Musings of an IT Pro Evangelist
Random musings of a Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist in Redmond, WA.
Free Windows Server 2008 R2 E-Book
Hey folks! Just wanted to remind everyone you can download a FREE Windows Server 2008 R2...
Date: 11/03/2009
Better Experience and Faster Response Times for Your Web Sites!
Ever wanted to “warm-up” your IIS web site by pre-loading processes at the start of the web server...
Date: 10/14/2009
Choose Your Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Deployment Strategy
Like any IT Pro, you have what appears to be million tools and strategies to get your desktops...
Date: 06/11/2009
Microsoft Surface combined with Business Intelligence
The Microsoft BI team showcased a very cool application known as Falcon Eye at TechEd which takes...
Date: 06/10/2009
Simplify configuration of Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core using SConfig
While at TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles, I was asked by a couple of different attendees if we had plans...
Date: 06/08/2009
Get your Windows 7 Application Compatibility Questions Answered!
Springboard Series Virtual Roundtable Windows 7 Application Compatibility: Your Questions Answered...
Date: 06/05/2009
Power Management and Windows Server 2008
Green IT is a a phrase that's buzzing all around the various publications and being uttered by those...
Date: 12/09/2008
IIS Media Pack 1.0
A couple of weeks ago the guys over in the IIS team delivered a new set of media tools for those of...
Date: 12/08/2008
Virtualization and ROI
You only need to work in IT about five minutes before someone comes in and asks you to cut costs and...
Date: 12/05/2008
The future of the Data Center
Running out of room in your data center? Want to be greener in you data center? Why not just...
Date: 12/04/2008
More on Hyper-V and SQL Server
Last week I posted this video interview with Joe Yong talking about virtualization of SQL...
Date: 12/03/2008
SP2 Customer Preview for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista now available.
Customer Preview Program (CPP) availability for Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008 and...
Date: 12/02/2008
Web Platform Installer hits RC Milestone
The folks over in the Web Platform have released a RC (Release Candidate) version of the Web...
Date: 11/24/2008
Windows 7 from the engineers
There has not been much public information about Windows 7 (code name for the next version of the...
Date: 09/04/2008
Feature of the Week: URLScan 3.0 for IIS 7.0
Back in April there were reports that surfaced stating that web sites running on Internet...
Date: 08/29/2008
Hyper-V Hits RTM
Well folks it's here! The highly anticipated Hyper-V has shipped! We've got the early...
Date: 06/26/2008
Hyper-V and Bitlocker
At my sessions at TechEd I tell a fictional story of the domain controller stored underneath the...
Date: 06/26/2008
Powershell to the rescue
It's been a couple of weeks since TechEd and I'm finally getting caught up. A good friend and...
Date: 06/24/2008
It's the last week...
I am sure you've seen the headlines on the interwebs about this being Bill Gates last full time week...
Date: 06/23/2008
SQL Server 2008 Auditing
Once a year you get that email or knock on the door from the auditor. It didn’t used to be...
Date: 06/19/2008
Hyper-V Performance Tuning
Last week I presented three different sessions at TechEd and used my laptop to run at five different...
Date: 06/18/2008
SQL Server Backup Compression
If you’ve played in the IT Pro playground long enough, I’m sure that you have seen the...
Date: 04/09/2008
Upgrading Active Directory to Windows Server 2008
Back when I was supporting a large enterprise Active Directory environment, I was tasked with...
Date: 03/27/2008
Active Directory Migration and Windows Server 2008
About two years ago I was the lead on an Active Directory migration/consolidation project where we...
Date: 03/10/2008
Solution Accelerators for Virtualization announced!
The guys over at the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Team (MAP) Blog have a great post today...
Date: 01/22/2008
Deploy Silverlight with Windows Server Update Services!
So you want to deploy Silverlight? Well, David Tesar wrote in his blog a few months ago about...
Date: 01/19/2008
Windows Server 2008 Security Guide - Beta now available
One of my favorite documents for Windows Server 2003 is now available in beta form for Windows...
Date: 01/12/2008
Mommy, why is there a server in the house?
I have heard quite a bit of buzz from those who attended CES about how this book was one of the...
Date: 01/11/2008