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In this brief episode, I speak with Sr. Business Development Manager Joe Hielscher of Arista Networks from the floor at TechEd 2013 in New Orleans.  We chat about the latest features available from their cloud networking solutions and how they support a dynamic datacenter. Learn more about Arista...

The 21st annual TechEd North America conference happened this month (June) in New Orleans, and my three IT Technology Evangelist coworkers ( Brian Lewis , Keith Mayer , and Matt Hester ) and I had the privilege of attending and taking part. So in the interest of sharing our experiences and impressions...

So here it is, Day 3 of TechEd, and I’m already two days late on the first of our “ TechEd 2013 Favorites ” series.  (sigh)  But if you’ve ever been to a TechEd, or any other big conference like this, you know that it’s hard to find a spare moment to do things other than A) attend, and B) enjoy...

What is the plural of Series? (And how is it pronounced?) Well.. that’s not so important. What’s important is that we – the Technology Evangelists of Microsoft DPE in the U.S. have been busy busy bloggers these past several months. You’ve seen many articles, and many links to...

As a Microsoft employee and as a $MSFT stockholder, I have to confess that I was THRILLED last night when I saw this commercial for the first time on TV…     So, if you were thinking of buying that iPad..you should think again and get a real Windows 8 tablet!  (Here’s the one in the commercial...

In part 5 of our Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas   and I briefly introduce you to some of the new security-centric improvements in Windows 8 . There’s never been a better time to build for Windows!  Join the App Builder Program and learn about...

This just in… The demand has been so great for more information about using Windows Azure Infrastructure Services as an extension of your datacenter and IT Operations, that we’ve decided to schedule a few more FREE events to close out the end of our fiscal year here in Central Region...

In this, the first of Eight Windows 8 tips and tricks sessions, I welcome Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas to the show. Tune in for part 1 as we show you around the new modern user interface in Windows 8 . Download the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation today and test your applications...

My friend Tommy Patterson brings us part 9 of our “ 20+ Days of Server Virtualization ”, in which he introduces and describes the functionality in Hyper-V to support the networking of your virtual machines.  He describes the basic operations and options, as well as some of the more advanced topics...

Here it is!  The complete list of our “20+ Days of Server Virtualization” blog articles.  Through the month of March, I’ll be adding links, making any updates or changes.  So keep checking back for more, or keep watching my blog.  As before, I plan on adding my own blog post every...

It’s the end of February, and the end of what I hope you will agree was a very satisfying series of 19 “ Migration and Deployment ” articles by my teammates and me – the U.S. based IT Pro Technology Evangelists. “So what’s the last topic?” I’m glad you asked.  Now that you know (or have the resources...

Did you know, with the right policy and certificate in place, that you can deploy Windows 8 applications very easily?  In fact, once the pieces are in place, it’s as easy as running a script or launching an install from a file share. “Basically as easy as most all older Windows applications, without...

We’re in the home stretch! It’s the last week in February, and we only have a few more days of our “ Migration and Deployment ” series of articles left. And wrapping out our final four, we’re going to tackle the topic of Windows 8 applications. What options do we have, and...

In February of 2013, the US-based IT Pro Technology Evangelists wrote up 20 articles in our 19-part series, “ Migration and Deployment ”. “Huh? 20 of 19?” Well.. I provided a series introduction in part 0. (Don’t computer people always start counting at zero?) But...

As you may remember, last month my team blogged an entire month on using Windows Azure as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS – pronounced “EYE-yazz”) in our “ 31 Days of Servers in the Cloud ” series. As part 12 of our 19-part " Migration and Deployment ” Series...

At last we have reached the end!  it’s been 31 straight days of what I hope you have found to be useful information; all about using Windows Azure as an Infrastructure-as-a-Service option for testing, training, and extending your datacenter. If you’ve missed any, I highly recommend you look at and...

As you know, we’ve been talking about Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) for the entire month. “Really?  I thought you were talking about Windows Azure and virtual machines.” Yes, that’s true.  And these virtual machines can be the foundation of or an extension of a Private Cloud outside of...

If you’ve been following our blog series for any length of time, you already know that “the cloud”, in the form of Windows Azure , is becoming an option for IT organizations in which to extend their datacenters.  And believe it or not, this includes the ability to create an Active Directory domain...

Back in Part 10 of our “ 31 Days of Servers in the Cloud ” series, my good friend Bob Hunt wrote up an excellent step-by-step  for creating a virtual network in Windows Azure . His article and guide was so good, in fact, that I am going to attempt to do the very same task – to create and configure...

In today’s episode of our “Reimagining Windows” series, I talk to Sr. Product Manager on the Windows Commercial Team, Stephen Rose.  We discuss a number of new security enhancements and features such as Bitlocker and BiitLocker-to-Go, MBAM, Secure Boot and File History found in Windows 8 .  ...

Today, my vacationing friend Matt Hester is the author of part 16 in our “ 31 Days of Servers in the Cloud ” series. “Vacationing?” Yep.  How’s that for dedication?  “Oh.. he probably wrote it before he left, and scheduled it to go live today.” Something like that.    Anyway, today...

In this episode I talk with Craig Blessing, Vice President at Datacastle .   We discuss how his company uses Windows Azure to protect business data.  Tune in as he outlines for us Datacastle’s innovative cloud solutions which help organizations have secure, anytime, anywhere access to...

If you’re interested in the full list of articles in our “31 Days of Servers in the Cloud” Windows Azure Virtual Machines and IaaS series… “I’m interested in the links to the full series, Kevin.” I was just getting to that. Anyway… here it is. ENJOY...

Yes, you read that subject line correctly. We’ve actually improved the volume error detection so much in Windows Server 2012 that you’ll rarely if ever have to run a CHKDSK command to fix it. And if you do, it will run fast and get out of your way. In our 29th installment of “ 31...

Yes, today in our “ 31 Days of our Favorite Things ” series, Matt Hester is talking about Gremlins; specifically, the kinds of nasty things that can happen to an Active Directory domain controller that is virtualized, and when you attempt to restore an old snapshot or a backup of that virtual...