I thought this blog post hit yesterday, something when wrong somewhere.  Probably my fault, I was presenting yesterday in Dallas for an 8 hour event at our Microsoft office, then I had a 3.5 hour flight in storms out to California for Cloud Expo...

ok, a little catching up here. I was on vacation last week for a long Thanksgiving week. My post as part of this series were on auto post schedule, but I wasn’t available to cross post my co workers post during the week, so here they are: Kevin Remde...

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

Track 2 11AM Part of the session: Name: Michael Gough Talk: The BIG ONE!!! How will you react? no really, how will you & management react & what will everyone do?   Track 2 3P Name: Philip Beyer Talk: Secure SDLC in the Real World: Pitfalls...

Microsoft Private Cloud Summit Join us at the Microsoft Private Cloud Summit with the “Best of Microsoft Management Summit”! Learn about how the new System Center 2012 can help you manage nearly everything in your infrastructure – from the desktop, to...

Just announced on technet.com  SP available here is the page you need: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/gg635126?ITPID=technet Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Server 2008 R2...

In today’s post, Brian Lewis shows us how to install Hyper-V with a great screen cast. You can see his post The Cloud on you Terms part 8 of 30: Installing Hyper-v Screencast   This works the same on all three versions of Windows Server 2008 R2. ...

From the Microsoft Blog http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2012/05/08/making-carbon-neutrality-everyone-s-responsibility-at-microsoft.aspx From Kevin Turner. Making Carbon Neutrality Everyone’s Responsibility at Microsoft Tue, May 8 2012...

Here is the press release: AT&T Expands Windows Phone Leadership Plans to Introduce Three New 4G Windows Phones in Fourth Quarter and Update all Existing Windows Phones Dallas, Texas, September 12, 2011 ShareThis Key Facts AT&T*, the U.S. leader...

Good Friday, Veteran’s Day!  Today is part 11 in our series.  Brian Lewis writes on his blog , about System Center Virtual Machine Manager  and how it works with virtual machines.  Not only Microsoft Hyper-V but other vendors also...

AITP (Association of Information Technology Professionals)  www.aitpdallas.org is a great organization.   We are now using Microsoft Lync 2010 to record the meetings. Here is a link to the video http://johnweston.me/2011/04/29/aitp-dallas...

Over the next few weeks I am doing several events with www.angelbeat.com .  They include cities of Baton Rouge, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and El Paso. Below is the slide deck I plan on using, if you want the slides, full screen then then open...

Wow November was a crazy blogging month with that series we did, but back to normal blogging now. I really  like my Windows Phone, now with 7.5 Mango on it even better. Nokia announced they are going to make Windows Phone based Smart phones, This...

  To promote the release of Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” our marketing guys build a 6 stories high Windows Phone in New York City’s Harold Square.   Check out this time lapse video of how they built the phone.

  Today’s post comes to us from Brian Lewis   His post The Cloud on Your Terms part 9 of 30:What hardware is needed for a Datacenter? Lessons learned from a software company    In this post he talks about our extremely large data centers...

BsidesDFW 2011 Was held at the Microsoft Dallas offices on November 9th, 2011. Over 180 people attended, I think most people had a great time. We recorded most, but not all of the sessions using Microsoft Lync 2010. Thanks Kevin Remde for doing all the...

Welcome to part 4 of our 30 part series. Oh Yea, Happy Friday. Man it’s been a busy week, and it’s not over.  Tomorrow we do the Bsides DFW security conference That should be fun.   This week I have been traveling around Texas with Kevin Remde...

ok, a little catching up here. I was on vacation last week for a long Thanksgiving week. My post as part of this series were on auto post schedule, but I wasn’t available to cross post my co workers post during the week, so here they are: Kevin Remde...

In today’s article Brian Lewis talks about the things he learned while we build out our private cloud deployment.  You can read about his story at: Cloud on Your Terms Part 17 of 30: Lessons learned from our Cloud Build Out Tomorrow I will be writing...

As most of you know I am not much of a gamer. Even working for Microsoft I didn’t have an Xbox for the longest time.  Well my kids have had one for a couple of years now, they love it. Kinect has totally changed the game, hard to think it’s been...

I found this post on the Microsoft Blog Summer is a transition time for many people: the break between school years; a vacation before tackling another year of work; and for network television that’s been a guest in our living rooms for so...

Kevin Remde brings us part 14 of our series with a Monday report on Orchestrator part of System Center.  Yes Orchestrator was formally known as Opalis.  It is the product that allows you to create, test and perform that automation you need on...

Today’ entry is from Kevin Remde. He talks about our build out of Private Cloud in a data center and some of the lessons learned from our experience. You can read his full post here:  Cloud on Your Terms Part 16 of 30 Where should your DC go?   ...

In today’s part 10 of our series Kevin Remde talks about building his private cloud lab environment  at home. He talks about the hardware needed, free download software, and what parts he wanted to get up and running. The post is here:  Cloud...