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Time time of year everyone is rushing to get things done both work and in their home life. As you rush to the get ready for the holidays – you might also be like a lot of IT folks who relish the time in-between December 25th and new years eve.  This slower / quieter time at work could open up an opportunity – a brief window of ...

As many of you know I work for Microsoft Enterprise Services as a Senior Technical Account Manager.  I've been here for 6 years and I constantly get the question “what is it like to work for Microsoft?”. I always answer the same thing.  “it’s fantastic!”. You get to work with really smart, ...

As Pierre Roman pointed out on April 5th, Microsoft released its Software iSCSI Target to the Download Center (The Microsoft iSCSI Software Target is now free).  I call it The Great Equalizer.  Let me explain:     There are two ways of creating shared storage. Network Attached Storage (NAS) is file-level storage that ...

I wanted to help out my friend Dan Nerenberg in Montreal with something he’s involved with as part of Microsoft Learning and TechEd NorthAmerica. He’s part of a contest that has four teams of certified professionals competing with each other by helping charities and not for profits in multiple cities across the US en route to TechEd in NewOrleans. ...

Yesterday the Windows team disclosed some information on what you can expect for Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2.  While there are no new features set for Windows 7 SP1 there is a change to XP Mode available for Windows 7 Professional and up.  Until now your computer needed to support hardware assisted virtualization for ...

As we announced in 2008, support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) will end on July 13, 2010. Support for Windows 2000 will end on the same date. Support for Windows Vista Release to Manufacturing (RTM) will end on April 13, 2010. NOTE: There is no Service Pack 3 for the 64-bit version of Windows XP. If you are running the 64-bit version of ...

Note: I was very excited to learn more about the new Windows Phone 7 Series launch that happened on Monday. So much so – I tethered my Samsung Omnia II phone to my laptop in order to browse around and find out more details while I was up at the cottage. In case you missed it – My colleague Joey Devilla did an Awesome post on the launch, details ...

Hi I’m Christian Beauclair, Senior Developer Advisor at Microsoft Canada.  Listening to IT Professionals across Canada, we heard clearly that in today’s ever-changing IT environment, you are tasked with finding new ways to with do more with less. From increasing productivity, reducing costs, and helping your organization move forward, ...

   What is the purpose of this alert?   This alert is to provide you with an overview of the new security bulletin being released (out-of-band) on January 21, 2010.   New Security Bulletin Microsoft is releasing one new security bulletin (out-of-band) ...

Are you running Windows XP? Are you feeling the pressure of creating a deployment plan? Have no fear! Leveraging learning’s from two Windows 7 early adopters this session will give you the skills you need to proceed with your own deployment. The session will focus on free Windows 7 deployment planning and deployment tools that customize ...