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Now that Microsoft® Server Championship 2007 has come to an end and we've found our Ultimate competition winners, we would like to thank you for your participation and express our gratitude for your contribution to the great success of this event. This year we had a total of 161 IT professionals took part in the Microsoft Server Championships. They had gained first-hand experience of the latest Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft Forefront™ Security for Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft SQL Server™ 2005, Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007, Microsoft System Management Server (SMS) 2003 and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005. They also had an opportunity to network with fellow industry professionals to share best practices and see the remarkable potential offered by Microsoft solutions. This year's Microsoft Server Championship winners, who managed to raise themselves above all the competition, took home a Free admission and accommodation to Microsoft TechEd 2007 in Orlando, a HK$10,000 cash award, an O2 Atom Exec, a TechNet Subscription, admission to Microsoft TechEd Hong Kong 2007, a trip to Microsoft Shanghai R&D Center. And, best of all, the Microsoft Server Champion winner's trophy for 2007!
Winners of the Ultimate Competition
Thanks to your active support and participation, our final competition on March 24th was successfully held.
Please kindly join us to congratulate our winners for the IT Professionals track.
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Champion |
Runner ups |
| K H Chan | Simon Ho |
| Warren Lee | Lo Wing Fai |
| Andrew Tam | Barry Tsiu |
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Today's world of business is constantly evolving. People are increasingly relying on tools that provide them with greater connectivity to corporate resources, the Internet, and each other. Familiar and easy-to-use, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Windows Vista™ and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 can easily connect and integrate with your current business technologies. Microsoft Server Championships 2007 aim to see how IT professionals can take this new set of tools to empower people to drive business success!
If you're going to win this competition, it's essential that you warm up properly. Join the 3-hour Skills Enhancement seminars that interest you. In each seminar, our Microsoft Certified Trainer will share his technical knowledge with you. White papers and supporting technical information will also be provided to help you better prepare for the competition. There will be 3 different tracks, including the following:
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The new collaboration platform: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 |
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Microsoft has introduced the Exchange messaging platform since Exchange 4.0. Today's messaging environment creates fast-moving challenges. Respond with advanced anti-spam and antivirus protection tools; move on with tightly integrated messaging and collaboration needs; the new revolutionary Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is designed to meet today's challenging demand.
As an IT professional, this is a great chance for you to demonstrate how you can leverage the new Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 to simplify how people work together; help protect and manage content; help people to find information and improve business insight; and reduce security threats and deployment costs.
To qualify for this track, you must demonstrate strong experience in messaging environment. You must have hands on experience on configuring standard mail protocol and understand today's messaging security threats. All of the tasks and questions set in this track will mainly test the knowledge, responses, hands-on deployment skills of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Forefront Security for Exchange Server 2007.
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Seminars
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The new collaboration platform: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
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6 February 2007
(Tuesday)
6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Registration
6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
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Microsoft Hong Kong Limited - Seminar Room, 2305-2309, 23/F, Three Pacific Place, 1 Queen's Road East, Hong Kong
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The new collaboration platform: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
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6 March 2007
(Tuesday)
6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Registration
6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Please note the content of this session is identical to the session above. If you have already registered and attended the previous session, you do not need to attend this session again.
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Microsoft Hong Kong Limited - Seminar Room, 2305-2309, 23/F, Three Pacific Place, 1 Queen's Road East, Hong Kong
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Business Intelligence: Connect people, process and information with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 |
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Traditionally, the tools for accessing large amounts of unstructured data for the purpose of analysis were available only to people with years of experience in data warehousing or data mining. Even companies that spend millions to develop applications to collect and analyze business data require specialized consultants or staffs to operate those applications.
The new Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, which operates with Microsoft SQL Server 2005, offer easy to use yet fully customizable collaboration platform, allowing people to easily publish reports, lists, and key performance indicators (PKIs). Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is also an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight.
To qualify for this track, you must have strong business analytical concept, understand how Microsoft SQL Server 2005 functions as well as how Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 simplify business process. You will be tested against the knowledge, responses, and hands-on deployment skills of how SQL Server 2005 integrates with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
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Seminars
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Business Intelligence: Connect people, process and information with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
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1 February 2007
(Thursday)
6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Registration
6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
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Microsoft Hong Kong Limited - Seminar Room, 2305-2309, 23/F, Three Pacific Place, 1 Queen's Road East, Hong Kong
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Business Intelligence: Connect people, process and information with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
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8 March 2007
(Thursday)
6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Registration
6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Please note the content of this session is identical to the session above. If you have already registered and attended the previous session, you do not need to attend this session again.
