..there I am, up on the stage.. “Yeah! I’m currently in Omaha, about to do my first live TechNet Events of the new year, and I am excited about the content we’re bringing you this time around. We start the day off with an “Up Close and Personal” look at Windows Server 2003 R2 and all … Continue reading Here I am.. on the road again…
Microsoft Campus Connection site is now live!http://www.microsoftcampusconnection.com/I’m one of those “TechHeads” mentioned in the flash animation on the site; speaking at several of these college events. And I’m excited to do it! It will be a lot of fun!This Monday (January 30th) I’m teaming up with Jacob Cynamon, and we’re speaking at Bellevue University (Go … Continue reading Microsoft goes to school!
I should take my own advice! Sorry I’ve been somewhat scarce lately, but I’m busy learning new content for our TechNet Events coming up, as well as really fun “Microsoft Campus Connection” events we’re doing. (Good stuff!)“You said something about me blogging? Me?”Oh yes, YOU! MSN Spaces has just upgraded to a new version. So … Continue reading No better time than NOW to start blogging!
Check this out. MS Research has made their experimental “Group Shot” photo editing tool available for people to play with. “So?”Okay… let me explain what it does. Let’s say you’re at your brother Carl’s wedding in San Francisco last November, and someone has used your brother Paul’s really really nice digital camera to take several … Continue reading Those MS Research folks are so darn clever!
I saw this on Barnaby’s blog and didn’t realize we were doing this now. For the IT Pro who needs to update many machines with security updates, but isn’t using WSUS or simply enforcing/allowing automatic updates, we’re now making the monthly security updates available as a download-able .ISO file. I think that’s pretty cool.For example, the … Continue reading Security Updates as .ISO Disk Images
I heard about this conference just the other day. I wish I could go, because It’s about all the new, cool stuff in web development It’s in sunny Las Vegas at the Venetian Hotel. This week in Seattle “yep, it’s still raining” Washington at the Microsoft TechReady2 conference, we have seen some amazing new tools and technologies. Some … Continue reading A Conference for Web-Heads
Big news for TechNet Subscribers!I just now (a minute ago) learned that the March disc shipments will include a special treat: a special beta release of the upcoming version of Exchange Server code-named “Exchange 12”. This came straight from the mouth of the TechNet Subscription Program Manager to us in the room full of world-wide … Continue reading “Exchange 12” beta will be in TechNet March Shipments!
A coworker of mine, Anand Iyer (www.Artificialignorance.net), pointed us to a really good article / opinion-piece by Joel Spolsky. Joel rants on the “Perils of JavaSchools”.Now, you have to indulge me a bit here. Yes, I’m an IT Pro. But my upbringing into my career was with a CompSci degree at the University of Minnesota, where … Continue reading Joel is right!
Mike Nash has written a really good description up on the Microsoft Security Response Center blog.The MSRC Blog is yet another resource you can use to stay informed. Use an RSS Reader and subscribe to it.For those of you who don’t know, Mike Nash is the Corporate Vice President responsible for security at Microsoft.
And if you don’t know about it, and you consider yourself an “IT Pro”, then shame on you for not being connected and informed in areas of Security that are CRITICAL to your job, bozo.“What’s up?”Recently a vulnerability was found in the way Windows works with .WMF formatted files – particularly in a function that … Continue reading You should already know about this…
Absolutely Full of I.T. 