I thought I’d post up some of the interviews I did at MMS in Las Vegas the other week. It was a lot of fun getting them done! I chat with the man – Josh Heller about some frickin cool Direct Access technologies in Windows Server 2012. I live and die by remote access, since…
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Service Templates in SCVMM 2012 interview
I thought I’d post up some of the interviews I did at MMS in Las Vegas the other week. It was a lot of fun getting them done! I chat with Stephen Barrons about Service Templates, what then heck they do and how they are different the simple machine templates in SCVMM 2012. Turns out…
Windows Server 8 Hands On Labs
(Or this could be called Windows Server 2012 Hands On Labs as well I guess. ) While I was off in Las Vegas for Microsoft Management Summit – I happened to notice that something sneaked on to the Windows Server TechCenter page on TechNet. Hands On Labs are now LIVE on the site! Yup –…
MMS 2012–Day 0 montage Las Vegas
Part of my role as a Technology Evangelist has me out at events and connecting with the attendees and interviewing speakers, partners and community members. I’m here at the Microsoft Management Summit 2012 (MMS) in Las Vegas and the Edge team decided we should have some fun with the traditional “montage” of stuff leading up…
HowTo: Bootable USB Stick for OS Install
A bootable USB stick – AGAIN? This has been covered in many places, but I am still surprised that not everyone knows how to do this. First off: find yourself a large enough and fast enough USB stick to use as your bootable media. I prefer my OCZ Rally 2 myself – 8 GB and…
Windows Server “8” demo lab hardware setup
After mulling things around for a while, consulting anyone who had an opinion on the topic and consuming various beverages over time – I finally sat down and planned out my portable demo lab for Windows Server”8” things. I’ll be using it to create demos to share with the community and showing them off at…
Windows Server “8” Hyper-v Component Poster
Come on now – admit it. We all like geeky things on the walls of our cubicles and offices. Well – a cool poster came out for the Windows Server “8” Beta Hyper-V Components and it’s available in High Detail saved as a PDF from the Microsoft Download Servers. Cool new additions from previous versions…
Troubleshooting Windows Server “8” (weekend reading)
As we’re now winding down the week and with 7 days under our belts with the Beta product – I thought I’d quickly share some awesome reading material that can go along with your Beta Evaluation of WS8. I love troubleshooting things – it’s the challenge of getting things working again after some other “IT…
Windows Server 8–Initial Cool Stuff
Part of my role at MS includes the creation of content for “The Edge Show” currently hosted at http://edge.technet.com. Well with last week being the beta milestone release for Windows Server “8” (I’ll use this notation and possibly the shortened WS8 going forward) I decided to do the smart thing and have a Special Edition…
Screw Following your dreams–CHASE THEM!
For those of you who know me – I’m a very passionate person. Be it technology, skills development, fatherhood, Microsoft, mobile devices – whatever. I tend to be someone who jumps in with both feet. Sometimes I do it on instinct. Sometimes I do it with after a long hesitation and with great caution. Well…