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From the Microsoft SAP Alliance Team
Greetings from the Microsoft SAP Alliance Team. October and November have been hectic as the team has participated in SAP TechEd in Las Vegas and Munich, and the SAP Canada TechTour as well as several ASUG meetings in the United States and Canada. We also conducted an SAP Technical workshop in Redmond and are planning several field versions of this in next few months in a city near you. Check out this newsletter for details on how you can register for these free and informative events. If you can’t attend an in-person event, you can download content -- this newsletter has links to content from the recent technical workshops. In addition, we have several upcoming webcasts and new white papers that will keep you well informed. As always, we look forward to hearing from you for suggestions on new content.
Thanks for reading.
msftsap@mcrosoft.com
Editor, Microsoft SAP Technical Community Newsletter
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Microsoft SAP Forums
We are launching the field version of Redmond’s Microsoft Technical Workshop, a forum where Microsoft SAP Experts communicate the latest updates about running SAP applications on the Microsoft platform and provide strategies to extend and maximize investments in
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Why Should You Attend?
Every business is looking for a competitive edge, a way to optimize and garner the most out of their technology investments to effect transformational changes. Our team of experts will discuss and share the latest updates on how:
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DUET revolutionizes the way information workers interact with enterprise applications – learn about the latest scenarios and roadmap
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A new database platform migration offering from Microsoft and SAP can enable your company to easily transition to SQL Server and leverage the benefits of enterprise SOA
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The Microsoft application platform can accelerate innovation and improves ROI through enhanced interoperability and extensibility
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Intel IT maximized their investments in SAP. In addition, you will gain insight into the latest Intel technology roadmap to help you strategically plan your hardware and software migrations
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Executives, business managers, decision makers, and technology and SAP stakeholders who have responsibilities for decisions and implementations around SAP and Microsoft enterprise applications and platforms.
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February 1: Silicon Valley, CA
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SAP Technical Workshops for IT Professionals
We recently held an SAP technical Workshop in Redmond focused on interoperability. The presentations from these sessions can be downloaded now from the links below.
November 7, 2007 (Redmond, WA):
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Take advantage of a three day deep technical training course is to provide you with a good understanding of how to install and maintain SAP NetWeaver 7.0 (2004s) on Microsoft SQL Server 2005. The course addresses installation, configuration, high availability scenarios (including the database mirroring), monitoring, and performance tuning. Course concepts will be reinforced through hands-on lab exercises.
Students will work with a live image and perform a full installation of SAP NetWeaver 7.0 (2004s) on SQL Server 2005.
Who Should Attend: Administrators and analysts working with SAP NetWeaver server components and are interested in or are currently deploying SAP on Microsoft Windows and SQL Server.
Agenda for Each Day (see registration site for detailed Agenda):
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7:45 AM - 8:30 AM
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Interoperability Resources
Interoperability between Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and SAP NetWeaver is a complex topic with lots of valuable scenarios. This overview animation explains options and possibilities as well as limitations in the combination of SharePoint Server 2007 and SAP NetWeaver.
New SAP on Windows Book Available
Josef Stelzel from the Microsoft SAP alliance team has published a new book with co-authors. The book provides administrators, consultants, and project managers with several proven methods and detailed solutions for the successful implementation of SAP systems on Windows platforms. You can purchase the book from SAP Press at http://www.sap-press.com/.
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Martin Raepple from SAP led a great session at SAP TechEd in Las Vegas and Munich about Web Service Security between Microsoft .NET and SAP NetWeaver. He gave a hands-on demo of how to configure WS-Security between both stacks.. You can find more information or download the code sample he published in his blog here.
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