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All the sessions have been recorded and coming online

http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/

SmoothHD.com is an early glimpse of cutting edge new technology from Microsoft and Akamai that will raise the bar on the consumer video experience.

SmoothHD.com is powered by Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 7.0 Smooth Streaming – a unique adaptive streaming technology that dynamically adapts video quality in real-time based on local bandwidth conditions - and Akamai AdaptiveEdge Streaming for Microsoft Silverlight , a new solution for enabling high-quality, scalable video experiences over Akamai's global HTTP network of more than 36,000 servers around the world.

Joint press release by Microsoft and Akamai

Open Video Player - Rapid Silverlight 2.0 video player development — download free source code

About Silverlight

About IIS Smooth Streaming

Smooth Streaming Encoding

Infrastructure Update and the new search functionality in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Daryl Gwyn and Mark Harrison

This recording will outline the contents of the July Infrastructure Update and provide you with a guide to upgrading your SharePoint farm. In addition Daryl will walk you through the new SharePoint Search administration pages and demonstrate installing and using federated search locators. Mark will then demonstrate how you can create your own federated search mash up.

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Day 2 at the PDC ...

Demonstrations of Windows 7. Windows 7 extends developers investments in Windows Vista and encourages the creation of new applications and services for the Windows platform. A pre-beta build of Windows 7 was given to PDC attendees; it was announced that a full Windows 7 beta would be released early next year.

Demonstrations of Live Services including Live Mesh a service for synchronizing data across multiple PCs and devices. Today, the powerful synchronization capabilities of Live Mesh have for the first time been opened to developers through a Technology Preview of the Live Framework, enabling Web developers to extend their Web applications to a world of Windows-based PCs and extending their Web applications offline.

Demonstrations of Office 14 Web applications - lightweight versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote - through a browser. With these new applications, people can use a browser to create, edit, and collaborate on Office documents. What's great is that this provides a consistent Office experience when and where our customers want it, regardless of whether they are accessing their Office documents through the PC, phone, or browser.

  PDC Day 2 - Keynote

Windows Live ID is publicly committing to support the OpenID digital identity framework with the announcement of the public availability of a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Windows Live ID OpenID Provider.

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A fresh new look to the .NET logo ...



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Windows Azure Datasheet

Microsoft .NET Services Datasheet

Microsoft SQL Services Datasheet

Live Services Datasheet

Windows Azure Software Development Kit - October 2008 CTP

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio - October 2008 CTP

Windows Azure MSDN

Azure Services Platform

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 are the next generation development tools and platform for Windows , the 2007 Office System, and the Web.

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This Community Technology Preview release is available in English only as a Virtual PC image.

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White Paper by David Chappell

Introducing the Azure Services Platform
An Early Look at Windows Azure, .NET Services, SQL Services, and Live Services

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  PDC Day 1 - Keynote

Day 1 at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2008, Ray Ozzie, announced Windows Azure, the cloud-based service foundation underlying its Azure Services Platform, and highlighted this platform's role in delivering a software plus services approach to computing. The Azure Services Platform is an industry-leading move by Microsoft to help developers build the next generation of applications that will span from the cloud to the enterprise datacenter and deliver compelling new experiences across the PC, Web and phone.

Ozzie described how this platform combines cloud-based developer capabilities with storage, computational and networking infrastructure services, all hosted on servers operating within Microsoft's global datacenter network. This provides developers with the ability to deploy applications in the cloud or on-premises and enables experiences across a broad range of business and consumer scenarios.

Key components of the Azure Services Platform include the following:

• Windows Azure for service hosting and management, low-level scalable storage, computation and networking
• Microsoft SQL Services for a wide range of database services and reporting
• Microsoft .NET Services which are service-based implementations of familiar .NET Framework concepts such as workflow and access control
• Live Services for a consistent way for users to store, share and synchronize documents, photos, files and information across their PCs, phones, PC applications and Web sites
• Microsoft SharePoint Services and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Services for business content, collaboration and rapid solution development in the cloud
  
  

Not shown on this slide is the Microsoft Global Foundational Services which underpins Windows Azure. This is the hardware abstraction layer that enables the high availability of services and the resilience of data by automatically distributing an application across multiple machines and, next year, multiple data centres on different continents.

