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“It’s not often that a service pack release for Microsoft SQL Server deserves as much attention — let alone a keynote announcement — as the first service pack for SQL Server 2016 does.” This was the comment made by online magazine SQLMag in a recent…

Today Ballard Chalmers is officially 11 years old. On this day in 2005 Geoff Ballard and Andrew Chalmers put pen to paper, formally merging their respective IT consultancies into one. Since that day Ballard Chalmers has established itself as a Microsoft Gold Partner and as…

Body-worn video (BWV) is being rolled out to aid 22,000 Metropolitan Police officers across London’s 32 boroughs, including several frontline specialist roles, and Azure is managing the data. Believed to be the largest scale employment of body-worn cameras by police anywhere in the world, the…

This coming Monday, Microsoft is holding a free seminar at its UK HQ in Reading for any customer that has an Azure commit or is considering a cloud strategy for their business. Business and technical experts will each be presenting 1 hour sessions on areas…

As Program Manager on .NET at Microsoft, Immo Landwerth is one of the world’s leaders on the topic (in our opinion!). On Monday he posted this useful .NET Standard 2.0 Demo on YouTube, showing how it makes reusing existing code much easier. Definitely worth checking…

The #SharePoint / Office 365 Dev Patterns and Practices (PnP) November 2016 release is out! https://t.co/QJvOiCgTdr pic.twitter.com/tJ4HdTfJSa — Microsoft SharePoint (@SharePoint) November 20, 2016 Source: Twitter/@SharePoint

See what’s new in .NET Framework and .NET Core in this Connect(); on-demand video with Scott Hunter, Partner Director Program Manager .NET. Source: channel9.msdn.com

Microsoft builds tools for any developer, any app, any platform. This was the simple message that Scott Guthrie, Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise Executive Vice President, kicked off his keynote with at the annual Connect(); developer event. Guthrie detailed significant steps Microsoft is taking to empower…