** UPDATE: We’ve rescheduled the Kansas City and Saint Louis events! See you January 10 and 17!Greetings!Well, it’s that time again. It’s time to look at your calendar and look at our list of TechNet Events in the central US to see if you’ll be able to spend the day with us.“A day? I thought … Continue reading TechNet Events are Back!
Let me ask you something… Are you like many IT Pros I talk to Windows Azure about, who think, “Oh.. that’s cool. But it’s for developers. How am I going to manage it?”“Yeah.. that’s what I’m thinking! It’s like you can read my mind!”Exactly. And I’ve heard it a lot from the IT Pros I’ve … Continue reading Manage Your Windows Azure Cloud (“Cloudy April” – Part 25)
In my opinion, one of the most ingenious ways “the cloud” is being used is in providing services that link tightly or directly with resources that are in-house.“What does that mean?”Well… I’m talking about services are cloud-based, but which monitor or somehow allow interaction with devices you manage. A great example of this is Windows … Continue reading InTune with the Cloud (“Cloudy April” – Part 15)
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This Wednesday (March 16) at I’ll be hosting the first of what I hope will be many (several already scheduled… more to follow) of what we call “IT Manager Community Chats with Kevin Remde”. Our first one is going to be with Microsoft’s Tharun Tharian, a Sr. Product Manager for SQL Azure. You’ll learn about … Continue reading IT Manager Community Chats are back!
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(RTM = Released to Manufacturing) Holy cow.. what an incredible few days it’s been. Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 hit RTM just three days ago, and today we have two more products “shipped”: System Center Essentials 2010 and System Center Data Protection Manager 2010. For SCE 2010 and SCDPM 2010 details, check out the Nexus … Continue reading More RTMs: System Center Essentials 2010 and System Center Data Protection Manager 2010!
So you’re running SCCM to its full potential. You’re doing operating system deployments, software rollouts, updates, inventory… and you want a simple web dashboard to have a quick and easy view of the status of all of these items.“It’s like you read my mind!”Yeah, I’m good like that. Anyway.. now you have a Solution Accelerator … Continue reading RELEASE: System Center Configuration Manager DASHBOARD
Here’s another TLA for you all to learn: CEC. Microsoft’s Common Engineering Criteria. The Microsoft Common Engineering Criteria is a set of engineering requirements and guidelines that govern all of Microsoft’s server products. The idea here is that we build products that work well together, and work to help you reduce your TCO (another TLA … Continue reading Transparency: What guides Microsoft to improve server products and reduce your TCO?
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