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Microsoft Hong Kong Limited - Seminar Room, 2305-2309, 23/F, Three Pacific Place, 1 Queen's Road East, Hong Kong
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Take Control of your IT infrastructure: Infrastructure Optimization using Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 |
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While Microsoft is aimed to create a new way of working, IT professionals are also looking for solutions to better manage and operate the new infrastructure. Today's organizations have become more geographically dispersed and individual roles have become more specialized. With fast-growing number of mobile users and distributed computing, some IT professionals have found it increasingly difficult to collaborate across roles and conduct typical management and maintenance tasks in areas such as deployment, user management, messaging, and security.
Microsoft has been devoting resources to improve the ability to better manage the Microsoft Windows platform through Infrastructure Optimization Model (IOM), IT professionals who truly understand IOM are capable of turning the IT organization into a more integrated and flexible system.
To qualify for this track, you must fully understand what IOM is aimed for, how Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 can be used to simplify infrastructure management, identity and access management, data protection, and client consistency.
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Take Control of your IT infrastructure: Infrastructure Optimization using Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005
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9 February 2007
(Friday)
6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Registration
6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
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Microsoft Hong Kong Limited - Seminar Room, 2305-2309, 23/F, Three Pacific Place, 1 Queen's Road East, Hong Kong
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Take Control of your IT infrastructure: Infrastructure Optimization using Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005
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9 March 2007
(Friday)
6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Registration
6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Please note the content of this session is identical to the session above. If you have already registered and attended the previous session, you do not need to attend this session again.
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Microsoft Hong Kong Limited - Seminar Room, 2305-2309, 23/F, Three Pacific Place, 1 Queen's Road East, Hong Kong
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You'll get 100 IT Points for participating in the 1st track and 50 additional IT Points if you enroll in additional tracks. Click here to learn more about the IT Points, which can be used to redeem fabulous prizes.
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To strengthen your IT skills and knowledge, Hands-On Labs (HOLs) will be provided to the top 100 individuals with the highest scores. All final participants will be entitled to a free 3-hour Hands-on training with their selected track topics. Participants will be challenged by exercises specially prepared to give you hands-on experience and consultants will be on hand to assist you during the HOLs to answer any questions and provide assistance.
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Hands on Lab
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Venue
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The new collaboration platform: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
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14 March 2007
(Wednesday)
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6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Registration
6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
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3/F Righteous Centre, 585 Nathan Road, Mongkok, Kowloon
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Business Intelligence: Connect people, process and information with Microsoft SQL Server™ 2005 and Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007
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15 March 2007
(Thursday)
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6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Registration
6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
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3/F Righteous Centre, 585 Nathan Road, Mongkok, Kowloon
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Take Control of your IT infrastructure: Infrastructure Optimization using Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005
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16 March 2007
(Friday)
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6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Registration
6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
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3/F Righteous Centre, 585 Nathan Road, Mongkok, Kowloon
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Simply click on the Hands-On Labs based on the track you wish to join and you can receive 100 IT Points. Click here to learn more about the IT Points, which can be used to redeem fabulous prizes.
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This is where the competition gets to be the most challenging. All 100 finalists will enter the first round of the final competition on 24 March 2007. The first round will take 90 minutes for each track and the contestants for the Ultimate Competition will be selected based on the top 2 scores of each track, meaning that only 6 contestants will be eligible for the ultimate challenge! The 6 finalists will then be quizzed on their knowledge of Microsoft products and technology as part of the 20-minute final. Only when all the scores are tallied shall we know the identity of the Microsoft Server Champion 2007!
Final Competition Details:
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24 March 2007 (Sat) |
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Cliftons Central Training Centre, Level 33, 9 Queen¡¦s Road Central, Hong Kong.
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Agenda:
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Competition
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Marking and DemoStar Competition
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Ultimate Competition
5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Award Presentation
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You'll get 100 IT Points for participating in the 1st track and 50 additional IT Points if you enroll in additional tracks. Click here to learn more about the IT Points, which can be used to redeem fabulous prizes.
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Pre-requisites:
- Hands-on familiarity with Windows Operating System.
- Minimum of six months' on-the-job computer networking experience.
- Priority for registration will be given to those with Microsoft Certified Professionals qualifications.
Click to view Terms & Conditions.
Terms & Conditions:
- Entry is only open to Hong Kong and Macau residents, aged 18 years or over. Individuals who have been awarded or certified as Microsoft Certified Trainers are not eligible to enter this competition. By submitting an entry, you are agreeing to be bound by these Terms and Conditions and signifying that you have read and understood them fully.
- All registration fees collected by Microsoft Hong Kong Ltd ("MSHK") will be donated to the Hong Kong Federation of Handicapped Youth and/or a charitable organization determined by MSHK at its sole discretion.
- Participants may join all 3 seminars but he/she will only be selected to join 1 track for the final competition.
