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...

Today is the start of Launch Day. BillG will do the start in LA. Then our team will carry that out to 62 other cities around the US. I thought about what to blog about today. If you want to watch it live go to www.heroeshappenhere.com There you can also...

That is a quote from Rob Westover a co worker of mine here at Microsoft. He passed away on April 29th.   I have been up in Redmond this week for the services.  I built a video as a tribute to Rob, it was my way of trying to deal with it...

I normally don't write about this kinda stuff. But it has effected me this week. See I was called for Jury Duty Monday. What luck, only the second week since Christmas that I am scheduled to be home so I could do it. I have lived in the same county for...

Windows Server "8" Beta Virtual Labs Experience the beta release of Windows Server "8" firsthand in these virtual labs. You can test drive new and improved features and functionality, including server management and Windows PowerShell, networking,...

Getting Ready for The Cloud Well, you have heard all the hype, Cloud this, Cloud that, Public Cloud, Private Cloud, etc, etc, how the heck do you get ready? Your organization might not be ready to move 100% of your servers to someone else’s data center...

In collaboration with IEEE Computer Society, the Cloud Security Alliance and Dell, Microsoft is hosting a 24 Hours in a Private Cloud virtual event that will start May 10 th , 2012 8:00AM GMT. The event was built by the community for the community. Microsoft...

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...

I generally like Dell. I have thought they make good machines for many years. I had a disappointment with them this morning. Back 3 years ago or so I bought a couple of desktops with printers from them. The Printers were J740's. Nice little desktop inkjet...

Here are more observations from my attendance at a Novell conference. I attended a session titled "Defense against Microsoft" The speaker spotted me right away and we had a good conversation. I listened quitely to his argument for Groupwise and against...

Go check this out: The first one was last Friday, I helped with questions, man you guys have a bunch of questions about Exchange 2007. Go find out more!! TechNet Webcast Series: 24 Hours of Exchange Server 2007 Get a comprehensive look at...

Back in the middle of September I ordered an accesory for my new HP6315 phone. It was a USB connector with a car charger option. Great way to connect my new PDA/Phone to my laptop or charge it from the car. BoxWave promptly shipped my order and the USPS...

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You are one of the unsung heroes of technology. The work you do every day helps your company to be more competitive, and now Microsoft launches three powerful new products to make it even easier for you to be a hero every day. Three ways to be a hero...

"Tilt Off" At&t..   This is my relatively new Tilt phone. I love the Windows Mobile 6 that it has.  Sunday morning it was working just fine. I unplugged it from the charger, read the 4 emails I had. Saw that I got a popup...

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I will start showing this video at my events soon.  It is a great 2 minute history of how far we have come over the last 2 decades, then goes into a short demo of what can be done TODAY with things like Office 365 and the cloud.   ...

OK, a break from Technology for a few minutes.   As most of you know I love exercise.  I really like being outside. The Gym isn’t for me unless that is my only choice.  Working for Microsoft we have a great benefit they will pay for...

  Are you ready for the Holiday Season with Kinect?  I sure am looking forward to it. I wish it did everything in this video

On March 23 of this year, our team delivered the first commercial release of Windows Intune , a subscription service that offers PC management and security through the cloud along with upgrade rights to Windows 7 Enterprise and future versions of Windows...

For presentations over the new few weeks I will be using this slide deck.   To download the slide deck, open it full screen.  Look on the lower right corner, then you will get an option to download the full deck, enjoy.   If you want to...

TechNet Video: Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, What’s really the Truth? Download WMV Download | WMA | MP3 In this session we will demo the new Office 365. We will show you what the new Microsoft Data Centers are like Inside, why they are 71...

If you couldn’t tell, we did an upgrade to blogs.technet.com.  Do you like the changes? It is going to take a little getting use to for us, bare with us while we go thru the changes. Are you going to TechEd this year? I am, also really looking forward...

We have a blog site  BIEB, or Because it’s everybody’s business. I started writing today for the UC experts part of that blog.  Check out my first post  http://blogs.technet.com/b/ucexperts/archive/2010/08/06/unified-communications-going...

The story of charity: water - The 2009 September Campaign Trailer from charity: water on Vimeo .   I ran across this video today, amazing 4 minutes, to think this organization is only 5 years old now.  Way to go!