As Many of you know over the last month and a half we delivered a 35 part series on VMware or Microsoft. You can check out the whole list below. We hoped you enjoyed the series, and please let me know if you have any questions! Series Introduction What is a “Purpose-Built Hypervisor? ...

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...

In this interview I get to chat with Aaron Margosis, Principal Consultant at Microsoft.  We talk about Windows Sysinternals tools. Aaron currently works with US Federal government customers on Windows, security, and getting apps to run on the latest Microsoft platforms. Aaron shares the top 3 tools...

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...

Thank you to everyone who ventured out to Grand Valley State last Tuesday!  Thank you for making the drive more importantly thank you for all of the questions you asked during the event!  I have put together the Q/A from the session.  If you have any additional questions please comment...

Thank you to everyone who attended both the events in Detroit and Grand Rapids last week.  It was great seeing everyone, and I look forward to coming back and visiting again!  Also we had the support of two great User Groups in the area.  From Grand Rapids we had Richard talk about West...

Happy Monday one and all!  I am VERY Pleased to announce Registration is Open for our Windows 7 Deployment Series!  The first event starts October 12th, with my good friend and teammate Brian Lewis, so register below now!   We are going to look at great and easy ways to Deploy Windows...

I had the pleasure and speaking at DevLink in Nashville on Aug. 5th and 6th last week.  There were some good questions on Hyper-V that came up and here they are with the answers. Q: What is a reboot need when the hardware virtualization is turned on in the BIOS? A: Hardware-assisted virtualization...

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...

Thank you for everyone coming to the Detroit event on the 11th, we had over 200 folks in the room very cool.  Next time lets shoot for 300, tell your friends, family and children all are welcome.  :-)  Also I want to thank all the support for my book and I greatly appreciate it not being...

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 evening everyone, one of my teammates John Baker was asked this question during an event, he posted a quick blurb on how to make this work with Ultimate and Enterprise with an KB here:   I've already installed Windows Vista on a single partition and now i want to enable BitLocker, can I???

Good morning everyone! Thank you for everyone coming to the events! I hope everyone had a lot of fun and I look forward to seeing you all again. with that said we had a lot of fantastic questions and they are listed below. Enjoy and please comment if I missed any or if you need more information! Q:What...

Thank you! Thank you to everyone that attended the launch events across the nation! Personally I want to thank the ~ 3,700 (3,792 to be exact) that came out and saw me in Memphis, Nashville, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Honolulu (yeah tough gig, read about where I went after Hawaii...

Good Afternoon Louisville and Cincinnati! First off THANK YOU for coming to launch! We had over 1000 Kentucky and Ohio IT Professional in the both cities, 1057 to be exact! That is an incredible turn out and again I cannot thank everyone enough! I also loved doing the wave, to show my good friend Michael...

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 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...

Good afternoon Toledo and Cleveland! I am coming back to town the week of June19 th to talk about security! I am looking forward to coming Ohio and we have a great event in store for everyone. I am hoping to go out and see my beloved Cleveland Browns but looks like I am going to miss all the fun camps...

Good Day Detroit ! Again thank you for coming out and seeing me at the event and I hope to see you next time I am in town. You asked a few questions during the show, so here are the answers. The wireless scripts that I used in the show are available on the DVD ( drive: \Security Tools\Whitepapers) or...

We are going to have some fun and talk about the following topics: Implementing Security for Wireless Networks Wireless security. Does that sound like an oxymoron? Hey who are you calling an Ox? J We are going to talk about how to implement a secure WLAN using password authentication and how...

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...

I normally do not post an entire article, so I apologize for the length. For this posting specifically, I had no choice the online article was not working properly with the links so I decide to bring this directly from the books online for SQL 2005. I hope you enjoy the article, the SAC Utility is fantastic...

Good Morning everyone, Once gain thank you for all that attended the event in Dayton! It was a fantastic event and I am glad I got to come back. I also had a chance to attend the DANPA user group on Tuesday night. That was fantastic as well, and the subway sandwiches where great! If you live in the Dayton...