See why SQL Server and Windows Server go together like peanut butter and jelly.

Ben Bernstein and Stephen Bowie tell us what the value is for Unified Access Gateway with Direct Access.

Direct Access is a game-changing technology for remote access in your company; removing the need for a VPN entirely.

Cristian Mora Aguilar, Forefront Technical PM, tells us about about the business problems you can resolve with Microsoft's secure messaging solution.

Is VMware really six times more expensive than Microsoft's virtualisation solutions? We explain the math, and provide a Cost Comparison Calculator so you can crunch your own numbers.

Microsoft's Donald Farmer shares his choices for must-read SQL Server blogs.

Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich talks about the Live Migration feature in Windows Server 2008 R2.

Get the latest information on the Dynamic Data Center Toolkits for Hosters and Enterprises from Alliance Partners, Customers and Internal Microsoft folks.

Focusing on Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 and R2, Storage Server, HPC, Foundation, EBS, SBS, and Virtualisation.

Get the real story on Hyper-V on the Microsoft Systems Center Experts Blog.

See how Microsoft solutions help combat two common security threats: careless Web surfing and hardware loss/theft.

Mike Chan tells us about the new capabilities in the next version of Forefront Security for OCS, such as keyword control and protection against third-party instant messaging content like MSN messenger, AOL, and Yahoo IM.

Forefront TMG can now filter URLs utilising a well-known reputation service, block malware from people trying to download files from the web over HTTP or SSL, and prevent zero-day attacks through its own NIS.

Forefront TMG 2010 builds on its predecessor, ISA Server 2006, providing all new URL filtering, web antimalware inspection, and intrusion prevention technologies to help protect businesses against the latest web-based threats.

Microsoft's release of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, combined with the System Center product line, brings virtualisation to all IT organisations in a way that is both cost-effective and easily managed.

Learn more about SQL from the SQL Customer Advisory Team.

Follow Microsoft's experts as they discuss infrastructure management and the System Center Family of Products

Discuss System Center Operations Manager with the team behind the product.

Find out how much Microsoft's SQL Server can save your company with this cost savings calculator.

Before you consolidate your organisation's databases, read how Microsoft's SQL server can help you manage and host your data.

Microsoft SQL Server PowerPivot and SharePoint Server 2010 give users the ability to analyse massive quantities of data and your IT department the ability to monitor it.

Scale operations with confidence, improve efficiencies and enable business intelligence to all employees in your organisation.

When it came to safeguarding tenants' Social Security numbers and addresses, this real estate firm turned to Microsoft's Forefront to ensure that they had the best in security and data protection.

Take Microsoft Forefront security software for a test drive today.

Implementing FPE 2010 for Exchange Server as the primary defense system against spam adds significant business and technical value, enabling organisations to function more efficiently by removing security threats associated with unwanted and malicious content entering via e-mail.

Register for webcasts on using Forefront and Windows solutions to better secure collaboration and messaging applications.

Microsoft can now automatically apply targeted and persistent protection according to industry best practices for improved regulatory compliance, freeing up IT time and lowering the risk of a security breach.

Watch this video to learn what virtualisation means for the desktop.

It's rarely wise to state that a new operating system is more secure than its predecessor because security flaws can take months to come to light after the software is released, but Paul Rubens says in the case of Windows Server 2008 we can say it with some confidence.

Developers and DBAs need to be more diligent in establishing procedures to secure their corporate data. With the introduction of SQL Server 2008, Microsoft provided a number of new security features, including Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). Join Gregory Larsen as he discusses what TDE is and the minimal amount of effort it takes to encrypt your corporate data using it.

With any consolidation effort you need to be concerned about how well merged application and/or database services will play together. As you start to think about how your corporation might take advantage of consolidation for your SQL Server environment, you might want to look at SQL Server 2008's Resource Governor, which can help you manage CPU and memory usage by throttling down resource-intensive processes.

This paper highlights potential savings exceeding $5 million U.S. per year for every 1,000 employees with Microsoft Unified Communications.

Download a free, fully functional 180-day trial edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 and find efficiencies through SQL Server's security, scalability, developer productivity, and the industry's lowest total cost of ownership.

Create complex and innovative solutions for your organisation with Microsoft's SQL-driven platform for complex event processing.

Learn how you can improve operations and lower costs with System Center's integrated, end-to-end management tools.

Microsoft's Jeff Wettlaufer and Brad Anderson discuss System Center's role in reducing IT costs and boosting efficiency.

See how Forefront Unified Access Gateway and DirectAccess combine to protect your workers and give them easy network access, wherever they are.

BI systems built on the SQL Server 2008 platform can scale to meet the needs of the very largest organisations and provide businesses of all sizes with a competitive advantagesupporting better decision making and helping executives spot emerging business opportunities.

The most common interaction with Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server involves none of its features and settings. Instead, day-to-day usage focuses on monitoring your organisations deployment and heading off potential problems.

Spend an hour walking through the Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway. Well discuss the core scenarios and changes in this release and walk through the configuration for the common environments.

See for yourself how System Center can help you manage your data centre. Download the free trial.

Monitoring and managing IT services consumes a large proportion of most corporate IT departments' resources, and in the last few years this workload has been increased by the need to comply with new regulatory requirements.

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 turns the efficient deployment of servers into a straightforward, automated process, and can also be used to manage configuration changes and system updates.

One of the most common questions that I get from prospects as I'm talking to them about the creation of a governance plan and process is what does it look like. In other words, there are materials available which describe what should be in a governance plan but there isn't a ton of guidance on what the process of creating a governance plan and process are.

With the real cost savings and benefits that can be realised with virtualisation, such as reduced server sprawl, increasing returns on hardware, and more, many organisations are applying a strategy for virtualisation.

Discussions and questions on Forefront Threat Management Gateway, the next generation of ISA Server.

General discussions about System Center Essentials.

General discussion on the topics or features of System Center Configuration Manager.

The forum for general R2 questions as well as questions for Directory Services, File Services, Group Policy, Deployment, Migration, Printing, and Server Core.

All questions and discussions related to data-mining in SQL Server.

All questions related to SSIS, transforms/data flow, control flow, and other related topics.

Discussions and questions on Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server.

Discussions and questions on the next generation of Forefront Security for SharePoint.

Discuss the Operating System Deployment feature for System Center Configuration Manager.

Discuss all the aspects of FCS with follow IT pros.

Discuss next-generation Forefront security.

Discuss edge security such as VPNs, and firewalls with fellow IT pros.