Yesterday I did a webcast on SQL Server Reporting Services Here is the log of questions and answers: Asked: and what was the blog? and his email address Answered: http://blogs.technet.com/jweston/ John can be reached at jweston@microsoft.com ...

Launch of Vista, Office 2007, and Exchange 2007 are coming to a town near you. Our Microsoft Across America is doing these events in 59 cities, outside of the 15 major city events that our district teams are doing. They all start January 16th and go for...

Friday I did a webcast on Active Directory Basics. Here is the questions and answers log from that webcast. Come to www.microsoft.com/webcast I am doing two webcast this week on SQL 2005. Today is Reporting Services and Friday is Data Mining!! Enjoy!...

We have this term here at Microsoft RTM. Release to Manufacturing. The code is golden, or go press some DVD's. It basically means we are finished with the developement of the product, YEA! We now have all three VISTA, OFFICE 2007 (System), and now...

Come to my TechNet event in Nashua, NH on November 30. Actually we are across the boarder in Mass in Tyngsboro. Only 35 miles from Boston. We only have 100 people registered. I will be giving away 1 Xbox 360. So you have 1 in 100 chance of winning...

GNoTE? Global Network of Technology Evangelist!! A fellow MS evangelist has started a cool place for Technology evangelist to hang out. Read more below from Anand. Go check out GNoTE A few evangelist-friends of mine (from Sun and Yahoo!) and I,...

Just too much fun information today not to share: We have announced about the next version of SBS. It will be 64 bit. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/evaluation/faq/roadmap.mspx Q . Will there be a...

Are you a TechNet subscriber? Well you should be. If you are, you can go to the Technet site right now and download it. http://technet.microsoft.com/subscriptions/ As you can see below as of today both Vista and Office 2007 are availible to TechNet subscribers...

We announced that Office 2007 has RTM'ed. YEA! What is RTM? That is Released to Manufacturing. It means the product is complete, or gone gold code as we use to say in the past. Now they software is sent to the guys that make the DVD's and package it....

really interesting announcement today. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/nov06/11-02MSNovellPR.mspx

I was reading the Seattle Post Intelligencer today and they had a very interesting article on Vista launch dates. Here is the link to the article. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/290809_msftvista02.html

Our MSDN Events Developer Evangelists are so popular, everybody wants us! Which explains why we now have some openings on our team. If you have a passion for developer tools and technology, love delivering jaw-dropping presentations, are good at articulating...

Well I have the event for you www.techXworld.com WIll be in Dallas next Tuesday October 31st. The last techxworld will be in San Francisco on November 2. This event is only happening in 4 locations around the country. The reviews from the first...

I was in Alabama covering events for my buddy Blain Barton who is in Hawaii this week. We had a college gig scheduled at University Alabama Birmingham, and a TechNet event the day after in Birmingham. I was asked to fit in a User Group meeting in Huntsville...

The last two wednesdays I have been doing parts of a 10 part Webcast series called Agility Now. It's a great webcast series. I was going to post here the Q&A log from those webcast, but NO ONE asked any questions. I can't believe how quite the crowd...

Tomorrow 9/6/6 starts the first part of a 10 part series webcast on how to take control of your I.T. world. Matt Hester starts it off tomorrow at 9:30 AM PST. I will be doing sessions 2 and 3 of this series. Come check it out for more information!“ What...

Check out this article. Cool stuff on our searching capabilities added for Video as part of the windows Live search. http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/08/25/HNmswindowslivesearch_1.html

We are starting up a new 10 part webcast series. Check it out: http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/takecontrol.mspx I will be doing the sessions on September 13th and 20th. Come find out more about taking control!!!

So yesterday I was playing around with Vista. I wanted to try the new ReadyBoost Feature that allows a USB memory stick to help boost the performance of Vista. I went to Fry's and purchased a 2 Gig stick It said "fast USB 2.0" but no other specs on the...

I was in a meeting this morning with Scott Stout, PM for the TechNet Subscriptions and he gave us the OK to talk about these new features that are coming out August 1st about TechNet Subscriptions. First the standard subscription is going away. Don...

What do these cities have in common? Yep they are cities you can come see me live in during August!! We will be doing 4 hour presentations on Vista and Exchange 2007. I will be in Boston 8/8, Ft Worth 8/15, Dallas 8/17 and Hartford, CT on 8/31...

We announced a new product yesterday. Windows Based Hosting 4.0 This is for Service Providers that want to offer hosting solutions. It includes SQL 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0 Read more here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/cits/hosting/default...

yes it's true. We bought this company. Great technology. It will be interesting to see how we use it. Read the news here: http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20060718\ACQPRN200607181100PR_NEWS_B_NWT_SF_SFTU040.htm

Go check it out at www.microsoft.com/virtualpc or go check out my friend's blog at: http://blogs.technet.com/kevinremde/

I have been working with Culminis. They are a group of user Groups for IT Pro types for the whole world. They have great resources on their website www.culminis.com if you are interested in starting a user group. Joining Culminis for your group would...