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Want to learn how Microsoft Office 365 can help you realize the promise of anywhere access?   With Office 365, you can create an “anywhere” workplace that supports employee needs and helps your business maintain a leading edge. Please join us for a one-hour webcast and live online demo showing how the Office 365 suite of tools—including  professional email, calendars, instant messaging, video conferencing, and file sharing—can transform the way you work.   By attending this live online demo, you’ll learn: How you can use Office 365 to build a connected workplace that’s accessible from virtually any location and any device. How you can enable employees to work interchangeably from smartphones or laptops—with or without Internet access. Ways to customize Office 365 to fit your organization’s unique processes and needs. How the many features of Office 365 work together to help save you time and money. Why Office 365 provides robust security features and the reliability you’d expect from a world-class provider. How Office 365 allows IT administrators to stay in control—of user access, user accounts, and deployment across the organization.   The demo will be led by Patrick Watson, Account Manager at SADA Systems, a Microsoft Certified Partner. Office 365 specialists will be on hand during the demo to answer your questions via a live chat Q&A.   Don’t miss this opportunity to see the features and benefits of Office 365 in action—and how this next-generation, cloud-based service can help you transform your organization.               This event is jointly hosted by Microsoft and SADA Systems. Any personal information we collect from you in conjunction with this event may be shared between Microsoft and SADA Systems. For complete information on the data collection and use practices of each company, please read the full privacy statements by clicking on the links below.   SADA Systems Privacy Statement   Regardless of any contact preferences you might have previously made on this Microsoft site or on other Microsoft sites or services, by registering for this webcast or virtual lab, you consent and agree to allow Microsoft or one of its third-party agents to contact you no more than three (3) instances for the purpose of soliciting feedback on the webcast or virtual lab or to supply you with special discounts and offers related to products and services presented in the webcast or virtual lab. Any other use of the personal information in your Microsoft Windows Live ID profile is subject to the Microsoft Privacy Statement. To learn more about the privacy and security of Microsoft Windows Live ID click here.

Penetration testing is the most widespread assurance technique used today, but it is wildly inconsistent, reactive, and negative. Web applications have been enjoying a golden age of very easy "pentesting," but that's all about to change as technologies with faster transactions, more complex data structures, and custom protocols emerge. For a variety of reasons, the assurance challenge is not one that can be overcome with more and more powerful automated vulnerability tools. In this webcast, Jeff Williams, CEO and Co-Founder of Aspect Security, a Microsoft SDL Pro Network member company, shares his experience helping organizations get over their pentesting addictions and build positive application security programs, like the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle.

Penetration testing is the most widespread assurance technique used today, but it is wildly inconsistent, reactive, and negative. Web applications have been enjoying a golden age of very easy "pentesting," but that's all about to change as technologies with faster transactions, more complex data structures, and custom protocols emerge. For a variety of reasons, the assurance challenge is not one that can be overcome with more and more powerful automated vulnerability tools. In this webcast, Jeff Williams, CEO and Co-Founder of Aspect Security, a Microsoft SDL Pro Network member company, shares his experience helping organizations get over their pentesting addictions and build positive application security programs, like the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle.

Learn more about Office 365 from a customer's experience.

Learn more about Office 365 from a customer's experience.

Accenture’s recent acquisition of Duck Creek Technologies, a leading property & casualty (P&C) insurance software provider, is a strategic combination that will create one of the most modern and comprehensive P&C insurance software systems currently available to the industry.Learn about how the combined organizations will better serve the P&C insurance market and their plans for the product in the months ahead.What it means for Insurers:Insurers are offered further independent but interoperable modules that cover all core insurance functions, helping reduce implementation time and risk.What it means for Accenture & Duck Creek TechnologiesThe integration will give Accenture an industry-leading suite of software with one of the most comprehensive suites of processing capabilities for the P&C insurance market — from product configuration and definition to policy management, including underwriting, billing, rating, ISO-based products support and claims management. The incorporation of Duck Creek Technologies will expand the Accenture P&C insurance Software Suite with a proven, robust ratings engine and deep ISO-based and workers compensation content for the North America market.

