Hey IT folks,Back on July 30th, 2009, I presented what ended up being a pretty highly rated webcast on Windows Server 2008 R2 entitled “How Windows Server 2008 R2 Affects Your IT Infrastructure”. And as I’ve done in the past, I promised that soon after I would record the demos and get them up on … Continue reading Check Out My 5 New Windows Server 2008 R2 Screencasts
As promised, here are the “Best of Q&A” from the live chat I helped to deliver on September 3, 2009, entitled “IT Manager Community Chat with Kevin – Virtualization”A BIG THANK YOU to my guest, Shanen Boettcher, for such a wonderful conversation around Virtualization and the value that businesses can gain through it.And THANK YOU to all of … Continue reading Best of Q&A from the IT Manager Webcast: IT Manager Community Chat with Kevin – Virtualization
As promised, here are the additional resources that were mentioned on the TechNet Webcast: Thrive Live Chat! Virtualization, occuring on September 2nd, 2009.Hope you find these useful!-KevinUPDATE: Here is the "Best of Q&A" from the session.---Microsoft THRIVE!http://www.microsoft.com/thriveGeneral Virtualization Information http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization “How Customers are Cutting Costs & Building Value with Microsoft Virtualization” Whitepaper http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/A/4/6A4A2529-F0E8-4100-81EE-187C9B026862/MicrosoftVirtCostSavingsWhitePaper.pdfVirtualization Learning and … Continue reading Resources from the TechNet Webcast: Thrive Live Chat! Virtualization
Everyone – Meet Shanen Boettcher. Shanen is a General Manager at Microsoft, responsible for the strategy around Windows Server products in the U.S. He has a deep passion and background in product planning, technology and management including his role in Active Directory and Windows client product groups.“Cool. Why do I want to meet him?”Because today … Continue reading New Online Chats: Virtualization – with Shanen Boettcher
The Windows Team and the Springboard Series team have made a special evaluation edition of Windows 7 Enterprise Edition available for download. It’s a 90-day trial copy, just for IT Professionals who don't already have a Volume License or TechNet Subscription or some other way of evaluating Windows 7 Enterprise edition.“Trial? Do I have to … Continue reading News: Free 90-Day Evaluation Copy of Windows 7 Enterprise Edition is now available!
“Breaking news? Didn’t this happen yesterday, Kevin?”Yeah.. well.. I was busy yesterday traveling and attending meetings in Chicago. I’m still there (here), but really needed to blog this.SCVMM 2008 R2 is released to manufacturing (RTM). “What’s new?”Well.. in a nutshell this is the version that natively support new functionality in the recently released Windows Server … Continue reading Breaking RTM News: Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2
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 … Continue reading NEW Bigger Discount on TechNet Plus Subscriptions!
RCs = Release CandidatesRTW = Released to Web“for some” means “for TechNet and MSDN subscribers”You remember several days ago we announced that the RC for Windows 7 would be available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers on April 30th.“Hey, that’s today!”Yep. And of course the first thing I did this morning was to connect up to … Continue reading Breaking News: It’s here! RCs are RTW! (for some)
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Okay.. ‘bout time for some shameless self-promotion… Actually, and honestly.. I don’t look like this anymore. My hair is shorter, and I’ve decided to let the grey just be grey. This is what I look like now: But that’s not what this post is about. It’s about you IT Managers. As you may (or may … Continue reading IT Manager Community Talks with Kevin (That’s me!)
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