One the most important resources to any virtualization environment , is memory.  Even with great tools like dynamic memory it is critical to make sure you monitor to insure your guest systems can run properly.   In this part Harold takes a brief look: Server Virtualization Series: Performance...

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...

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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...

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One of the great enhancements you may used in Windows Vista was BitLocker.  BitLocker is designed to help protect the information on your hard drives in case of a lost or stolen hardware.  Which hopefully you agree the information is worth more than the hardware (may be a close second). ...

Some of you may be thinking about Upgrading to Windows 7 and not sure where to start, if you have to think about a few things here are some great resources to help you. Start here to access all the great compatibility tools for Windows 7: www.windows.com/compatibility Live now in English Available also...

Here is a great little upgrade project for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. Company name: Dogtown LLC Public disclosure of your name and company name allowed? Yes Objectives of the project:  Migrate my home office from 3 workstations running a mixture of Windows Vista and XP and no servers...

CIO magazine had an interesting article, in which they listed: The 9 Hottest IT Skills for 2009 They listed the 9 skills as: Programming/Application Development Help Desk/Technical Support Project Management Networking (No not Facebook) Business Intelligence Security Web 2.0 Data Center Telecommunications...

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 really enjoyed the second part of the commercial, let me know what you think, click on the picture: New Family Video Part 2 of Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld

Okay this is the last screencast in this quick 3 part series I hoped you enjoyed all 3 screencasts and let me know what you think. For the last but not least part I wanted to talk briefly about the new improvements in reliability and compatibly inside IE8.  While IE8 displays content in its most...

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. ...

The next generation of Windows Desktop search is now available!  This release signifies a fantastic step forward with common code!  The version will be the same for Vista and XP.  I will have more information on another post on speed and reliability improvements.  Very exciting and...

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...

I started writing this post to help drive awareness over some of my mild frustration with the Mac vs. PC commercials.  While during the process of writing this post about Time Machine and Shadow Copy, a friend of mine, thanks Dave, sent me this great article, which I think sums my thoughts up nicely...

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???

I would like everyone to welcome a new additional to my networking family a Linksys WRT350 Wireless-N Gigabit Router with Storage Link , (the other more important addition to my family happens April 21st.  ;-)).  After getting some new laptops for work, I realized that my existing router would...

I hope you have enjoyed all the screencasts I have recently posted. I would like to welcome you to the last 3 screencasts. These screencasts are broken into three parts and they are all about helping you keep your digital world organized. We live in an age where nearly everything is digital. Documents...

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...

I wanted to share with you another new project that the TechNet team is working on. Over the next 5-6 weeks we are going to be releasing some screen cast demos from the Vista Product guide to our blogs. These demos are going to be short tidbits (usually under 10 minutes long) that will cover a specific...

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 MITPUG! I am sorry for posting this so late, but I first want to Thank you all for allowing to come and speak to everyone on the 9 th , I had a lot of fun and I look forward to coming back to visit! Folks if you are in the Michiana and South Bend area check them out: http://www.mitpug...

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...