Accenture’s recent acquisition of Duck Creek Technologies, a leading property & casualty (P&C) insurance software provider, is a strategic combination that will create one of the most modern and comprehensive P&C insurance software systems currently available to the industry.Learn about how the combined organizations will better serve the P&C insurance market and their plans for the product in the months ahead.What it means for Insurers:Insurers are offered further independent but interoperable modules that cover all core insurance functions, helping reduce implementation time and risk.What it means for Accenture & Duck Creek TechnologiesThe integration will give Accenture an industry-leading suite of software with one of the most comprehensive suites of processing capabilities for the P&C insurance market — from product configuration and definition to policy management, including underwriting, billing, rating, ISO-based products support and claims management. The incorporation of Duck Creek Technologies will expand the Accenture P&C insurance Software Suite with a proven, robust ratings engine and deep ISO-based and workers compensation content for the North America market.

Traditional banking operating models struggle in today’s new environment. Higher capital and liquidity requirements required by financial reform suggest leaner margins in the future.  Continued market volatility and shifting consumer preferences imply changing business requirements and product priorities. To support changing operating requirements, the industry needs a new model of technology. This new infrastructure must allow the business to bring products to market faster, more cost effectively and the ability to retire obsolete ones – a solution that allows a rising tide of new regulations to be absorbed and managed more easily. This session will explore how computing power must adapt quicker to shifting product portfolios and that the value of scale is giving way to the need to be more agile and flexible.

This session will highlight some of the new features that are introduced in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 with the Time and Attendance and Manufacturing Execution modules.We’ll look at the gains in efficiency and utilization that can be achieved by implementing a real-time reporting system.  Errors and redundant postings can be eliminated by touch screen technology an easy to use data entry interface.  Up to the minute data from Microsoft Dynamics AX presents itself to the employees and supervisors on the floor for quick decision making.

This session will highlight some of the new features that are introduced in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 with the Time and Attendance and Manufacturing Execution modules.We’ll look at the gains in efficiency and utilization that can be achieved by implementing a real-time reporting system.  Errors and redundant postings can be eliminated by touch screen technology an easy to use data entry interface.  Up to the minute data from Microsoft Dynamics AX presents itself to the employees and supervisors on the floor for quick decision making.

Please join us to learn how Microsoft Dynamics GP can connect the many moving parts of your organization to give you better control over and visibility into what's going on in your business. Discover how the ability to make smart business decisions can have a direct impact on your bottom line--turning higher margins into a better cash position. With liquidity, more things become possible, which ultimately leads to growth, shareholder value, security for staff, and increased job satisfaction. Simple to learn and use, Microsoft Dynamics GP works with your existing technology, scales as you grow, and delivers long-term value.

Please join us to learn how Microsoft Dynamics GP can connect the many moving parts of your organization to give you better control over and visibility into what's going on in your business. Discover how the ability to make smart business decisions can have a direct impact on your bottom line--turning higher margins into a better cash position. With liquidity, more things become possible, which ultimately leads to growth, shareholder value, security for staff, and increased job satisfaction. Simple to learn and use, Microsoft Dynamics GP works with your existing technology, scales as you grow, and delivers long-term value.

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 R2 contained many new features that existing customers asked for.  Come to this web seminar to learn about the new features and how you can use them to get more out of your existing investment.

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 R2 contained many new features that existing customers asked for.  Come to this web seminar to learn about the new features and how you can use them to get more out of your existing investment.

Microsoft Dynamics SL continues to invest in the features that help save time, resources and help improve communications.  In this webcast learn about new and enhanced features Quick Send, Doc Share, Upload to SharePoint and other related features

Microsoft Dynamics SL 2011's new system-wide features were created to let customers extend them to meet companies' needs. See examples of extending the Action Panes, Quick Links, DocShare, and Quick Query features. The items featured in this demonstration will be made available to download.

In this webcast, we give an overview of what Microsoft OneNote is and the basics of using this application. We also look at ways to link content together in OneNote for easy navigation and quick searches across notebooks. Finally, we discuss three common uses for OneNote and how to apply these to your workplace. This webcast covers the following topics: An overview (creating notebooks and content, inserting objects and links) Creating links for navigation Linking to outside sources Three practical uses for OneNote

Save time by creating Microsoft Outlook templates and by using forms to customize the appearance of the message window. You can use templates to specify fonts, background images, and colors. Forms take your templates a step further by applying form fields to change the base form of the message. In this webcast, we step beyond the local workspace and show you how to use Microsoft SharePoint integration features to create meeting workspaces and publish calendars to specific groups. This webcast covers the following topics: Templates Forms Collaboration (sharing folders, SharePoint integration, and RSS feeds) Email options (voting buttons, importance, and read receipts) Junk mail Connecting to Microsoft OneNote

With Microsoft Dynamics ERP offerings, customers have a choice of on-premises deployment, cloud-based solutions, or a combination of the two. Hosted ERP solutions give IT departments the flexibility to replace on-premises servers with a hosted equivalent, ultimately helping to reduce the costs incurred in managing their solution. Rather than buying client access licenses and servers, customers pay a subscription fee for this ERP hosting service. View this webcast to learn more about the business benefits of hosted ERP solutions, if it is right for your business, and how you, as a current Microsoft Dynamics ERP customer, can take advantage of offerings in the market today. You also learn from other Microsoft Dynamics ERP customers what benefits they are seeing.

