TechEd is for technology professionals involved in building, deploying or maintaining IT solutions using Microsoft technologies. TechEd Europe will offer four days of more than 1,000 education opportunities and hands-on training across the full range of Microsoft products and solutions. You will learn in-depth about the latest technology trends and how you can leverage these effectively in your business. TechEd is the forum to gain the expertise, connections, and insights that will help you get the most from your existing IT investments.

Get a subscription to TechNet: access to full versions of Microsoft software

When you register for TechEd Europe you will get a subscription to TechNet! This is a great opportunity to get access to full versions of Microsoft’s OS, Application, Server and Dynamics software to evaluate and test for your organizational needs with no time bombs or feature limits. Compliment your TechEd learning experiences with access to courseware and priority support in the TechNet forums.

Get a step up

By arriving a day early Monday, 25 June and registering for the special Pre-Conference Seminars you can get in-depth training and insights on the Microsoft technologies and products that power their businesses. Each day-long seminar will be taught by industry experts, and will address specific technical topics that have been specifically chosen for our attendees.

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Register by 31 March 2012 and receive €300 off your conference pass. Visit the conference website and learn more about being at the Center of IT!

Join TechEd Europe in Amsterdam and explore the latest products, get hands-on learning opportunities and connect with industry and Microsoft experts face-to-face, without the distractions of the office.

• SharePoint Enterprise Content Management Implementers Course
  This course teaches implementers how to leverage features in SharePoint Server to implement an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system. ECM systems are designed to manage large amounts of content, including content in the form of documents and content in pages, wiki libraries, blog posts, and other types of non-document content. Document management is the heart of ECM. This course develops the key skills that are necessary to deploy SharePoint Server for ECM solutions at organizations of any size.
• SharePoint for Internet Sites Implementers Course
  This course describes how to implement and brand a SharePoint based public website using SharePoint web content management (WCM). After the course is completed, you may be able to implement a SharePoint deployment of a branded website with structured content management. You may also be able to successfully plan, deploy, monitor, and maintain an Internet site. No development experience is required, but experience with HTML and CSS is recommended.

Catalog all of the applications in your environment:
Inventory and report on web application portfolios and SQL Server database instances in your environment.

Azure Readiness Assessment & Capacity Assessment:

• Estimate the needed capacity to run your applications on the Windows Azure Platform
• Evaluate applications based on migration difficulty
• Stack rank applications in terms of migration suitability
• Obtain a TCO-ROI analysis for the application
• Helps you to plan for the migration of on-premises workloads to Windows Azure and SQL Azure

Other MAP scenario’s:

• Windows 7 & Internet Explorer
• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Hyper-V Consolidation (read how Banque de Luxembourg used MAP for their virtualization project)
• Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track
• SQL Server 2008 R2
• Microsoft Office 2010 & Office 365
• Software Licensing and Asset Management

SQL Pass

From their website “24 Hours of PASS: Summit Preview”:

Indulge in free online SQL Server training with the upcoming 24 Hours of PASS: Summit Preview event September 7 and 8. Join knowledgeable SQL Server experts - slated to present in-depth sessions at PASS Summit 2011 - as they preview their SQL Server session topics over these 24 free technical webcasts.

Seats for this virtual event are limited and will fill up quickly so make sure you register today.

More info at http://www.sqlpass.org/24hours/fall2011/ or register here.

We are publicly announcing the release of an update to the Desktop Virtualization with System Center and Citrix Systems Integrator Partner Enablement Kit. This kit provides the Virtual Images and documentation required for a consultant of a Microsoft partner and systems integrator to perform a 5-day Proof-of-Concept around Desktop Virtualization, System Center management, and Citrix interoperability. This new release updates several documents including the “Citrix XenDesktop™ Quick Proof of Concept Kit – How To for Integrated Environments for Hyper-V”.

The kit contains pre-configured virtual images and materials for a complete 5-day Proof-of-Concept, education materials to help consultants increase their expertise in System Center products, and consulting templates to help practice managers create the collateral they need for a profitable System Center practice:

• 294 Presentations slides
• 173 Documentation pages
• 10 Virtual Images

Agenda

18:00-18:30	Welcome
18:30-19:30	SQL Server for SharePoint Geeks (speaker: Thomas Vochten)
19:30-19:45	Break
19:45-20:45	Office 365 - but mainly SharePoint Online - from a technical perspective (speaker: Joris Poelmans)

Location
(map and directions) RealDolmen Industriezone Zenneveld, Vaucampslaan 42, 1654 Huizingen, Belgium

Hat tip: Joris Poelmans

Table of contents

Part I Finding Your Place in the Cloud

• Chapter 1 What’s Happening with the World of Work?
• Chapter 2 Getting Started with Office 365
• Chapter 3 Administering an Office 365 Account

Part II Teamwork in the Cloud

• Chapter 4 What Your Team Can Do with Office 365
• Chapter 5 Creating Your Team Site with SharePoint Online
• Chapter 6 Posting, Sharing, and Managing Files
• Chapter 7 Adding and Managing Workflows
• Chapter 8 Working with Office 2010 Web Apps
• Chapter 9 Going Mobile with Office 365

Part III Connecting in Real Time

• Chapter 10 Email and Organize with Office 365
• Chapter 11 Talking It Over with Microsoft Lync
• Chapter 12 Designing Your Public Website
• Chapter 13 Integrating All Parts of Office 365

Appendix A Extras for Great Teams

While downloading the ebook, you might also be interested to watch a video presentation from the Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure team. This “Microsoft GFS Datacenter Tour” video will provide a deeper look at how Microsoft uses secure, reliable, scalable and efficient best practices to deliver over 200 cloud services to more than a billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 70 countries.It provides an understanding at how we view our end-to-end cloud strategy from an infrastructure perspective.

System Center Orchestrator: notes from the field

• Date: September 29, 2011 at 18:00
• Location: Microsoft, Zaventem (or online via LiveMeeting)

Join SCUG.BE for their first event after the “hot” summer months. During this event they will discuss the new System Center Orchestrator, what has changed, new integration packs and also how to migrate from Opalis 6.3.

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System Center Day

• Save the date: November 3, 2011
• Location: Living Tomorrow, Vilvoorde

After the great success of last year, SCUG.BE is preparing for a new edition of this event.  With the upcoming releases of all 2012 products of the suite and in particular the SCCM 2012 release this is a "must-be" for everybody who works with the System Center Suite. For this occasion they have some top international speakers like Wally Mead, 4 Belgium System Center MVP's and other System Center Experts and that's why the event will also be held in a special place.

This event will also be your opportunity to socialize with fellow System Center administrators and consultants and exchange knowledge, meet with one of the most popular Microsoft speakers of all time and have a nice lunch with the 4 Belgian System Center MVP's and a System Center product manager! 
The agenda is not yet fully set but you can already register for it.

System Center Cafe tour

• Save the date: December 1, 2011

Did you just read this correct? Did you just saw the word cafe? Yes you did. This year, SCUG.BE is starting something else... They are going to do a ASK THE EXPERTS panel, but not as you know it.  They will be in a bar, enjoying a nice Belgian beer and you are all free to come up and ask them your toughest questions.  First stop of this tour will be a bar in Zaventem. More info on the hour and bar will follow. This is an opportunity you can't miss. All our Belgian System Center MVP's will be there!