Author Archives: Vlad

Funniest video of TechEd Attendees (Not Microsoft owned)

Posted: 2:34 am
June 10, 2007
Vladfire
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Microsoft TechEd 2007 had a lot of cool things, the tagline this year was “Make your Mark” and one of the coolest interactive toys was this motion-responsive projector screen. Basically, there was an image projected on the screen (mostly advertisments … Continue reading →

Shockey Monkey Installfest

Posted: 10:42 pm
June 8, 2007
Shockey Monkey
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As usual, Shockey Monkey community installfest happens tomorrow night, Saturday, from 8PM till Midnight. If you haven’t had your service turned up and you plan to hop to the front of the list add shockeymonkey@ownwebnow.com to your MSN IM list … Continue reading →

Jeff Loucks talks about SBS Performance Tuning at TechEd

Posted: 3:18 pm
June 8, 2007
SMB
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Who says there is no SMB content at TechEd! Jeff is talking about optimizing SBS for line of business application performance right now. Going through the disk configuration, RAID levels, latency and more: You get one slide for free, for … Continue reading →

Pwn3d

Posted: 2:04 pm
June 8, 2007
Microsoft
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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

Posted: 11:08 pm
June 7, 2007
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 →

Big Changes at Own Web Now

Posted: 8:44 pm
June 7, 2007
OwnWebNow
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I’ve been at TechEd all week but the email below gives some insight on whats going on at home while the gorilla is away. I know a lot of you reading this blog are already Own Web Now customers so I’m posting … Continue reading →

Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 Released

Posted: 6:27 am
June 7, 2007
Microsoft, Mobility
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Key updates in Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 include: Windows Mobile 6 feature support o Information Rights Management activation Automatically configure the Windows Mobile 6 device to open IRM-protected documents and files o HTML mail Set up your Windows Mobile … Continue reading →

Fire up Photoshop Bubba!

Posted: 10:13 pm
June 6, 2007
Microsoft
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Start your Phoooooooooooooootoshops. As you know by reading this blog, I’m nothing if not an undying evangelist of the Microsoft Partner Program, the MAPS distribution thing in particular. So the person with the most smartass creative caption wins $100. … Continue reading →

TechEd Day 2 – Meetings

Posted: 4:18 pm
June 5, 2007
Events
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Not a whole lot of pictures today, as I’ve spent pretty much the entire day in NDA meetings. What I can say is that all the big SMB concerns I’ve been getting from you folks over the years today were asked/begged for … Continue reading →

Microsoft TechEd Day 1 Wrap – Whats new?

Posted: 8:44 pm
June 4, 2007
Events
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A few more “wish you were here” postcards from Orlando, hosting the record 5th Orlando TechEd in its history. This is the 15 year anniversary of TechEd and Orlando has had the most so far – even heard some rumors … Continue reading →