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Architecture
- Architecture General
  
  Discuss general issues and experiences related to architecture and designing solutions on the Microsoft platform.
  
  Last Reply Sambath Raj.C Wednesday, May 23, 2012 7:02 AM
  
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- Modeling and Tools
  
  Discuss issues and experiences related to the use of modeling and tools, including DSI (Dynamic Systems Initiative) and SDM (System Definition Model)
  
  Last Reply Eyal Shilony 5 hours 14 minutes ago
  
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- The Architect Role
  
  What does it mean to be an Architect: for you, your organization and the industry. Join the discussion about your role and the challenges you face.
  
  Last Reply adnmaster Monday, May 21, 2012 10:26 PM
  
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SharePoint Products and Technologies
- SharePoint - General Question and Answers and Discussion (pre-SharePoint 2010)
  
  General questions and discussions about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and prior versions. To discuss SharePoint 2010, visit http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/sharepoint2010
  
  Last Reply Chris O'Connor 51 minutes ago
  
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- SharePoint - Setup, Upgrade, Administration and Operation (pre-SharePoint 2010)
  
  Topics about installation/setup and upgrade/migration as well as administration and operation in in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and prior versions. To discuss SharePoint 2010, visit http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/sharepoint2010
  
  Last Reply Jack Gao Microsoft Contingent Staff 11 minutes ago
  
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- SharePoint - Design and Customization (pre-SharePoint 2010)
  
  Topics about site design (i.e. definitions, templates) and page customization (i.e. layouts) as well as SharePoint Designer and similar tools in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and prior versions. To discuss SharePoint 2010, visit http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/sharepoint2010
  
  Last Reply Danger Powers 4 hours 32 minutes ago
  
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- SharePoint - Development and Programming (pre-SharePoint 2010)
  
  Topics about development and programming (i.e. web parts, features, etc.), SDKs, and tools (i.e. Visual Studio) in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and prior versions. To discuss SharePoint 2010, visit http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/sharepoint2010
  
  Last Reply AvinashReddy1441 6 hours 10 minutes ago
  
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- SharePoint - Business Data Catalog (pre-SharePoint 2010)
  
  Topics about the Business Data Catalog capabilities in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and prior versions. To discuss SharePoint 2010, visit http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/sharepoint2010
  
  Last Reply Job Maelane 8 hours 20 minutes ago
  
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- SharePoint - Business Intelligence (pre-SharePoint 2010)
  
  Topics about implementing SharePoint for business intelligence oriented solutions in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and prior versions. To discuss SharePoint 2010, visit http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/sharepoint2010
  
  Last Reply CPLC Programmer Tuesday, May 22, 2012 9:16 PM
  
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- SharePoint - InfoPath Forms Services (pre-SharePoint 2010)
  
  Topics about InfoPath Forms Services capabilities in Office SharePoint Server in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and prior versions. To discuss SharePoint 2010, visit http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/sharepoint2010
  
  Last Reply Melissa Renton Microsoft Community Contributor 6 hours 37 minutes ago
  
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- SharePoint - Workflow (pre-SharePoint 2010)
  
  Topics about workflow capabilities in SharePoint products and technologies in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and prior versions. To discuss SharePoint 2010, visit http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/sharepoint2010
  
  Last Reply mandy996 4 hours 36 minutes ago
  
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- SharePoint - Excel Services (pre-SharePoint 2010)
  
  Topics about Excel Services capabilities in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and prior versions in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and prior versions. To discuss SharePoint 2010, visit http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/sharepoint2010
  
  Last Reply Pratik Vyas MVP 14 hours 25 minutes ago
  
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- SharePoint - Search (pre-SharePoint 2010)
  
  Topics about Search capabilities in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and prior versions. To discuss SharePoint 2010, visit http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/sharepoint2010
  
  Last Reply JasBali 13 hours 55 minutes ago
  
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- SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management (pre-SharePoint 2010)
  
  Topics about document management, records management, and web content management capabilities in SharePoint products and technologies in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and prior versions. To discuss SharePoint 2010, visit http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/sharepoint2010
  
  Last Reply Lhan Han Microsoft Contingent Staff 15 hours 44 minutes ago
  
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- SharePoint - Accessibility (pre-SharePoint 2010)
  
  Topics about improving accessibility and usability in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and prior versions. To discuss SharePoint 2010, visit http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/sharepoint2010
  
  Last Reply Hemendra Agrawal Microsoft Community Contributor 14 hours 43 minutes ago
  
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- SharePoint - Social Computing (pre-SharePoint 2010)
  
