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What to look for at the PASS Community Summit 2008

The PASS Community Summit 2008 is the single largest gathering of Microsoft SQL Server professionals in the world, bringing together the entire community - from the brightest and the best, to the newest SQL Server users. Attendees receive top-rated industry advice and expertise on the best ways to develop, deploy and manage their entire SQL Server environment and will walk away with an in-depth and hands-on look at all things SQL Server.  SQL CAT’s Paul Mestemaker talks with SQL Marketing Manager Roni Karassik to find out what to look for at this exciting conference.

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What's New in the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR?

This TechNet Radio session features an overview that highlights the new features and architectural changes in the VSTS 2008 Database Edition GDR.  We also have our Tip of the Week.

Length: 0:26:55

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Performance Improvements in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services

On this episode of TechNet Radio, we’ll be discussing the performance improvements in SQL Server Analysis Services, the architecture behind it, what people should expect and potential gotchas.  We will also feature our first installment of a new segment on TechNet Radio – our “Tip of the Week.”  Listen in for a special promo code for the upcoming SQL PASS Community Summit.

Length: 0:25:00

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How Microsoft IT upgraded a multi-terabyte database from Yukon to Katmai

Learn how Microsoft IT upgraded ICE 3.0, which is a 30-terabyte database, from SQL Server 2005 to a pre-release version of SQL Server 2008, code named Katmai. ICE, which stands for Information Security Consolidated Event Management System, is used by the Microsoft Information Security team to analyze network utilization events captured by various sources including over 100 proxy servers, Mail servers, Net logon servers, etc.  The ICE database processes approximately 1TB of log data each day and has become a key component in the incident response process as well as forensics investigations.

The upgrade was part of Microsoft's internal Technology Adoption Program (TAP) for Katmai. The upgrade helped Microsoft become its first and best customer by using the product internally before releasing it to the outside world. Upgrading the database to Katmai enabled the Katmai product team to flush more bugs out of the product and ensure that the product will perform as intended. Hear how the multi-terabyte database upgrade was planned, tested and implemented without a database backup by following a structured, organized and methodical approach.

Length: 0:28:11

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How Microsoft Does IT: Operations Dashboard

This episode of TechNet Radio discusses how Microsoft IT’s Business Intelligence Center of Excellence built a reporting and scorecard Operations Dashboard solution that is used to monitor the health of various applications in sustenance mode. Now, technical and business decision makers have a holistic view of every application’s day-to-day status, offline durations, Service Level Agreement breaches, success rates, job failures and data freshness.

Length: 0:15:10

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What’s new with Zune

On this episode of TechNet Radio, we learn about some of the exciting new features in Zune.  We talk with Rob Greenlee, Zune’s Podcast Programming Lead, about support for wireless, recommended video encoding specifications and where Zune is headed in the future.

Length: 0:21:27

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Persistent Group Chat

In this episode of TechNet Radio, Kevin Remde talks with Ken Ewert about what’s new in Persistent Group Chat.  Persistent Group Chat is a part of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007.  In Persistent Group Chat, attendees can enter and exit a chat room and information remains persistent over time, which allows users to revisit a thread later to pick up information they might have missed, or use as a reference.  Listen in to hear about the exciting new features of this product

Length: 0:21:30

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What’s new in IE8

In this episode of TechNet Radio, Internet Explorer Program Manager Jane Maliouta answers questions about what’s new in IE8 for consumers, businesses and web developers.

Length: 0:25:19

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Hyper-V

In this episode of TechNet Radio, we learn about Hyper-V with Senior Product Managers Rajiv Arunkundram and Arun Jayendran.  We also have our July 2008 Security Bulletin.

Length: 0:31:37

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Deploying Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 from a Customer Perspective

In this episode of TechNet Radio, we learn about the deployment of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS).  Kevin Remde talks with Jacob Thornberry of Brooks Stevens about his recent rollout of Office Communications Server 2007.

Length: 0:19:41

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Microsoft Forefront Client Security

Listen to this episode of TechNet Radio and learn more about Microsoft Forefront Client Security. We discuss how Forefront Client Security improves overall performance and also talk about support for Hyper-V.

Length: 0:18:11

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NAP Deployment from a Customer Perspective

Hear Microsoft customers talk about how they deployed Network Access Protection (NAP) within their organizations. In this TechNet Radio session, Kevin Remde and Jeff Sigman talk with Chris Boscolo of Napera Networks, Alex Chalmers of Ball State University, and Pattabhi Attaluri of Avenda Systems.

Length: 0:32:00

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Microsoft Forefront Codename “Stirling” Overview (Part 2 of 2)

In the second part of our overview on Microsoft Forefront codename “Stirling,” we cover the next-generation versions of Forefront Client Security, Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for SharePoint, and Microsoft Internet Security & Acceleration Server (ISA), which is to be renamed the Forefront Threat Management Gateway.  We also have our June 2008 Security Bulletin.

Length: 0:26:15

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Microsoft Forefront Codename “Stirling” Overview (Part 1 of 2)

Microsoft Forefront codename “Stirling” is an integrated security system that delivers comprehensive, coordinated protection across endpoints, messaging, and collaboration applications. It also provide the network edge that is easier to manage and control. By delivering simplified management and providing critical visibility into threats, vulnerabilities, and configuration risks, “Stirling” helps you reduce costs and achieve greater insight into your enterprise security state. Attend this session to get an overview of this new security system from Microsoft.

Length: 0:19:24

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How Microsoft IT Approached the Deployment of Microsoft Application Virtualization v4.5

Learn how Microsoft IT implemented Microsoft Application Virtualization version 4.5, formerly known as SoftGrid Application Virtualization. Hear the benefits of application virtualization within our environment, as well as some of the technical limitations of the product, from a software deployment perspective.

Length: 0:41:37

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How Microsoft IT Leverages SQL Server 2008 SSIS Dataflow Engine Enhancements

The Information Security Consolidated Event Management (ICE) system is a more than 30-terabyte data warehouse used by the Microsoft Information Security team to analyze network utilization events captured by various sources, including over 100 proxy servers, mail servers, Net logon servers, etc.  The ICE database processes approximately 1 terabyte of log data each day and it has become a key component in the incident response process, in addition to forensics investigations.  Analysis of the proxy data has empowered the Microsoft Information Security team to identify and remediate numerous security issues that would have gone undetected otherwise. 

ICE version 4.0 is an ambitious project set to deliver almost real-time data and high-query performance to the security team using Microsoft SQL Server 2008. Moreover, ICE 4.0 is also designed to perform all sorts of data filtering and transformation during the data-loading process, so the schema of data stored in ICE is tailored for investigation analysis/reporting needs.  An Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) cube is built on top of the ICE data warehouse to facilitate aggregated queries.   Join this session to learn how enhancements to the Microsoft SQL Server Integration Service (SSIS) 2008 dataflow engine have significantly improved the performance of loading, filtering and transforming 1 terabyte of network log data into the ICE data warehouse.

Length: 0:17:51

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Leveraging the Windows Live Platform for Your Organization

Listen to TechNet Radio and learn how you can leverage the benefits of the Windows Live platform for your organization. We discuss Windows Live ID; Microsoft Silverlight Streaming; and the Windows Live Admin Center, which allows you to manage a slice of Windows Live.  We also have our May 2008 Security Bulletin.

Length: 0:31:00

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