I get to talk to some very cool people in my role at Microsoft. I managed to get some time with Vice President of Windows Server and System Center – Brad Anderson. I learned about the concept of how Microsoft goes about planning out it’s releases of software with the concept of Pillars made up…
Category: interviews
New things in Group Policy for Windows Server 2012
I was on point for The Edge Show recently and decided to talk with my buddy Zach Alexander a PM on the Group Policy team on what’s new and cool in Group Policy these days. Three things immediately came to mind: Infrastructure Status Remote Update on client systems Improved Resultant Set of Policy. I helped…
TechEd 2012 Countdown–Certification News T-6
Part of this new gig at Microsoft at Corp is helping out drum up information and excitement around big scale events like TechEd. My partner in crime Joey Snow and I record these TechEd Countdown shows and publish them once a week. It’s a hoot! This time we have Melissa Bathum from Microsoft Learning (MCT…
Dynamic Access Control in Windows Server 2012 demo
I sit down with Josh Heller once again to talk about the coolness that is Dynamic Access Control in Windows Server 2012. Think of when you have the generic Access Denied Error 5 that comes up for your users – usually resulting in a whack of support calls and queries. Now you can use attributes…
Windows Server 2012 SMB fileshare Hyper-v interview
In this interview – I chat with Michael Leworthy about Windows Server 2012, the name change, storage improvements and how you can use it to host your Hyper-V instances. Cool stuff here with how storage changes will simplify your life going forward as a regular IT Admin.
Powershell V3 interview with Don Jones
I thought I’d post up some of the interviews I did at MMS in Las Vegas the other week. Don Jones – PowerShell guru at the 17th level and I sit and talk about PowerShell V3. He shares some things that are really cool as well as some nuggets you might not be aware of.
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 interview
I sit down and chat with Michael Niehaus about all the goodness that is in the new release of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012. I use it all the time for lab machine deployment or quickly re-deploying systems from USB sticks. He talks about Driver Injection and the options you have to keep that monster…
Direct Access in Windows Server 2012 Demo
I thought I’d post up some of the interviews I did at MMS in Las Vegas the other week. It was a lot of fun getting them done! I chat with the man – Josh Heller about some frickin cool Direct Access technologies in Windows Server 2012. I live and die by remote access, since…
Service Templates in SCVMM 2012 interview
I thought I’d post up some of the interviews I did at MMS in Las Vegas the other week. It was a lot of fun getting them done! I chat with Stephen Barrons about Service Templates, what then heck they do and how they are different the simple machine templates in SCVMM 2012. Turns out…