Have you been to TechEdBloggers.net yet?(What about now, after you clicked that link?) What would you think about having a place like that to go to year-round, where you could view or subscribe to IT Pro-related event-news from Microsft, as well as blog postings from others in the IT Pro community?Well, I’m part of a … Continue reading At work on a new IT Pro Community / Events Site
Dean Andrews, our man in charge of all TechNet Webcast events here in the US, has finally started blogging! Check it out, and subscribe (RSS) to it if you want the latest webcast news straight from the guy who knows all.
Interesting. Are they really going to make us all of here in the U.S. get new Social Security Numbers?Here’s the C|Net article about it.Personally I think it’s a good idea. But along with this someone has to come up with strong and enforced standards on how to use and protect that information. Anything short of … Continue reading New SSN, PDQ.
Hello again, my Milwaukee friends! Other than a noisy start, and an annoying fire drill interruption, I had a great time with you all! How did you like the event? I got a few helpful comments, but if you have more to say please feel free to email me or, even better, enter your comments … Continue reading Milwaukee Wisconsin TechNet Briefing Questions (and Answers)
I’m sorry, Paul, but I’m sure I’m not alone in being worried about trusting your home’s security to Windows XP Embedded. You mention that the system will be set up to get updates automatically – which is fine for a desktop or laptop PC, and questionable for a server (please, people.. TEST all updates!), but … Continue reading Home Security OS? XP?!
…and if not, why not?!This article in eWeek really bugs me:“Faulty Microsoft Update Rekindles Patch Quality Concerns”Just when we finally see the tide turning and people starting to believe that Microsoft is really improving things, we shoot ourselves in the foot by releasing an update that causes problems. And while usually I don’t mind doing … Continue reading Can’t we just get it right?
I received a great question in an email concerning a SQL Profiler demo I do in our live TechNet Briefings this quarter:—Kevin, I attended your technical briefing in Chicago last month. Thanks for a very nice and informative session. During the presentation for Yukon, you did a nice demo of analyzingperfmon and trace files using Yukon profiler. … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 – SQL Profiler Question
I blogged about this before, so for the sake of my recent TechNet Briefings audiences in Muncie, Chicago, Rockford, and Milwaukee – here is the link to information on where you can download my Resource Document that I gave out at the event.This will give you the file with the live links, so you won’t … Continue reading TechNet Briefing Resource Pages
Microsoft no longer offers a Technology Guarantee on our products. Customers can purchase a SQL 2000 License (L), SQL 2000 License with Software Assurance (LSA) or renewal on Software Assurance (SA) for existing SA on existing products. If the customer purchases just the L, they would not get the next release of the product (in … Continue reading Brief Example of a Software Assurance Purchase
Monday’s edition of RocketBoom’s video-blog (vlog?) contained an interview with Robert Scoble, while he was hosting a “geek dinner” in Minneapolis.I arrived to find only two people sitting at an outdoor table – one of them being Robert. Initially, I thought, “Wow.. what a lousy turn-out!”. But as I drew near, fortunately, I noticed the fancy video-camera … Continue reading And I’m there!… just off to the right a bit!
Absolutely Full of I.T. 