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Extending Enterprise Applications with Microsoft Outlook: Architectural Design Guide
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.
New Modeling Pages on MSDN Architecture Centre
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.
Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 now available
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 :)
Welcome!
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!
Resources
Mashing it up at MIX
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 is here!
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.
MOTION ARCasts
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.
 

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