How often do you need answers to important business questions but have to wait days for a report that has the information? By using Microsoft Dynamics GP business intelligence solutions, you can get the answers in seconds, giving you better insight and helping you manage your business more effectively. Learn how you can get more knowledge and insight out of your data in this webcast.

Want to learn how Microsoft Office 365 can help you realize the promise of anywhere access?   With Office 365, you can create an “anywhere” workplace that supports employee needs and helps your business maintain a leading edge. Please join us for a one-hour webcast and live online demo showing how the Office 365 suite of tools—including  professional email, calendars, instant messaging, video conferencing, and file sharing—can transform the way you work.   By attending this live online demo, you’ll learn: How you can use Office 365 to build a connected workplace that’s accessible from virtually any location and any device. How you can enable employees to work interchangeably from smartphones or laptops—with or without Internet access. Ways to customize Office 365 to fit your organization’s unique processes and needs. How the many features of Office 365 work together to help save you time and money. Why Office 365 provides robust security features and the reliability you’d expect from a world-class provider. How Office 365 allows IT administrators to stay in control—of user access, user accounts, and deployment across the organization.   The demo will be led by Jeramie Anders, VP of Technology of Consistent Computer Bargains, Inc., a Microsoft Certified Partner. Office 365 specialists will be on hand during the demo to answer your questions via a live chat Q&A.   Don’t miss this opportunity to see the features and benefits of Office 365 in action—and how this next-generation, cloud-based service can help you transform your organization.             This event is jointly hosted by Microsoft and Consistent Computer Bargains, Inc. Any personal information we collect from you in conjunction with this event may be shared between Microsoft and Consistent Computer Bargains, Inc. For complete information on the data collection and use practices of each company, please read the full privacy statements by clicking on the links below.   Consistent Computer Bargains, Inc. Privacy Statement   Regardless of any contact preferences you might have previously made on this Microsoft site or on other Microsoft sites or services, by registering for this webcast or virtual lab, you consent and agree to allow Microsoft or one of its third-party agents to contact you no more than three (3) instances for the purpose of soliciting feedback on the webcast or virtual lab or to supply you with special discounts and offers related to products and services presented in the webcast or virtual lab. Any other use of the personal information in your Microsoft Windows Live ID profile is subject to the Microsoft Privacy Statement. To learn more about the privacy and security of Microsoft Windows Live ID click here.

In this webcast, we walk through why your CustomerSource account profile is so important and how to get to the information that you need to keep your solution up to date. We show you how to get the latest news about your solution and the latest offers. We also walk through the online training and how to set your course selection to help you become a Microsoft Dynamics solution user expert.

Want to learn how Microsoft Office 365 can help you realize the promise of anywhere access?   With Office 365, you can create an “anywhere” workplace that supports employee needs and helps your business maintain a leading edge. Please join us for a one-hour webcast and live online demo showing how the Office 365 suite of tools—including  professional email, calendars, instant messaging, video conferencing, and file sharing—can transform the way you work.   By attending this live online demo, you’ll learn: How you can use Office 365 to build a connected workplace that’s accessible from virtually any location and any device. How you can enable employees to work interchangeably from smartphones or laptops—with or without Internet access. Ways to customize Office 365 to fit your organization’s unique processes and needs. How the many features of Office 365 work together to help save you time and money. Why Office 365 provides robust security features and the reliability you’d expect from a world-class provider. How Office 365 allows IT administrators to stay in control—of user access, user accounts, and deployment across the organization.   The demo will be led by Stephen Roux, Founder and President of Innovative Computer Systems, a Microsoft Certified Partner. Office 365 specialists will be on hand during the demo to answer your questions via a live chat Q&A.   Don’t miss this opportunity to see the features and benefits of Office 365 in action—and how this next-generation, cloud-based service can help you transform your organization.               This event is jointly hosted by Microsoft and Innovative Computer Systems. Any personal information we collect from you in conjunction with this event may be shared between Microsoft and Innovative Computer Systems. For questions about Innovative Computer Systems’ privacy, please contact Carol Swartz at swartz@ics-inc.com. For complete information on the data collection and use practices of Microsoft, please read the full privacy statement by clicking on the link below.   Regardless of any contact preferences you might have previously made on this Microsoft site or on other Microsoft sites or services, by registering for this webcast or virtual lab, you consent and agree to allow Microsoft or one of its third-party agents to contact you no more than three (3) instances for the purpose of soliciting feedback on the webcast or virtual lab or to supply you with special discounts and offers related to products and services presented in the webcast or virtual lab. Any other use of the personal information in your Microsoft Windows Live ID profile is subject to the Microsoft Privacy Statement. To learn more about the privacy and security of Microsoft Windows Live ID click here.  

