Microsoft’s Virtual Academy Dean of students, Alan Le Marquand is back and in today’s episode he previews for us what’s coming down the course pipeline with regards to System Center 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2, Virtualization and the rest of Private Cloud solution offerings from Microsoft. He also discusses...

Its IT Time and in today’s episode, Blain Barton and John Baker welcome Curtis Parker from the Forefront Online Protection team. Tune in as Curtis gives us a tour of Forefront’s new features for Exchange, as he explains how Office 365 customers can simplify the management and security experience...

Its IT Time and in Part 1 of this 3 part series, Blain Barton and John Baker welcome back Setup and Deployment MVP, Rhonda Layfield to the show. Tune in as Rhonda provides her Top 5 Tips and Tricks for setting up Windows Deployment Services (WDS) as she tackles some key infrastructure issues that you...

Its IT Time and in today’s episode, Blain Barton and John Baker welcome Rhonda Layfield, Microsoft MVP for Setup and Deployment. Tune in as Rhonda gives us an in-depth demo on the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 Beta 1, from installation and setup of the MDTs deployment workbench, the architecture...

It’s IT Time and in today’s episode, Blain Barton and John Baker interview Chris Van Wesep ---Group Product Manager here at Microsoft. Listen in as they preview the System Center 2012 suite of products and discuss how IT Pros can grapple cloud computing and the consumerization of IT. Check...

Its IT Time and in today’s episode, Blain Barton and John Baker welcome IT Pro Community Manager, Stephen Rose. Tune in as Stephen walks us through the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and shows us how easy it is to slipstream IE9 and other applications into a Windows 7 migration - in a matter of minutes...

In this episode I welcome Microsoft Setup and Deployment MVP, Maik Koster. Listen in as we chat about Enterprise deployment solutions as well as a program Maik help developed called the MDT Web FrontEnd, which gives users a customizable and flexible solution to access and configure the MDT Database....

Its IT Time and in this episode Blain Barton and John Baker, welcome Jon Rolls, Vice-President of Product Management for Desktop Virtualization at Quest Software. Listen in as they chat about the consumerization of IT from a Virtual Desktop perspective, how to extend Microsoft VDI, Terminal Server and...

    Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 In today’s episode I interview Michael Niehaus, Senior Software Development Engineer for the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit. Michael will discuss its evolution, how it compares to WDS and System Center Configuration Manager, as well as giving us a little...

    It’s IT Time and in today’s episode, Blain Barton and John Baker welcome Sr. IT Pro Evangelist, Yung Chou as they discuss the “ 5-3-2” principle of Cloud Computing. Tune in as they chat about what makes up the Cloud , its delivery and deployment methods as well as how one can easily get...

It’s IT Time and in today’s episode we meet the East Region IT Pro Evangelists to the show. Listen in as we hear from John Baker, Bob Hunt, Dan Stolts and Yung Chou as they discuss a little bit about their technical backgrounds as well as how they each got started in IT and working at Microsoft. If you...

  In this episode I interview two Microsoft Setup and Deployment MVPs – Mikael Nystrom and Johan Arwidmark about Windows Deployment Services, the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and their book  They’re co-authors of “Deployment Fundamentals, Vol.1: Migrating to Windows 7 using MDT 2010 Lite Touch...

    It’s IT Time and in today’s episode Blain Barton and John Baker welcome Paul Bourgeau from the Windows Intune team. Tune in as Paul takes us through Windows Intune , an Online Service for PC Management, as he demos its user interface - the System Overview tab, Client Software Deployment...

  In today’s episode, John Baker interviews John Clark, a Senior Consultant with the IT Operational Consulting team at Microsoft. Listen in as they dispel some of the myths and misconceptions floating around Cloud computing and it being a replacement for IT Service Management. Click here to learn...

It’s IT Time and in today’s episode, Blain Barton and John Baker interview Walker White, Chief Technology Officer for BDNA Corporation. Listen in as they go in depth on how BDNA products can help System Center Configuration Manager admins improve their daily IT operations as well as realize the full...

    Its IT Time and in Part 3 of this Windows Phone 7 Overview, we hear from Jeff Morris as he covers Enterprise capabilities for Windows Phone. Listen in as he discusses some changes and improvements for Exchange ActiveSync, as well as Security and Policy features for IT Pros. Click here to...

  It’s IT Time and in part 2 of this Windows Phone 7 overview, Ken Milner demos the Office hub, OneNote, Excel and some collaboration features found with SkyDrive and SharePoint as well as the Web browsing experience, pictures, music and video hubs. Click here to watch Part 1 of this interview!...

It’s IT Time and your hosts Blain Barton and John Baker chat with Ken Milner and Jeff Morris from the Windows Phone 7 team. In part 1 of 3 of this interview, Ken demos Windows Phone 7’s interface, the People hub, Voice enabled features, email and messaging. If you're interested in learning...

Join Sr. IT Pro Evangelists, Blain Barton and John Baker, as they kick off their new series by interviewing Andy O’ Donald – a Product Manager with the Microsoft Office team. Listen in as they discuss a wide variety of topics such as Office 2010 planning, deployment tools such as the Office Deployment...

  In this episode I interview Shawn Labelle, an Operations Architect with the IT Operational Consulting team at Microsoft. Listen in as Shawn describes the differences between the Microsoft Operations Framework and ITIL and how it can benefit IT Pros and their organizations better their processes...

In this TechNet Radio episode I interview Steve Busby and Mike Jenne from the Microsoft Technology Center in Atlanta, Georgia.  Steve and Mike discuss the various services and workshops available to customers who are looking to streamline and optimize their IT environment. Microsoft Technology Centers...

Join me and Javier Salido, Senior Program Manager with the Trustworthy Computing Group at Microsoft, as we discuss some challenges and solutions organizations may face when trying to maintain the privacy and security of their confidential data, if they decide to migrate their infrastructure to the cloud...

Join me and Theresa Burch, Director of Product Management at Microsoft , as we discuss Microsoft Security Essentials --- a new offering that extends Microsoft’s security platform to consumers and small businesses. Come see why people are calling Microsoft Security Essentials the easy-to-use, “install...

In part two of our SQL Server and SharePoint series, our host John Baker interviews Joel Oleson , Sr. Product Manager and SharePoint Evangelist at Quest Software . Listen in as they discuss key considerations you should make when planning for and deploying SharePoint 2010. Learn about new database requirements...

In this episode of TechNet Radio, our host John Baker interviews Joel Oleson, Sr. Product Manager and SharePoint Evangelist at Quest Software. Listen in as they discuss what considerations you should make around large scale SQL Server deployments with SharePoint. They also take an in-depth look at SQL...