- All seminar handout materials will be in English but the seminar will be conducted in Cantonese.
- The participants (total not exceeding 120) who make it into the final competition will be individually contacted by telephone and announced at this site on 10 March 2007.
- No cancellation or refund of registration fees will be allowed for any withdrawal by a Participant after registration or cancellation of the competition. However, all registration fees received will be donated as mentioned in clause 1 above.
- All participants of the seminars will be entitled to a Microsoft Press Book according to their chosen seminar, while stocks last.
- Entry is only open to Hong Kong and Macau residents, aged 18 years or over. MSHK employees and their direct family members are excluded from entering the competition. By registering for the competition, you agree to be bound by these Competition Terms and Conditions and signify that you have read and understood them fully.
- MSHK has the right at any time to change any terms or conditions or discontinue the competition or any aspect of it. MSHK will announce all substantive changes by posting it on this website. Any changes or discontinuation will take effect from the date they are notified. Your continued participation in the competition will constitute acceptance of any and all of the changes made. If you do not agree with any change, you should stop participating in the competition. You agree that MSHK shall not be liable to you for any loss or damages arising as a result of any such change or discontinuation.
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To enter, Participants must register, pay an initial registration fee and attend one of the following three (3) seminars and take an assessment test at the end of the seminar:
- The New Collaboration Platform: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007;
- Business Intelligence: Connect people, process and information with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007; and
- Take Control of your IT Infrastructure: Infrastructure optimization using Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005.
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In the event where a Participant participates in more than one (1) seminar, the Participant's highest assessment results from a single seminar only will be used to determine eligibility to participate in the Hands-On Labs training workshop and final competition.
Final Competition: Eligibility for the Hands-On Labs training workshop and final competition will be based on the Participant's assessment test results for seminar attended by the Participant. The top 40 Participants from each of the three (3) seminars judged by Microsoft Hong Kong to have the highest assessment test results will be selected and invited to take part in the Hands-On Labs training workshop and to compete in the final competition to be held on 24 March 2007.
- IT Points - Successful Participants of the competition will also be eligible for IT points which can be redeemed for prizes and gifts, which are described further from here.
- MSHK judges' decision in relation to all matters and disputes connected with the competition is final and binding and no correspondence will be entered into. Successful Participants will be notified by email and / or telephone.
- The prizes are provided on "as is" "with all faults" and "as available" basis. To the maximum extent permitted by law, MSHK and its officers, directors, agents, parent and subsidiary companies, joint ventures subcontractors and employees (the "Microsoft Entities") make no warranties or representations of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, with respect to the prizes, including without limitation: implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, title, no encumbrances, no liens and non-infringement.
- The Participant will indemnify and hold the Microsoft Entities, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable legal fees, made by any third party in connection with any breach by the Participant of these Terms and Conditions, or the Participant's violation of any law or the rights of a third party.
- To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Microsoft Entities assume no responsibility for, and the Participant releases the Microsoft Entities from responsibility for, any failure to receive an entry or for inaccurate information or for any loss, claim, damage or injury to person or property (including computer systems and servers) as a result of the Participant's participation in this competition or utilizing the prizes, the conduct of the competition generally or as a direct or indirect result of an Participant's error, any technical problem of any kind including communications or network failure, unauthorized access to, transferring or theft of data, whether caused by the Participant or associated with the equipment or programming used in the conduct of this competition. If, because of any such problem, this competition is not able to be conducted as planned and/or the competition's administration, security, fairness or integrity are compromised or affected, MSHK may immediately and without notice cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the competition and/or disqualify any Participant involved in interfering or tampering with the conduct of this competition in any way.
- MSHK reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual which MSHK has reason to believe has breached any of these Terms and Conditions or any instructions or directions that may be contained here, or engaged in any unlawful or other improper misconduct calculated to jeopardize the fair and proper conduct of the competition. Microsoft's legal rights to recover damages or other compensation from such a Participant are reserved.
- The competition and these Terms and Conditions shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Hong Kong SAR and the courts of Hong Kong SAR shall have jurisdiction to hear all disputes relating to them.
- All parts of the competition and the Terms and Conditions are severable and the invalidity of any provision(s) shall not affect any other provision(s).
- MSHK treats the personal information provided by all Participants as confidential. If your personal information is provided only in connection with this competition then it will only be used for this competition, and will be destroyed afterwards. Each Participant authorizes MSHK to publish their details and personal information on here for the purpose of notifying successful Participants. All Participants and prize winners, hereby grant MSHK the right to publish online and in print, their details, names, likeness and district without compensation. All use of the personal information will be subject to MSHK's data privacy policy - please go to www.microsoft.com/hk/privacy.
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