Category Archives: Microsoft

System Center Essentials finally talks about Managed Services

IT Business, Microsoft, System Admin
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Dave Sobel was all over System Center Essentials at last years TechEd and frankly, I dismissed it way back then as another mee-too Microsoft entry in a hot market with an offshoot of SMS/MOM crippled down to the SMB without … Continue reading

Stump Exchange Experts

Exchange, Microsoft
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Second part of the Exchange Expert chat starts in about 10 minutes. Come over and join in the fun: http://www.microsoft.com/communities/chats/vcs/07_0621_TN_ES.ics Thanks to Microsoft for hooking this up.

Exchange Expert Free-for-all

Exchange, Microsoft, System Admin
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Have an Exchange question thats on your mind? Well, Microsoft is hosting an Exchange Server Expert Q&A tomorrow and Thursday and I’ll be one of the folks answering the questions. Want some free Vlad support? Exchange Server Q&A with the … Continue reading

Hey man, I sold Shockey Monkey!

IT Business, Microsoft, Shockey Monkey
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I don’t know why the subject cracks me up so much, after all, I sell Microsoft vaporware for living (“Sure, of course it can handle a 14GB mailbox!”) but when someone goes out and sells my “Solutions built on a … Continue reading

SideShow – Vista secret weapon?

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Kudos to Bink for turning me on to the new development in the SideShow device family. If you’re as ignorant as I am, you’ve certainly viewed SideShow as another irrelevant laptop addon, such as marketed by NVidia Preface. The big selling point … Continue reading

Outlook Blog to add to your feeds

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It seems that the Outlook team is blogging too. This is in addition to the Exchange Dev blog that recently got mentioned on the EHLO blog (though its been around for about 3 months). I guess thats your weekend reading … Continue reading

How Microsoft loses customers

IT Business, Microsoft
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This is not a rant about Microsoft patching, QC, pricing or licensing. This is a simple business article about how Microsoft’s core technology is not living up to customers expectations and leads to both lack of satisfaction, lack of future … Continue reading

TS2 helps you get certified

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SWAG that actually means something – free MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional, Microsoft Certified Technology Specist) exams from Microsoft TS2 guys, along with a free retake. There is a catch, you have to take the exam by June 29th. But, there … Continue reading

Pwn3d

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So how do you Relax, Focus and Succeed at TechEd?   You leave a day early of course! This is my early christmas present to the Las Colinas SBS Support team, and their chief evangelist, Karl Palachuk.  Looks like they read it … Continue reading

TechEd Days 3 and 4 aka MEDC

Exchange, Microsoft, Mobility
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As I’ve blogged before, I love TechEd because its such a big buffet of Microsoft technologies, bringing the best, brightest and most successful presentations to what is frankly “the mix” of both developer and system administrator worlds. Truth is, those … Continue reading