CRM – Double Mind; Cloud Mind …. looking for the best!!!

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Living in a region; where there are no presence of Online CRM from the giants. So i start google it with a few keywords… “BEST CRM”. No wonder … results is there for a reason. Customer relationship management is lacking for big guys..

See the results

  1. Software Advise
  2. Top10 Reviews
  3. G2 crowd
  4. Forbes

Asking “Which CRM software is best?” is actually like asking “Which restaurant is best?” – Brian

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Windows Azure – Site-to-Site & Point-to-Site VPN’s

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New features added to the Azure Portal

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Appreciate this great move from Azure team, especially Yu-Shun Wang, Program Manager for Windows Azure Networking

Watch the Channel9 discussion about the same..click here

Click here to read more from ScottGu’s Blog

Windows Azure: General Availability of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) 

Tutorial on how to “Configure a Point-to-Site VPN in the Management Portal” 

Windows Azure Developer Center

If you don’t already have a Windows Azure account, you can sign-up for a free trial.

Enjoy!!!

Microsoft SQL Server 2012

Editions overview

The SQL Server 2012 Editions have been streamlined to better align with how customers are deploying applications and solutions.  SQL Server 2012 will be released in 3 main editions*:

  • Enterprise for mission critical applications and large scale data warehousing
  • Business Intelligence, a new product edition, providing premium corporate and self-service BI
  • Standard for basic database, reporting and analytics capabilities

Refer to Datasheet and FAQ for more details

Top Features

  • AlwaysOn Availability Groups
  • Windows Server Core Support
  • Columnstore Indexes
  • BI Semantic Model
  • User-Defined Server Roles
  • Enhanced Auditing Features
  • Sequence Objects
  • Enhanced PowerShell Support
  • Distributed Replay
  • PowerView
  • SQL Azure Enhancements
  • Big Data Support

 

 

 

Mailbox Replication Service (MRS) – Exchange server 2010

Moving mailboxes is a key part of managing an email service for the long-haul. There will be updated technologies, new business priorities, mergers, acquisitions, hardware and version upgrades. Moving mailboxes is an important part of managing an email service. Check out the latest Geek Out with Perry blog and video to gain some deep insights on our approach to moving mailboxes with Mailbox Replication Service (MRS) and get Perry’s take on this topic and how it works. This technology is also incredibly important if you want to move mailboxes to the cloud on your terms with a hybrid deployment.

Enjoy!!

Microsoft Dynamics GP 12 – New Changes Planned Beyond Web Client

Excitement for Microsoft Dynamics GP and Windows 8…  a beautiful combination…eager to wait for the release

Now the good news is that Dexterity codes are valid for this GP web client…read this blog

Soon you will see the Dexterity Power shell for Microsoft Great Plains 🙂

Microsoft Dynamics GP team, when considering the creation of our upcoming web client user experience, looked at many technologies that would offer us an architecture for future growth, a feature set that was strong with controls and flexibility, and one that provided us a performance model that benefitted our customers.  Silverlight was a clear standout product in this research. In fact, we’ll be using Silverlight 5 features as it ships, specifically Silverlight 5 has been architected to deeply support business application development far deeper than other similar toolsets.

How to Configure the SPN (servicePrincipalName) for the Service Account

When you deploy an AD FS 2.0 Federation Server farm you must specify a domain-based service account, and the AD FS 2.0 service account needs to have a SPN (servicePrincipalName) registered to allow Kerberosto function for the Federation Service…Reconfiguring the service names in an ADFS Server farm requires hard work.

An ADFS Server farm uses a service account. Whenever you update the URL, the SPN for that service account needs to be updated as well.

There’s a good article from Adam Conkle on TechNet..click here to read more

Thanks Adam and Ed

Enjoy!!