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February 2009 - Posts
Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:05 PM
What does 4,353,130 calories look like?
Boxes and Boxes of Girl Scout Cookies . My lovely wife took on the task of “Cookie Mom” this year which means she is responsible for the cookie inventory for my daughters troop. So I decided to have fun with math! That is a picture of
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:02 AM
IT Pro Momentum Program: Still Accepting Applications
As I blogged last month: Want Some Help on Piloting Microsoft Technologies like Windows 7? The program is still looking for people like you to take part, so if you answer yes to any of the following questions send me an email at mhester@microsoft.com
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 9:57 AM
TechNet Events coming to City near you and we are brining friends!
The great folks on the MSDN team has invited TechNet events to hang out with them in March. So we are heading out on the road again, and in reality they are bringing us IT Pros along for the ride. We will be talking about Windows 2008 with
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Thursday, February 12, 2009 3:21 PM
Cleveland will Rock at the end of February!!!!!
start Willie Nelson method On the road again Just can't wait to get on the road again The life I love is makin' music with my friends And I can't wait to get on the road again end method That is right folks, I am heading back to town after being gone
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Thursday, February 12, 2009 8:00 AM
Are you this parent?
A mother is making a breakfast of fried eggs for her teenage son. Suddenly the boy bursts into the kitchen. He screams: "Careful! CAREFUL! Put in some more butter! Oh my goodness! You're cooking too many at once. Turn them! TURN THEM NOW! We
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009 12:00 PM
Interview: Kai Axford talking about Preventing Corporate Espionage
During one of our internal conferences at TechReady I got to speak with my good friend Kai Axford . Kai is an incredible security speaker and is a part of Microsoft Trustworthy Computing (TWC) group. Kai has a ton of knowledge around security
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009 11:17 AM
Interview: Thriving as an IT Pro a chat with Julie-Anne Arsenault
During our internal training event in Seattle, I had a chance to meet with Julie-Anne Arsenault to talk about a program she just launched called Thrive . Julie-Anne works for the BMO, just think of her as the corporate version of me that loves IT
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 3:57 PM
Silverlight Developer Contest you could win 5k and be a part of the ServerQuest game
Checkout the new contest here:
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Friday, February 06, 2009 9:58 AM
TechNet Radio Interview --- SharePoint Virtualization
I had a great conversation with Michael Noel on TechNet Radio, we talked about the many benefits on SharePoint Virtualization. We also briefly discussed on what roles should be considered for virtualization. One of the great tidbits that came
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Friday, February 06, 2009 9:27 AM
Book of the month February 2009: Total Access: A Journey to the Center of the NFL Universe
With the NFL season officially over, and Arena Football canceled, what now? How is one supposed to get a dose of Football to get them through the long off season? My suggestion? Check out the book of the month for February: Total
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Friday, February 06, 2009 8:04 AM
Matt eats a lot of Crow: Recap 5 bold NFL Predictions and I mean a lot of Crow
I have to admit, when it comes to NFL predictions I may not be that good. Some would say horrible. However, did have a lot of fun laughing at your comments on my posts and more importantly laughing at myself. I thought it was bad enough
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Monday, February 02, 2009 9:30 AM
Excellent Internet Explorer 8 RC1 Technical Documents and Resources
I wanted to put together a quick post that highlights some great resources to get you up to speed with Internet Explorer 8. I specifically have two great resources on Group Policy: Here you can find a list of most of the 1300 settings in Group Policy:
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Sunday, February 01, 2009 8:45 AM
Webcast: Managing the Virtualized Test and Development Environment (1-23-2009)
Thank you for attending the 3rd part of the webcast series and thank you to Keith Combs for all of his help with questions! You had a lot of great questions here is are the answers. My teammates are presenting several other parts but I will
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Sunday, February 01, 2009 8:20 AM
Webcast: Virtualizing Test and Development Environments (1-21-2009)
Thank you for attending part 2 of the webcast series, again we had some great questions. thank you to Keith Combs and Dan Stolts for helping out with the questions. On a side note I made a comment about not wanting to have virtual disks over 100GB in
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Sunday, February 01, 2009 8:04 AM
Webcast: Selecting the Right Candidates for Virtualization (1-16-2009)
Thanks for attending part 2 of the webcast series and talking about how to pick the right systems to be virtualized. A huge thank you to Kevin Remde and Harold Wong for their help on the webcast! Thank you to everyone for asking a lot of great questions,
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