About This Video Microsoft MVP Vishnu Kumar Tiwari joins us today as he shares with us some insight into Windows Azure AppFabric and some of its best features for IT Pros. Tune in as he covers what benefits there are to private cloud and virtualized IT...

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...

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...

  Top 10 New Features in SQL 2012 Our new SQL 2012 just released. I get asked all the time why should I upgrade to the latest. There are 100’s of reasons with this one, I tried to pick the best 10. More info here: http://social.technet.microsoft...

About This Video In today’s Community Corner, Microsoft System Center MVP Islam Gomaa joins us for today’s show as he discusses with us System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager. Tune in as he covers some of its highlights and best features as well as...

About This Video Microsoft System Center MVP, James Bannan joins us in today’s Community Corner as we discuss all things System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. Tune in as we cover some of its latest features as well as some best practices for establishing...

About This Video Microsoft SQL Server MVP Kevin Kline is back and brings with him Director of Development at Quest Software, Patrick O’Keefe. Tune in as they chat about the latest enhancements of SQL Server 2012, SQL Azure, as well as Project Lucy – a...

About This Video Microsoft SQL Server MVP Kevin Kline and Vice President of Database Development at Quest Software Guy Harrison, join us for today’s episode where we discuss Big Data and Hadoop ---from what it is, why its important as well what role does...

Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Kevin Goff is hosting this 13 part SQL Server 2012 live online webcast series starting Friday, March 23 rd at 9am (Pacific).  Join Kevin every Friday for this fantastic, free online training series on all things SQL Server...

          System Center 2012 Beta all in one download Cloud – Care: System Center 2012 Suite Download page    I get asked all of the time, hey where is that or that software.  We are always coming out...

MSDN Virtual Lab: SQL Server 2012: Managing Rich Unstructured Data in SQL Server 2012 After completing this lab, you will be better able to create FileTables, create Fulltext Indexes with semantic extraction capabilities, retrieve information about...

At a bunch of my events people want to know exactly what Laptop I am running so they can do Hyper-V.  It does have to be a 64 bit machine and have hardware support for Virtualization.  So I thought I would include a link here to the HCL.  ...

I just did a webcast ITPROMGT -202 on System Center Operations Manager 2007 Monitoring, you can go download a recording of it at www.microsoft.com/webcast search for me, today, or SCOM 2007. As usual a bunch of questions were asked and my peer John Baker...

REDMOND, Wash. — Sept. 13, 2010 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the release candidate of Microsoft Lync, the next generation of Microsoft’s unified communications software that enables people to connect in new ways, anytime, anywhere. Lync is the new...

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...

John Weston and Michael Niehaus join us for today’s show as they discuss the latest version of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and how this free tool can help enterprises deploy Windows Server 2012 as well as earlier versions of Windows Server...

About This Video Microsoft MVP Sai Kev is with us for today’s Community Corner and in this episode we talk about the business and technical benefits you should consider when thinking about Hyper-V and System Center 2012. Tune in they cover their unique...

Yesterday I did a Webcast on SQL 2005 Reporting Services, here is the log of questions and answers. Question: Where can I find the installer for RS 2005? Is it on all the MSSQL installer disks? Answer: Yes - Check out http://msdn2.microsoft.com...

First, my Postal mystery from yesterday was solved. The subsitute mail driver delivered my BoxWave shipment in the mail yesterday. As I mentioned my team here at Microsoft delivers Free 1/2 Technical TechNet events. During October/November/December we...

Here are a few of my friends that have started blogging: Mikeo (MSDN manager) http://weblogs.asp.net/mikeomsdn Shawn Travers http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnt I read an article yesterday in the wall street journal how blogging has become mainstream. It's amazing...

Microsoft MVP Kevin Goff is doing a 13 part SQL 2012 Live Online webcast series. They are being recorded  so I have gotten permission to put all 13 of the recordings here on my one blog post.   The original webcast series post can be found here...

Windows Intune and Modernizing Your Desktop Strategy Download: WMV | WMA Are you still running on Windows XP? Are you looking for guidance about how to embrace the cloud, getting the most out of virtualization, and better understanding the consumerization...

As promissed here is the Q&A log from the webcast I did on Monday. Enjoy. Question: Do the WIM image files need to have all drivers built-in for each hardware platform it will be installed on? Answer: no, see http://www.microsoft.com/technet...

Yesterday was not only Columbus day, but Public Schools day at the Texas State Fair. We got a slow start trying to get to the fair, but once we got close, parking was a mess. All of the "official" $8 parking was full. We circled for some time to try to...

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!...