My friend and coworker John Baker is all excited. He’s had a blog for a couple years now, but has recently acquired a new-found enthusiasm for blogging. He even updated his style sheets to make his blog more pretty. Check it out. Encourage him. He needs it. “What about your blog, Kevin? You’ve had the … Continue reading John Baker: Have you blogged today?
Interesting idea… have blog posts also show up in my Twitter feed. So this post is my first test of twitterfeed.com.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: This promotion and promotion code have expired.Please CLICK HERE for the most current promotion.Whenever I present a live TechNet Event, I ask my audience to raise their hands if they are a TechNet subscriber. Usually about 1/3 of the audience raises their hand. Considering that this is typically a Microsoft-friendly audience, I'm a … Continue reading Savings. TechNet Subscriptions. What could be better?
Dear Video Diary,Here it is.. the last day of TechEd 2008 US IT Pro. This morning I got together with some teammates and had a little video/screencasting/editing/publishing discussion. (Thanks Keith!) Then I took one of my coworkers to the airport. I did get back in time to attend one more session. It was an Instructor-Lead … Continue reading Kevin’s TechEd Video Diaries – Part 5 of 5 – June 13, 2008
My teammate Matt “Mongo” Hester just posted a pretty cool demo screencast on the process of adding bits (in this case, the currently-in-beta next version of Internet Explorer) into an offline image of Windows Vista. Yes.. “offline” because it’s an installation of Vista that exists in a .wim file. So we’re applying IE 8 as … Continue reading Mongo-Cool Screencast on Slipstreaming IE 8 into a Windows Vista SP1 Image
Dear Video Diary,Yeah.. I know I said that the last one was the LAST one.. but I decided to take my entire 16 minutes of wandering around the Exhibit Hall and speed it up to fit in just over 3.5 minutes. Maybe I'm alone in this (let me know), but I think it's fun to … Continue reading Kevin’s TechEd Video Diaries – Bonus Reel
Cool! Just noticed that one of my webcast recordings is listed in the current “Top 10 Webcasts” again. This time it was the one I did about Network Access Protection (part 18 of our 24 hours of Windows Server 2008 series).Click HERE for the webcast recording.And HERE for my webcast resources page.And finally, HERE for … Continue reading Hey.. I’m in the “Top 10 Webcasts” again
Dear Video Diary,Another busy day. I was pleased to be a part of the TechNet Springboard Series panel discussion on Vista Deployment. We had some tough-but-fair questions around Vista thrown our way, and it was fun! After that I did one video interview as well. I had another scheduled for the afternoon, but the interviewee … Continue reading Kevin’s TechEd Video Diaries – Part 4 – June 12, 2008
..and ahead of schedule!That’s right! Hyper-V, the new game-changing virtualization technology that is included in Windows Server 2008, has been released today.Here’s the official press release.“How do I get it?”Well.. first of all you have to have Windows Server 2008 64-bit running on Virtualization capable hardware (meaning the Intel or AMD processors that have virtualization … Continue reading Breaking News: Hyper-V is UNLEASHED TODAY!
Dear Video Diary,This was a busy day. I was originally scheduled to do three video interviews. It turned into 4, and then 5! So I spent a lot of time in a comfy chair, with a not-so-comfy microphone attached to my head. Really enjoyed the conversations, though. I hope you take a moment to check … Continue reading Kevin’s TechEd Video Diaries – Part 3 – June 11, 2008
Absolutely Full of I.T. 