Does your company already own Microsoft Dynamics CRM? Or is it looking into purchasing it in the future? Watch this webcast to learn how Microsoft Dynamics SL and Microsoft Dynamics CRM can share and synchronize customer information.

In this episode, Microsoft goes on location in Pasadena, California to learn about the business challenges of Ltd365, a small business with all of its employees working in different locations. Learn about accessing your work remotely, managing customer data on the go, storing files in a single location for easy access, and communicating beyond audio via desktop-sharing to visually “show” your work to team members in remote locations.

In this episode, Microsoft goes on location in Pasadena, California to learn about the business challenges of Ltd365, a small business with all of its employees working in different locations. Learn about accessing your work remotely, managing customer data on the go, storing files in a single location for easy access, and communicating beyond audio via desktop-sharing to visually “show” your work to team members in remote locations.

In this episode, Microsoft goes on location in Pasadena, California to learn about the business challenges of Ltd365, a small business with all of its employees working in different locations. Learn about accessing your work remotely, managing customer data on the go, storing files in a single location for easy access, and communicating beyond audio via desktop-sharing to visually “show” your work to team members in remote locations.

In this episode, Microsoft goes on location in Pasadena, California to learn about the business challenges of Ltd365, a small business with all of its employees working in different locations. Learn about accessing your work remotely, managing customer data on the go, storing files in a single location for easy access, and communicating beyond audio via desktop-sharing to visually “show” your work to team members in remote locations.

In this episode, Microsoft goes on location in Pasadena, California to learn about the business challenges of Ltd365, a small business with all of its employees working in different locations. Learn about accessing your work remotely, managing customer data on the go, storing files in a single location for easy access, and communicating beyond audio via desktop-sharing to visually “show” your work to team members in remote locations.

Does your company already own Microsoft Dynamics CRM? Or is it looking into purchasing it in the future? Watch this webcast to learn how Microsoft Dynamics SL and Microsoft Dynamics CRM can share and synchronize customer information.

Agile on your own terms. Visual Studio 11 Ultimate accommodates the unique needs of a given project or team and provides out-of-box agile techniques and planning tools to optimize the development process at your own pace. Adopt agile techniques to become more effective with flexible agile planning  tools. Reconcile the agile team with your company’s project management with Project Server integration.

Second- and third- hand customer input can cause confusion and rework.  Instead, elicit and accept feedback directly from stakeholders while they interact with your app - with rich logging, screen capture and annotation.  Easily triage feedback and incorporate it into your existing workflow.

Continuous improvement is only made possible through quantitative feedback loops and clear visibility into your processes. Visual Studio 11 opens up new doors for feedback and visibility within your organization.  Building upon the integration story of developers, testers, and project managers, Visual Studio 11 tightly integrates stakeholders and operations to provide the opportunity for continuous improvement even further. Buckle up as we demonstrate integration between TFS, Project Server, and System Center.

Serving your team, product owner, and organization can be difficult and time consuming. How do you make sure that your team and product owner have the knowledge and skills to complete their job? Looking for smells and training your team are key concerns, and we will show you how to leverage the Visual Studio 11 tools on a daily basis to be more effective.

Agile on your own terms. Visual Studio 11 Ultimate accommodates the unique needs of a given project or team and provides out-of-box agile techniques and planning tools to optimize the development process at your own pace. Adopt agile techniques to become more effective with flexible agile planning  tools. Reconcile the agile team with your company’s project management with Project Server integration.

