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What is Microsoft Business Solutions?
Learn how Microsoft Business Solutions integrates business
applications for small and mid-sized organizations. |
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UNIX Application Migration Guide
This document contains guidelines and best practices for
porting existing UNIX applications to Microsoft Windows. Based
on the field experience of Microsoft consultants and external
organizations that have migrated from UNIX to Windows, the guide
covers planning and implementation issues and reviews the
different ways in which such a migration can be done. This is a
valuable source of information that is not only useful for UNIX
and Windows programmers but for anyone interested in taking
advantage of the Windows platform. |
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Improving Web Application Security: Threats and Countermeasures
The authoritative guide to implementing fundamental security
principles in .NET applications. This guide helps you design,
build, and configure hack-resilient Web applications that reduce
the likelihood of successful attacks and mitigate the extent of
damage should an attack occur. It was created for architects and
developers who need a holistic and systematic approach to
securing their network, host, and application across phases and
roles throughout the product lifecycle. |
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The Server Side
The ServerSide.NET is an online community for enterprise .NET
architects and developers, exclusively focused on enterprise
development issues from an architectural perspective. |
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Microsoft Architecture Overview
This document is intended for business, software, and infrastructure
architects who want to understand Microsoft's approach to enterprise,
application, and technology architectures. It covers architectural
terminology, patterns, concepts, and definitions as a series
of views or levels of architecture. |
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New Version of Patterns Guide
V 2.0p version of the Enterprise patterns available |
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Explore the MSDN Logidex .NET Library
The Logidex .NET Library provides powerful text-based and model-based
search capabilities for accessing Microsoft-defined .NET assets:
Patterns, App Blocks, Reference Apps, Architectures, etc. Check
it out. |
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Integrating information at the desktop
An assortment of pioneering software companies is finally bringing
substance to Microsoft's 1990s rallying cry of 'Information
at your fingertips'. |
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Integrating information at the desktop
An assortment of pioneering software companies is finally bringing
substance to Microsoft's 1990s rallying cry of 'Information
at your fingertips'. |
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Conceptual Modeling - a technique for robust database design
Practically every software application uses and maintains some
database. The proper design of this database plays a vital role
in the eventual success of the application software. There are
many techniques available for database design. One of the most
popular and age-old proven technique is the E-R modeling. |
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Microsoft Outlines New Initiatives in Ongoing Security Efforts
In a speech at Microsoft Corporation's inaugural Worldwide Partner
Conference, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer outlined new
initiatives in the company's ongoing security efforts designed
to address the increasing threats faced by computer users around
the world. |
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Service reuse unlocks hidden value
By linking up existing functions to create new, composite applications,
organizations can unlock hidden value from their legacy systems. |
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Commentary: SOE - Service Oriented Everything?
The plethora of Service Oriented acronyms appearing is a sure
sign that Service Orientation is the "next big thing".
But successful adoption of SOx and Web Services will not happen
by a process of osmosis. |
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Debugging in an asynchronous world
Hard-to-track bugs can emerge when you can't guarantee sequential
execution. The right tools and the right techniques can help.
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Building real-time sales channels
Whereas the dot-coms touted disintermediation, web services
promise to enable a richer interplay between businesses, their
partners and customers. |
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Web services and the forgotten OSI layer six
Operational policies, such as security and QoS, do not belong
in the application layer. Web services technologies enable a
clean separation of this layer-six functionality from business
logic. |
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Measuring services in a business context
When web services emerge out of the test lab into live commercial
environments, they confront a new spectrum of business-driven
service requirements. |
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The pitfalls of early web services adoption
Web services technology is delivering real business value today
- that's the good news. Early adopters are generally not getting
the balance right between near-term business impact and long-term
architectural direction - that's the bad news. |
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Bridging the gap between .NET and J2EE
The question is not whether you should develop web services
in .NET or J2EE. The question is how do you get them to interoperate? |
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WSDM - the missing link
Management is such an abused and misunderstood term. Yet Web
Services may not be used pervasively until we have platform
neutral management. This article assesses two recent and very
important announcements in this area. |
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Succeeding at Service Oriented Architecture
What characteristics make SOA one of those technologies destined
to survive, and how can SOA be successfully implemented. |
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Data Challenge
Scientific and commercial disciplines increasingly rely on intensive
computation and access to large shared databases: tens of terabytes
today, which will become petabytes by the middle of the decade.
High-energy physics is a representative example: thousands of
physicists from hundreds of research institutes, laboratories
and universities worldwide collaborate to design, create, and
operate data-intensive physics experiments. This article summarizes
the data management challenges of CERN's Large Hadron Collider,
the world's most powerful particle accelerator, which will go
into production in 2007. |
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Web Services Rules: Real-World Lessons from Early Adopters
In an analysis of today's enterprise web services applications,
authors from Stencil group argue that the experiences of early
adopters reflect the fundamental objectives driving the shift
towards service-oriented computing. In fact, the most successful
organizations are pursuing a model of adoption that is itself
service-oriented in approach. These real-world lessons yield
a framework for accelerating customer's decision-making process. |
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Composite approach lifts integration woes
Combining disjointed processes into composite applications can
unlock some of the most intractable integration challenges in
business today. |
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Service Oriented Architecture - The best solution to business
integration
This article discusses some historic approaches to building
service-oriented architectures and outlines the key failures
of previous technologies. In particular, this article shows
how Web Services technologies, through the provision of ubiquitous,
Internet-based, and document-oriented technologies, provide
the compelling foundation for implementing Service-oriented
architectures, and consequently, that Web Services represent
the best solution to business integration. |
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More legacy gain than pain with SOA
Using web services for legacy integration means confronting
an inevitable culture clash between different generations of
IT. But some organizations still believe it's worth it. |
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Letter From the Editor: Pattern Repository Launched
Over the past decade patterns have been widely accepted as a
way to describe and share problems and solutions found in many
areas of architecture and development. The new Enterprise Solution
Patterns using Microsoft .NET build on this by starting with
established platform independent patterns and adding implementation
patterns that apply specifically to Microsoft .NET. |
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Community Resources for Architecture and Design
Please accept this invitation to join architects, designers,
and developers representing many industries and organizations
including Microsoft in collaboration on topics in architecture
and design. |
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Redefining Windows Storage
There is a new trend in IT today. More and more organizations
are supplementing their server-centric architectures - where
you designate each service the network requires and which server
will render it - with data-centric architectures (DCAs). The
release of Windows Server 2003 changes this playing field and
it will boost the use of DCAs in the years to come. |
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The Top 10 ERP Mistakes
Executing a major enterprise resource planning (ERP) project
has been compared to scaling and reaching the top of Mount Everest.
