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BREAKING NEWS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate Available TODAY

Evaluate Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate today “The new Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate is here. Download this 120-day free release candidate version and try the new features in your own environment. When you register for the Exchange Read More...

Posted Tuesday, August 18, 2009 8:06 AM by KevinRemde | 3 Comments

Filed under: IT Pro Resources, Exchange Server, Tech News, Beta, News, Unified Communications, Breaking News

TechNet Events Present: Real World Windows Azure

Come spend a day with us to explore Windows Azure™ – Microsoft’s platform for building and deploying cloud based applications – from a real world point of view! During this event, we’ll review critical lessons Microsoft IT has learned migrating internal Read More...

Posted Tuesday, August 11, 2009 9:39 AM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

Filed under: TechNet Events, IT Pro Resources, Microsoft Resources, Beta, Training, Cool or Geeky, IT Manager, Windows Azure

Breaking News: Microsoft Security Essentials BETA is LIVE (but limited!)

For the first 75,000 people who want it, the first beta of the new free antivirus solution from Microsoft is available to download now. “Now?” Well.. it is now.. but by the time you read this it may not be any longer. There is a limit, and high Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 23, 2009 11:50 AM by KevinRemde | 5 Comments

Filed under: Security, IT Pro Resources, Microsoft Resources, Beta, Breaking News, Home

Windows 7 Beta and RC Expiration Details

Stephen Rose posted details about the expiration of the Windows 7 Beta in order to correct some confusing information out there. Building Community One Brick At A Time : Windows 7 Beta Expiration Correction “So..what are the dates?” Here are the details Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 4:04 AM by KevinRemde | 1 Comments

Filed under: IT Pro Resources, Beta, Windows 7, Test Lab

Breaking News: It’s here! RCs are RTW! (for some)

RCs = Release Candidates RTW = Released to Web “for some” means “for TechNet and MSDN subscribers” You remember several days ago we announced that the RC for Windows 7 would be available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers on April 30th . “Hey, that’s today!” Read More...

Posted Thursday, April 30, 2009 8:21 AM by KevinRemde | 2 Comments

Filed under: Windows Server, Security, Service Packs and Updates, Fun Stuff, IT Pro Resources, Microsoft Resources, Virtualization, Tech News, Beta, News, Video, Reliability, IIS, Search, Breaking News, Hyper-V, Networking, Cool or Geeky, PowerShell, Productivity, Performance, Home, Entertainment, IT Manager, Release, Windows 7, Green IT, Life 2.0, Humor, TechNet, Interoperability

April-June 2009 - TechNet UNLEASHED Event Resources

Feedback e-mail to my boss: Harry Caldwell – HarryCal@microsoft.com Future Live, In-Person Event Information TechNet (for IT Pros): http://www.technetevents.com/kevinremde MSDN (for Software Developers): http://www.MSDNEvents.com NEW - IT Managers Community Read More...

Posted Sunday, April 26, 2009 5:40 PM by KevinRemde | 2 Comments

Filed under: Windows Server, Security, TechNet Events, IT Pro Resources, Microsoft Resources, Management, Virtualization, Beta, News, Reliability, IIS, Deployment, Training, Hyper-V, Cool or Geeky, Productivity, Performance, IT Manager, Windows 7, Internet Explorer, Green IT, TechNet

BIG Breaking News: The Windows 7 RC wait is almost over..

“Huh?!” Yep. Release Candidate 1 (and only, I’ve heard) will be available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers on April 30, 2009. “Says who? All I’ve heard is leaks and rumors of leaks.” Says the Windows 7 team on the Windows 7 Team Blog . “Can I get it now?” Read More...

Posted Friday, April 24, 2009 8:53 PM by KevinRemde | 4 Comments

Filed under: Windows Server, Service Packs and Updates, Fun Stuff, IT Pro Resources, Microsoft Resources, Tech News, Beta, News, Training, Breaking News, Cool or Geeky, Productivity, Performance, IT Manager, Release, Windows 7, Test Lab, Life 2.0

Breaking News: Exchange Server “14” has a name! And the BETA is available today!

