Editor's Note - July 2000

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Cure for the Summertime Blues: The Puzzler Returns
Upcoming Technical Chats
E-Commerce

Cure for the Summertime Blues: The Puzzler Returns

Puzzler aficionados are well aware of the grand round that ended at TechEd, where we gave away a BMW roadster. If you missed the excitement in person, you can experience the giveaway via the wonders of online technology. We really enjoyed meeting all of you who stopped by the booths at Windows World, Networld+Interop, and TechEd to play those rounds. At times there were long lines, and we especially appreciate your patience at TechEd, where the lines were gruesomely long for most of the show. But hey, your tricks with those TechNet yo-yos as you passed the time were mighty impressive.

Upcoming Technical Chats

We gather industry experts, PSS engineers, product engineers, and program managers to host our chats. Join us online this month for unusually scintillating conversation on the following topics:

IIS Monthly Chat - New Features and Benefits to IIS 5.0

Wednesday, July 12, 2000 10AM - 11AM PDT (18:00 - 19:00 GMT)

Windows 2000 Active Directory Q&A

Tuesday, July 18, 2000 10AM - 11AM PDT (18:00 - 19:00 GMT)

Windows 2000 Server and Professional

Tuesday, July 18, 2000 12PM PDT, 3PM Eastern (20:00 GMT)

Site Server Commerce Edition - Migration to Commerce Server 2000

Tuesday, July 25, 2000 10AM - 11AM PDT (18:00 - 19:00 GMT)

Data Warehousing on SQL Server

Wednesday, July 26, 2000 10AM - 11AM PDT (18:00 - 19:00 GMT)

Windows 2000 Active Directory Q&A

Tuesday, August 22, 2000 10AM - 11AM PDT (18:00 - 19:00 GMT)

We frequently add chats to our schedule. For the latest on our chat topics, transcripts of previous chats, as well as links on free training modules offered for the Exchange and Active Directory topics, see https://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/chats/default.mspx

E-Commerce

Over the next few weeks, we're publishing a couple dozen papers on e-commerce. You can see them all on our What's New page as they go live. Companion papers will be published on MSDN, and we'll post links to them, since many of you are interested in development topics.

On August 14th, we'll have a link to E-Commerce in our left nav, under Top IT Topics. Keep checking back to see what's new in this growing section, and let us know of topics you'd like to see on e-commerce.

As always, let me know your thoughts and ideas on how we can continue to make TechNet even better.

Tim McBride
Group Manager
Microsoft TechNet