This article is the first in a series of papers presenting an architectural design guide (and sample application) that demonstrates an approach for integrating enterprise CRM and other LOB applications within Microsoft Outlook. The guidance in this paper originated from Microsoft's Project Elixir, an internal Microsoft IT initiative to integrate critical customer data with Outlook.
The MSDN Architecture team has been busy putting together an excellent collection of resources that explain Microsoft's approach to model-driven development. Discover the end-to-end vision of DSI, read about Software Factories, and watch web-casts showing how modelling the entire SDLC - including infrastructure architecture, can help you quickly build more manageable solutions.
The patterns & practices team recently released an update to the Enterprise Library for .NET 2.0. This release aligns EntLib with the updated capabilities of the .NET framework, and includes useful blocks for caching, crypto, data access, exception handling, logging and security. This is an essential framework for anyone out there building enterprise applications who prefers avoiding re-inventing the wheel :)
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Welcome to the Microsoft Australia and New Zealand Architecture Resource Centre. I'm Nigel Watson, and I'm an Architect Adviser with the Microsoft ANZ Architect Team. We'll be keeping this site updated with the latest in IT architecture from our region and around the world. For regular direct updates, don't forget to register for the new Microsoft ANZ Architecture Newsletter. We're keen to hear your ideas on what you'd like to see on the site, so please feel free to contact us at msanzarc@microsoft.com. Enjoy!
Reaching Out to Microsoft Partners in Australia, Nick Mayhew, 02 October, 2008
Interesting to see some of the articles coming out of the UK around Steve Ballmer's visit there. Lots of articles on his 'windows cloud' presentation. As I've said lots of times, watch out for much more coming out of what is expected to be the most significant PDC (professional Developers Conference) in many years, if not ever.. The Register UK ARN BBC Interview And of course the secre...
Reaching Out to Microsoft Partners in Australia, Nick Mayhew, 02 October, 2008
As you know Microsoft is always looking at ways of improving things for our Partners. We ask that you please take a few minutes out of your busy day to let us know, what the top 5 things you go to the Partner Portal to do are? i.e. look for information on competencies, look for training, look for marketing materials etc. Also, please let us know what your main concerns surrounding the Partner Por...
Reaching Out to Microsoft Partners in Australia, Nick Mayhew, 02 October, 2008
See Mike Gannotti's blog: " Earlier this week I had the pleasure of co-presenting Enterprise Web 2.0 to some great folks down in Ft Lauderdale, FL as a part of the Microsoft Connections events there. During the presentation, as well as in after event conversation over a few brews at a local Champs, one of the hot topics of discussion was the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint. With many organiza...
Reaching Out to Microsoft Partners in Australia, Nick Mayhew, 02 October, 2008
Not a great time for Australians, but you can see the recorded version when complete... I know this is an important topic to many partners and of course is a great business opportunity. This is part of the Live Academy series... Presented by: Mark Aggar, Josh Henretig and Francois Ajenstat Wednesday, October 15, 2008 8:00-9:00am Pacific Time (US & Canada) (GMT-07:00) PLC Registratio...
Reaching Out to Microsoft Partners in Australia, Nick Mayhew, 02 October, 2008
These have been very popular so please register quickly if you'd like a place: Volume Licensing Boot Camps – Last Chance to Register Want to build your licensing capabilities and strengthen your understanding of new technologies? Ingram Micro and Microsoft would like to invite you to attend the first in a new series of Volume Licensing Boot Camps. This series of Boot Camps will help bui...
Reaching Out to Microsoft Partners in Australia, Nick Mayhew, 02 October, 2008
The latest version of Virtual Earth (6.2) has now been released. News of the updates can be found at Chris Pendleton’s Microsoft blog. Virtual Earth Map Control 6.2 includes new geocoding and parsing improvements, plus other features including: Pushpin clustering. Expanded number of rooftop geocodes. New near-matching capabilities. New landmark hints in routing for such things ...
Well, the 72 hour MIX Web 2.0 conference in Las Vegas has been and gone - and by all accounts was an incredible event, with the best and brightest of the web in attendance. If you didn't manage to get along, there is a great selection of MIX content at the Virtual MIX site as well as on Channel 9. The word from the team is that sessions from MIX will be available on Virtual MIX within the next month or so, so keep checking back with the site.
Team Foundation Server - the back-end for the teaming parts of Visual Studio Team System - has been released. Check out the TFS site for more details. There's also a great Visual Studio page for Architects at the MSDN Visual Studio Architecture page.
Ever tried explaining SOA to a business person, only to have their eyes glaze over as soon as you start speaking? MOTION is a framework and set of tools that can help close the communications gap between IT and business, helping to model the business as a set of capabilities that can be mapped directly onto people, process and technologies - and then onto services.
In this ArcCast (Part 1, Part 2), Ron Jacobs interviews MOTION strategy director Ric Merrifield, about the MOTION framework.
