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SQL server 2005 Reporting Services Webcast
Yesterday I did a webcast on SQL Server Reporting Services Here is the log of questions and answers:...
Author: jweston Date: 12/12/2006
Launch events
Launch of Vista, Office 2007, and Exchange 2007 are coming to a town near you. Our Microsoft Across...
Author: jweston Date: 12/12/2006
Active Directory Basics
Friday I did a webcast on Active Directory Basics. Here is the questions and answers log from that...
Author: jweston Date: 12/11/2006
Exchange 2007 had RTM. That makes all three launch products complete
We have this term here at Microsoft RTM. Release to Manufacturing. The code is golden, or go press...
Author: jweston Date: 12/08/2006
1 in 100 chance to win Xbox 360?
Come to my TechNet event in Nashua, NH on November 30. Actually we are across the boarder in Mass in...
Author: jweston Date: 11/17/2006
Next version of SBS to be 64 bit only just like new Exchange 2007 will be.
Just too much fun information today not to share: We have announced about the next version of SBS....
Author: jweston Date: 11/17/2006
so you want to get the bits to Vista now?
Are you a TechNet subscriber? Well you should be. If you are, you can go to the Technet site right...
Author: jweston Date: 11/17/2006
Office 2007 RTM's
We announced that Office 2007 has RTM'ed. YEA! What is RTM? That is Released to Manufacturing. It...
Author: jweston Date: 11/06/2006
Microsoft, Novell, Linux?
really interesting announcement today....
Author: jweston Date: 11/02/2006
Interesting Article on launch dates.
I was reading the Seattle Post Intelligencer today and they had a very interesting article on Vista...
Author: jweston Date: 11/02/2006
Are you a developer and want a job like mine?
Our MSDN Events Developer Evangelists are so popular, everybody wants us! Which explains why we now...
Author: jweston Date: 10/30/2006
The coolist thing someone did for me this week.
I was in Alabama covering events for my buddy Blain Barton who is in Hawaii this week. We had a...
Author: jweston Date: 09/21/2006
Agility Now Webcast
The last two wednesdays I have been doing parts of a 10 part Webcast series called Agility Now. It's...
Author: jweston Date: 09/21/2006
Webcast Series starts tomorrow on "Agility Now"
Tomorrow 9/6/6 starts the first part of a 10 part series webcast on how to take control of your I.T....
Author: jweston Date: 09/05/2006
Video searching added to Windows Live
Check out this article. Cool stuff on our searching capabilities added for Video as part of the...
Author: jweston Date: 08/28/2006
new Webcast Series coming
We are starting up a new 10 part webcast series. Check it out:...
Author: jweston Date: 08/23/2006
Vista ReadyBoost
So yesterday I was playing around with Vista. I wanted to try the new ReadyBoost Feature that allows...
Author: jweston Date: 08/04/2006
TechNet Subscription announcements
I was in a meeting this morning with Scott Stout, PM for the TechNet Subscriptions and he gave us...
Author: jweston Date: 07/24/2006
Boston, Dallas, Ft. Worth, and Hartford CT?
What do these cities have in common? Yep they are cities you can come see me live in during August!!...
Author: jweston Date: 07/19/2006
Microsoft Hosting Solutions for Service Providers
We announced a new product yesterday. Windows Based Hosting 4.0 This is for Service Providers that...
Author: jweston Date: 07/19/2006
Microsoft aquires Sysinternals/Winternals
yes it's true. We bought this company. Great technology. It will be interesting to see how we use...
Author: jweston Date: 07/18/2006
Virtual PC is now Free
Go check it out at www.microsoft.com/virtualpc or go check out my friend's blog at:...
Author: jweston Date: 07/14/2006
Do you want to start a IT Pro User Group?
I have been working with Culminis. They are a group of user Groups for IT Pro types for the whole...
Author: jweston Date: 07/13/2006
End of and Era 98 and ME
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=6513 Yes it's true. Support is ending for 98 and ME....
Author: jweston Date: 07/12/2006
80 % chance Vista in January
Great acticle today on MSNBC. Gates is in South Africa. Balmer is talking about it at the WWPC in...
Author: jweston Date: 07/11/2006
I liked this article
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/08/business/08values.html?ex=1153195200&en=6d129b4b81816466&e...
Author: jweston Date: 07/10/2006
Slide Decks
I keep getting emails requesting the slide decks that I do at our presentations. Usually they are on...
Author: jweston Date: 07/07/2006
SQL Reporting Services Webcast Q&A
Yesterday I did a Webcast on SQL 2005 Reporting Services, here is the log of questions and answers....
Author: jweston Date: 07/06/2006
TechNet events
I know most of you want to be at TechEd this week. But the reality is that most of you aren't there....
Author: jweston Date: 06/14/2006
Best of TechNet Webcast
As many of you know I also do Webcast. Our IT Pro webcast team just came up with this new way to...
Author: jweston Date: 06/13/2006
Triathlon
I normally don't put personal stuff on this blog. It's technical right? Well I just had to put...
Author: jweston Date: 06/12/2006
www.seewindowsvista.com
We just launched this site. It's cool. This company has such cool marketing stuff. Have fun, play...
Author: jweston Date: 06/01/2006
Interesting article in the WSJ
https://online.wsj.com/article/SB114908147358167479.html?mod=us_business_whats_news It talks about...
Author: jweston Date: 06/01/2006
Stock Price
I usually don't discuss this type of topic, but it's in the news lately. Some people are complaining...
Author: jweston Date: 05/30/2006
Windows Vista Reviewer guide
We had this posted about a month ago. But they didn't want it public yet. It is now out there for...
Author: jweston Date: 05/26/2006
Beta 2 released for Vista and Office!!
At WinHEC this week Bill Gates announced the release of Beta 2 for both Office and Vista. Here is...
Author: jweston Date: 05/25/2006
Q&A log from SQL webcast
I did a webcast on SQL Data Minning about a week ago, sorry it took me so long to post: Question:...
Author: jweston Date: 05/22/2006
Security Risk Management Webcast
I just finished delivering at webcast on Security Risk management. As promissed here is the Q&A...
Author: jweston Date: 05/05/2006
Gates to keep Google "Honest"
I read a interesting article this morning about Gates speach yesterday. Here is the article....
Author: jweston Date: 05/04/2006
Amazon Drops Google For Windows Live Search
You know we are always trying to get our search engine out there. Well here is an article on how we...
Author: jweston Date: 05/03/2006
really way totally cool website
www.zillow.com key in your address. You will see an arial picture of your house and house values....
Author: jweston Date: 05/02/2006
Microsoft Buys AssetMatrix
Last week Microsoft announced that they are buying AssetMatrix, a Candian software asset management...
Author: jweston Date: 05/01/2006
Wallop to have competitor to MySpace?
Microsoft announced yesterday an alliance with Wallop. Here is the announcement:...
Author: jweston Date: 04/28/2006
Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta 2 available!
Go here to get it: https://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx More press on it:...
Author: jweston Date: 04/26/2006
Vista Deplolyment Webcast Q/A
Last Wednesday I delivered a webcast on Vista Deployment. As promised I wanted to post here the Q/A...
Author: jweston Date: 04/25/2006
TechNet Events
The primary focus of our team is live in person TechNet events in the US. Below is the content we...
Author: jweston Date: 04/20/2006