Wonderful news! Today at the Microsoft Management Summit going on in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced the availability of System Center 2012. You can start your evaluation downloads now: https://aka.ms/PvtCld Pass it on!
This is great… Today Microsoft announced that there will be three (count ‘em.. 3) editions of Windows 8 when it goes on sale – presumably later this year. “Wait a sec…only three? Didn’t Windows 7 come in 6.. or more?” Yep. Three. Brandon LeBlanc writes on the Windows Team Blog that Windows 8 will be … Continue reading Breaking News: Microsoft Announces the Windows 8 Editions (SKUs)
Immediately after my previous blog post about the new cloud-centric MCSE certifications, I received an instant message and an e-mail from the group responsible for it. They thanked me, and then asked if I would please share some additional information. So the following text comes directly from that e-mail: Move Your Career to the Cloud … Continue reading MCSE News Update: More Details
Hot off the newswire: Today Microsoft announced some changes to the certification program for IT Professionals, in order to address the growing need for people being able to prove their expertise in all things cloud-related. “Wait.. you said that “the MCSE is back’. Huh?!” That’s right. What was the well-known “Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer” acronym … Continue reading Breaking News: New Microsoft Certs Align to Cloud–The MCSE is back!
As usual, here is the online version of the event resources I’ll be handing out to my central U.S. IT Camp Event attendees for the next several months. It is likely that this online version is even better, because A) it contains even more than what I could fit onto one page, B) items may … Continue reading Kevin’s “Being What’s Next in I.T.” Event Resources
(CTP = Community Technology Preview – which means “earlier than beta”) Late on Friday the System Center Virtual Machine Manager Blog released a post enthusiastically titled “System Center 2012 CTP for Windows Server ‘8’ Beta support now available!!!”. It would seem the System Center team is looking for early feedback on running System Center against … Continue reading NEW System Center 2012 CTPs for Windows Server “8” beta
I thought this was pretty interesting.. so for a lighter, geeky-cool post on a Friday afternoon, as I’m busy waiting for large file copies in my home office lab to complete, I thought I’d share it with you. Microsoft Research recorded a demonstration of how responsive a typical touchscreen operating system is, and how much … Continue reading How fast does a touchscreen really need to be?
Are you interested in learning the ins-and-outs of working with Windows Azure? Wondering how to get started cheaply - as in “for FREE”? We’re giving you a chance to spend a day with some of the nation’s leading cloud experts and for you to learn how to build a web application that runs in Windows … Continue reading Kick-Start your Azure Cloud Development Skills
Happy Friday!I thought I’d just take this opportunity to again share my three-part screencast series with you; this time all in one place. The topic: System Center 2012 Unified InstallerThe goal: Help you prepare for and use the Unified Installer to build your lab for testing and trying the System Center 2012 components outThe added benefit: … Continue reading System Center 2012 Unified Installer: The Screencasts
Alex M asked several questions about Office 365 at our TechNet Event in Kansas City: “Do we need to purchase Office 365 for resources (for example: conference rooms)?” ”Can the user access Office 365 from work PC as well as his personal PC from home?” ”If we are using cloud services, why do we need … Continue reading Can I do that with Office 365? (So many questions. So little time. Part 23.)
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