Anith Gopal

As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, we talked to Henning Volkmer, CEO of ThinPrint, Inc.

You’ve most likely heard the news by now.  At the Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans, Microsoft announced that the next version of Office reached its Technical Preview engineering milestone.  You can read the highlights in this press release (and I’ll include some more links below).  I’m guessing the first question on people’s minds is “how do I get a copy?”.  Currently the Technical Preview program is “by invitation only” and is not broadly available to the public.  There is a waitlist you can sign up for, found here . If you can’t get your hands on a copy, all is not lost.  The other exciting bit of news that goes along with the Technical Preview release is the Excel team is now able to start blogging about the exciting work we’ve done in this release, so you’ll be able to learn all about Excel 2010 here.  Consider this post the official transition of this blog into “2010 mode” (though we’ll still be posting Power Tips in the meantime as well).  I’ve been waiting for this day for a long time.  We have a lot of ground to cover.  I hope the next few months are as exciting for you as they will be for me.

Recently, one of our customers reported an issue with Web Access causing some users to get HTTP 400 Bad Request errors.

This is a great BizTalk RFID case study in hospitality. Resort Streamlines Skier Check-In, Improves Data Collection with RF Technology Enhancing the guest experience is central to the corporate mission at Vail Resorts, but ski lift pass authentication for season pass holders was often a time-consuming process due to passes being worn under layers of winter clothing. In addition, the company had little visibility into the skiing patterns of its guests

American Apparel is one of our customers using BizTalk RFID. Please take a look at an awesome video created by Avery Dennison. Sorry your browser does not support iframes, click here to view the full length video

Part two in my series at Westcon. Bryan Bayges, Director of Unified Communications -   Westcon joins me to speak about Westcon Services

By Teresa Carlson , Microsoft Vice President of U.S. Federal Government Sales It’s clear that 2009 has already brought much change. This means that the business of government has become even more critical to the health of our country

Building distributed systems using WCF has so many advantages.

Author: Chip & Dan Heath This is an awesome book. I was looking for book on storytelling this is an ideal book on that. Made to Stick focuses on telling your story/message in a way that it sticks with the audience.

There is an old saying that the pen is mightier than the sword . The power of words, that is what words you use are very important when you want to teach or just get other interested in your ideas

I just wrote a blog post on my team blog on using FREB to troubleshoot a simple error message. I’ve taken an example of a HttpModule setting the Response status to 400. This is not a common scenario, but I just want people to use FREB extensively in their troubleshooting an error message – to see which module set the status, and take it from there

Something that I’m currently working on is trying to better understand the interest our partners and community members have in the migration/sync space.  There are already some people out there that have built tools on our existing Migration Toolkit , and I’m sure there are others I don’t know about that have tried (successfully or unsuccessfully).  If you are one of those people that have tried to build migration tools for TFS, I’d love to learn more about your goals in this space.  Below are some questions that I have related to migration.  I welcome any and all feedback, so please feel free to respond to this post via email or by leaving a comment. Where does your primary interest lie with respect to migration?  Some things I can think of (please feel free to elaborate or suggest other things I’ve missed): Building migration tools Building integration/synchronization tools Extending/contributing to the platform Utilizing migration/sync tools to help customers in service engagements Customizing migration/sync tools in customer engagements What, if any, business plans do you have in this space