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Better Than Minesweeper

A little while back, Eileen Brown from MS UK posted her experience with a new online distraction from MS Learning called, aptly enough, Are You Certifiable? First off…this isn’t the typical online quiz...

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Why Essential Business Server Matters

Never sure what the optimal time for announcing this stuff is, but I’ve tended to find that the closer to time the better, strangely enough. I’ll be delivering a webcast for the 5W/50 series tomorrow...

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Slam Dunking The Mid-Market, 5W/50 Style!

Last Friday I gave a webcast as part of the 5W/50 Series for Microsoft Partners. Titled “Adding Windows Essential Business Server to Your Infrastructure Practice,” the talk was almost completely...

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Where I’ll Be In 2009

2009 quickly turned into a whirlwind, and in the pit of my stomach I feel like a cowboy who’s just about to hop on and try to ride that cyclone. Here’s a quick rundown with relevant links to all the...

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The Make-Or-Break Feature Of Essential Business Server

Tomorrow night I’ll be delivering a webcast to the EBSUserGroup titled “Using System Center Essentials With Windows Essential Business Server.” This is a pretty bold statement, but I personally think...

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One Froggy Evening

Well, the presentation on System Center Essentials and Essential Business Server went off pretty smoothly, all things considered. I was coughing like a 3 pack a day smoker, had just barely gotten my...

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TechNet’s Putting A Tiki Hut In Your Own Backyard

Next Monday, April 20, the IT Pro Tiki Hut Tour blasts off for the East region in none other than Huntsville…Alabama’s very own Rocket City. Spearheaded by Blain Barton, MS Evangelist Extraordinaire,...

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Why Am I Passionate About Microsoft Training And Certification?

I’ve been on record as being a big huge superfan of IT training and certification from my very first days in the IT industry. Long before I had a blog that was read by people all over the world, I told...

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T-Minus 10 Hours And Counting

It’s not too late to sign up and attend the smokin’ hot TechNet IT Pro Tiki Hut Tour stop tonight in Huntsville. There are still a few seats left. So if you want in, get off your keister and register...

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I’m Getting On The Bus!

It’s officially official… MS Learning picked me as one of the six winners of a free trip to Tech-Ed 2009! Not only that, but I’m taking the road trip option. That’s right…cross-country via bus. Atlanta...

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Where I’ll Be In 2009 Redux

  Forget the whirlwind. 2009 now feels like someone just strapped a jetpack to my back and flipped the “On” switch without telling me. Problem is…the person who did that? Me! Here’s the latest rundown...

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Should We Stay Or Should We Go?

It has been one non-stop set of planning meetings here at the Funcave all weekend long. Trying to wrangle my personal logistics into shape for the cross-country bus trip to Tech-Ed next month isn’t...

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Meet Your Fairy Godmother

Or at least, the closest you’ll ever get to one anyway. This is Marie. As in Marie McFadden. Her nickname has alway been her initials, which spell MOM. But after what I’m about to tell you, Marie will...

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The Career Express Tour Tweet-ups And You

So, I’ve gotten a ton of nudges from folks about the cross-country Career Express Tour that starts Friday. Most of them have been virtual high-fives, etc. But there have also been some questions about...

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Avengers Assemble!

OK, so it’s not really the Avengers, but the Career Express team that assembled in Atlanta yesterday to prep for the 11 days of mayhem and awesomeness that kicks off today. My flight from BHM to ATL...

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And These. These Are My People….

After dinner last night, the entire Career Express team headed to Target. It was just like a Susan Bradley Mountain Dew run, except without any Mountain Dew in any of the carts at all. What were some...

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The Last 100 Miles

The Career Express comes to an end this morning, at the Tech-Ed North America conference in Los Angeles. Just 100 more miles to go. And I’m pretty bummed about it, all things considered. Sure it’ll be...

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Things About The Bus Tour That I’ll Always Remember

Yes, I know I was eerily silent during the bus tour, blog-wise. Funny thing is, despite all the time spent driving, stuff was always happening. We were headed somewhere all the time, unloading or...

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Joanne’s In The Fishbowl Today

Joanne Lin, one of the folks who rode on the bus tour to Tech-Ed 2009, will be co-presenting a session today in one of the Expo Hall fishbowl theaters. At 2:45p, Joanne and Jeff Hora will discuss “How...

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I’m Man Enough To Be At WomenBuild Tonight. Are You?

One of the most eye-opening moments for me during the bus tour was seeing the statistics about the decline of females taking computer science AP exams, and the attendant decline of females in the...

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