Second- and third- hand customer input can cause confusion and rework.  Instead, elicit and accept feedback directly from stakeholders while they interact with your app - with rich logging, screen capture and annotation.  Easily triage feedback and incorporate it into your existing workflow.

This webcast discusses the security improvements for native code development in Microsoft Visual Studio 11 as they relate to the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL). These improvements include easier access to security-relevant warnings, along with improved and new security code generation features, such as updates to /GS buffer overflow protection and new protection against uninitialized data usage.

Microsoft’s application lifecycle management tooling is all about enabling teams to deliver great software. In this session, you will learn how the ALM features of Visual Studio 11 allow you to more effectively plan and track work by using the new Web-based project management tools; how to bridge the divide between development and operations by utilizing IntelliTrace in your production environments; and how to help keep team members on-task  with the new “My Work” and code review features.

Continuous improvement is only made possible through quantitative feedback loops and clear visibility into your processes. Visual Studio 11 opens up new doors for feedback and visibility within your organization.  Building upon the integration story of developers, testers, and project managers, Visual Studio 11 tightly integrates stakeholders and operations to provide the opportunity for continuous improvement even further. Buckle up as we demonstrate integration between TFS, Project Server, and System Center.

Serving your team, product owner, and organization can be difficult and time consuming. How do you make sure that your team and product owner have the knowledge and skills to complete their job? Looking for smells and training your team are key concerns, and we will show you how to leverage the Visual Studio 11 tools on a daily basis to be more effective.

Do you have the right hardware and resources to properly load test your web sites? These resources are usually needed for just a few hours when load testing which make them difficult to justify from the stand point of the effort required in provisioning. Now you have the ability to use only the solutions you need from Microsoft's newest open-cloud platform, Windows Azure.Windows Azure makes it possible to create a cloud-based, rapid-provisioning environment. The combination of Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Azure gives you the additional ability to create a load testing platform to fit any scale or size.This webcast gives you knowledge on how to deploy test agents to Windows Azure "Worker Roles" to create test environments as an extension of Visual Studio 2010. You'll also learn how to:  Create a project for test machine deployment including the process of leveraging PowerShell scripting for installation and deployment and controller registration of the test agent  Use Remote Desktop to setup the Windows Azure worker role  Configure Azure Connect to bridge your network to the cloud  Increase the number of Windows Azure machines through the Windows Azure control panel  Set up a load test in Visual Studio 2010   This webcast is a must attend for QA engineers, developers, and managers that are interested in how to leverage Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Azure to create the ultimate load testing platform.

Second- and third- hand customer input can cause confusion and rework.  Instead, elicit and accept feedback directly from stakeholders while they interact with your app - with rich logging, screen capture and annotation.  Easily triage feedback and incorporate it into your existing workflow.

Are “silent failures” ruining your application’s and your reputation? Join us as we demonstrate how to use the new PreEmptive Analytics CE feature in Visual Studio 11 to instrument your application, detect production exceptions, and intelligently and automatically create work items inside TFS – across client, server, cloud and mobile boundaries. This new development pattern enables true feedback-driven identification and prioritization of the exceptions that may ultimately define the success and value of your work.

Getting the tool out of the way and letting you stay in the zone is a big part of Visual Studio 11.  Come experience the new developer experience and workflows for work items, version control, unit testing, and code reviews. Visualizing your current work and updating status is almost effortless, version control is much more flexible, continuous testing made possible by a new unit testing interface, and a true code review workflow is available for collaboration and feedback.

Turning requests from your Product Owner into value can be a difficult task. How do you know when you are done? Take your development to the next level with a day in the life of a development team, interpreting requirements, creating Test Cases, practicing Test Driven Development and Acceptance Test Driven Development. All these things are within your grasp with Visual Studio 11.

Have you built a private cloud lab with Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager and Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and need to have some questions answered? Join our IT pro evangelists for this fun, interactive, Q&A online discussion about the private cloud.  We give you tips and tricks about these products and answer your questions about Microsoft's private cloud solutions.

The Microsoft Sales and Marketing IT team shares how it used a Scrum project management model to architect and implement a Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011-based enterprise lead management system to support the Microsoft small and medium business customer sales cycle.

