On Tuesday, Microsoft’s Server & Tools Business division leaders participated in a webcast, “Transforming IT with Microsoft Private Cloud” where they announced the release candidate of System Center 2012 and simplified Microsoft’s...

Today during the “ Private Cloud Day ” live webcast event, Microsoft announced major change in how we think of and purchase the System Center suite. Summary.. it’s no longer a separate set of products, but it is just one product: System...

From the Microsoft Next blog http://blogs.technet.com/b/next/archive/2012/01/16/surface-2-0-now-shipping.aspx The SUR 40 won a CES Best of Innovations 2012 award – the 40 inch Full HD LCD can be mounted horizontally or vertically and incorporates...

We will be hosting an Open House at our Las Colinas, TX campus Saturday, January 28, 2012. This will be an opportunity for prospective candidates to mingle with folks on our team as well as some of our Recruiters. We will post more information on the...

You didn’t go to CES? watch this video from CES about how the company that wrote Cut the Rope game how they got it to work on IE9. You can get the game at http://cuttherope.ie

Free TechNet Webcast - Career Progression: Getting Ready for the Cloud on 1/18/2012 1:00 PM Eastern / 10:00 AM PST. You will NOT want to miss this… Please Register https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032501883&Culture...

This video is from How Microsoft does IT internally. Great summary of how we manage 280,000 client machines on our network. If you want to download a free 180 trial of this software go to http://aka.ms/syscntr . Yes this video is also on Youtube Enjoy...

I saw this today, lot’s of Buzz about it, sounds very interesting. OnLive Desktop. Real PC Apps on iPad. Windows® on iPad®. Instant Response. Media-rich. http://desktop.onlive.com/overview Need to see redlines in Word?...

First let me start by telling you where you can see me this month.   January 10, 2012  TechNet IT Camp Kansas City (Overland Park, KS)  www.technetevents.com    Kevin Remde and I will be doing a full day event on Virtualization...

I am ready to take a break for Christmas.  If you look back, I have done almost 90 post in the last 45 days. I leave this last one for the year with you.  I wanted to make you laugh and put you in the Holiday mood.  You know I am into weather...

As you know I travel a bunch, here is a great video showing off a bunch of these tools I use every day.  Enjoy.

About This Video In today’s Community Corner, John Weston interviews Microsoft Windows Expert MVP, Mitch Garvis to the show. Tune in as they have a candid conversation on Hyper-V vs. VMware as well what role VDI and Thin Client will play in the future...

These posters have been very popular over the years and the Hyper-V one has been updated to support Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX which are now available as part of SP1. The picture of the poster is below along with a download link. You can download a copy...

With tablet purchases expected to increase 81 percent from now until 2015, laptops and tablets have become essential technology tools both at work and home, and often our fingers and wrists suffer especially when confined to an on-screen keyboard. Today...

Everyone loves to get an early Christmas present well this year, Veeam has a great gift you can unwrap today. Today they announced a holiday gift for VMware vExperts, VMware Certified Professionals, VMware Certified Instructors, VMUG members, Microsoft...

REDMOND, Wash. — Dec. 14, 2011 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Microsoft Office 365, the company’s next-generation cloud productivity service, is the first and only major cloud-based platform to offer leading information privacy and security standards...

Generally I don’t like those Year end Review, or my favorite things of the year type post, but I ran across this today on our Microsoft Presspass.  In a big company like Microsoft, we get so focused on the daily activities we forget some of the amazing...

Today, just in time for the holidays, we’re releasing OneNote 1.3 for iOS. Since the launch of OneNote for iPhone nearly a year ago, a recurring request from our customers has been for a version that can be used more easily on the iPad's larger screen...

Lync 2010 for Windows Phone extends the power of Lync to your mobile device – including rich presence, instant messaging, audio conferencing, and calling features from a single, easy-to-use interface. Key Features: View colleagues’ availability in real...

Today we released apps for SkyDrive from your phone.  If you aren’t familiar with what SkyDrive is, its free for live or Hotmail users. You can store up to 25 Gb of files for free. There is a max size of 100 meg per file.  But now you can access...

TechNet Video:  A Tale of Two Clouds: The Microsoft Hybrid Cloud Solution Download WMV Download | WMA | MP3 Using a public cloud has too many security concerns for some companies. And small companies may be too small for a private cloud. A hybrid...

  Are you ready to try the latest on System Center 2012 Betas and Release Candidates? Go to http://aka.ms/syscntr   and get the latest downloads.

Did you know about www.answerdesk.com ?  Interesting way to do support. Most things are $99 or personalized 1-1 training for $49 an hour go check it out. Our Answer Techs can help you with all Windows and Office software. Learn more about Software...

  Every now and they I like to post something fun and none-technical.  This is a video of my son who is in college sailing on a Club 420, same type boat I sailed in college. I thought he was studying for finals, but I see he recording this recently...

  I continue to be amazed at the useful stuff on technet.com  I ran across this the other day, looking something up about Hyper-V. Security is always top of mind these days, so I thought I would share our Hyper-V Security Guide. http://technet...