  Topics about MySites, blogs, wikis, tagging, social networking, knowledge search and brokering, communities, etc in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and prior versions. To discuss SharePoint 2010, visit http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/sharepoint2010
  
  Last Reply Robin Lampert 8 hours 22 minutes ago
  
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- SharePoint - Community Advancement (pre-SharePoint 2010)
  
  Topics about improving or expanding the worldwide SharePoint community through blogs, forums, social networking, conferences, user groups, code camps, etc in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and prior versions. To discuss SharePoint 2010, visit http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/sharepoint2010
  
  Last Reply nzdrakon Tuesday, April 24, 2012 10:12 AM
  
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- SharePoint - Collaboration (pre-SharePoint 2010)
  
  Topics about team sites, project tracking, document collaboration, extranets, etc in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and prior versions. To discuss SharePoint 2010, visit http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/sharepoint2010
  
  Last Reply Jon in Spain 15 hours 48 minutes ago
  
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- SharePoint - Knowledge Network
  
  Topics about Knowledge Network for Office SharePoint Server.
  
  Last Reply HarithaBatt 13 hours 16 minutes ago
  
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Open Specifications
- Windows Protocols
  
  Discuss technical content and implementation of the Windows (including .NET Framework) protocols described in the Open Specifications
  
  Last Reply a7FFEFF10 Wednesday, May 23, 2012 4:56 PM
  
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- Using the Open Specifications
  
  Ask questions about the Open Specifications documents, their organization, language conventions, and references.
  
  Last Reply Edgar A Olougouna Microsoft Employee Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2:31 PM
  
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- Using the SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocols
  
  Discuss technical content and implementation of the SharePoint Products and Technologies protocols described in the Open Specifications
  
  Last Reply Alex Morrill Microsoft Employee Wednesday, April 18, 2012 10:01 PM
  
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- File Services
  
  Discuss technical content and implementation of Server Message Block (SMB) protocols described in the Open Specifications
  
  Last Reply Sebastian Canevari Microsoft Employee Wednesday, May 23, 2012 1:33 PM
  
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- Using the Exchange Server Protocols
  
  Discuss technical content and implementation of the Exchange and Outlook protocols described in the Open Specifications
  
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- Using the Office Protocols
  
  Discuss technical content and implementation of the Microsoft Office protocols described in the Open Specifications
  
  Last Reply Vladimir Vysotsky Saturday, April 21, 2012 5:28 PM
  
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- Office File Formats
  
  Discuss technical content and implementation of the .doc, .xls, .xlsb, .ppt and .pst file formats.
  
  Last Reply JCurry Microsoft Employee 6 hours 35 minutes ago
  
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- Using the Microsoft SQL Server Protocols
  
  Discuss technical content and implementation of the SQL Server protocols described in the Open Specifications.
  
  Last Reply Alex Morrill Microsoft Employee Wednesday, March 28, 2012 6:27 PM
  
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- Documentation on Standards
  
  Discuss technical content and implementation of certain standards as they are implemented in Exchange Server, Outlook, SQL Server, and Internet Explorer.
  
  Last Reply Sebastian Canevari Microsoft Employee Wednesday, May 23, 2012 1:36 PM
  
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- Office Open XML File Format Implementation
  
  Discuss issues related to the implementation of the Open XML file format (e.g., ISO/IEC 29500) in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. This forum is for discussion of the Microsoft implementation of the Office Open XML file format – for questions about the format itself, you may want to visit the forums on OpenXMLDeveloper.org.
  
  Last Reply Vilmos Foltenyi MSFT Microsoft Employee 8 hours 14 minutes ago
  
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- Interoperability Scenarios: Technical Questions
  
  Discuss implementation of technical scenarios around interoperability
  
  Last Reply Obaid Farooqi Microsoft Employee Wednesday, May 16, 2012 4:05 PM
  
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- Office Open Document Format Implementation
  
  Discuss technical content and implementation of the Office implementation of the ODF 1.1 standard
  
  Last Reply Vilmos Foltenyi MSFT Microsoft Employee Tuesday, April 17, 2012 3:34 PM
  
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- Open Packaging Conventions (OPC)
  
  Questions and how-to's on using the .NET managed-code and Win32 native-code Open Packaging Conventions (OPC) APIs. General discussion of the ISO/IEC 29500-2 and ECMA 376-2 OPC file technology standard.
  
  Last Reply Edgar A Olougouna Microsoft Employee Tuesday, August 16, 2011 3:02 PM
  
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Parallel Computing
- Parallel Computing General
  
  General discussion and questions regarding Microsoft's Parallel Computing initiatives and technologies.
  