Many potentially overwhelming obstacles exist to thwart such
a project. The conventional wisdom holds that many ERP projects
fail to meet expectations. Either they don't deliver tangible
business benefits or, even worse, they threaten the economic
viability of the company. |
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Achieve Zero-Downtime Deployment
Nothing is more difficult than avoiding problems that can cause
downtime when deploying custom applications! Applications written
with the .NET Framework can use new features to simplify deployment
significantly. This article discusses how .NET has simplified
the deployment process, and effective tips for the same. |
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Advice For Software Architects
The key transition that leads to success starts with sharing
your knowledge one to one, and then proceeding to share with
many others at a time. In our own careers, when we began to
share knowledge in one to many situations, success started
to appear. The much more difficult challenge is to maintain
the success that is achieved. |
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Don't lose your head
If you think it's tough to secure a building or a network,
try protecting an idea!! Ideas are invisible; they have a
habit of working their way into conversations - and not always
with the people who should be hearing them. They can get lost
or stolen without anyone even realizing the same.. until your
competitor beats you to market with an innovation you thought
was yours alone. |
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Build a Scalable Architecture
Databinding lets you build database apps with less coding
by allowing binding between UI elements and specific database
fields. But you need to build a supporting infrastructure
to take full advantage of databinding. This infrastructure
encapsulates the different aspects of data delivery and supports
the many .NET models, including Web Forms, Windows Forms,
and Web services. This article shows you how to build such
a flexible infrastructure. |
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When Time Is Money
The two most compelling trends in business intelligence (BI)
are business performance management (BPM) and real-time data
warehousing: BPM is gaining momentum as businesses become
more focused on the bottom line and the cost and benefit of
every function. At the same time, the pace of business is
speeding up as customer demands become more intense and competitors
move quicker than ever to meet their needs. |
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Knowledge Management and Information Technology: The Relationship
Knowledge Management is not a new field within Information Technology
(IT). It is a management discipline that like others, such as
Quality Management, seeks IT support for the processes it targets.
This article outline a framework, developed by Mark McElroy
and Joe Firestone at the KMCI Research Center, called The New
Knowledge Management (TNKM). |
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Set Strategies for Enterprise Software Management
Combine the right tools and processes to gain complete control
of the software in your network. |
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Fail-Safe Interop for Your Enterprise
Discover strategies for invoking distributed services to
achieve interoperability and integration among J2EE and .NET
components. |
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Open SAN Architecture Management
Advanced Storage Area Networks (SANs) provide one of the best
approaches for addressing the explosion of data and its management.
SANs help enable storage consolidation and deliver higher availability
of critical enterprise data and applications. |
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Succeeding
in the New Services-Based IT Industry
Why are we so convinced that services will become central in
redefining IT solutions? They have always been necessary, but
have been viewed as unglamorous servants to high tech's royalty
- namely, high-profile hardware and software. But, the industry
has changed. "Digitization" of many manual types of
services will revolutionize the market and industry. In part,
the transition of a products-based industry into a services-based
industry will ensure that IT investments yield actual business
benefits. |
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TaskVision Solution Overview: Design and Implementation
This article describes the design and architecture decisions
for the TaskVision solution sample, which demonstrates the use
of .NET Framework's Windows Forms classes with XML Web Services
to build a smart client task management application. |
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Delve Into Data With Business Intelligence
Don't let valuable data languish in inaccessible databases.
Use proper storage, business intelligence, and .NET technologies
to give decision makers the information they need. |
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Games people play: A different theory
Thanks to the Hollywood movie "Beautiful Mind", John
Nash Jr. and the ‘Game Theory’ are well-known names. Nash is
held in such great esteem because he has introduced new ways
of doing business. Competing companies often see business entirely
as competition. However, Game theory champions say, "Compete
without destroying the pie and cooperate without getting your
lunch eaten". |
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Securing B2B XML Web Services with WSE
Securing B2B XML Web Services with WSE demonstrates how to use
the features of the Web Services Enhancements for Microsoft
.NET 1.0 to create secure XML Web services to implement business
transactions across organizations. WSE is an implementation
of the Web Services Architecture specifications that defines
standards for the development and deployment of Web services. |
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Patch Management Using Microsoft Systems Management Server
This document provides operational guidance for the
deployment of software updates, service packs, and Quick Fix
Engineering (QFE) fixes using Microsoft® Systems Management
Server (SMS). It describes the daily, weekly, monthly, and as-needed
tasks that have to be completed to deploy patches into a live
environment. |
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Web
Services Highlights from Around the Web
This is a one-stop guide to know all about Web Services. Included
are web service related standards, tools, comparisons, demos,
link with .NET etc.
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