April is going to be a busy month!   April 4th  Houston Cloud Tech http://www.techsymposiums.com/   to get 50% off go to http://blogs.technet.com/b/jweston/archive/2012/03/28/50-discount-to-houston-cloud-tech-april-4th.aspx April 5th Dallas...

Dallas/Fort Worth Meeting - April 28th, 2012 - 9am April's Dallas/Fort Worth PowerShell group meeting is planned for Saturday, April 28th at 9am. This month we have Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (PFE) and TechNet blogger Gary Siepser presenting. Among...

You’re Invited to attend. Register today and receive a 50% discount!  Join us for the Houston Cloud Conference on April 4 th , 2012 at the Reliant Center! Use promo code MS50 (Total Balance: $99.50 per person); Limited passes available. Promo Code...

Microsoft MVP Kevin Goff is doing a 13 part SQL 2012 Live Online webcast series. They are being recorded  so I have gotten permission to put all 13 of the recordings here on my one blog post.   The original webcast series post can be found here...

I have been presenting today at this great event. Here are the PowerPoint's from today’s sessions: PRI 102 System Center 2012 Microsoft’s Private Cloud       PRE 104 Preparing for the Hybrid Cloud

Windows Intune and Modernizing Your Desktop Strategy Download: WMV | WMA Are you still running on Windows XP? Are you looking for guidance about how to embrace the cloud, getting the most out of virtualization, and better understanding the consumerization...

About This Video Microsoft MVP Sai Kev is with us for today’s Community Corner and in this episode we talk about the business and technical benefits you should consider when thinking about Hyper-V and System Center 2012. Tune in they cover their unique...

About This Video Microsoft System Center MVP, James Bannan joins us in today’s Community Corner as we discuss all things System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. Tune in as we cover some of its latest features as well as some best practices for establishing...

We have Three different guides one for consumers, one for Business, and of course developers.   The consumer one: Welcome to the Windows® 8 Consumer Preview. Windows 8 has been reimagined to focus on your life. The beautiful, fast, and fluid design...

About This Video In today’s Community Corner, Microsoft System Center MVP Islam Gomaa joins us for today’s show as he discusses with us System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager. Tune in as he covers some of its highlights and best features as well as...

My co-worker Chris Avis   just did a blog post about how to clean up your boot loader.  In the West IT camps they are passing out a VHD file that people can use to test the new features of Private Cloud.  It is easy to use bcdedit to add...

About This Video Microsoft MVP Vishnu Kumar Tiwari joins us today as he shares with us some insight into Windows Azure AppFabric and some of its best features for IT Pros. Tune in as he covers what benefits there are to private cloud and virtualized IT...

About This Video In today’s Community Corner, we welcome SQL Rockstar Thomas LaRock to the show as he discusses with us the newest features found in SQL Server 2012, where DBAs can get information on this latest release, as well as how this relates to...

No this isn’t some new technology….. A short break from Technical stuff.  A little about me personal.  Yes I am a Triathlete.  The “code” to call yourself a Triathlete is that you have to finish a Triathlon every year to continue to call...

    About this Video: Following the SQL Server 2012 Reviewers’ workshop in late February, we welcome Mike Otey from SQL Server Pro magazine, Stephen Wynkoop, CEO of Bits on the Wire, and Dandy Weyn Technical Product Manager from the SQL Server...

You have chance to spend a day with some of the nation’s leading cloud experts and for you to learn how to build a web application that runs in Windows Azure.  You will learn how to sign up for free time in the cloud, and how to build a typical web...

Take notes, make lists, and stay organized. Everywhere. OneNote ™ Mobile is here. You need it. OneNote is now available as a free download for the Android , iPad and iPhone . It's the perfect way to stay organized on the go. You can create notes, lists...

About This Video In today’s episode we welcome Technical Evangelist Corbett Hoxland and Windows Specialist Chris Le Texier as they share with us some insight into how you can streamline and modernize your desktop management processes through Windows Intune...

I know this sounds strange, but this week I became a VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 5. I am sure your reactions are HUH??, What?, Why on earth would a Microsoft Employee do that?  Well let me try to explain. First let me provide a little...

We are a little over a month away for the www.mms-2012.com sold out event in Las Vegas April 16-20.  I thought I would post a little here about the event. I was reading on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Blog about Brad Anderson’s keynotes...

We just got notification that a new Release Candidate is now available for Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012   Here is the text from the email I got about the new features of MDT 2012. Support for Configuration Manager 2012 RC2 : This update provides...

Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Kevin Goff is hosting this 13 part SQL Server 2012 live online webcast series starting Friday, March 23 rd at 9am (Pacific).  Join Kevin every Friday for this fantastic, free online training series on all things SQL Server...

New Webcast series coming up soon on PowerShell. 3/12/2012 11:00:00 AM - PowerShell Essentials for the Busy Admin (Part 1 of 5): PowerShell 'SmowerShell'—Why You Should Learn Windows PowerShell https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID...

I was on the SQL blog today http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2012/02/15/new-video-the-history-of-sql-server.aspx and they had this great History view of SQL server I had to share. This week we will launch SQL 2012  http://www...

Windows Server 8 (Beta) is finally here. Yesterday was Windows 8, the Client operating system. Today one day later is the Server product for all you IT pros out there. Yes we know applications are king, but they have to run on something! From...