As lot of you know I love to run, and know what it takes to complete a marathon.  As you might imagine my thoughts just go out to everyone affected by the events in Boston.  You also may have seen I fell in love with my new shoes from a great company called Altra .  It was even my honor...

In Part 3 of the Windows Azure IaaS series I discuss with Keith Mayer common scenarios in which IT Pros may use Windows Azure as a hybrid solution between their on-premise and cloud service needs. Tune in as we discuss disaster recovery and storage as well as how to migrate your SharePoint environment...

Here is part 2 of the Windows Azure IaaS series and in this episode I take a look at the top Windows Azure Virtual Machines FAQs and common gotchas with Hari Dogiparthi. Tune in for this Q&A session and get the answers to some of the most common issues seen by customers. Also stick around for a quick...

I kick off a 8 part Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) series and in today’s episode I welcome Chief Technical Evangelist for the Cloud, Brian Prince to the show as they give us an overview of Microsoft’s IaaS platform, aka Windows Azure Virtual Machines . Tune in as we build...

Does your datacenter go bump in the night? Are you haunted by the thought of managing thousands of processes that could be automated? Well boys and girls Dr. Scripto and his faithful sidekick are here to help combat Scripto-Nite and provide us with their Top 10 Reasons NOT to Fear PowerShell 3.0 for...

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In the month of March Ed Wilson is going to be running a PowerShell Webcast series and if you are at all interested you should sign up.  Ed is truly a PowerShell ninja master and this will be a great series.  Click on the links to Register today ! 3/12/2012 11:00:00 AM (PST):  PowerShell...

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 today’s post Kevin takes a fun look at his private cloud.  Wait not just his private cloud, but his private private cloud.  Almost like double secret probation. In the post Kevin does a great little screencast showing off his private private cloud. Check out Kevin’s post here: The Cloud...

In today’s post we welcome the 4th and final member of our blogging group, Brian Lewis .  He is our version of D'Artagnan,.    He does a great job on a quick screencast taking you through installing Hyper-V .       Check out Brian’s Post here: The Cloud on...

Watch the concept video to get a glimpse of the future of productivity, then explore the stories and technology in more detail.  Learn more here: http://www.microsoft.com/office/vision/  

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...

In the final screencast of this quick 5 part series, we take a look at how easily Word 2010 can connect and work directly with Office 365. Office 365, specifically SharePoint online is extremely well integrated with Office 365. This allows you fully leverage SharePoint team sites allow you to fully utilize...

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...

In part 1 of this series we will take a quick tour of Office 365 from basic administration to working with this from a user prospective.  Microsoft Office 365 brings together the best of everything that we know about productivity, delivered as an always-up-to-date service for organizations of all...

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...

Virtualization Jump Start (01): Virtualization Overview She “Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals” Jump Start is specially tailored for VMware and Microsoft virtualization technology pros. This cutting-edge course features expert instruction and real-world demonstrations of Hyper-V, many...

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...

If you did not have a chance to listen to Sarah and I chat with the PowerScripting guys, check out the replay below.  You will also one of the ways I get rid of problems: Episode 148 – Matt Hester and Sarah Dutkiewicz Again thanks to everyone for checking out the podcast and remember if you missed...

Hey everyone thanks for following our PowerShell Not your Father’s Command Line 31 Days of PowerShell .  Tomorrow night 5-26 both Sarah and I will be on the PowerScripting Podcast with Hal and Jonathon!  Hopefully it will be a fun filled show! Click here for me details: Up Next: Matthew Hester...

Talk TechNet is a twice weekly, one hour radio show for IT Professionals hosted by Senior Program Manager Keith Combs and myself.  Each episode focuses on a specific product or technology. Listeners are encouraged to call in and discuss the topic for the day, or ask questions to help unblock a deployment...

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...

Good afternoon and thank you to everyone who attended the event in Louisville ! I hope everyone had a good time. As promised here are some resources and the Q/A from the event..  During the event one the folks in the room mentioned a tool on how to transition your Office knowledge to the ribbon...