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Microsoft Architect Forum: Office Business Applications, 13 September 2007

Office Business Applications are an emerging class of applications that help businesses unlock the value of their line-of-business (LOB) systems and turn document-based processes into real applications. Office 2007 has expanded off the desktop embracing the concepts of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and leverage the fundamental shift to combining software plus services. In this forum we will discuss the architectural elements of the Office technical platform and discover how these elements can be applied across several business scenarios.

Microsoft Architect Forum: Windows Server Security, 11 December 2007, Reading

This free one-day forum examines the central role of security in the architecture of Windows Server 2008 (codename 'Longhorn') in relation to a number of Systems Management scenarios.

Microsoft Architect Forum: The Services Revolution, 19 February 2008, Reading

Continuing the evolving story of the Software + Services world this free one-day forum reveals the latest developments at Microsoft and across the industry, focusing on the effect they're having on both consumer and enterprise architectures alike.