  Last Reply Mike Dos Zhang Microsoft Contingent Staff Thursday, May 10, 2012 10:51 AM
  
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- Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework
  
  Discuss and ask questions about Microsoft Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework -- Including usage, performance, scaling, future development, and more.
  
  Last Reply Camuvingian 8 hours 47 minutes ago
  
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- Parallel Computing in C++ and Native Code
  
  Discuss and ask questions about parallel computing in C++ and native code -- including C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP), the Parallel Pattern Library (PPL), the Asynchronous Agents Library, the Concurrency Runtime (ConcRT), and other concurrency building blocks.
  
  Last Reply Jim Hogg 21 hours 31 minutes ago
  
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- Axum Incubation Project
  
  Discuss and ask questions about the incubation project codenamed 'Axum' -- including usage, performance, feature requests, bugs, general concepts, and more.
  
  Last Reply Nevin Janzen Monday, April 30, 2012 1:59 AM
  
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- Visual Studio Async CTP
  
  Discuss and ask questions about the Visual Studio Async CTP
  
  Last Reply Stephen Toub - MSFT Microsoft Employee Wednesday, May 23, 2012 4:17 PM
  
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- TPL Dataflow
  
  Discuss and ask questions about TPL Dataflow (System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow.dll) -- including usage, performance, feature request, bugs, general concepts and more.
  
  Last Reply svick 11 hours 3 minutes ago
  
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SQL Server
- SQL Server Integration Services
  
  All questions related to SSIS, transforms/data flow, control flow, and other related topics.
  
  Last Reply karatas 2 hours 52 minutes ago
  
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- Data Mining
  
  All questions and discussions related to data-mining in SQL Server
  
  Last Reply Tatyana Yakushev 5 hours 2 minutes ago
  
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- SQL Server Reporting Services
  
  Report Server, Report Designer, Report Builder, and other reporting-related discussions.
  
  Last Reply Mike Yin Microsoft Contingent Staff 3 minutes ago
  
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- SQL Server Analysis Services
  
  Discussions relating to MDX and other Analysis Services or OLAP questions
  
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- SQL Server Tools
  
  Any questions and discussions related specifically to SQL Server tools, including SQL Server Data Tools. For discussions on features exposed through tools, please post to the directly-related forum
  
  Last Reply Chuck Pedretti 4 hours 47 minutes ago
  
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- Transact-SQL
  
  TSQL challenges? This is the place for advice and discussions
  
  Last Reply shimam 8 minutes ago
  
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- .NET Framework inside SQL Server
  
  Need help with writing CLR code targeting SQL Server 2005? This forum is a great place to have your questions answered and hear about others’ experiences.
  
  Last Reply Bob Beauchemin MVP 7 hours 28 minutes ago
  
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- SQL Server Data Access
  
  Questions and discussion about data access to SQL Server using SQL Native Client, OLEDB, ODBC, ADO, WDAC/MDAC, JDBC, or SOAP/HTTP.
  
  Last Reply Wise_A 6 hours 55 minutes ago
  
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- SQL Server SMO/DMO
  
  Any questions on SMO/DMO
  
  Last Reply Olaf Helper Microsoft Community Contributor 18 hours 41 minutes ago
  
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- SQL Server XML
  
  Any questions related to XML in SQL Server
  
  Last Reply Mario Patrao 14 hours 32 minutes ago
  
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- SQL Server Replication
  
  Discussions on SQL Server Replication
  
  Last Reply jalekz 6 hours 55 minutes ago
  
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- SQL Service Broker
  
  Come here to ask questions about SQL Server Service Broker
  
  Last Reply Cathy Mi - MSFT Microsoft Employee 6 hours 10 minutes ago
  
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- SQL Server Security
  
  Any Security discussions related to SQL Server
  
  Last Reply Dan Guzman MVP 40 minutes ago
  
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- SQL Server Database Engine
  
  Any questions or discussions relating to the SQL Server Database Engine, performance, features, Full-text Search, linked servers, etc.
  
  Last Reply Balmukund Microsoft Employee 8 minutes ago
  
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- SQL Server Documentation
  
  Books Online and all other documentation-related discussions
  
  Last Reply SQK2K8Dude Wednesday, May 23, 2012 6:47 PM
  
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- SQL Server Setup & Upgrade
  
  General Setup discussions, upgrade advisor, Best Practices Analyzer
  
  Last Reply Emilio Wilde 1 hour 58 minutes ago
  
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- SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery
  
  Any questions or discussions around using AlwaysOn, backup/restore, DBCC, recovering from hardware issues, planning disaster recovery or high-availability strategies.
  