In the final webcast of this 13-part series about the new features in Microsoft SQL Server 2012, we look at the new SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services add-in for Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Power View. Power View is an ad-hoc data visualization tool that lets SharePoint users easily create attractive-looking matrices and charts against either deployed PowerPivot data models or deployed SQL Server Analysis Services tabular models. Some of Power View’s interesting features include navigating through multiple views of a report (storyboard-style), visual slicers with image capabilities, cross-filtering, and other interactive features made possible through the Microsoft Silverlight application that helps to "power" Power View. In this webcast, we look at some "meaningful eye candy"—some examples where Power View can be used for creating self-service, dashboard-style charts. The webcast also compares Power View to some of the other reporting/charting tools in the business intelligence stack (such as the Report Designer in SQL Server Data Tools, Report Builder, and even the reporting tool in PerformancePoint Services). If your job is to create reports (or train others to create reports) in SharePoint against some of the newer data models in SQL Server 2012, this webcast is for you!

Join us for a brief overview of the technical details of this month's Microsoft security bulletins. We intend to address your concerns in this webcast. Therefore, Microsoft security experts devote most of this webcast to answering the questions that you ask.

In this TechNet webcast, we explore the new features that have been added to version 4.5 of the Microsoft Online Services Diagnostics and Logging (MOSDAL) Support Toolkit. The new features include the Microsoft Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer (RCA), Domains and DNS, and Exchange Hybrid Deployment Data Collection. These new features allow MOSDAL to troubleshoot additional scenarios such as Microsoft Outlook connectivity, Microsoft Lync Online and Exchange Online DNS records, domain verification, and Exchange hybrid deployments.

Some people have observed that the core reporting services designer tool in Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools (formerly BIDS) remains largely the same as SQL Server 2008 R2. Although that is true, remember that the core SQL Server Reporting Services report designer received a number of substantial enhancements in both SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2. However, that doesn't mean that SQL Server Reporting Services in general didn’t receive attention in SQL Server 2012, because it certainly did! Microsoft implemented a number of enhancements to SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services, primarily in the areas of Microsoft SharePoint integration. This webcast covers the enhancements over two weeks. This specific webcast covers the new integration between SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services and SharePoint 2010. (SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services is now configured as a true SharePoint service application!) The webcast also covers a new SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services feature in SharePoint, Data Alerts. Data Alerts is a self-service, data-driven notification feature to alert users about changes to key report data, such as a large order being placed or key sales metrics rising above/falling below a certain level.  We look at multiple examples of designing data alerts and then executing them.   The following week, the webcast covers "part 2" of the new SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services features in SharePoint: the new SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services data visualization add-in called Power View.

While the user interface capabilities in PowerPivot 2.0 offer tremendous capabilities for creating "self-service" and "departmental" business intelligence solutions, no database tool is complete without a programming language to help "stretch the field."  PowerPivot's programming language is DAX (Data Analysis Expressions), a formula-based language used to define custom calculations that would either be difficult or impossible to otherwise calculate in PowerPivot. Many analytic requirements call for calculations such as a 12-month/52-week moving average, market sales as a percentage of region sales, sales for the same time period a year ago, product sales ranking within a category, and trend calculations involving seasonality. The DAX language can handle all of these and much more. DAX 2.0 is a significant upgrade over DAX 1.0 (from the original version of PowerPivot), with many new native functions to make developers' lives easier. This example-based webcast shows six analytic scenarios in which we can leverage DAX—with the objective of showing how DAX can help us extend the data in a PowerPivot application.

Have you built a private cloud lab with Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager and Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and need to have some questions answered? Join our IT pro evangelists for this fun, interactive, Q&A online discussion about the private cloud.  We give you tips and tricks about these products and answer your questions about Microsoft's private cloud solutions.

Do your transactional SQL replication systems keep falling behind or breaking? If so, this webcast is for you. This webcast discusses the transactional replication best practices that have greatly improved stability, simplified management, and enhanced performance of replication environments throughout Microsoft IT.

In the previous segment about PowerPivot, we created PowerPivot content in Microsoft Excel from a relational database and essentially constructed an analytic database inside Excel. In this follow-up segment, we look at the necessary integration between Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (PowerPivot) so that we can publish PowerPivot content to a SharePoint PowerPivot document gallery. In addition to the integration points, we also look at PowerPivot data refreshes in SharePoint to manage the process when the underlying relational database changes. Finally, we take a very quick sneak peek at another capability after publishing PowerPivot content to Excel: accessing the underlying analytic PowerPivot database by using the newest reporting add-in, Power View (which is covered in part 13).

