November 11 is a special day to celebrate all those that keep America a Free place to live.  The company I work for really appreciates our military.   We did two things yesterday that didn’t make the main stream media that I want to point...

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...

About This Video In today’s Community Corner, Sr. IT Pro Evangelist John Weston interviews Microsoft Virtualization MVP, Anil Desai to the show. Tune in as they discuss cloud computing’s impact to IT, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012, as well...

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...

  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...

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...

I am in sunny California this week at Cloud Expo 2011.  Today I am an attendee, listening to all of the presentations about Cloud.  Man it’s amazing all the companies that have solutions for Private Cloud.  Everyone still defines Cloud...

  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.

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. ...

Yep on a Sunday Matt Hester   gives us part 6 of our 30 part series, yea we are doing every day in November. http://blogs.technet.com/b/matthewms/archive/2011/11/06/the-cloud-on-your-terms-part-6-of-30-what-cloud-goodies-can-i-find-in-windows-server...

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...

TechNet Video: Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Transforming the Way People Communicate Download WMV Download | WMA | MP3 Microsoft Lync™ Server 2010 promises to transform the way people will communicate across the PC, Web and phone, making traditional communications...

TechNet Video: Enabling a Dynamic Data Center with System Center 2012 Download WMV Download | WMA | MP3 John Weston, Sr. IT Pro Evangelist discusses Hyper-V and Virtualization. He also talks about Private Cloud and what Microsoft has to offer.

    TechNet Video: Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Interoperability: Voice, Video, Conferencing, IM, and Presence Download WMV Download | WMA | MP3 The communications industry is undergoing a transforming from proprietary hardware-based communications...

Today Matt Hester writes our 5th part of our November series of blog entries.  You can find the post here:   The Cloud on Your Terms Part 5 of 30: Are your Servers Ready For the Cloud?   Matt even had a webcast in his blog that talks...

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

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...

Tomorrow at the Dallas Microsoft MTC office we are hosting the Bsides DFW Security conference or “un-conference” It’s Free, and registration is still open at http://www.securitybsides.com/w/page/36779575/BSidesDFW%202011 This is our second year to have...

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...

Hybrid Cloud What is a Hybrid Cloud? We keep hearing about “The Cloud” in IT, and how it is supposed to change things in the next few years. People keep using the terms, Public Cloud, Private Cloud, and Hybrid Cloud. What do these really...

Welcome to Day 1 of 30 days of Cloud on Your Terms! Brian Lewis , Matt Hester , Kevin Remde and myself are going to take you through 30 days of Cloud discussion, from public to private to hybrid you are going to hear about it all from a technical aspect...

Here are the slides for the current events I will be doing That is Module one  Overview Hyper-V and compare with VMware       This Module 2 that Kevin and I have been presenting     Last is the Test Prep for 70-659 To download...

Microsoft Virtualization Resources November 2011 - January 2012 You can find this resource document online (with live hyperlinks) at: http://aka.ms/VirtInfo John’s Blog: “Stories, Information, and random thoughts”: http://blogs.technet.com/b/jweston Kevin...

More information on this video at http://www.microsoft.com/office/vision/ I love videos like this, it makes me excited to be in the Software business.

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