Sunday, November 27, 2005

Microsoft Certified Architect Program

I have been reading some..about the MS Certified Arch program and found some useful links.
http://www.microsoft.com/architecture/default.aspx?pid=journal

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/architect/

Friday, October 28, 2005

Microsoft CRM

Recently, a dept in our company has expressed interest in MS CRM. I found some links that might help us look at some of the cool features of this tool.

Microsoft CRM Demos


Microsoft CRM Customer Service Demo


Microsoft CRM Overview Demo


Microsoft CRM Sales Demo


Microsoft CRM White Papers


CRM ROI Blueprint 2004 - How Customer-Focused Strategies and Solutions Drive Productivity, Profitability and Growth (154 KB)

Thursday, October 27, 2005

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Team Foundation Build

As Team Build becomes important, I had started looking for good reads on the latest Team Foundation Build system. Here's some info:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms242867
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171479(en-US,VS.80).aspx

Office Add-Ins

I read about Office Add-ins when I was reading about VSTS but was not able to get my hands on a reliable source. I found that finally

http://blogs.msdn.com/team_foundation/archive/2005/01/21/358536.aspx

Sunday, October 16, 2005

New Terms from MSFT

Lots of new terms coming outta MSFT these days.. Atlas, AJAX, Orcas, Longhorn, Avalon, Indigo, WinFX ...Here are some interesting links

Roadmap - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/productinfo/roadmap.aspx

Planning for Orcas - http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=24709

Avalon - http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/building/presentation/default.aspx

Indigo - http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/indigo/default.aspx

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Team System Features

As a technical Architect, I am looking for resources that help me best educate all types of users in my company's SDLC about the new features of VSTS. I have found a lot of interesting stuff on MSDN and the rest I gather from other blogs. I don't find one place where there is a complete list of features, classified by user type so that I know I have covered all my points...Huh!

Saturday, October 08, 2005

Saturday, October 01, 2005

Found VSTS Template customisation link

I finally found what I was looking for. The VSTS Metholody customization toollit. I don't know whether I was giving the wrong search criteria or its just difficult to find this..Anyways here's the link
http://weblogs.asp.net/dmckinstry/archive/2005/03/10/392424.aspx

Shrini 's Blog on Software Testing

I found a very interesting site for Software testing at ..Shrini 's Blog on Software Testing

Friday, September 30, 2005

First Blog

After a lot of hesitation, I am finally entering the blogging world. I have found blogging to be very beneficial hence the leap. Here I go!.
I started off with searching for some MS.NET sites since I work as a Tech Architect in this technology. I found some really innovative blogs of people who are working on this technology. So I have added links to their sites here..