PowerPivot is a very unique tool. It is only two years old, but its capabilities have been leveraged in multiple areas of Microsoft SQL Server, including the columnstore feature in SQL Server 2012 and the self-service business intelligence (BI) features in SQL Server 2008 R2.Sometimes tools are so special that their learning curve has multiple layers: to learn what the tool provides, to learn the specific options, and (equally important) to understand how the tool fits into a larger picture. In this first of two segments about PowerPivot, we look at its basic capabilities: how to use Microsoft Excel 2010 and PowerPivot to access a relational database and create the equivalent of an analytic database "under the hood" of Excel.  PowerPivot 2.0 offers many enhancements over PowerPivot 1.0, such as better date handling, hierarchies, perspectives, and a data diagram tool—some of the same features in the tabular model.  In the second segment, we look at publishing the PowerPivot content to Microsoft SharePoint, and we see what capabilities we have in SharePoint.

In this demonstration-rich, question and answer webcast, Windows Product Manager Stephen Rose moderates an open conversation with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Product Manager Michael Niehaus and deployment guru Johan Arwidmark. They discuss the new Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 release as well as tips and tricks from the experts about using the Windows Deployment Toolkit.

In this demonstration-rich, question and answer webcast, Windows Product Manager Stephen Rose moderates an open conversation with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Product Manager Michael Niehaus and deployment guru Johan Arwidmark. They discuss the new Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 release as well as tips and tricks from the experts about using the Windows Deployment Toolkit.

This webcast picks up where the previous part left off: we look at the different specific features in the tabular model, such as key performance indicators (KPIs), roles, partitions, and calculations. We also look at scenarios in which the tabular model works well compared to the traditional OLAP model, scenarios in which the models differ, and ways that we can scale the tabular model (which by default is an in-memory data model) for more enterprise-level applications (by using DirectQuery mode). After this webcast, you should have a better understanding of the tabular model and how it differs from the traditional OLAP, multidimensional model.

Join us for a brief overview of the technical details of this month's Microsoft security bulletins. We intend to address your concerns in this webcast. Therefore, Microsoft security experts devote most of this webcast to answering the questions that you ask.

Please join us to learn how Microsoft Dynamics GP can connect the many moving parts of your organization to give you better control over and visibility into what's going on in your business. Discover how the ability to make smart business decisions can have a direct impact on your bottom line—turning higher margins into a better cash position. With liquidity, more things become possible, which ultimately leads to growth, shareholder value, security for staff, and increased job satisfaction. Simple to learn and use, Microsoft Dynamics GP works with your existing technology, scales as you grow, and delivers long-term value.

Learn which ERP deployment option is right for your business objectives–on premises or in the cloud. Microsoft Dynamics ERP represents a significant opportunity to meet your business challenges and to increase your bottom line. Whether that's by leveraging your existing investments by using the hardware and software you already own or by minimizing your initial investments to get up and running quickly in the cloud, Microsoft Dynamics ERP can help you with a solution that will scale as your needs change. Simple to learn and easy to use, Microsoft Dynamics ERP works with your existing technology and delivers long term value. In this webcast, we give you the tools you need to evaluate the opportunity to grow your business with the next generation of ERP solutions either on premises or in the cloud.

This webcast is designed for growing and mid-sized organizations that have a Microsoft Software Assurance (SA) agreement through the Open Business, Open Value, Select, or Enterprise Agreement (EA) programs. Join us to find out how your organization can benefit from renewing your Microsoft SA agreement. Learn about the tools and resources available to help determine the value of renewing your agreement.

This webcast is designed for growing and mid-sized organizations that have a Microsoft Software Assurance (SA) agreement through the Open Business, Open Value, Select, or Enterprise Agreement (EA) programs. Join us to find out how your organization can benefit from renewing your Microsoft SA agreement. Learn about the tools and resources available to help determine the value of renewing your agreement.

Learn how to use and get the most value from your Microsoft Enterprise Agreement. In this webcast discussion, our experienced licensing team explains how to manage your Enterprise Agreement and the anniversary processes, and the team shares many more details that can help you better realize a return on your investment in Microsoft solutions. Discover the resources available through Microsoft Volume Licensing Services (MVLS), the benefits of activating Microsoft Software Assurance (SA), and how to add products and solutions, and hear an overview of the available licensing rebates and promotions. Whether you have a new Enterprise Agreement or are just a new administrator, you should attend this webcast.

