Dear Video Diary,Today started off with the opening keynote for the conference. Bob Muglia gave a good talk about IT, naturally."What about Developers?"That was last year.. and all the other US TechEds. This is the first year that TechEd was split into a Developer week and an IT Pro week. I did hear some people … Continue reading Kevin’s TechEd Video Diaries – Part 2 – June 10, 2008
"Hey Kevin! I know you were at TechEd US 2008 IT Pro last week. Where are your blog entries about it?"Well.. yeah.. It's a really busy week! Those of you who have followed my blog for the past couple of years know that I like to keep a diary of sorts about my daily activities … Continue reading Kevin’s TechEd Video Diaries – Part 1 – June 9, 2008
Jacob Thornberry of Brooks Stevens took a few minutes out of his busy day as their lone IT Pro to talk to me about his recent rollout of Office Communications Server 2007. I thought this conversation would benefit anyone who is considering rolling out OCS, and so with Jacob's permission, we recorded our conversation for … Continue reading A Conversation About An OCS Deployment
Web 2.0. Social Bookmarking. Social internetworking. I finally have some "downtime" (translation: I'm not traveling. I'm working from home. And I don't have any pressingly urgent events to gear up for at the moment), so I thought I'd try out some of the cool ways people are communicating and keeping-tabs with each other online.MySpace? Yep.. … Continue reading Twouble twying to Twitter?
IMPORTANT UPDATE: This promotion and promotion code have expired.Please CLICK HERE for the most current promotion. "Who me?"Yeah, I'm talking to you! You're a bozo** if you don't already have a TechNet Subscription. But here's your chance to fix that...May 31st, 2008 is fast approaching, and that's the end of our current promotion on TechNet … Continue reading Hey bozo! You’re running out of time to save $100!
Just for fun...I'm on a "Cool Stuff" DL (distribution list) internally at Microsoft, where coworkers share cool things they find on the Internet or within the company. Some of the "stuff" is business-related, but mostly the subjects range between the insanely-geeky to the just-plain-fun. This one is the latter.A "spec spot" (speculative advertisement) was created … Continue reading Two things my youngest daughter loves: Music and Animals
Yes.. this is my last one! Unless I get the call to fill in for another presenter, I am done with all of my Heroes Happen { here } events. It's been a blast. Every event was full of IT Pros who really enjoyed learning more about Windows Server 2008. I don't know if it … Continue reading Heroes happen { here } Launch Video Diary 8 – Grand Rapids
From the ol' mail bag...I just received this e-mail, and thought I'd share it plus my response here on my blog: Hi Kevin, I find your virtualization webcasts very good. I plan to investigate setting a DR solution using Hyper V with our systems in a different site Currently we have approx 12 physical boxes … Continue reading Got an e-mail about Hyper-V…
A friend and board member of a local user group pointed me to a recent article in BetaNews, talking about some cool new capabilities in the next version of Windows PowerShell. According to the CTP 2 download page (yes, you can download a Community Technology Preview version of 2.0), here are some of the main … Continue reading PowerShell 2.0 – Gonna be SWEEET
From April 24, 2008... Didn't take a lot of video during this day - so it's a short diary entry.Enjoy! http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/30195/20080424DesMoinesLaunch/iframe.html Double-click to get the full-screen view!
Absolutely Full of I.T. 