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Do you want to win* a Lenovo T61P ThinkPad or Xbox 360 Pro with 60 GB?

Are you a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP)?

Do you want to win* some great prizes just in time for the holidays? How does a 8GB or 120GB Zune sound or an Xbox 360 Pro? What you want something bigger, okay how about a:

Lenovo T61P!!!!

Okay do I have your attention now?  clip_image001

First off you have to be a current US Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and being willing to show off your rock star screencast skills.  To enter you need to create a 5 – 10 minute screencast on IIS and PHP integration.  The screencast must showcase the integration of PHP into IIS 7.0 on Windows Server 2008.   I also want to see it actually work you should show an PHP application on the IIS server (i.e. Wordpress) running and demonstrated inside of Internet Explorer 7 or Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, and verified it is running inside of the IIS 7 environment.

Sound cool and techy and you want to enter? but your not sure how do all of that?  Well I am here to help.  Here are some excellent resources for you to get started:

The screencasts entries will be judged by a blue ribbon group of IT Pro superstars and will be judged on Creativity, Presentation, Inclusion of Microsoft Technologies and Effective demonstration of the integration of PHP in to IIS.

Here are the prizes:

  • Grand Prize - Lenovo ThinkPad T61p notebook computer
  • First Place - 60GB XBOX 360 game console
  • Second Place - 120GB Zune media player
  • Third Place - 8GB Zune Media player

So what do you have to do to enter? 

  • Create a Screencast by December 15th
  • Drop the screencast at your favorite location, so we can download it (Remember it has to be Silverlight Compatible).
  • Send me an email with:
    • Your name
    • Address
    • Phone
    • Email Address
    • Link to your the Screencast
*No Purchase Necessary. Open only to active Microsoft MVP members of the 50 US States (includes D of C). Game ends December 15, 2008. For full rules click HERE.
Published Friday, October 10, 2008 8:00 AM by Matt-MS

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Friday, October 10, 2008 11:02 AM by Blain Barton's Blog

# MVP ScreenCast Content around PHP and ISS, Win Cool Prizes and Braggin' Rights! Get Details Here!

Ladies and Gentlemen, If you are a Microsoft MVP we have a contest we hope you’ll find interesting. We’re

Friday, October 10, 2008 6:51 PM by tshinder

# re: Do you want to win* a Lenovo T61P ThinkPad or Xbox 360 Pro with 60 GB?

Not fair! Why do only developers get to play? How about an IT Pro contest?

Thanks!

Tom

Friday, October 10, 2008 8:59 PM by Asuka Zhang

# re: Do you want to win* a Lenovo T61P ThinkPad or Xbox 360 Pro with 60 GB?

Not Fair!Why this contest limited with US MVP.

I am a Chinese MVP,I also want to join!

Friday, October 10, 2008 11:57 PM by Dale Howard, Microsoft Project MVP

# re: Do you want to win* a Lenovo T61P ThinkPad or Xbox 360 Pro with 60 GB?

This contest is blatantly UNFAIR.  I am a Microsoft Project MVP.  I am NOT a software developer, NOT a DBA, and not a network administrator.  So I guess that eliminates me from a contest in which I might otherwise be a contender.  :(  No fair.

Saturday, October 11, 2008 7:57 AM by Derek Schauland

# re: Do you want to win* a Lenovo T61P ThinkPad or Xbox 360 Pro with 60 GB?

I am thinking about this one... but find it funny that others commenting here are ruling themselves out because they arent developers.

I thought being an MVP meant you were good with Microsoft technology and the technical community.  Why not give it a look before you assume that developer skills are needed to compete...

Saturday, October 11, 2008 9:30 AM by Keith Combs

# re: Do you want to win* a Lenovo T61P ThinkPad or Xbox 360 Pro with 60 GB?

The basis of the content for the content is TechNet content.  If you are comfortable setting up Windows Server 2008 and the server roles, you can probably accomplish what is needed.

Installing PHP and a open source application like Wordpress is not a developer focused activity.  

Sunday, October 12, 2008 3:09 PM by Keith Combs

# re: Do you want to win* a Lenovo T61P ThinkPad or Xbox 360 Pro with 60 GB?

That should have read, "The basis of the content for the contest is TechNet content".

Monday, October 13, 2008 1:40 PM by Blue

# Win A Free Lenovo Thinkpad T61p

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 9:08 AM by Keith Combs

# re: Do you want to win* a Lenovo T61P ThinkPad or Xbox 360 Pro with 60 GB?

As Chris Henley indicates in his post at http://blogs.technet.com/chenley/archive/2008/10/13/win-a-free-lenovo-thinkpad-t61p.aspx, you can use several tools to capture your demo.  

Camtasia is a very popular tool but there are others on the Windows platform as well as the OS X platform (in case you are using Fusion or Parallels).

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:47 AM by John Weston Stories, Information, and random thoughts.

# MVP Screencast Contest!

  My coworkers Keith Combs and Matt Hester are running a contest. On Keith's blog you will find:

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 10:35 AM by Harold Wong's Blog Site

# MVP Screencast Contest

My team mates, Keith Combs and Matt Hester, are holding a little contest for MVPs.  This is only

Thursday, October 30, 2008 7:12 AM by Dan Stolts Blog

# Do you want to win* a Lenovo T61P ThinkPad or Xbox 360 Pro with 60 GB?

Do you want to win* a Lenovo T61P ThinkPad or Xbox 360 Pro with 60 GB? Are you a Microsoft Most Valuable

Monday, November 17, 2008 10:14 AM by Matt Hester's WebLog

# Anyone out there: MVP Contest Check Up

Hey all you MVP rockstars are you out there?  Are you working hard on putting together your screencasts

Sunday, November 23, 2008 9:14 PM by Jay R. Wren

# re: Do you want to win* a Lenovo T61P ThinkPad or Xbox 360 Pro with 60 GB?

Allow me to play grammar police, or at least HOPE that I am playing grammar police.

Is the use of wordpress a requirement?  Because php application (i.e. wordpress) makes it sound like wordpress is the required php application.  i.e. is Latin for "id est" which means "it is". It is used in place of "in other words"

I'm hoping you meant to use e.g. instead of i.e. e.g. is Latin for "exempli gratis" which means "for the sake of an example" or just "for example".

So is the meaning intended to say "a PHP application running on the server, that is wordpress." or is the meaning intended to say "a PHP application running on the server, for example, wordpress."

--

j

Monday, November 24, 2008 10:59 AM by Matt-MS

# re: Do you want to win* a Lenovo T61P ThinkPad or Xbox 360 Pro with 60 GB?

Trying to give an example of an application, and you are playing grammar police. However, I have always used i.e. as to mean an example.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:16 PM by Joel Stidley

# re: Do you want to win* a Lenovo T61P ThinkPad or Xbox 360 Pro with 60 GB?

The rules state that the solution must be Silverlight compatible, does that mean the video has to be Silverlight compatible or the php application used to demonstrate must be Silverlight compatible? Do we need to show Silverlight at some point in the video?

Friday, November 28, 2008 3:58 PM by Dave Lawlor

# re: Do you want to win* a Lenovo T61P ThinkPad or Xbox 360 Pro with 60 GB?

Im no MVP, but this is really a trivial task, I hope the comments are not representative of the larger MVP community. I really aspire to get there someday, but seriously can't you guys just say "Cool! Thanks for giving people a chance to win" and figure it out? I do screen casts like this for nothing but to practice and maybe help others.

Anyway I think it is cool of you guys to do something fun while also producing something that could help others. Hope the majority of MVPs are just doing it.

Regards,

Dave

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