For one of my teammates, John Weston, his laptop is his phone.  John recorded a couple of fantastic sessions that he delivered at the Dallas AITP(Association of IT professionals) around Unified Communications.  In the two screencasts he discusses...

Microsoft IT Showcase just published the Deployment Planning for BitLocker Drive Encryption for Windows Vista, which discusses how Microsoft IT is deploying BitLocker Drive Encryption to increase data security on laptop and desktop computers.  To...

Well the training is hitting the road for the next two weeks.  This is a fun thing but also my travel schedule is going to prevent me from getting my long runs in for the next two weeks.  This is a good thing and a bad thing.  It is a good...

I know most of you are like me and not developers, but wanted to get your opinion.  Personally I think the new logo is Jazzy, what do you think?   So what is the bottom line for the change?  The original .NET logo was designed just before...

Hello everyone, I was a bit of a stranger in a strange land today.  I am attending PDC with my fellow IT Pro guru, Keith Combs.  You might be wondering, why are we here.  Well we decided to crash the party and we were able to get in the...

As for the running I felt great last week.  Enough about that .  So let’s review, why I am running  the goofy marathon which is a 1/2 marathon on a Saturday and a full marathon on Sunday?: Keep up with Brian LaMee (See what he did here...

How do you know you have gone too far with online gaming?  This article is an indication of that: Angry online divorcee 'kills' virtual ex-hubby

I hear from a lot of customers that one of the biggest sticking point in deployment of Windows Vista is application compatibility.  With any major upgrade there is always a major concerned about application compatibility, but sometimes we are not...

What a way to start a week of training!  I got watch in person my Browns beat the defending Super Bowl champs 35-14!!!  So to celebrate I made a command decision to take Monday and Tuesday off.  I took those days off as merely a way to...

Are you a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) ? Do you want to win * some great prizes just in time for the holidays? How does a 8GB or 120GB Zune sound or an Xbox 360 Pro? What you want something bigger, okay how about a: Lenovo T61P!!!...

Check back here on December 15th, 2008 to see the list of winners from the Fall MVP Screencast Contest

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So we were hanging out in Atlanta and who came walking by our camera?  Rodney Clark, the general manager of Microsoft Across America, read that as our boss’ boss boss boss.  :-)  We had a lot of fun talking with Rodney.  We talked...

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I subscribe to the TED.com speech feed and I came across an very interesting and thought provoking speech from video game designer David Perry.  David talks about what will be the most important aspects of video game design.  BTW, although Video...

For this month I have chosen a spooky story in the spirit of Halloween The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova is fantastic story about an age old tale about Dracula.  Elizabeth does a great job of putting a wonderful twist on an old tale.  We have...

Last week was a great week of training and I am looking forward to the next 2/3rds of my training as the mileage begins to ramp up This week is going to be great fun, my runs during the week are increasing and I have my longest run on Sunday at 16 miles...

During the Atlanta TechDays Keith and I had our cameras out and got some great interviews.  During the event, local Developer Evangelist Glen Gordon introduced me to Doug Ware, a member of the Atlanta developer community who specializes in SharePoint...

Keith and I pinned down one of our teammates Blain Barton and we chatted about his experiences with Microsoft as well as his current work with community MVP’s and influencers.  BTW we are also looking to hire someone to our team, I will get more...

Blain recorded a quick pitch about the upcoming second life events on Powershell: To learn more about the series take a look here: Second Life – Windows PowerShell 3-Part Series on the Microsoft Island