Microsoft Products

This web page has links to resources on Microsoft's products. Copy and paste the URL to your browsers address line.

Free Web Tutorials

Microsoft .NET Framework Technology - first step installation, testing, and other resources

My Notes

	Windows-Auto Services - running a program when the computer starts up or shuts down.
	Microsoft Networking - issues with networking (or home networking).
	MS IIS - my notes on MS IIS web server.
	Terminal Services
	Windows Search Does Not Work - notes on Microsoft's Search feature.

Windows

www.microsoft.com/windows - Windows Home Page.

Windows Updates & Office Updates

Launch Windows Internet Explorer (IE). Click on "Tools, Windows Update". After the page loads you will also find "Office Updates".

URL's

	http://support.microsoft.com/ - Updates for many Windows products.
	www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/default.asp - Windows Updates.
	http://www.windowsupdate.com - Windows Updates.
	http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com - Windows Updates.

Microsoft Online Support - http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp

Security Patches - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security

Sync your time: time.windows.com

Control Panel, Date and Time properties, Internet Time, Server = time.windows.com

Data Access Objects

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnacc2k2/html/deploydap.asp - This article describes how to deploy a secure data-access-page-based Web site on your intranet or the Internet by using Access and IIS to serve data from Access or SQL Server databases.

MSDN (Microsoft Solution Developer Network)

http://www.microsoft.com/usa/webcasts - Web Casts

Office 2000

www.microsoft.com/office/go/2000 -

Other Technologies

	http://www.microsoft.com/sql/ - SQL Server
	http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/ - WIN NT Server
	FrontPage
	Visual InterDev - Build web & data based projects.
	Visual Studio
	Visual Source Safe - versioning software.

MSDN - Microsoft Developers Network

	http://msdn.microsoft.com - Home Page. Free membership.
	http://www.microsoft.com/msdn - MS Developer Network
	http://msdn.microsoft.com/officedev - MSDN: Office 2000 Developer.
	http://msdn.microsoft.com/mastering - Microsoft Mastering Series - CBT's
	http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic - Microsoft Visual Basic

Support

	http://support.microsoft.com/support/default.asp - Support Site. Knowledge Base, Troubleshooting Wizards, downloadable files, and other technical support resources. Awesome troubleshooting info in the Knowledge Base.

Microsoft Training: Events, News, Subscriptions, Books

	http://www.microsoft.com/USA/gulfstates/ - Microsoft's local events in the Gulf States area (Florida, etc...)
	www.passport.com - Microsoft Passport Home Page - to sign up for events, newsletters, etc... you will need to obtain a free Microsoft Passport.
	http://register.microsoft.com/regsys/pic.asp - Microsoft's profile center - update information like home address, email, newsletters, etc...
	www.microsoft.com/trainingandservices - Training & Certification Home page.
	http://microsoft.com/usa - information on local events and promotions in your area
	www.microsoft.com/windows/dailynews - daily news.
	www.microsoft.com/presspass - Press releases.
	http://msevents.microsoft.com - Microsoft's events homepage (usually free). Find any MS event around the world and in your back yard.
	http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/ - Microsoft Developer conferences (usually cost $)
	http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/teched/ - Microsoft TechEd Seminar (yearly)
	http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc/ - Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (yearly)

Miscellaneous

http://msn.com - is the network of Internet services from Microsoft

	http://health.msn.com - source of health-care information and services
	http://expedia.com - MSN's Travel Services.

Notes

Microsoft's Team Model for Application Development

	Program Management
	Development
	Testing - Microsoft has 3 testers to 1 developer. Lots of beta testing.
	Logistics Management
	User Education
	Product Management

3 Tier Architecture

	Presentation/Client Tier - Fat to Thin Clients (PC's to terminals). Browsers, Applications, etc...
	Middle Tier - Web Servers, etc... Business Logic is stored here.
	Data/Storage Tier - Database Servers, Legacy Systems, External Applications, etc... (SQL,DB2,Oracle,Sybase,Ingris, etc..)