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Ramblings from another nerd on the grid
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) v8.0 - now ready for download
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) is an agentless, automated, multi-product...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 12/16/2012
Microsoft Cloud Scale - By The Numbers
From time to time Microsoft VP, Frank Shaw, likes to do a blog post that has some numbers to...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 12/13/2012
Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services Demonstration Videos now Available
The Remote Desktop Services team just published some great videos explaining the new Remote Desktop...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 12/13/2012
Using Push Notifications, SMS and Email in Your Mobile Application
There are also two fantastic tutorials available in the mobile dev center. The first provides...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 12/11/2012
Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) 2013 Registration Now Open
The Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) brings together the brightest IT professionals from around the...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 12/06/2012
Imagine Cup Winners Announced
At the Social Innovation Summit in Silicon Valley, Microsoft announced the five winners of the...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 12/06/2012
Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V Replica Take On Hurricane Sandy
When the winds and waves of Hurricane Sandy bore down ferociously on New York City, at least two...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 12/06/2012
What to Buy With PowerBall Winnings - The Batmobile
I can’t believe this is actually for sale. Wow.
Author: Keith Combs Date: 12/01/2012
Surface with Windows 8 Pro – Pricing
See the official post @...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 11/29/2012
Windows Azure Active Directory Processes 200 Billion Authentications
At Microsoft, we have been on a transformative journey to cloud computing and we have been working...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 11/28/2012
Top Bing Searches of 2012
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/presskits/bing/2012Searches.aspx
Author: Keith Combs Date: 11/27/2012
Dear Santa, “I’ve been good this year, really!”
If someone is going to the 2012 LA Auto Show, pick me up one of these.
Author: Keith Combs Date: 11/25/2012
Multiple Monitors (Multimon) with the Lenovo ThinkPad T430s
Lenovo continues to make perplexing choices with some of their machines. One such choice is the...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 11/15/2012
IE 10 Release Preview Now Available for Windows 7
In Windows 8, we reimagined the browser with IE10. We designed and built IE10 to be the best way to...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 11/13/2012
Salt flats anyone?
Hold on to your butts. See https://confederate.com/hellcat/benchmarks for a bonafied record...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 11/11/2012
The Empire is Back
I recently caved and bought the Star Wars movies on blu-ray. I got them on sale and although I...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 11/10/2012
New York in the Dark
Wow. New York Magazine has a fantastic cover photo (pictured below) of New York City at...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 11/05/2012
The Oldest Trees on Earth
Wired has a really cool article with pictures of the oldest and biggest trees on our planet. ...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 11/04/2012
Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 is Now Available
Three weeks ago the Exchange Server team announced the RTM of Exchange Server 2013 on their team...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 11/04/2012
Windows Azure Powers Halo 4 Universe
The average gamer probably doesn’t think about the virtual machines, cloud services and other...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 11/02/2012
Watch the Windows Phone Webcast at 10am PST Today - here’s how
Go to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/presskits/windowsphone/ at 10am PST. That’s high...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 10/29/2012
Office Professional Pro Plus 2013 - now available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers
For those of you anxious to try Office 2013, it’s now available on the download center for MSDN and...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 10/24/2012
The 1,000,000 Dollar ThinkPad X1 Carbon
Man, Lenovo is really proud of the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. But look at it this way, if you have the...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 10/24/2012
Anyone can use Windows 8, as long as you are at least 3
This young man is obviously an advanced Windows 8 user. Brilliant video. What a cute kid. Heard on...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 10/21/2012
Windows 8 Phones now available for pre-order
Time to get your grape on. Grin. See the Nokia and HTC phone now available for...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 10/21/2012
“The Surface Movement” gets posted to YouTube
Looking forward to the launch this month!
Author: Keith Combs Date: 10/15/2012
Diamond Planet Discovered - Space Race On
I can see it now. Suddenly NASA gets new funding to send probes to the recently discovered...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 10/11/2012
Windows 8 Device Announcements Begin - Lenovo out of the gate early
Lenovo announced several devices including the S230 pictured above. See the full press release...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 10/09/2012
And on the subject of fingerprint login…
I have never used a fingerprint login. I was always afraid someone would chop off my finger...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 10/09/2012
Just In Case You Need to Hit the Ditch
Electric motorcycles are starting to get my interest now. See...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 10/07/2012
Team Oracle does an America’s Cup Endo
When did America’s Cup change to catamarans? Obviously I haven’t been paying attention but when...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 10/07/2012
Windows Azure AD Rights Management Admin Tools and Utilities
Windows Azure AD Rights Management provides the ability to enable the use of digital rights...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 09/29/2012
iSCSI Target Storage Providers (VDS/VSS) for Windows Server 2008
iSCSI Target Storage Provider enables applications on a server that is connected to an iSCSI target...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 09/29/2012
Office Deployment Tool for Click-to-Run Preview
By default, Office 2013 installations that use Click-to-Run will download the Office product from...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 09/29/2012
Bring Your Own Corporate VM
Raise your hand if you are getting a little sick of the phrase “consumerization of IT”. I know...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 09/29/2012
Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 Compat Cookbook - now available for download
Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 introduce the latest operating system technology and software...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 09/29/2012
Just in case you want to test 85mph on the Austin’s Toll 130
https://www.mclarenautomotive.com/uk/default.aspx
Author: Keith Combs Date: 09/20/2012
HTC reveals new Windows 8 Phone devices for November launch
Here’s a great video from Microsoft Windows Phone spokesperson Ben Rudolph. Here’s the...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 09/19/2012
Migrate VMware VMs to Hyper-V using a free, simple, standalone tool
Windows Server 2012 is generally available for evaluation and purchase by all customers around the...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 09/19/2012
The Office Team reveals the new Office 365 Subscriptions
With a single subscription, you can use Office across a wide variety of devices - everything from...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 09/17/2012
System Center 2012 SP1 Beta - tons of new features now available for testing
The Beta of System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (“SP1”) enables System Center customers to jointly...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 09/17/2012
DirectAccess Connectivity Assistant (DCA) 2.0 - now available for download
Microsoft DirectAccess Connectivity Assistant (DCA) 2.0 can be used by computers running Windows 7...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 09/17/2012
Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 Group Policy spreadsheets - now available for download
These spreadsheets list the policy settings for computer and user configurations that are included...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 09/17/2012
Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 8 - now available for download
Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 8 includes Server Manager, Microsoft Management...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 09/13/2012
Samsung ATIV S website now live
I know I did a blog post about the IFA announcement not long ago, but I wanted to bring the Samsung...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 09/12/2012
System Center 2012 SP1 Beta - Supporting Windows Server 2012, Azure Virtual Machine Mgmt and more!
Microsoft’s Private Cloud is built on the industry leading foundation of Windows Server and System...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 09/12/2012
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Announced
Today Amazon announced several Kindles. I have been using their eBook readers for quite a long...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 09/06/2012