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Tag: Breaking News
Breaking News: Free IT Camps – “Being What’s Next In IT” – Open for Registration!
Our next set of IT Pro events (“IT Camps”) in the US Central Region have been scheduled and are now officially open for registration! The events are free, go from 9:00am to 3:00pm, and include some light breakfast and lunch. But most importantly, they are full of new and useful information that all IT Pros … Continue reading Breaking News: Free IT Camps – “Being What’s Next In IT” – Open for Registration!
Breaking News: Free Private Cloud “Jump Start” Training
Microsoft has just scheduled a FREE 2-day training course entitled “Creating and Managing a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 Jump Start”, happening on February 21st-22nd, 2012 from 9:00am to 5:00pm PST. Adopting this exciting new computing paradigm provides a whole new landscape of technology and career direction for IT professionals. Microsoft Learning and the … Continue reading Breaking News: Free Private Cloud “Jump Start” Training
Breaking News: New System Center 2012 Licensing Model Announced
Today during the “Private Cloud Day” live webcast event, Microsoft announced a pretty big change in how we think of and purchase the System Center suite. Bottom-line.. it’s no longer a separate set of products, but it is just one product: System Center 2012. (Well.. actually two.. but different only in terms of licensing.) In … Continue reading Breaking News: New System Center 2012 Licensing Model Announced
Private Cloud Day–A Big Deal and a Big Event
This Tuesday, January 17, 2012, Microsoft is holding a special Private Cloud webcast. “Special? What’s so special?” I’ll tell you why. Well, actually I can’t tell you all the details (because I don’t know them), but what I can tell you is that you’ll learn a lot. The webcast features Satya Nadella – President, Server and … Continue reading Private Cloud Day–A Big Deal and a Big Event
NEW: Microsoft Server Virtualization “Jump Start” training
CHEAP TRAINING! “What? Huh? Cheap? Training?” Yes, I thought that would get your attention. Due to the great response for past deliveries of this sort of all-day live virtual classroom training, Symon Perriman and Phil Helsel will be delivering two more full-day courses on Microsoft Virtualization. Here are the details (UPDATED - Additional event in … Continue reading NEW: Microsoft Server Virtualization “Jump Start” training
BREAKING NEWS: TechNet Subscription Discount!
Those of you who also get the TechNet Flash e-mails already know this… We’ve announced a 15% discount offer for new TechNet Professional Subscriptions.“From now until February 29th, 2012 Microsoft TechNet Flash subscribers will receive a 15% discount on a new Microsoft® TechNet Subscriptions Professional”The discount code to use to get 15% off is TNFLA12The … Continue reading BREAKING NEWS: TechNet Subscription Discount!
URGENT: Out-of-Band Security Update Released Today for Windows
“For ‘Windows’? Which versions?” Pretty much every supported version of Windows is impacted**, so read on. This is important. Yesterday Microsoft released an advisory, and today Microsoft released a security patch outside of its normal release cycle, or “out of band”; meaning: not on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. So you know that this … Continue reading URGENT: Out-of-Band Security Update Released Today for Windows
Breaking News: Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 6.5 is RTW
RTW = Released to the Webitubes Today Microsoft releases the next version of the MAP Toolkit. MAP, in case you weren't aware, stands for Microsoft Assessment and Planning. And a brand new version (v6.5) is now available to download. “What does it do?” I’m glad you asked. The MAP Toolkit is the Swiss Army Knife … Continue reading Breaking News: Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 6.5 is RTW
New Blog Post Series: The Cloud on Your Terms
Yes indeed! My friends Matt Hester, Brian Lewis, John Weston, and I, are committing to deliver a new cloud topic-based blog post daily. For the entire month of November you’ll be treated to 30 days of cloudy goodness.“Too much?”Absolutely not.Check out Matt’s introduction to the series.“When is your first contribution, Kevin?”I’m on deck for a … Continue reading New Blog Post Series: The Cloud on Your Terms









