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...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Good afternoon and thank you to everyone who attended the event in Cincinnati ! I hope everyone had a good time.  Again thank you for the patience with the projectors it turned out to be a crossed cable at the projector, but thank you for Thinking Pink during the event.  As promised here are...

Thank you to everyone who attended the event in Cleveland, I had a great time and a lot of great conversations, here is the Q/A and resources from the event. I will also be placing the slides here: TechNet Slides: Transforming IT from Virtualization to the Cloud and here: TechNet Event Slides I also...

So last week we took the family up north to Sandusky, OH.  We went to one of the greatest roller coast parks on the planet, at Cedar Point.   Where my son rode 12 of the 16 possible coasters .  Really only 15, we heard the mean streak, was in a word mean.  AKA, not safe rough, and...

Thanks for everyone’s patience, I just found out that the 25% discount for TechNet Professional subscriptions with TNITQ406 has been extended to 10-31-2010 (so hurry now)!!!  Just click this link: Save 25% on a new TechNet Professional Subscription with TNITQ406 As some of you may know we announced...

Good afternoon everyone, and thank you for coming to the event on May 6th and thank you for waiting patiently for these questions while I was on vacation.  So without any more delay, here are the questions from the launch event in Cincinnati on May 6th. Sorry for the repost of these questions, but...

Happy April, we had a change of the program and the code, the new code to get a discount ! I hope everyone is starting off with a great spring. What a better way to celebrate Spring than giving your favorite IT Pro a new TechNet subscription and you can save 25% with TNITQ406!!!!! Just Use TNITQ406...

My good friend Jason just let me know that everyone can: COME AND GET IT !  What are you getting?  The greatest data protection tool on the market, Data Protection Manager.  Well the product has hit a major mile stone and Jason just announced the Release Candidate for DPM 2010 is now available...

There is really one huge change that will impact us all as IT Pros. We are launching TechNet 2.0, and one of friends Keith Combs just recently blogged about it, including two 14 minute podcasts located here: TechNet 2.0 – Episode 1 – Core Scenarios and Branding TechNet 2.0 – Episode 2 – The New TechCenters...

Open the key to your favorite IT Pro’s heart with a new TechNet subscription and save 28%!!!!!  I am sure it is the gift your favorite IT Pro wants for valentines day! Just Use TNITE06 when ordering your new subscription. Click here to get your TechNet Subscription: Purchase a TechNet Subscription...

This is great project involving both Windows Server and Windows 7, take a look at the challenges and solutions below. Objectives of the project:   We are still running win XP and 2003 server. The great debate we’ve been having is which to upgrade first or at the same time. Coming from the PC side...

I just got wind of two System Center Essentials 2010 More information on SCE here: Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenteressentials/archive/2009/09/29/sce-2010-public-beta-is-here.aspx Main Site: www.microsoft.com/SCE SCE 2010 is designed specifically for mid-sized organizations...

I was sad to find out today that Randy Pausch had passed forward into a better life. I was deeply moved by his speech and the way he lived. You can read the full article here: 'Last lecture' professor dies of cancer For those of you that have not scene the last lecture it is worth your time. ...

If you have never scene this talk, I highly recommend it, it is about 10 minutes long and worth every second.  I guarantee it will touch you.  It is an shorter version of a full lecture that he gave, and you can click on his name to learn more and see the full lecture.  Thank you Randy...

Good day all Cleveland and Columbus! I really had a great time talking about the future of Microsoft products. The conversations we had in both cities was fantastic and I look forward to coming back to town! After I got back home, I noticed the question from both events were very similar so I combined...

Good afternoon all of my Exchange 2007 Client Access, Thank you for attending my web cast on Exchange 2007 client access, Harold Wong and Kevin Remde did an excellent job and handled the questions that came into the queue. Please comment if you have any additional questions. Also if you can watch...

Good day all my User Group folks from Cleveland ! I appologize for the big delay in getting this posted. Thank you for spending the evening with http://www.gcpcug.org and myself at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel . I really had a great time talking about the future of Microsoft products. I had a great...

Have you ever wanted watch the White Hats and Black Hats battle for the security of Las Vegas? Well guess what you can! The 3rd episode of The Code Room is going to show just that, and answer the question what happens when a Hacker gets in and how to defend against it! The Code Room: Breaking Into Vegas...

As some of you may have heard, there are some changes to the next version of Exchange, specifically around 64 bit and that 64 bit will be the only released version. So you may have some of these questions: Why did Microsoft make the decision to offer Exchange 12 as a 64-bit only application? Isn’t...