Learn how to use and get the most value from your Microsoft Enterprise Agreement. In this webcast discussion, our experienced licensing team explains how to manage your Enterprise Agreement and the anniversary processes, and the team shares many more details that can help you better realize a return on your investment in Microsoft solutions. Discover the resources available through Microsoft Volume Licensing Services (MVLS), the benefits of activating Microsoft Software Assurance (SA), and how to add products and solutions, and hear an overview of the available licensing rebates and promotions. Whether you have a new Enterprise Agreement or are just a new administrator, you should attend this webcast.

Learn why Microsoft Dynamics ERP represents a significant opportunity to meet your business challenges and to increase your bottom line. Do you need a solution that goes beyond spreadsheets or basic enterprise resource planning (ERP)? Learn how Microsoft Dynamics ERP can help you grow your business. Simple to learn and easy to use, Microsoft Dynamics ERP works with your existing technology, scales as you grow, and delivers long term value. In this webcast, we give you the tools you need to evaluate the opportunity to grow your business with the next generation of ERP solutions. We examine questions including is my business ready for an ERP system, what are the top considerations in evaluating modern ERP solutions, and what are the potential benefits my business can enjoy with a new solution.

Learn why Microsoft Dynamics ERP represents a significant opportunity to meet your business challenges and to increase your bottom line. Do you need a solution that goes beyond spreadsheets or basic enterprise resource planning (ERP)? Learn how Microsoft Dynamics ERP can help you grow your business. Simple to learn and easy to use, Microsoft Dynamics ERP works with your existing technology, scales as you grow, and delivers long term value. In this webcast, we give you the tools you need to evaluate the opportunity to grow your business with the next generation of ERP solutions. We examine questions including is my business ready for an ERP system, what are the top considerations in evaluating modern ERP solutions, and what are the potential benefits my business can enjoy with a new solution.

Microsoft Office 365 is Microsoft Office collaboration and productivity tools delivered through the cloud. In this Office 365 webcast, Brainstorm Inc. focuses on Microsoft SharePoint Online, the web-based collaboration platform. SharePoint Online can revolutionize your organization by helping to empower individuals through the best productivity experience, deliver business insights quickly, support compliance requirements, connect various devices, and cut costs for maintenance and training. In this 60-minute webcast, you learn the simplicity and power of the SharePoint Online end-user experience.

Microsoft Office 365 is Microsoft Office collaboration and productivity tools delivered through the cloud. In this Office 365 webcast, Brainstorm Inc. focuses on Microsoft SharePoint Online, the web-based collaboration platform. SharePoint Online can revolutionize your organization by helping to empower individuals through the best productivity experience, deliver business insights quickly, support compliance requirements, connect various devices, and cut costs for maintenance and training. In this 60-minute webcast, you learn the simplicity and power of the SharePoint Online end-user experience.

Watch this webcast to get an inside look into the inner workings of Microsoft Dynamics GP, including how the product works and its out-of-the box reporting and business intelligence functionality. We also show how easily the solution scales to meet growing business needs and how to migrate from other accounting systems.

Watch this webcast to get an inside look into the inner workings of Microsoft Dynamics GP, including how the product works and its out-of-the box reporting and business intelligence functionality. We also show how easily the solution scales to meet growing business needs and how to migrate from other accounting systems.

Please join us to learn how Microsoft Dynamics GP can connect the many moving parts of your organization to give you better control over and visibility into what's going on in your business. Discover how the ability to make smart business decisions can have a direct impact on your bottom line—turning higher margins into a better cash position. With liquidity, more things become possible, which ultimately leads to growth, shareholder value, security for staff, and increased job satisfaction. Simple to learn and use, Microsoft Dynamics GP works with your existing technology, scales as you grow, and delivers long-term value.

Please join us to learn how Microsoft Dynamics GP can connect the many moving parts of your organization to give you better control over and visibility into what's going on in your business. Discover how the ability to make smart business decisions can have a direct impact on your bottom line—turning higher margins into a better cash position. With liquidity, more things become possible, which ultimately leads to growth, shareholder value, security for staff, and increased job satisfaction. Simple to learn and use, Microsoft Dynamics GP works with your existing technology, scales as you grow, and delivers long-term value.

Are you wondering what Microsoft Lync Online is and how it affects your organization? Are you curious about what role it can play in moving your business forward? Join us for a fast-paced 60-minute session that is designed to highlight the most exciting features of Lync Online. An instructor showcases a tip or feature every few minutes, providing you with a broad and real-world understanding of what the platform can do for your end users.  Topics include viewing Lync Online presence in your applications, managing conversations, sharing your desktop with others, and hosting an online meeting.