Looks like I am batting “CleanUp” for the Window Server Track here at TechEd New Zealand. I’m the last session before the farewell drinks and the official conference closure. I do have one trick up my sleeve to ensure people come out BESIDES an awesome session topic and content. I mean heck – who wouldn’t…
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Getting ready to Head DownUnder in NZ and AU
I am in the final days of prep work to get ready to head down to TechEd New Zealand and TechEd Australia. I had a great time down there last year and apparently they liked my stuff enough to ask me to come back again! I have slightly different speaking schedule for the two conferences…
TechEd Europe Foundation Session: Modernizing Your Datacenter resources
Greetings! As the curator of the TechEd Modernizing Your Datacenter foundational session, I have compiled a one stop resource to complementary sessions about the technologies we demonstrated during the event. You can click on the links to view the session details in schedule builder. If you are coming across this post AFTER TechEd 2012 has…
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V guest IOps and network portability demos
I have the good fortune of working with some great folks here at Microsoft HQ – some of which I have been following for quite some time. Last week at TechEd NorthAmerica Jeff Woolsey was on the main keynote stage demonstrating a whirlwind of functionalities and achievements of the next generation of Hyper-V in Windows…
TechEd Foundation Session: Modernizing Your Datacenter resources
Greetings! As the curator of the TechEd Modernizing Your Datacenter foundational session, I have compiled a one stop resource to complementary sessions about the technologies we demonstrated during the event. You can click on the links to view the session details in schedule builder. If you are coming across this post AFTER TechEd 2012 has…
Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate available
Just in case you lived under a rock over the last couple of days or so – you might not of known that the Release Candidate of Windows Server 2012 is now available for download. I recorded “The Edge Show” with Joey talking all about it and resources you should check out.
Free (as in beer) Windows Server 2012 training
I’ve been working with Windows Server “8” since last September when it first peeked outside of the internal deployment servers at the Build conference. Because I was not part of the engineering group or product team – I had the same level of access all the rest of the public had. Time moved forward and…
Windows PC SCAM help via Microsoft Canada
Even though I moved to the “Mother Ship” here in Redmond back in January – I still get emails, texts, Tweets and Facebook Updates about someone who has had a relative / friend who has unfortunately been scammed by some FRICKIN’ A** Holes social engineering their way into their PC. The “technicians from Microsoft” are…
TechEd 2012 Countdown–Certification News T-6
Part of this new gig at Microsoft at Corp is helping out drum up information and excitement around big scale events like TechEd. My partner in crime Joey Snow and I record these TechEd Countdown shows and publish them once a week. It’s a hoot! This time we have Melissa Bathum from Microsoft Learning (MCT…
Dynamic Access Control in Windows Server 2012 demo
I sit down with Josh Heller once again to talk about the coolness that is Dynamic Access Control in Windows Server 2012. Think of when you have the generic Access Denied Error 5 that comes up for your users – usually resulting in a whack of support calls and queries. Now you can use attributes…