As IT Pros, we absolutely love building with new technology! In February, my fellow IT Pro Technical Evangelists and I have been worked together on an article series for Migration and Deployment of Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows Azure and System Center 2012 SP1 to help get you started. Here...

Here is the latest info on the Microsoft IT Camp series as we dive into how to get your datacenter ready for the cloud and beyond. Join us at a FREE Microsoft IT Camp for hands-on labs, demos, and interactive discussions with Microsoft technical experts. Here’s your chance to learn more about...

One of the Technologies we introduced with Windows 7 was AppLocker. AppLocker presented a great new way to control what applications could run on your desktop environments. Now if this sounds familiar to what Software Restriction Policies (SRP) do for your environments, it is important to understand...

As some of you noticed we have been delivering another series this month focusing on Deployment and Migration on several scenarios. This post is do you caught up some of the great posts we have delivered over the last couple of weeks. 6. Requirements for a fresh Windows Server 2012 Installation...

The Solution Accelerators team just announced the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 8.0 Beta.   Join the MAP 8.0 beta. Included in MAP 8.0 Beta are hardware and infrastructure readiness assessments to assist you in planning the deployment of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 , preparing...

As our need to provide services and applications to our client desktops becomes more and more important, we turn to products like Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012 to provide these features for our clients.  Wether you use RDS for just pure session virtualization or as a part of an...

One of the fantastic technologies we introduced with Windows Server 2012 is the ability to have direct access connections for our clients.  Direct access allowed your clients to securely connect to your network without needing a VPN.  Whenever your users logged on to their system they were...

One of technologies a lot of businesses are looking at is how to work with a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).  VDI allows you to take a virtual guest system running a client OS run it on a “thin” client type of system.   While this may seem complicated, in Windows Server 2012 we make...

Really interesting changes and they are already happening, if you have an email log in.  From the main post: Today, we're starting to deliver on that goal with a preview of the new Outlook.com - modern email designed for the next billion mailboxes. Webmail was first introduced with HoTMaiL in 1996...

The Solution Accelerators team just launched Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 7.0, Get it here: Download MAP 7.0 now. Get ready for Windows Server 2012 with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 7.0. The latest version of the MAP Toolkit adds several new planning scenarios...

If your like me you can lost in the thousands of policies in Group Policy.  As new applications, operating systems, or other add-ons . While searching around one of my favorite technical nuggets in Group Policy, I found something new (at least new to me) called: Group Policy Search (GPS) With the...

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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...

I just learned about a great event coming up in March!  The very first "PowerShell Saturday"!  This is an all-day event that will provide registered attendees with the following: Chance to learn Windows PowerShell from experts in the field like Ed Wilson "The Microsoft Scripting...

Quiz #6 (the last quiz, your last chance to get into the challenge!) 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...

Go get it @ http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9796988 . Here’s some bedtime reading while you watch the download, download. ======= A Microsoft private cloud dramatically changes the way your business produces and consumes IT services by creating a layer of abstraction over your pooled IT resources. This...

I was asked by Ed Wilson to talk about, what else PowerShell !  In the article I talk briefly about how to automate the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit with PowerShell. Check out the article: Learn How to Use PowerShell to Automate MDT Deployment   Yeah I know it is a bit late, but I have been...

Quiz #5 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 Cup...

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 #4 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 Cup...

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...

In today’s post John   takes a look at one of the newest cloud technologies, Windows Intune.  John gives a brief tour of Windows Intune and hopefully you will get some ideas on how the tool can help you. Check out John’s post here: The Cloud on Your Terms Part 25 of 30: Windows Intune As I...

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...

If you have been running Windows Server 2008 R2 (W2K8R2) you may have upgraded to SP1.  You may have not know why you did, but just saw it as an update and installed it.  Or maybe you are one of many that waited to deploy W2K8R2 until SP1.  In either case you might not know what you don...

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...