If you're using your network to support multiple clients, you may want multiple VLANs that can't talk to each other, but can both access some shared resources. Layer 3 switches give you the basic infrastructure to do so.

Other potential benefits of using layer 3 switching include greater performance, security, and quality of service. In a sense, switches with layer 3 capability are like a partial hybrid between switches and routers. They're designed for speed and also make decisions on how to route traffic at the network layer.

Windows Server 2012 Top Ten Free Webinar: Wednesday, July 25 - Noon CST/1pm EST:

Windows Server 2012 provides a dynamic, highly available and cost-effective server platform for the modern datacenter and the private cloud, which scales from a few individual servers all the way up to multitenant-aware, multisite environments. With the release of the next milestone of Windows Server 2012 – it has become apparent that this is one of the biggest releases of Windows Server since Windows 2000. That being said - there are so many new things that it can be overwhelming. Join me as I walk you through my personal “top 10” features / changes to the operating system that will have the biggest impact on your environment. This demo-heavy session is guaranteed to get you excited and ready to try them yourself. http://www.newhorizons.com/webinars.aspx

Free Webinar: Getting the Most out of Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Time: 10:00am PDT / 1:00pm EDT / 5:00pm GMT

Presenter: Andrew Reed, Senior Training Specialist, Microsoft Corporation

Discover the synergy of working with Microsoft PowerPoint to present and deliver information to your audience. You will learn about new features and timesavers to help in your day-to-day work. This session is good for beginner, intermediate, or advanced users – everyone will learn something!

https://www147.livemeeting.com/lrs/1100002433/Registration.aspx?pageName=2j4335q6zkz15n8t

Register for these webinars to get free tips and tricks for working in this platform.

MAY

Getting the Most out of Microsoft Excel 2010
Date: Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Time: 10:00am PDT / 1:00pm EDT /5:00pm GMT
Presenter: Andrew Reed, Senior Training Specialist, Microsoft Corporation
Explore how Excel 2010 takes advantage of a new, results-oriented user interface that provides easy access to powerful productivity tools, offers a larger workspace, and delivers faster performance. This presentation will demonstrate useful tips and tricks about new features and timesavers to help in your day-to-day work with Microsoft Excel.

Getting the Most out of Microsoft PowerPoint 2010
Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Time: 10:00am PDT / 1:00pm EDT /5:00pm GMT
Presenter: Andrew Reed, Senior Training Specialist, Microsoft Corporation
Discover the synergy of working with Microsoft PowerPoint to present and deliver information to your audience. You will learn about new features and timesavers to help in your day-to-day work. This session is good for beginner, intermediate, or advanced users – everyone will learn something!

JUNE

Microsoft Office 2010 Cloud Access
Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Time: 10:00am PDT / 1:00pm EDT /5:00pm GMT
Presenter: Andrew Reed, Senior Training Specialist, Microsoft Corporation
Discover how Microsoft Clouds services and products will provide you endless ways to work and collaborate – from anywhere, at any time, and on any device. This will include storage strategies, Microsoft Office System for productivity and insight into what cloud services mean to the typical user of PCs. This will be demonstrated using Microsoft Word, Microsoft SkyDrive (Microsoft Live), Office365 and other Cloud implementations.

JULY

Microsoft Office 2010 Application Content Sharing
Date: Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Time: 10:00am PDT / 1:00pm EDT /5:00pm GMT
Presenter: Andrew Reed, Senior Training Specialist, Microsoft Corporation
Learn the ways and approaches for sharing content, from simple cut, copy & paste to shared drives, and information from your PC to the internet and back. Learn the tools, formats and reasoning behind how Microsoft Office system shares and accesses content for productivity. This will be demonstrated using Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint.

Microsoft Office 2010, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, offers flexible and powerful new ways to deliver your best work. Register for these webinars to get free tips and tricks for working in this new platform.

Office 365 Doesn’t Mean You’re Fired: A primer for Admins
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Time: 10:00 am Pacific
Many times, the justification for cloud solutions is to reduce cost by removing IT overhead. The reality is, Office 365 can mean freeing IT from maintenance tasks and allow them to do things that impact the bottom line. This comphttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.giflementary 75 minute session provides a tour of the admin tools and tasks you’ll still perform in an Office 365 environment.
Getting the Most out of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint 2010
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Time: 10:00 am Pacific
Explore how Excel 2010 takes advantage of a new, results-oriented user interface that provides easy access to powerful productivity tools, offers a larger workspace, and delivers faster performance. Plus, discover the synergy of working with Microsoft PowerPoint to present and deliver information to your audience.
Myths of the Cloud
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Time: 10:00 am Pacific
Cloud computing represents the next major shift in the way that IT will be delivered to companies large and small. Cloud computing is a career-defining opportunity to add real business value through strategic and tactical understanding of the cloud's relationship with organizational goals. There are many misconceptions surrounding the cloud and what it has to offer. This complementary 75 minute session will address these myths and give you a better understanding of the next steps to take to enable your organization to reap the benefits of cloud computing. It can provide much more than savings, creating a foundation for new competitive advantages.
Presenter: Joey Snow, Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation
Joey Snow is a Senior Technical Evangelist for the worldwide Developer and Platform Evangelism team at Microsoft focusing the IT Professional audience for Windows Server, IIS and Windows Azure. Based in Redmond, WA, Joey works closely with relevant MS Product Teams to evangelize new technology and products to the IT Pro community at large.

If you'd like to create new DataGrid headers to visually separate your grid rows, you can do so quite easily with the DataGridItem object. Creating new DataGrid headers with this object is a three-step process. You start with a new DataGridItem object. Then, you add Cells to the DataGridItem, and finally you add the DataGridItem to the DataGrid, like so:

Dim dgItem As DataGridItem
dgItem = New DataGridItem(0, 0, ListItemType.Header)

Dim dgCell As TableCell
dgCell = New TableCell
dgCell.Text = "someval"

dgItem.Cells.Add(dgCell)

DataGrid1.Controls(0).Controls.AddAt(0, dgItem)

This codë creates a new DataGrid header with one table cell and adds it to the first row of DataGrid1 on a Web form.

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