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...

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...

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...

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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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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...

One of my good buddies, Dan Hanson , just let me know about a great program called Computers Assisting People (CAP).  This program has and donated over 15,000 PCs to over 380 schools and non-profits in Cleveland (some in East Cleveland and other needy areas too).  This is an amazing organization...

Even though the project still led Remote2Tech to stick with Windows XP for now.   The project did provide a great learning experience and over all we learned a lot and had some fun with the project.  It also led to learning even more about the MS suite.  Remote2Tech just downloaded...

Hey Everyone, I was privileged enough to be published again in the April issue of TechNet Magazine .  I wrote an overview article on Internet Explorer 8 , that topics covered in the article: Standards-based browsing and compatibility Ease-of use features in Internet Explorer 8  A variety of...

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 wanted to create a quick post to highlight some of the key improvements in Policy and Security for Windows Search 4.0.  We released Windows Search 4.0 for the desktop a few months back, to help get everyone up to speed on the versions, I wanted outline a brief timeline of the different versions...

I hear from a lot of customers that one of the biggest sticking point in deployment of Windows Vista is application compatibility.  With any major upgrade there is always a major concerned about application compatibility, but sometimes we are not sure what to do or what it takes?   Well let...

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...

Congratulations to the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Team!  They just launched the  third-generation of the agent-less infrastructure assessment platform called Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator 3.0 (or simply MAP).  MAP is a powerful inventory, assessment, 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 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...

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 make a clarification on one of the things I said about IPv6 on my blog. I was contacted buy a fantastic person a corporate you wanted to make sure we get the correct information out! :-) The questions from the webcast was: Question : In IPv4 and IPv6 mixed environments is the protocol being...

Good Afternoon Searchers! J Thank you for attending the web cast on Windows Desktop Search (WDS). I hope you enjoyed the tool and are as excited as I am about how great this tool is! I also want to send a huge t hank you to Matt Carlson for helping me out on the Q/A, as promised here is the scrubbed...

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...