Automated SharePoint server monitoring - Your job just got easier

	Idera's SharePoint diagnostic manager monitors the performance and availability of your SharePoint farms, content, and severs, so you don't have to. It offers customized alerting on poorly performing pages, so you don't have to monitor that. And it has a historical repository so you can see trends and forecast future events, so that's taken care of.
	This thing makes your job pretty easy, right? Plus- §  Intuitive dashboard UI provides 'at-a-glance' view of SharePoint health §  Configurable email alerts notify you when there's a problem §  Alert details link to Knowledge Base of troubleshooting advice §  Historical repository enables advanced capacity planning §  No agents required on monitored farm servers
	Download a free trial and let SharePoint diagnostic manager do all the heavy lifting. You just relax. Take a nap or something.

Track SharePoint Growth and Capacity, Prevent System Outages

	SharePoint space trends tracks the growth of your sites and document libraries, so you can get a jump on managing your SharePoint storage and optimizing how resources are used. Think of it as magic software that lets you see the future of SharePoint. SharePoint space trends lets you- ·  Identify and analyze storage growth trends ·  Perform capacity planning ·  Prevent system outages due to storage problems Get in the know. Download SharePoint space trends now.
	Another SharePoint tool worth checking out . Free up more time with Idera's SharePoint enterprise manager, the complete package for SharePoint administrators to quickly execute administrative tasks that would normally take hours to accomplish. Download a free trial now to take control of your SharePoint farm!

Microsoft Windows Azure Camp at Pune (28- 29th Sept, 2012)‏

 

Agenda DAY 1 Time Session 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Registration and Sign in 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Executive Keynote 11:00 AM - 11.15 AM Intro to BizSpark 11.15 AM - 12:45 PM Technical Overview of Microsoft Windows Azure 12:45 PM - 01:00 PM Q&A Session 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM Session & HOL : Introduction to PaaS – Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud Services 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM Session & HOL : Migrating ASP.NET Applications to Microsoft Windows Azure PaaS 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM Q&A and Wrap up DAY 2 Time Session 10:00 AM - 11: 00 AM Session & HOL : Introduction to IaaS - Microsoft Windows Azure Virtual Machines 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Session & HOL : Connecting a PaaS(cloud service) application to an IaaS(virtual machine) application 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM Break 12:15 PM - 01:15 PM Building and publishing ASP.NET web applications with Microsoft Windows Azure Websites and Visual Studio 2012 01:15 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM Option 1 : Work on your Pet Idea Option 2 : Build your 1st Microsoft Windows Azure Website and Virtual Machine using ASP.NET an SQL Server 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM Q&A and Go Dos And Plan ahead Microsoft Windows Azure Setup : Pre-Requisites & Notes 1. BizSpark Registration Pre-Requisite 1: Exclusive Privilege for Startup's attendees: Get access to Sign Up Microsoft BizSpark Program Instantly. For further details please Go herehttps://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/SignUp/default.aspx 2. Please remember to get your laptop to the event as you would not be provided with systems at the venue. 3. We strongly advise you to install the following mentioned software’s on your laptop when you come to the session so that you do not waste time in between the sessions which could hamper your learning. Setting up the environment:  a. Install Web platform Installer : link b. Search for “Microsoft Windows Azure SDK or .NET” and download the same. This downloads all the dependencies automatically. OR a. Install Visual Studio 2010 (Express and it works very fine) link b. Run Windows Update to get VS 2010 SP1 installed c. Install SQL Server (Express) link d. Install Microsoft Windows Azure Tools and SDK : link  Important Note: Sign Up for Windows Azure Trail Account before the event and have your subscription ready. 4. Need a live id. You can sign-up for abc@live.in or abc@hotmail.in 5. Sign Up for Windows Azure Trail Account http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/?WT.mc_id=ADA1AD5A0(You will need to give in your credit-card / debit card details where you will not be charged and will have active account for 90 days and they will expire automatically. No charges) Ramp-up Guidance : a. Developer Center: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/overview/ b. BizSpark Notes: http://www.microsoft.com/BizSpark/Azure/SetupEnvironment.aspx c. Azure training Kit : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8396

10 Steps to Optimize SharePoint Performance‏

	Eric Shupps, SharePoint MVP and the Founder and President of BinaryWave, gives you the skinny on how to work within the SharePoint infrastructure to improve your SharePoint server performance. Learn to understand the inner workings of the framework, and build a better optimization strategy. In this whitepaper, learn how to: Separate user and database traffic Isolate search indexing Defragment database indexes, and more Download this handy and informative whitepaper now to get a head start on optimizing your SharePoint server.
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