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I have been using OHours.org to schedule virtual and in-person office hours to meet with folks from the community, user groups leaders, IT Pros, and just about anyone else that is interested in technology. This is a casual meeting where we can discuss anything that is on your mind. I have a widget on...

    Folks, If you have been to any of my live presentations, recently, you have probably hear m get super jazzed about Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service. I truly think this is the future of infrastructure for all businesses. I envision a world where new businesses starting up don’t...

For more details and to register, please go to the App Factor main site! Home Have app ideas?   Have software development skills?   If so, that’s all you need to learn, compete and win ! 10 Cities, 100’s of developers and 1000’s of great ideas. The opportunity is NOW! Don’t miss another chance...

  With the introduction of Boot To VHD in Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2, we have an excellent way of cleanly booting to multiple Windows OS versions (Windows 7 and later only). Traditional dual-boot scenarios required us to load different version of Windows in a specific order to ensure we could...

My friends over at the PacIT Pros User Group are holding another Tech Days event in a few weeks. I will be presenting a couple of sessions on Windows Azure IaaS at the event. There are also a lot of other great speakers that will be in attendance. if you will be in the area, check out the info on the...

TechTrax Train the Trainer System Center 2012 SP1: Application & Infrastructure Management Join us on May 2nd and May 9th for two TechTrax Train the Trainer sessions on System Center 2012 SP1 led by Microsoft Senior Technical Evangelist Symon Perriman. System Center 2012 SP1 provides the industry...

To my faithful readers – My Apologies. In my previous articles on Active Directory: Differences Between On Premise and In the Cloud , I neglected to include the single biggest (and most obvious) difference between traditional, on-premise Active Directory and Windows Azure Active Directory. I touched...

The US IT Pro Evangelism Team has been working on another series of content!  This set is designed to help you learn to guild out a cloud computing environment in a one month span. There is already some great content online with more to come! Week 1 – Build Your Private Cloud Foundation with Windows...

Two days ago, I wrote up a post called - Getting Started with Windows Azure Active Directory – Setting up the Windows Azure AD Tenant – In that post, I walk through how to configure the Windows Azure Active Directory tenant, but I don’t spend any significant time on why you would want to do this. It...

Just an update to let you know that I am available for in person or virtual Office Hours. I have posted my office hours through Ohours.org so please feel free to block off a time slot.     -Cheers!

Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD) is a new Windows Azure service that provide Identity and Access management capabilities via the Windows Azure cloud. It is primarily designed for providing this service for cloud/web based applications that need to access your local Active Directory information....

SITPUG - The Seattle IT Pro User Group (Formerly WNUG – Windows Networking User Group) is one of the sponsors of the upcoming IT Summit taking place next week. The SITPUG folks are a great user group that meets on the first Wednesday of every month over at the Microsoft Lincoln Square building in Bellevue...

For the past year, our Worldwide IT Pro Evangelism teams have been speaking to customer’s about Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service. We have been showing off preview versions of Windows Azure Active Directory Services, Windows Azure Virtual Machines and more. Today we move from “preview” to general...

My friends over at the PacIT Pros User Group are holding another Tech Days event in a few weeks. I will be presenting a couple of sessions on Windows Azure IaaS at the event. There are also a lot of other great speakers that will be in attendance. if you will be in the area, check out the info on the...

(Note – Repost from Windows Azure Blog - http://aka.ms/y4b3yc ) Windows Azure Active Directory: Ready for Production with over 265 Billion Authentications & 2.9 Million Organizations Served! Last week we shared how Enterprises can benefit by integrating Windows Azure into their business strategy...

CPU Performance and Monitoring is one of the most important aspects for what we do in computing every day. End users and information workers want a performant system, the help desk doesn’t want “my machine is running slow” calls, and the IT staff has to manage power consumption to keep operating costs...

For those of you have taken part in the recent IT Camps, you know that we attempt to cover a LOT of information during this camp. It can be a little overwhelming so I have sorted through the content and provided some links to further reading on the topics that may be more interesting to your particular...

This week we kick off a new series of IT Camps in the Western US. We still have a handful of seats available at select venues. If you would like to get some FREE hand-on training on Windows 8 Deployment, Azure IaaS, and Upgrading to Windows Server 2012, find a city near you then get yourself registered...

Question – How do you determine how much memory to assign to a virtual machine? Real Answers from Administrators - “We add up the recommended memory on the box for all the apps that will run then assign that to the VM” “We add up the recommended memory on the box for all the apps that will run, add 25...

Yesterday, Kevin Remde posted the 2nd in our March series of blog posts on Virtualization. Kevin talks about this different virtualized components of a hyper-V virtual machine and which pieces can be added and removed while the VM is up and running.   “For Part 2 of our “ 20+ Days of Server Virtualization...

First of all, YOU have made our blog series from January and February very successful!  We often wonder if what we write will get read and you have proven to us that it is a fruitful endeavor. Thank you very much for taking the time to read and provide feedback on these series. The first post for...

The IT Pro Evangelism team, Microsoft Learning and the Microsoft Virtual Academy are pleased to announce the next Jump Start course Microsoft Tools for VMware Integration & Migration on Thursday, March 14 th from 8am – 12pm PST .  This is a live, public, free, online event so ask your customers...

One of the Technologies we introduced with Windows 7 was AppLocker.  AppLocker presented a great new way to control what applications could run on your desktop environments.  Now if this sounds familiar to what Software Restriction Policies (SRP) do for your environments, it is important to...

Windows 8 gives us the awesome Windows Store where we can find and install Windows 8 applications that use the new Modern UI. It is pretty intuitive to find and install the applications. But I have had a few questions from folks about how to update and/or upgrade Windows 8 applications after they are...

A few weeks ago, I made a post on using Oracle VirtualBox to run Windows 8 in a Virtual machine on a Mac laptop . This is a great scenario for easily virtualizing a Windows 8 development environment or just because you want to have Windows 8 on your Mac. For this post, we are going to show four things...