TechEd 2013 North America will take place June 3-6 in New Orleans. TechEd is Microsoft’s premiere conference for IT Professionals and Enterprise Developers, offering the most comprehensive technical education across Microsoft's products, solutions, tools, and services. I have had the privilege...

Here are all the parts of the Wndows Azure IaaS Series, please check as this post will be updated daily. If you want to see a particular scenario let us know and email me at mhester@microsoft.com . Also remember you can sign up for a FREE Windows Azure 90-Day Trial here: Get Started TODAY with a FREE...

Being able to protect your Private cloud is one of the more important things you can do. With so many moving parts how do you approach this. If you are leveraging System Center 2012 for the many other components of your infrastructure, than I would highly recommend you look at Data Protection Manager...

As IT Pros, we absolutely love building with new technology! In February, my fellow IT Pro Technical Evangelists and I have been worked together on an article series for Migration and Deployment of Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows Azure and System Center 2012 SP1 to help get you started. Here...

Community Corner is back and a couple of familiar names jumpstart the series with a great discussion around deduplication solutions from Veeam and Windows Server 2012 . Listen in as Matt Hester and Product Strategy Specialist from Veeam, Chris Henley discuss ways in which you can reduce storage space...

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Quiz #6 (the last quiz, your last chance to get into the challenge!) opens today at 8:01 p.m. EST (7:01 p.m. CST, 6:01 p.m MST, 5:01 p.m. PST Are you up for the Challenge ? If you answered yes, and if you are you a student, do you know a student or are you going back to school and can you answer a question...

Quiz #5 opens today at 8:01 p.m. EST (7:01 p.m. CST, 6:01 p.m MST, 5:01 p.m. PST Are you up for the Challenge ? If you answered yes, and if you are you a student, do you know a student or are you going back to school and can you answer a question like this then your ready for Round 1 of the Imagine Cup...

The Dayton IT Pro Camp is a FREE , daylong Camp for IT Pros featuring Microsoft Cloud Technologies. During the day, we will have presentations on Hyper-V, SharePoint, Office365 and Azure. In addition, we will have a cloud security presentation and presentations from the Vendors who have agreed to support...

Quiz #4 opens today at 8:01 p.m. EST (7:01 p.m. CST, 6:01 p.m MST, 5:01 p.m. PST Are you up for the Challenge ? If you answered yes, and if you are you a student, do you know a student or are you going back to school and can you answer a question like this then your ready for Round 1 of the Imagine Cup...

Welcome to my personal favorite part of the series, part 28!  Really the series would have been incomplete without a part of the series focused on PowerShell!  As many of you may know PowerShell is one the great tools we can use as administrators for automation of repetitive tasks.  IT...

Today we are going to take a look at another example of  a hybrid cloud.  In a few of parts of the series we talked about hybrid clouds: The Cloud on Your Terms part 2 of 30: What is a Hybrid Cloud? The Cloud on Your Terms Part 15 of 30: Hybrid for Private Cloud The Cloud on Your Terms part...

As a Microsoft Certified Trainer I have had the privileged to meet and work with some fantastic individuals.  I have also been part counselor when I have had folks come to my class worried about jobs, from folks worried about learning Active Directory from other directory services, to folks learning...

Quiz #2 (sorry I missed quiz one I was OOF)  opens today at 8:01 p.m. EST (7:01 p.m. CST, 6:01 p.m MST, 5:01 p.m. PST Are you up for the Challenge ? If you answered yes, and if you are you a student, do you know a student or are you going back to school and can you answer a question like this then...

Today you can find part 3 on John Weston ’s blog again.   John does a great job of outlining all the things you think of before you go to the cloud, from your server infrastructure, to DR, to awareness of Azure.  Great post!  If you are looking for Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008 R2...

Welcome to Day 1 of 30 days of Cloud on Your Terms!  Brian Lewis , John Weston , 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 and stories from our own experiences working...

Well we the Imagine Cup 2011 IT Challenge is back again and I have just one question for you?  Are you up for the Challenge ? If you answered yes, and if you are you a student, do you know a student or are you going back to school and can you answer a question like this then your ready for Round...

Technology is leaving the traditional business world behind. Learn how to leverage the right technology to jump start business growth and get ahead of the curve!  On November 2, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM (ET) in Blue Ash, OH  there will be a Tech Tune-Up to help brush up your skills on 4...

In this screencast Matt Hester shows how you can make easy and professional changes to SharePoint Online websites. Office 365 provides small businesses with simple tools to create a professional-looking Web sites. Using cutting edge collaboration tools and delivering high-quality documents to partners...

In this screencast we take a look at how Office 365 along with Outlook 2010 (and even OWA) and Lync Online work together.  They provide a tight integration allowing you to take tasks, like meeting requests,  to the next level.   This integration allows you to host rich online meetings...

In this screencast I take a look at some of the advantages of Outlook 2010 connected directly to Office 365. Outlook, connected to Exchange Online in Office 365, offers a best-in-class e-mail and calendaring tools, delivering a consistent experience across the PC, phone, and browser. This helps to turn...

I had a lot of fun interviewing my good friend Jennifer Mason, Senior Consultant at SharePoint911.  We talked a lot about Microsoft SharePoint and recently launched Microsoft Office 365. Office 365 is essentially Microsoft Office in the cloud. Jennifer talks about some different scenarios for what...

Well we are on the road again!  We are hitting the road and take a look at the events we are doing in the US at TechNet Events in the central US to see if you’ll be able to spend the day with us. “A day? I thought you guys usually do the 1/2-day TechNet Events.” Yeah, that was then. This is now...

One of the fun things I get to do everyday is point people to products and resources.  With IT there seems to be an ever changing world and transformation on the tools and resources we use almost happens daily. have a had a few folks ask where can I get the tools and resources to test some the new...