  Last Reply Sebastian Sajaroff 5 hours 59 minutes ago
  
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- SQL Server Notification Services
  
  Look here for Questions, answers, and advice on using SQL Server Notification Services
  
  Last Reply Ganpat Sharma Monday, May 14, 2012 4:54 AM
  
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- SQL Server Compact
  
  SQL Server Compact/Mobile Edition Technical Discussion
  
  Last Reply E_gold 8 hours 15 minutes ago
  
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- Getting started with SQL Server
  
  New to SQL Server? Beginners just getting started - here's the place for help with simple questions. For installation or setup questions, refer to the Setup Forum.
  
  Last Reply Balmukund Microsoft Employee 2 minutes ago
  
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- Database Mirroring
  
  General questions relating to the Database Mirroring feature, including client failover.
  
  Last Reply alex.derr 6 hours 5 minutes ago
  
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- SQL Server Express
  
  Questions related to SQL Server Express, SQL Server Express with Advanced Services, and MSDE upgrade questions.
  
  Last Reply ROB_2012 1 hour 47 minutes ago
  
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- Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server
  
  Forum for the Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server (SQLSRV & PDO_SQLSRV) which is designed to enable reliable, scalable integration with SQL Server for PHP applications on the Windows Platform
  
  Last Reply xsi 17 hours 38 minutes ago
  
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- SQL Server Data Warehousing
  
  Need help with using SQL Server for data warehousing, Change Data Capture, or decision support? Post your questions here.
  
  Last Reply irusul 7 hours 17 minutes ago
  
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- SQL Server Search
  
  Specifics on how to Search (and find) in SQL Server. This forum has the right expertise on how to do this in SQL Server, with deeper focus on SQL Server enhancements
  
  Last Reply Julie C. _ 6 hours 53 minutes ago
  
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- SQL Server Spatial
  
  Any questions related to the use of spatial data in SQL Server.
  
  Last Reply tanoshimi MVP 9 hours 41 minutes ago
  
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- SQL Server Samples and Community Projects
  
  Your place to discuss SQL Server product samples and community projects.
  
  Last Reply PhilTX 6 hours 23 minutes ago
  
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- Microsoft StreamInsight
  
  Forum to support the Microsoft StreamInsight product
  
  Last Reply DevBiker MVP 7 hours 46 minutes ago
  
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- Database Design
  
  Discussion regarding general database design
  
  Last Reply kjturner 42 minutes ago
  
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- SQL Server Migration
  
  Any questions or discussions related to migrating to SQL Server (using SSMA tool or otherwise) from other databases.
  
  Last Reply Maggie Luo Microsoft Contingent Staff 16 hours 53 minutes ago
  
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- SQL Server Master Data Services
  
  All questions and discussions related to installing, configuring, and implementing Master Data Services.
  
  Last Reply Ovidiu Burlacu 1 hour 26 minutes ago
  
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- SQL Server Application and Multi-Server Management
  
  SQL Server Application and Multi-Server Management, introduced in SQL Server 2008 R2
  
  Last Reply Dave4255312770 9 hours 32 minutes ago
  
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- SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel
  
  Discussions relating to importing data, building relationships, and using DAX within the PowerPivot window.
  
  Last Reply Derek Dai 2 hours 21 minutes ago
  
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- SQL Server PowerPivot for SharePoint
  
  Discussions relating to the server set up and configuration, publication of workbooks, data refresh and workbook monitoring.
  
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- SQL Server Manageability
  
  Primarily discussion around SQL Server Manageability
  
  Last Reply Pradeep Adiga Microsoft Community Contributor 10 hours 54 minutes ago
  
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- SQL Server Distributed Replay
  
  This forum is for discussions and questions about SQL Server Distributed Replay.
  
  Last Reply Ed_Kirkpatrick Monday, May 14, 2012 6:16 PM
  
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- SQL Server Data Quality Services
  
  This forum is for Data Quality Services
  
  Last Reply Koen Verbeeck Microsoft Community Contributor Wednesday, May 23, 2012 5:50 AM
  
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Windows Server
- Windows Server 2008 Application Compatibility and Certification
  
  Forum for developers to discuss Windows Server 2008 software certification and application compatibility
  
  Last Reply Dave_S 13 hours 0 minutes ago
  
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- Server Virtualization
  
  Discussion on virtualization on the Windows Server 2008 platform
  
  Last Reply Stoimen Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:30 PM
  
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- SDK for Home Server 2011, SBS 2011 Essentials, Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials
  
  This forum supports developing solutions for Windows Home Server 2011, Windows Small Business Server 2011 and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. The SDK can be found at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg513958.aspx
  
  Last Reply Mageracer Monday, May 21, 2012 5:59 PM
  
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