Vince Rothwell has made his 'Alternative Rendering Framework' for SharePoint freely available for anyone to use.

ARF

ARF is an open source framework specifically designed for MOSS and WSS which makes creating accessible SharePoint publishing sites easier.

By giving you control over the HTML produced, ARF allows you to re-create designs exactly as they are meant to be.

By making use of XML and XSLT development time is dramatically reduced. ARF is compatible with both MOSS and WSS, making accessible SharePoint sites easy with either product. In fact this site has been developed using WSS v3 and ARF.

Chris O'Brien's top 5 WCM tips presentation .

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Lips

a-ha "Take on Me"
Alicia Keys "No One"
Aly & AJ "Potential Break Up Song"
Avril Lavigne "Complicated"
Ben E. King "Stand by Me"
Beyonce "Irreplaceable"
Blondie "Call Me"
Chris Brown "With You"
Coldplay "Yellow"
Depeche Mode "Personal Jesus"
Destiny's Child "Survivor"
Dido "White Flag"
Duffy "Mercy"
Duran Duran "Hungry Like the Wolf"
John Denver "Take Me Home, Country Roads"
Johnny Cash "Ring of Fire"
Leona Lewis "Bleeding Love"
Lil' Mama "Lip Gloss"
Lupe Fiasco (featuring Matthew Santos) "Superstar"
Maroon 5 "Makes Me Wonder"
Nirvana "In Bloom"
Peter Bjorn and John "Young Folks"
Queen "Another One Bites the Dust"
R.E.M. "The One I Love"
Radiohead "Fake Plastic Trees"
The Ramones "I Wanna Be Sedated"
Rascal Flatts "Stand"
Rihanna "Umbrella"
Roxette "Listen to Your Heart"
Sara Bareilles "Love Song"
Sheryl Crow "Soak Up the Sun"
Taylor Swift "I'm Only Me When I'm With You"
The Bangles "Walk Like an Egyptian"
The Fray "Over My Head (Cable Car)"
The Jackson 5 "ABC"
The Police "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"
The Raveonettes "Love in a Trashcan"
Trace Adkins "Ladies Love Country Boys"
Weezer "Island in the Sun"
Young MC "Bust a Move"

The many ways Microsoft technology can transform your "digital lifestyle".

SUGUK and LBi would like to welcome you to an evening of SharePoint Web Content Management at The Truman Brewery on Brick Lane on Thursday 16th October.

More details at: http://suguk.org/forums/thread/13880.aspx

Microsoft have announced the availability of Silverlight 2, one of the industry’s most comprehensive and powerful solutions for the creation and delivery of applications and media experiences through a Web browser. Silverlight 2 delivers a wide range of new features and tools that enable designers and developers to better collaborate while creating more accessible, more discoverable and more secure user experiences.

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Escalation Engineers provide 24x7 deep technical troubleshooting skills resources for escalated issues that involve Microsoft's most technically complex or politically sensitive support situations. The role involves providing customers with reliable technical solutions and a consistently outstanding service experience. This involves reactive, proactive and onsite support if required. Following the Crit.Sit. process you will have to work on the most critical issues. An Escalation Engineer has to collaborate with colleagues around the world and help to provide solutions for our customers.

More info: mark.harrison 'at' microsoft.com

Just installing the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint on my Hyper-V image and wanted sound to be working. However, Hyper-V doesnt support a sound card.

Solution is ... rather than use the Hyper-V connection, instead use Remote Desktop client and enable sound remoting under the advanced configurations options.

I also had to ...
- start the Windows Audio service
- go into Terminal Services Configuration, select the RDP-Tcp connection, select the Client settings tab and ensure Audio Redirection was not disabled.

From Tore Lervik ...

I've created a sidebar gadget so I can see what the Hyper-V server is doing from my workstation. The gadget can list multiple servers at once and also support vmconnect when double clicking on a VM.

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