Back when I was supporting a large enterprise Active Directory environment, I was tasked with upgrading our Domain environment from Windows 2000 to Windows Server 2003.  The project was made much easier with the great documentation from the AD team...

Let me introduce myself.  My name is Joey and after 12 plus years working in various IT roles in both large scale enterprises as well as mid-sized businesses, I have recently joined Microsoft as an IT Pro Evangelist.  I get the opportunity to...

Yesterday I posted a link to my Active Directory Recycle Bin demo over on Edge .  Today I thought I would follow that up that post with a few things about the recycle bin feature in R2. The great thing about the AD Recycle Bin is that if you make...

Wow what a crazy winter!  I've been traveling around speaking to folks about Windows Server 2008 R2.  Let me tell you all Prague is an amazing city, but winter there is COLD!  *Shudder*.  When I was in Prague speaking to all of the...

Today's post on Edge is an interview I did recently with Michael Niehaus and Jeremy Chapman regarding Vista deployment .  These guys have done a TON of work around making deployment (not just Vista) much easier to handle.  Check out the interview...

Being the complete professionals that we are in the Edge team, we have created a special public awareness video about an upcoming survey that our Edge viewers will be asked to participate in.  Please take the time to watch this video and if you are...

  Customer Preview Program (CPP) availability for Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista was announced today over at the Windows Client Springboard TechCenter .  MSDN and TechNet subscribers can download the SP2 CPP now, the...

Green IT is a a phrase that's buzzing all around the various publications and being uttered by those executives who help determine the direction of your IT department.  Well what can you REALLY do to improve the power efficiency of your data center...

One of my favorite documents for Windows Server 2003 is now available in beta form for Windows Server 2008.  If you have never reviewed these guides I strongly recommend them.  The guide makes it easy to tailor the security configuration to...

As a tool to manage end user desktops, Group Policy is very powerful, but how many times have you wanted to manage a users printer settings or drive mappings and not been able to do it outside of a script? How about the challenge of copying a set of files...

I realize that I have only been at Microsoft a couple of months, but I am continually amazed by the technologies that are researched and developed here.  There is an amazing technology that is being highlighted on Edge today.  Take a look and...

If you’ve played in the IT Pro playground long enough, I’m sure that you have seen the database that is impossible to backup. This is that database in your organization that continues to grow and grow and your backups take longer and longer...

WOW!  I didn't realize I've neglected this blog for so long.  I've got no excuses so hopefully I'll make up for it by giving you guys some good stuff today.  I'd like to thank all of the people who attended and especially like to thank...

TechEd 2008 has come to an end.  I'm over the minor bit of Jet Lag/Timezone shift that I've had and am back in Redmond trying to dig through email.  TechEd was great.  I met some amazing IT Pro's that are doing some REALLY cool things not...

Last week I presented three different sessions at TechEd and used my laptop to run at five different Virtual Machines at once in order to demonstrate various Windows Server 2008 technologies.  The performance of Hyper-V was amazing, but I tell you...

Once a year you get that email or knock on the door from the auditor. It didn’t used to be this way, but Enron and other scandals have changed the way we track our user’s actions. I still wake up in cold sweats with memories of the audits...

I am sure you've seen the headlines on the interwebs about this being Bill Gates last full time week at Microsoft.  Bill is still going to hold the post of Chairman and will still be a part of what is going on here, but day to day he's going to focus...

It's been a couple of weeks since TechEd and I'm finally getting caught up.  A good friend and fellow Geek Gordon Ryan (Gordo) and I were having a chat about Powershell before one of my sessions.  As we were chatting he mentioned some work he...

At my sessions at TechEd I tell a fictional story of the domain controller stored underneath the receptionists desk serving not only as a DC, but also as a stand for the water cooler.  I know it's an extreme example of branch office craziness, but...

Well folks it's here!  The highly anticipated Hyper-V has shipped!  We've got the early scoop with an interview with Mike Neil where he discusses why virtualization is important to Microsoft and the challenges we've had along the creation process...

Back in April there were reports that surfaced stating that web sites running on Internet Information Services (IIS) had been compromised by an automated attack that used vulnerabilities in web pages that did not follow security for best practices. These...

There has not been much public information about Windows 7 (code name for the next version of the Windows Operating System).  There is a great blog from the engineering team that anyone with an interest in the behind the scenes of developing an OS...

I've made the trek across the bridge to downtown Seattle to the 2008 Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Community Summit.  For the next three days nearly 3,000 attendees will have their brains filled with the most up-to-date and comprehensive...

The folks over in the Web Platform have released a RC (Release Candidate) version of the Web Platform Installer.  What is this Web Platform installer you ask?  Keep reading to find out more! Have you ever wanted to deploy an IIS website and...

I had a chance to sit down and talk with Joe Yong from Scalability Experts regarding SQL Server and Virtualization.  This short 7 minute video is jam packed with great information.  Head on over to Edge and check it out .