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Windows 7: The Definitive Guide provides everything you need to manage and maintain Windows 7. You’ll learn all of the features and enhancements in complete detail, along with specifics for configuring the operating system to put you in full control.
Bestselling author and Windows expert William Stanek doesn’t just show you the steps you need to [...]

This compact book offers the quickest path for Windows users to get started with Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system. You get the essential information you need to upgrade or install the system and configure it to fit your activities, along with a tour of Windows 7’s features and built-in applications.Microsoft has learned from the mistakes [...]

In this RunAs Radio podcast, Richard and I talk to Dana Epp about the free tools he uses to manage his networks. The list of tools include nmap , Microsoft’s Baseline Security Analyzer , Windows Server Update Services , the Application Compatibility Toolkit, and of course the SysInternals tools.
Dana Epp, Scorpion Software’s founder and CEO, [...]

Explore how Microsoft software can help you develop more profitable customer relationships by simplifying how your employees work with colleagues, partners, and customers.
Discover how you can build connections with your customers by providing easy access to a complete view of each customer’s interactions and transactions with Microsoft software. They explore how solutions built on the [...]

In this RunAs Radio podcast, Richard and I talk to Sahil Malik about managing SharePoint 2007. With the new version of SharePoint just around the corner, it’s time to dig into what the current version of SharePoint does well and what is challenging. Sahil talks about solutions for challenges in SharePoint 2007, including dealing with [...]

I’m an Exchange 2007 user. It’s terrific, works great and is truly the standard by which others are judged when it comes to business email, calendaring, contacts and other key business productivity features.
Being both a Mac and a PC guy, I’ve been the tester, owner and user of a variety of different applications to interface [...]

In this RunAs Radio podcast, Richard and I talk to Daniel Nerenberg about Microsoft Online Services. Microsoft Online Services include Exchange, Sharepoint, Office Communicator and more. These are cloud services — you buy them by the user and month. Daniel digs into the advantages of using online services as well as the integration and migration [...]

In this RunAs Radio podcast, Richard and I talk to Mark Minasi about the state of Windows today. There’s a bit of discussion about Vista (Mark seems to be its only fan), then over to Windows 7 (it’s Vista with love!), but most of the discussion focuses on the chocolatety goodness of Windows 2008 R2. [...]

The Windows 7 Professional Upgrade will not be available until October 22, 2009. However, if you want to pre-order now, Amazon has a great deal, which saves you a hundred dollars.
Amazon even gives a price guarantee:

if the Amazon price decreases between your order time and the end of the day of the release date, [...]

In this podcast, Richard and I talk to Stephen Rose about Windows 7 RC. The show focuses on what the enterprise customer is going to care about around Windows 7, including reducing maintenance costs, managing compatibility and better remote access options.
Stephen Rose is the Sr Community Manager for Windows Client IT Pros. Before joining Microsoft [...]

Exchange Server 2010 is just around the corner, and Microsoft is gearing up to present a month of webcasts starting June 1st to introduce the new version to us. The webcast schedule is below. You can get the beta of Exchange Server 2010 here.
6/1/09 - 9:00am PT: TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2010 High Availability
Welcome to the [...]

Richard and I talk to Robert Smith from Microsoft Premier Field Engineering about understanding storage performance. The discussion digs into SAN, iSCSI, direct-attached storage, also looking at tools like PerfMon and the Windows Performance Toolkit. Check out WPT and the disk performance issues talked about in the show here.
Robert Smith started with Microsoft in July [...]

As you may have already read on the Microsoft Live Search Blog, a Will Code for Green contest has been initiated! A few minutes ago, @msngreen tweeted it. It’s all true — you have an opportunity to showcase your skills, improve the planet, and possibly win some dough (the spending kind, not the baking kind).
Are [...]

Richard and I talk to Rhonda Layfield about what’s coming in the Microsoft deployment tools for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. We talk about Windows PE — the Windows Preinstallation environment that presents a minimum install environment (fits on a CD or USB key) that then facilitates using Windows Desktop Deployment to deploy [...]

Richard and I talk to Chris Jackson from the Microsoft Windows Application Experience SWAT Team about Windows compatibility. Chris is part of a small team at Microsoft that helps enterprise customers fix their application compatibility issues with older Windows applications running in new operating systems like Vista and Windows 7.
Chris Jackson is the technical lead [...]

Back in the studio at last, Richard and I talk to Clint Huffman of PAL fame about WMI. Windows Mangement Instrumentation has been around since Windows 2000 and provides detailed data about your machines and a variety of methods for altering the behaviour, even remotely!
Originally from Dayton, OH, Clint joined Microsoft in 1999 supporting Web [...]

Microsoft has turned loose its Windows 7 Beta release to the public, and you can download it now. The beta times-out in the fall (it is a test version, after all), and is apparently limited to 2.5 million installs (product keys). You can learn more about the Windows 7 Beta release in our interview with [...]

Mark Minasi is a true character, and always a fun guy to have a conversation with. While in Las Vegas at the Connections conference, Richard Campbell and I had a couple fun discussions with Mark, including one on the concept of cloud computing, and in the context of Microsoft’s recent Azure announcement.
Mark’s take on the [...]

At Windows Connections in Las Vegas, Richard and I talk to Mark Minasi about… well, just about everything. It’s a silly show, but Mark does dig into the history of Windows and his thoughts on the upcoming Windows 7. Hey, it’s Christmas — have some fun!
When Mark Minasi attended his first lecture about computers in [...]

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