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Using Azure Site Recovery to move Dev-Test workloads up to Azure

Posted on December 8, 2015 by Rick

Sound interesting? Tired of having to maintain a local DevTest lab or cobble one together on crappy hardware leftover in your office in order to support a project? How about thinking outside of the box and migrating that workload up to Microsoft Azure in order to run it on demand up in a secure public…

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Azure IaaS for IT Pros and SysAdmins

Posted on November 12, 2014 by Rick

This has been a long time coming, but it is finally here.  I am pleased to announce the event I have been wrangling for months has now finally come to fruition. It’s a 4 day LiveStream activity (December 1st to December 4th) with over a DOZEN engineers from a number of teams – all focusing…

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How To: Deliver Impactful Demos. Part 3 – Showing the Goods

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Rick

In this continuing series I’ve covered the basics of setting up a good system from a “fit and finish” perspective so you are ready to go.  I harped on some things that a lot of people don’t think about – clock / timezone, preparing your command prompts, cleaning up the clutter – all these things…

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How To: Deliver Impactful Demos. Part 2 – ZoomIt or loose It

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Rick

Lets face it – we all do demos as IT Professionals. It doesn’t matter if you are a helpdesk guy/gal who has to help someone complete a task or do something more efficiently OR if you are in a pre-sales consulting engagement and you need to showcase why your solution / services are the way…

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How to: Deliver Impactful demos. Part 1–machine prep

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Rick

Part of my job involves creating and delivering technical demos / presentations with audiences ranging from small groups of individuals to large conferences / keynotes (both online and in person).  It’s something I’ve been doing for many MANY years working for Microsoft and previous companies over the years as a consultant, pre sales engineer and…

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Getting ready to Head DownUnder in NZ and AU

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Rick

I am in the final days of prep work to get ready to head down to TechEd New Zealand and TechEd Australia. I had a great time down there last year and apparently they liked my stuff enough to ask me to come back again!  I have slightly different speaking schedule for the two conferences…

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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V guest IOps and network portability demos

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Rick

I have the good fortune of working with some great folks here at Microsoft HQ – some of which I have been following for quite some time. Last week at TechEd NorthAmerica Jeff Woolsey was on the main keynote stage demonstrating a whirlwind of functionalities and achievements of the next generation of Hyper-V in Windows…

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Free (as in beer) Windows Server 2012 training

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Rick

I’ve been working with Windows Server “8” since last September when it first peeked outside of the internal deployment servers at the Build conference. Because I was not part of the engineering group or product team – I had the same level of access all the rest of the public had.  Time moved forward and…

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Windows Server “8” demo lab hardware setup

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Rick

After mulling things around for a while, consulting anyone who had an opinion on the topic and consuming various beverages over time – I finally sat down and planned out my portable demo lab for Windows Server”8” things.  I’ll be using it to create demos to share with the community and showing them off at…

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FINALLY–something for SysAdmins, LanAdmins, IT Folks. IT CAMPS

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Rick

There are no formal presentations. It’s not death by PowerPoint. It’s NOT marketing / Sales It’s for Technical Professionals / Geeks / Pro-Sumers / SysAdmins / LanAdmins / Security Experts / basically anyone that works in IT or has a passion / interest in IT. It’s not your traditional “event” from Microsoft – or at…

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