Microsoft announced today that the next version of Microsoft Exchange (previously known as version 14) is now called Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 . Here’s the MS PressPass article about it. Great name! Surprised? “No.” I didn’t think so. But the good Read More...

Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2009 6:00 AM by KevinRemde | 2 Comments

Filed under: IT Pro Resources, Microsoft Resources, Exchange Server, Tech News, Beta, News, Office, Breaking News, Cool or Geeky, Release

Important Windows 7 Beta-to-RC Upgrade (?!) Information

Now.. before you kill the messenger, you really need to read and understand this post from the “Engineering Windows 7” blog in its entirety: Delivering a quality upgrade experience Don’t want to read it all? Okay.. If you really want the summary Read More...

Posted Tuesday, April 07, 2009 12:32 PM by KevinRemde | 8 Comments

Filed under: Service Packs and Updates, IT Pro Resources, Tech News, Beta, News, Could get me fired, Breaking News, IT Manager, Windows 7

Kevin’s “Connections 2009” Event Resources

Orlando - March 16, 2009 NOTE: My demo scripts are attached to this post. You'll find the attachment at the bottom. E-mail Technical Questions: Kevin Remde – Kevin.Remde@microsoft.com Feedback e-mail to my boss: Harry Caldwell – HarryCal@microsoft.com Read More...

Posted Sunday, March 15, 2009 10:56 AM by KevinRemde | 1 Comments

Filed under: Windows Server, Service Packs and Updates, TechNet Events, IT Pro Resources, Microsoft Resources, Management, Virtualization, Beta, Training, Hyper-V, PowerShell, Productivity, Performance, Windows 7

Attachment(s): Connections PowerShell Resources.zip

Internet Explorer 8: You want it faster? How’s this?

Awesome . The IE team put up a “performance testing” video showing tests they did comparing IE8 and other well-loved browsers. See it, plus other IE8 videos, here: Internet Explorer 8: Videos NOTE: We don’t win every scenario. Read More...

Posted Saturday, March 14, 2009 5:56 AM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

Filed under: Windows Server, Tech News, Beta, Cool or Geeky, Performance, Windows 7, Internet Explorer

A Virtually Great Day

“Friday the 13th?” No.. I’m talking about the availability of a new Beta ("New Beta?" Yeah, I know.. redundant): System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 . This beta is full of features that coincide with the up-coming version of Windows Server 2008 Read More...

Posted Friday, March 13, 2009 8:41 PM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

Filed under: IT Pro Resources, Microsoft Resources, Virtualization, Beta, System Center, Breaking News, Release

Breaking News: Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Release Candidate Available

Today Microsoft reached another milestone in the release cycle for the next version of Internet Explorer - “IE8”. I’ve been running Beta 2 very happily for quite awhile, and recently gained access to an internal release of Release Candidate 1. Today we’ve Read More...

Posted Monday, January 26, 2009 2:50 PM by KevinRemde | 3 Comments

Filed under: Windows Server, Security, Service Packs and Updates, IT Pro Resources, Microsoft Resources, Windows Vista, Tech News, Beta, Video, Breaking News, IT Manager, Compatibility, Release, Windows XP, Windows 7, Internet Explorer

News: Windows 7 Beta Download Period Extended

Good news! The Windows 7 Team Blog announced that they’ve yet again extended the period in which you can download the Window 7 Beta . As you may recall, I blogged about the original extension a couple weeks ago. And now we’re doing Read More...

Posted Monday, January 26, 2009 7:25 AM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

Filed under: IT Pro Resources, Microsoft Resources, Tech News, Beta, News, MSDN, Breaking News, Windows 7, Test Lab

Windows 7 Beta Reviews

I’ve had a blast reading the many many reviews and personal experience stories around Windows 7 installations in the last several days since the beta release last week. Once in awhile I’ll post my own observations. But sometimes I figure Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:13 PM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

Filed under: Beta, Cool or Geeky, Windows 7