Never Stop Learning!
Musings about Marketing and the Microsoft IT Academy program....
Peaks and Valleys....
From a work productivity perspective, this has been a nightmarish week for me. As I am sure most of...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/16/2008
Screencast Rendering....
I managed to get a couple of screencasts recorded. Now I am waiting on them to get rendered. It...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/15/2008
No Screencasts tonight.....
The laptop that I thought I could save is toast...... Cheers!
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/14/2008
The reloaded laptop....
I decided to re-purpose the laptop that has been giving me fits to be my screencast production...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/14/2008
Just squeaked that one in.....
So I am writing up the previous post, trying to be witty, collecting links and all that rot,...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/13/2008
Interesting Downloads for Week Ending - 08-08-2008
As a heads up, I am posting the interesting DL info in the long format one more time. Partly because...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/12/2008
Interesting Uploads.....
I have received quite a bit of feedback on the Interesting Uploads info that I have posted....
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/10/2008
Up in smoke, absolutely modulus, and how I am not going to write you a love song....
I grew up partly in the 70's. Every now and then a radio station would play a snippet of a Cheech...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/08/2008
Convert Voice Mail to Text Msg/Email....
I really enjoy my next door neighbors. But we have a communication barrier. Rebecca is deaf due to...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/06/2008
There is a reason it's called "RAM"....
....because that must be how it has to be installed. I have a laptop that I am not particularly fond...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/06/2008
Interesting Downloads for the week ending 8-01-08....
Every week for the past few years I receive and email report with all of the new and updated...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/06/2008
What News sites do you read?
I want to expand my horizons. I have spent years reading MSNBC.com articles. I like the format of...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/06/2008
Black Holes can be beautiful too.....
...at least the device that might be able to create one is. I just ran across this article on...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/02/2008
Tweetage....
I am really starting to enjoy Twitter. Actually, I am enjoying the experience that certain...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 07/31/2008
Rock on....
I won the Guitar Hero contest last night! The contest was set up with two rounds and then a final...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 07/30/2008
Not so fun day today....
Ray Ozzie's keynote today at our internal training called TechReady was great. I have never seen him...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 07/28/2008
Just loaded TwitterFeed....
I am sure there are people who read my blog who don't follow me on Twitter. I am sure I have Twitter...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 07/26/2008
Vista Springboard.....
Ya know......we (Microsoft) have taken a lot of heat for the past year and a half on Vista. A year...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 07/26/2008
Have you heard about "Mojave" OS?
You probably have read some stories on the "Mojave" experiment. For those that have not,...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 07/25/2008
PowerShell 2.0.....
I have been playing around with PowerShell more and more lately. I have even loaded up the...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 07/25/2008
Downtime......weak postage.....fun...
I guess I did those a little out of order. Should have started with the "weak postage"...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 07/25/2008
Grrrrrr.....
Have you ever spent hours and hours and hours trying to resolve something and ultimately it could...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 07/24/2008
Post #1 of 365... (some BitLocker stuff)....
And so it begins.....this is the first post of the 1 year test that I am doing to make at least one...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 07/21/2008
TMSAM02 gets you 15% of NEW TechNet Subscription....
When you sign up for a NEW TechNet Subscription over at the TechNet site, at some point you will get...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 07/15/2008
The Darkness....
Not that I should have to point this out, but I have not been very active since my screencast...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 07/15/2008
How to reach me....
You will notice on the left side of my blog, I now have links to a variety of services I frequent. I...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 07/01/2008
No TV service for a year.....
I canceled my cable TV service today. Later this afternoon I am going to drop off the HD DVR and...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 06/16/2008
What I am working on....
Normally this time of year is slow and I enjoy the downtime by doing summery stuff. I will still get...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 06/16/2008
How to configure FTP over SSL (Secure FTP) on Windows 2008 in less than 10 minutes....
Lots of reasons why I like this post! 1) I like the content I am delivering in this one. Short,...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 06/12/2008
BitLocker Interview is finally online.....
BUT! You won't be accessing it directly from my blog. Instead, I have posted it through the Technet...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 06/10/2008
Get the fact about Vista from Technology Wizards.....
Technology Wizards is a group of independent IT consultants with a strong focus on small business. I...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 06/04/2008
TechNet Radio - How MSIT uses Application Virtualization (SoftGrid)...
Last week I recorded a Technet Radio session with Michael Gallegos on how Microsoft IT uses...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 05/27/2008
Time to create a Guitar Hero tag....
I just ran across an article announcing Guitar Hero World Tour. I am guessing this is actually...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 05/22/2008
What do you need to know more about?
I am in San Diego today where I will be chatting with Partners about our Response Point offering....
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 05/22/2008
Home network update #2
I have received a fair amount of email about my home network upgrades, particularly on the...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 05/19/2008
SQL 2008 Scaling webcasts scripts....
A little late getting the scripts posted (and I received a few emails letting me know!). Thanks for...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 05/19/2008
Home Network Update......
As a part of upgrading my home network, I decided to re-purpose one of my machines as a WSUS server....
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 05/15/2008