducing the Costs of Enterprise Data Warehouse Creation and Data Acquisition (Published November 15, 2010)
- Microsoft IT's Top 10 SQL Server 2008 Features (Published June 11, 2010)
- Enterprise Data Warehouse: A Patterns Approach to Data Integration (Published May 26, 2010)
- Centralizing and Sharing Business Intelligence (Updated February 09, 2010)
- Microsoft Consolidated Business Intelligence Portal Lowers Costs (Updated November 24, 2009)
- Data administration of Business Rules Providing A Great Connected Systems Experience (Published November 09, 2009)
- Microsoft IT Business Case for the Global Sales Experience, Powered by Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Updated September 25, 2009)
- CIO Scorecard Fosters Strategic Performance Management Culture (Updated September 11, 2009)
- Accelerating Microsoft adCenter with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services (Published August 13, 2009)
- Relationship Management at Microsoft (Published June 16, 2009)
- How Microsoft IT Manages Vendor Development Projects (Published June 08, 2009)
- Deploying 10-Terabyte Enterprise Data Warehouse using SQL Server 2008 (Published April 21, 2009)
- Upgrading a 6.5-Terabyte SAP ERP SQL Server Database to Support Microsoft Worldwide Operations (Published April 21, 2009)
- SQL Server Consolidation at Microsoft (Updated April 02, 2009)
- Securing the Microsoft Desktop Environment using Patch Management (Published February 23, 2009)
- Microsoft IT Design Patterns used to Deliver Agile Business Intelligence Solutions for Microsoft Executives (Published November 19, 2008)
- Strategies for Adopting New Technology (Published October 20, 2008)
- How Microsoft IT Upgraded a Multi-Terabyte Database from Yukon to Katmai (Published August 20, 2008)
- How Microsoft IT Leverages SQL Server 2008 SSIS Data Flow Enhancements (Published May 26, 2008)
SQL Server 2005
- Rapid Deployment of Applications on the Microsoft Extranet (Updated July 01, 2009)
- MS IT Enterprise SharePoint Performance and Optimization (Published September 10, 2008)
- Physical Security at Microsoft (Updated July 31, 2008)
- Innovative Management Reporting: The Microsoft COREFinance Initiative (Published June 04, 2008)
- SQL Server 2005 Powers Global Forensic Data Security Tool (Updated November 19, 2007)
- Improving Performance When Converting SAP Data to Unicode at Microsoft (Published October 25, 2007)
- Managing Line of Business Applications using Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Published March 19, 2007)
- 2007 Microsoft Office System Service Management (Published January 31, 2007)
- Deploying Data Protection Manager at Microsoft (Updated April 17, 2006)
- How Microsoft IT Deploys Customer Data Protection Scenarios with DPM (Published June 14, 2005)
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