Author: Kevin Remde

Kevin Remde President - CMIT Solutions of the Twin Cities West Kevin has held positions such as Sr. Technical Evangelist, Software Engineer, Information Systems professional, and Information Systems manager. He loves sharing helpful new solutions and technologies with his IT professional peers, and is passionate about helping people and businesses succeed through the intelligent application of information technology.

A Useful List of Windows 8 or 8.1 Resources for IT Pros

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http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htmThanks to Mary Jo Foley for tweeting about this.  Mary Hutson is maintaining a very useful list of “top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues IT Pros experience when using or deploying Windows 8 or 8.1.”  She updates the list every quarter; the most recent being just two days ago (Aug 11, 2014).  … Continue reading A Useful List of Windows 8 or 8.1 Resources for IT Pros

Upcoming Microsoft Events: Do you want to stay informed?

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http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htmWhether or not you choose to believe me, here are a two things that I know to be true: Microsoft takes your privacy and preferences very seriously, and Microsoft wants you to stay “in-the-loop” about what’s coming. Often our marketing and operations people send out notices about up-coming events, such as our IT Camps or … Continue reading Upcoming Microsoft Events: Do you want to stay informed?

Kevin’s TechEd Diary – Day 4 (and beyond)

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http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htmDear TechEd Diary, This entry is several days over-due, but I hope you’ll understand.  Towards the end of the conference the schedule is tight, and the exhaustion is real.  So I thought rather than taking time out of my day on Thursday or Friday I’d just take in and enjoy the rest of the week … Continue reading Kevin’s TechEd Diary – Day 4 (and beyond)

Kevin’s TechEd Diary – Day 3

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http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htmDear TechEd Diary, Well diary, if you ever had any doubts about “the cloud”, they should have been eased a bit if you attended or watched the live stream of Mark Russinovich and Mark Minasi’s “Mark and Mark” cloud discussion this morning. Besides being entertaining, it was very informative.  It’s always great to hear the … Continue reading Kevin’s TechEd Diary – Day 3

Kevin’s TechEd Diary – Day 1

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http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htmHere’s a quick post with some of my photos so far.  Trying out a neat photo album feature by just dragging multiple photos into Windows LiveWriter. Included are a couple of shots from the Krewe Meet-n-Greet last night, and random shots of people and food. Now I’m off to another session… TechEd Day 0 PM … Continue reading Kevin’s TechEd Diary – Day 1

Kevin’s TechEd Diary – Day 0

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http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htmDear TechEd Diary, It’s the day before TechEd, which leads to my 3rd favorite week of the year (just behind Christmas/New Year and Easter/Holy week).  My flight appears to be on-time. The day here in Minneapolis will be a good one, weather-wise.  It will be nice in Houston, too.  I haven’t packed much yet, but … Continue reading Kevin’s TechEd Diary – Day 0

VMware Pro? Gear up on Hyper-V through Microsoft Early Experts

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Are you a VMware Pro?  In an increasingly multi-hypervisor world, more and more IT organizations are using Microsoft Hyper-V and Microsoft Azure to achieve superior performance and workload flexibility at the best possible price. With nearly two-thirds of businesses on more than one virtualization platform, adding Microsoft virtualization and cloud skills to your technical repertoire … Continue reading VMware Pro? Gear up on Hyper-V through Microsoft Early Experts

Doesn’t Windows 8.1 require more hardware than Windows 7? (Series: Windows 8.1 for Business)

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Logically, it makes sense.  Forever it seems whenever any software company comes out with a new version of their product, the added features and functionality require extra hardware.  In the case of operating systems, that seems especially true.  Software vendors are always trying to build their solutions not to fit today’s hardware, but what hardware … Continue reading Doesn’t Windows 8.1 require more hardware than Windows 7? (Series: Windows 8.1 for Business)