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Thursday, September 17, 2009 5:18 PM

Info on the Active Directory Recycle Bin….

Recently, I delivered a brief session to a user group on some new features in Windows 2008 R2. One of those features was the Active Directory Recycle Bin. This feature allows administrators to recover deleted AD objects without having to shut down a server
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:22 PM

Angelbeat IT Events in Redmond and Portland….

I know this is short notice, but I want to let you know about some events that are going on tomorrow and Friday. I will be presenting a session on Windows 7 at both Angelbeat events and I would enjoy meeting you at the events! There will be several speakers
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009 6:19 AM

Free Active Directory Webinar by Zubair Alexander….

Zubair is an MVP here in Seattle and runs the Seattle Windows Networking User Group . he will be delivering webinar called “5 Challenges in Active Directory Management and How to Eliminate them”. Zubair’s Blog Post on the Webinar More Webinar Information
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Thursday, April 30, 2009 7:05 AM

Interesting Downloads for Week Ending – 04-24-2009….

Infrastructure Development, Operations & Maintenance · Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 UCMA 2.0 Speech Language Packs · Unified Communications Cost Saving Kit · Adoption and Training Kit: Champs Program Plan Sample for Unified Communications
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009 9:01 AM

My first Netbook purchase…. Acer Aspire One….

About two weeks ago I made an impulse buy of a netbook PC. Consider it my contribution to stimulating the economy. I was at Fry’s pricing some hardware and getting ideas for a new TV for a Media room I am working on when I saw all the tiny netbooks and
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009 7:46 AM

Put the InterOp Roadshow in your Calendars!

You may think this is way in advance but it is really only about 10 weeks away. On June 11th, we are bringing the InterOp Roadshow to Seattle . This event is all about Windows and Windows based apps playing in the same sandbox as Linux and other non-windows
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Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:11 AM

Latest Technet Flash Newsletter is live!

I have become a big fan of the Technet Flash newsletter. Many times I have been reading it and run across a link to another site that was chock full of information. Or, I may stumble on a link to a beta app or other application that slipped under my radar.
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Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:25 AM

SharePoint Administrators Wanted for Testing the Next Version of Microsoft SharePoint Designer...

*note* - The title of my blog post is completely plagiarized from my co-worker, Yung Chou. His title is perfect so I lifted it. Yung posted to his blog today about a study being conducted by the Microsoft Research team. We would like some existing SharePoint
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Monday, January 26, 2009 10:15 AM

New Org, Same Role.....

As of Friday of last week, I am part of the DPE - Developer and Platform Evangelism team at Microsoft. My previous team was always sort of a dotted line to this org but now it is official. What I do as an IT Evangelist doesn't change much - I will still
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Monday, December 22, 2008 9:39 AM

New Posting to TechNet Radio.....

Hiya Folks! A couple weeks ago I had a discussion with Edward Bell, one of the guys in charge of infrastructure management at Microsoft. We talked about how we leverage System Center Configuration manager to manage our very large server environment. It
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008 10:53 PM

Stop stealing my blog posts.....

There has been some discussion recently on some DL's here at Microsoft about sites that re-post blog posts without permission. I will call it what it is which is the theft of copyrighted materials for the purpose of monetary gain. I don't like saying
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008 12:31 PM

More P2V Conversion FUN with SCVMM2008...

I still can't believe how easy and dare I say.... fun ....converting my physical machines to VM's with SCVMM2008 ! I did hit my first roadblock today while converting a test machine that has some SSL features enabled though. Specifically the FTP over
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 7:34 AM

Slides and additional info from Technet Presentation....

if you would like to grab the slides from the Technet presentation, you can get that at the Technet Event registration site . You are obviously here at my blog so now you also have my contact information. feel free to contact me if you have any questions!
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Monday, October 27, 2008 11:30 PM

The PDC Buzz....and stuff...

There are so many posts out there repeating everything already that I am going to skip linking a bunch of stuff from PDC and link to just the one thing that has me jazzed. I have recently taken an interest in working with Visual Studio and doing some
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Thursday, October 16, 2008 10:25 PM

Drop a phone.....reset.....

This has been a less then productive, much less enjoyable week. Email issues, a phone issue that got fixed, and now, just a bummer of a phone issue....I dropped my Treo 750 tonight and *blink* it hard rest. As some of you know, I am not a big fan of cell
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