Showcasing Surface Tablet and Windows 8 at the Palo Alto Microsoft Store
I had an opportunity to speak at the Microsoft Store in Palo Alto, California, this afternoon and demonstrate the Microsoft Surface Tablet and Windows 8. I can't say I've had an opportunity to spend a lot of time in one of the...
Leveraging Microsoft’s SkyDrive for Cloud-based Storage
How often do you attach a picture to an email, send it to someone, only to later to want to dig up that same picture to attach and share with someone else? Of course there’s Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, etc that all work great for...
Microsoft Surface RT or Surface Pro?
Microsoft announced the pricing and a release date for their Windows 8 Surface Pro tablet today, so the question is, do you get a Surface RT now, or wait a few weeks to get the Surface Pro.The real question is what you plan to do...
What’s New in Windows 2012
I just wrapped up a blog series on Exchange 2013, now going to focus on a blog of “What’s New” in Windows Server 2012. Windows 2012 shipped in the summer of 2012, however I was fortunate to have been able to work with Microsoft for...
Tutorial on Using Windows 8
The first time I sat in front of the Windows 8 interface, I have to admit I was not thrilled; no Start button, I couldn’t find the control panel, things just weren’t what I was used to. That was over two years ago in the early...
Revisiting Microsoft Intune for Cloud-based Systems Management
When Microsoft Intune first came out a couple years ago at well over $15/user per month and effectively only did patching of systems from the cloud, I wondered who the heck would pay that much money for something you can do for free...
Exchange 2013 - Tight Integration with SharePoint, Lync, and Office Web Apps
The last of this current series on What’s New in Exchange 2013 that have driven organizations to choosing to implement Exchange 2013 is around the tight integration of ALL of the Office 2013 servers (Exchange 2013, SharePoint 2013,...
Exchange 2013 - Truly Enterprise Scale and Supportability
Microsoft greatly improved Exchange 2013 to better support millions of mailboxes that Microsoft hosts for Office 365, and the benefits of the enhancements are received by us all even when we put Exchange 2013 on-premise. As much as...
Exchange 2013 Enhanced Email Retention, Archiving, Legal Hold, and eDiscovery
In this day and age, email is more than just messages, calendars, and contacts for organizations, they also need the ability to address legal requirements around message retention (both keeping content or automatically deleting...
Exchange 2013: Support for (non-Microsoft) Tablets, Laptops, Mobile Phones
As I mentioned in my Intro posting on What’s New in Exchange 2013, one of the big drivers for organizations to migrate to Exchange 2013 has been Microsoft’s support for non-Microsoft endpoint devices. Exchange 2013 has full support...
What’s New in Exchange 2013 (an early adopter’s perspective)
With the release of Exchange 2013, there have been many blog posts on What’s New or implementation guidance, however the content has been pretty typical of the same stuff repeated over and over, or someone’s perspective of...
Solar Eclipse - May 20, 2012
The total eclipse of the sun happens frequently, but usually not in a metropolitan area easily viewable. This evening (Sunday, May 20, 2012), the Solar Eclipse occurred over the Western United States, this picture was taken in...
Microsoft Imagine Cup 2012 IT Challenge 24-hour FINAL Competition Begins!!!
The annual Microsoft Imagine Cup IT Challenge FINAL hands-on competition has begun! This is a 24-hour competition that the final 6 student competitors will compete for the chance to be crowned best of the best in the world! Here's...
Imagine Cup 2012 IT Challenge Judges Announced!
The Imagine Cup 2012 IT Challenge has announced it's competition judges. The Imagine Cup (http://www.imaginecup.com), sponsored by Microsoft, is a global competition in its 10th year of competition that invites college students from...
Microsoft System Center 2012 / Private Cloud Event Commentary
As Microsoft announced their strategy on Private cloud and the upcoming roll-out of System Center 2012 this morning, I’ve been exchanging messages with our clients on some of the key points (thanks to those of you TEXTING me while I...
Exchange Outlook Calendaring Problems (lost meetings, delegate problems, etc)
Its been over a year since I originally blogged this problem with Microsoft Exchange and Outlook, and the problem has expanded even greater, and thus an updated blog post here. The problem has to do with organizations having...
Doing e-Discovery / Message Retention / Legal Recovery in Exchange 2010 - Office 365
The topic has come up many times recently on how organizations can leverage Microsoft Exchange 2010 (on-premise) or Microsoft Office 365 (in the cloud) to retain messages, legally hold and recover messages, and successfully perform...
Imagine Cup 2011 (NYC) - Post 6 – The Winners Are…
This afternoon, we announced the winners of the Imagine Cup 2011 competition. It’s hard to actually “name” a winner, because ALL of the students have worked extremely hard for the past year, have risen through the ranks of...
Imagine Cup 2011 (NYC) - Post 5 – IT Challenge 24-hour Competition is Complete!
The 2011 IT Challenge competition started 9 months ago, through challenging qualifying rounds, to the final 24-hour non-stop competition. The top 6 finalists have worked extremely hard to get here, and they have ALL done a GREAT job...
Imagine Cup 2011 (NYC) - Post 4 – Midway Thru the IT Challenge…
Our IT Challenge competition is now 18+ hours into the 24 hour period and the competitors are still going really strong! They’ve likely been up for over 20 hours and still have a good 8-9 hours to go to make it thru the rest of the...
