The morning after watching a really exciting, albeit frustrating nil-nil result, Sounders FC MLS playoff match at Qwest Field, I boarded a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport . This is the first of many stages of travel I...

Hello world! I’m being serious. I’ve just resurfaced after spending nearly two weeks in a “executive keynote demo bunker”, building out a cool demo rig for a big upcoming event (wink, wink).  Man, I had a beard and everything, and mostly sustained...

Wow! What a crazy run it has been, as we’ve been ramping for a number of milestones for the big launch.  For example, I’ve spent this week building out a real killer Exchange Server 2010 demo rig for some important, upcoming events.  In addition...

Last Wednesday I started with a brief overview of the integrated archiving, retention, and discovery capabilities we’re launching with Exchange Server 2010 . Good, right? Well, a common question I get from customers, partners, analysts, our field and...

I must admit, that after nearly a four month hiatus, I’m feeling a bit like my blog has just been reawaken, like Han Solo was released from being frozen in Carbonite : can’t really see that well, and I’m hoping that I don’t need to stare down a Sarlacc...

What a long post title to basically share a link to a recent video I recorded with Microsoft U.K.’s very own Eileen Brown (leading IT Pro evangelist, and social media expert) about our recent unveiling of Exchange 2010 : This video was shot just minutes...

  After spending more than year working on the Exchange product management team, I can finally start talking about all the cool stuff the Exchange team has been building over the last several years.  That’s right, today we took the wraps off...

Well...in keeping with the spirit of my long blogosphere absences, I'm back (once again) to let you know that I'm now rightsizing my blogging to micro-blog levels. That's right, I've gone off and started Twitting. Or, is it Tweeting. Ugh. ...

I’m writing this post following a day on the slopes , so while my spirit remains strong and purposeful, my body does not. (NOTE: No broken limbs or missing teeth, but I did “accidently” wonder onto a black diamond trail , and cruised my good pal and Exchange...

My friends and colleagues over at the MacBU have shipped a beta of Entourage that features new support for EWS (a/k/a Exchange Web Services) .  This replaces the previous WebDAV approach used in both previously releases of Entourage and Exchange...

Hey, our Microsoft Unified Communications blog is on fire as of late.  After a longer hiatus than I took with this blog, the UC team (of which I'm a member of) is blogging like gangbusters. Check it out: Unified Communications Group Team Blog --...

Not that I want to turn a TechNet blog into a battleground Lotus vs. Exchange tit-for-tat, but in furtherance to my posting on Friday (re: Notes momentum meets Gartner reality ) here's a link to a good Q&A with David Scult on the very subject of Exchange...

Lot's of great  buzz around the messaging space with the run up to IBM's Lotusphere .  Lotusphere is kicking off on Sunday. Here's a neat  Computerworld article about where the PR "rubber" meets the Gartner analyst "road"...

As both an ol' security guy, and now a nearly seasoned e-mail server guy (okay, it's been one calendar year since I moved over to the Exchange team ), I really dig this whole discussion around the future of President-elect Obama's BlackBerry. He is, much...

Well, here's a little more insight on what I've been working on these days: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/01/13/450397.aspx Way more to come over the next few months. Nevertheless, it is nice to finally have some things to talk about publicly...

Can you believe that I have not tended to my blog for nearly 8 months?  Wait. Don't answer that! Why? Well, it is pretty easy to tell that by noticing that my last post was in March. Moving on. As I mentioned back in...er..January , I've been over...

While it has been nearly three months since I moved from the role as product manager for Windows Server networking to the Exchange Server team , I still get the occasional opportunity to strut my old networking stuff. One such example is a recent article...

What? Yes, the rumors* you heard are true. I've decided to usher in the year 2008, by leaving the group working on a major product named after this new year (i.e. Windows Server 2008 ) and join the Unified Communications team! Specifically, I am now a...

Yup. It went live today. More details here: Microsoft and Industry Partners Gear Up for Biggest Enterprise Launch Wave in the Company’s History Check it out! -- hama

Yes. I agree that it took us long enough to get this thing posted since I first mentioned it back in February . Nevertheless, you can now download the kick ass Server and Domain Isolation demo/lab that Microsoft MVP and Virtualization and Security Guru...

Some US leaders may choose to pardon a turkey as their way of "giving thanks" ahead of the once yearly food feast known as Thanksgiving . Well, as mere citizens we may not be able to flex such presidential powers ourselves, but you can have some fun helping...

Our friends over at Broadcom announced on Tuesday (November 6th) a new super cool, 65nm Gigabit Ethernet controller that will incorporate support for Window Vista's IPsec Task Offload functionality! As my boss' boss said in the press release: "Thanks...

As an FYI, I'm now also blogging on the recently launched Forefront Team Blog on another part of the TechNet blog-o-sphere-o-rama. I posted one that's very relevant to the networking and network security themes of this blog, and thought it would be worth...

It is my last full day in South East Asia, and I'm working from the Microsoft Singapore office down on Marina Boulevard. There's a great view from the cube I'm squatting in during my two day stay. From the 19th floor, I can just about see the famous Singapore...

It's the Saturday following my week here in Kuala Lumpur (aka KL) and TechEd 2007 SEA (aka South East Asia). The week was a good time, and it was great to connect with the local 'softies, MVPs, partners, and of course, the regional customers. I delivered...