Welcome to my blog post with slides and resources. This post will be updated fairly regularly with content I am delivering. All the links will take you a location on my SkyDrive with the appropriate data. Enjoy. Windows Azure Presentations Slide Decks: http://sdrv.ms/1bXOE8o Windows Azure...

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 #3  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...

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...

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...

This morning we’ll be taking questions live from you. Join us at 9am PST as we host an episode on the topic of Virtualization. Our guest this morning is Aidan Finn. Aidan has many years of experience on this topic so please take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to ask a question you have. To register...

As you have seen in a few post’s my team have been heavily engaged with student teams participating in Imagine Cup .  A number of these teams have been selected to participate in the Imagine Cup US finals .    Going to the finals is a big deal, and is essentially a world’s premier...

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...

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...

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...

The Nashville Chapter of AITP is having a fantastic presentation on March 11th. The chapter is welcoming in Joe A. Martin, Principal of Joe A. Martin Consulting headquartered in Brentwood, TN.  He will be discussing Growth/Survival Tools for the 21 st Century.  He will discuss personal strategic...

Okay I saw this post on my buddies Keith’s blog and I thought that is a great post, so I “borrowed” it. Enjoy the roundtable! Join Mark Russinovich and a panel of subject matter experts for a live discussion of what's in store for IT pros with Windows® 7. Learn about the evolution of features like Group...

Take a look here for more information: Office 2007 The Ultimate Steal   That includes: Word 2007 Groove 2007 Excel 2007 Publisher 2007 PowerPoint 2007 Access 2007 Outlook 2007 InfoPath 2007 OneNote 2007 Accounting Express 2008 So who is eligible: You must have a valid e-mail address at an educational...

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. ...

I just got wind of an interesting conference, Marketing Connections , that Microsoft is sponsor of. Being a professional speaker is a great job but marketing is key piece to my success, beside the perfect voice (listen to mine here: Do I have the right stuff...err the right voice? ). So do the tried...

One of the wonderful people I met walking around the floor were the folks from TechSmith.  For those of you who have not heard of TechSmith they are a software company that creates screen capture and recording tools, that are simply great.  In fact most of the screen casts we do on the TechNet...

  Windows Media Player Version: Challenge!!!!!!! Alright Las Vegas the Gauntlet has been thrown, Keith and I want to talk with you during breaks at the Windows Server 2008 launch.  The Launch is on April 3, 2008.  Stop by and chat with us! To register for the event go to:  Heroes...

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...

This is the year of launch events!!!  We have another fantastic product set launching this year in addition to Windows Server 2008 .  We are also launching Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0.  For those of you not familiar with Microsoft Dynamics, it is a line of integrated, adaptable business...

Check out this fun little video, featuring Bill Gates, Brian Williams, Steve Ballmer, Matthew McConaughey, Robbie Bach, Jay-Z, Bono, Steven Spielberg, George Clooney, Jon Stewart, Kevin Turner, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Al Gore, Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie.  I hope I can get at least one of...

Good evening all my Exchange Scenario Masters! Thank you for attending the webcast on Exchange Server 2007 Scenarios. We talked a lot about several topics from administration, to OWA, to LCR. Hopefully you enjoyed the webcast and you had a lot of questions. As promised here are some links to resources...

Good evening all my listeners. :-) Huh, what did I say, listeners, shouldn't I have said readers? Not in this case my friends. In January, I decided to take a page out of the Michael Murphy TechNet Radio playbook and helped out on some TechNet Radio interviews. I interviewed two exciting folks, Arpan...

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 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...

If you have come to one of our live events you most likely have seen one of our Microsoft Across America Busses (MSAM). They are exciting pieces of technology and innovations as some of you have seen personally. For the next several weeks the three MSAM busses will be absent from our live events. I have...