Build your very own Virtual Network in the Cloud for FREE with the Windows Azure cloud platform, and Enter for a chance to win one of the following fantastic prizes: One Grand Prize: Ticket to TechEd 2013 North America in New Orleans, LA ( $2,195 retail value ) PLUS a $500 VISA Gift Card. Two...

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...

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 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...

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...

If you are a developer, you've probably heard plenty about the cloud. But if you're and IT professional, what have you heard about it? How does it intersect with the datacenter? How does it make your job easier – or harder? Is it something that your organization is looking at? Is the cloud something...

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...

Quiz #2 is on: October 19, 2010 ( October 18, 8:01 p.m. EST  (7:01 p.m. CST, 6:01 p.m MST, 5:01 p.m. PST) ) Click here to register: http://imaginecup.com/register If you are not familiar with the challenge, the Imagine Cup IT Challenge is designed to highlight the art and science of developing,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

TechNet, MSDN and Techbeta customers can download it now. Consumers who want to test-drive the beta will be able to download it beginning Jan. 9 at http://www.microsoft.com/windows7 . Here is the full press release: Microsoft’s Ballmer Announces Availability of Windows 7 Beta and Windows Live

On December the 12 th (Friday) we had a Windows FireStarter event at the Microsoft Conference Center. If you are a Developer or an IT Pro and you missed this event, do not worry we recorded the sessions for you check them out via live meetings here: Why Vista! by Chris Henley: https://www.livemeeting...

So what do you really think about Cloud Computing?  I know you all have an opinion.  Whether it is good, bad, or ugly we want to hear from you!  Tell us what you think via the online survey below. Click here, tell us more, and make your opinion heard: Tell Us What You Think About Cloud...

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. ...

  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...

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...

What a great web cast, and thank you for attending the web cast as promised (although a bit delayed) here are the scrubbed Q/A log (you kept John Baker very busy!). Please comment if you need more information. I mentioned a great web site where you can down load the slides and individual demos for this...

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...