Like last year Microsoft TechNet Denmark is playing Santa with a Christmas calendar quiz. On all weekdays in December, you can test your Microsoft knowledge in a daily for danish IT professionals and I have the honor of delivering and host a few questions.
The game:
Every morning (on weekdays) at 9 am (+1 GMT) during December, Bjarne Dollerup from Microsoft will introduce one of the Danish MVP’s or TechNet Influencer on his blog, and share a link to the blog, that will host the daily question.
All you need to do, to win the prize, is to be the first to the answer the question, and send it to the mail address specified right below the question. Answers to all questions should be available on the TechNet website and Bjarnes blog.
The first to send the correct answer to the mail address specified in the blog post, will win one of the great “geek” prizes sponsored by Microsoft, so don’t forget to let us know how to get in touch with you, and where we should send the prize if you win…
Important to note:
The quiz does not start until it has been publicly announced by Bjarne, so there is no need to start sending mails until it’s been announced…
Merry Christmas!
Always handy with a direct link to the TechNet documentation 
Here is the link to the Lync Server 2010 TechNet documentation.
Another good place to follow is the DrRez: Microsoft Lync Server Technical Reference Hub blog.
In the latest edition of TechNet Magazine there’s an interesting article about Top 10 Performance Improvements in IIS 7.0 written by Mike Volodarsky.
Read the full article “Top 10 Performance Improvements in IIS 7.0” at TechNet.
In the latest edition of TechNet Magazine there’s an article about IIS 7.0 “Going Live with IIS 7.0″ written by Fergus Strachan. The articles covers the following IIS 7.0 topics:
- Deploy IIS 7.0 in a Web farm environment
- Security and performance enhancements
- Migrate ASP.NET Web apps from IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.0
- Migrate PHP Web apps to IIS 7.0
Read the full article Going Live with IIS 7.0 at TechNet.
Did you know that Microsoft has tons of free virtual labs available, it’s a great way of testing the latest technology. The Labs are available for both IT Pros and Developers. There is already 15+ Labs available for Windows Server 2008.
Come experience the newest release of Windows Server! In these Virtual Labs, you’ll have the opportunity to test-drive new and improved features and functionality in Windows Server 2008, including management, network protection and improvements to Terminal Services.
Direct link to: Microsoft Virtual Labs
Microsoft is really eating their own dogfood. They just annonced the complete migration of both MSDN and TechNet, two of the most popular web sites in the world, are now running on virtual machines (Microsoft Hyper-V).
Microsoft kept the back-end database on physical boxes, but moved 100% of its IIS7 frond-ends on Hyper-V RC0 VMs with 4 virtual CPUs and 10GB RAM.
The virtualization hosts (no mention of the brand obviously) are powered by 2 Intel quad-core CPUs and 32GB RAM (2GB are reserved for the Windows Server 2008 parent partition).
Read more about this interesting case on virtualization.info.
A few weeks ago Microsoft launch a new Forum on TechNet about hosting, more specific about Microsoft.com Engineering Operations.
Come join us in discussions that are focused on Engineering Operations. Ask questions, give us your insights, help us build the community of folks that are engaged in real-world systems engineering.
Direct link: MSCOM TechNet Forum
Found a good article about IIS 6.0 Security on Microsoft TechNet.
Read the full article here.
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