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Musings about Marketing and the Microsoft IT Academy program....
What do you want in a Webcast?
For that matter.....Do you even like Microsoft Webcasts? My team is on a conference call right now...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 01/11/2008
Office Policy and Templates reference....
Here is the Office 2003 SP1 Policy Reference link. And here is the Office 2007 Policy Templates and...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 01/10/2008
Group Policy Settings Spreadsheet....
For those of you that attended my Santa Rosa Technet event, here is the link to the most current...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 01/10/2008
More BitLockery.....
Raul commented on my previous BitLocker Post with a question that I felt compelled to make into a...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 01/10/2008
Windows Mobile Support in WMDC....
Oh yeah! Another question from my event.... "What versions of Windows Mobile does the...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 01/09/2008
BitLocker Resources.....
First, let me start off by saying that my event yesterday was in Saratoga, Ca. Not San Jose. Not...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 01/09/2008
Great new Microsoft Spoof video.....
There have been some funny spoof videos over the years, but this is one of the best. It is also the...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 01/07/2008
Sci-Fi and soon to be famous people....
I met Robby Sparks and his wife Misty when my wife and I traveled with a group to the UK. At that...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 01/04/2008
My belated New Year post....
I have recovered.....almost. My wife and I had some people over to the house New Year's Eve. I...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 01/04/2008
Does Chris get it?
If you read my previous post and bothered to go out to the Robert Scoble's post which prompted it,...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 12/27/2007
Does Scoble get it?
Check out one of Robert Scoble's recent posts regarding connecting a MacMini to an HDTV. He runs...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 12/27/2007
Windows 2008 Webcast this morning....
I am delivering Part 4 of an 8 Part series on Windows Server 2008 this morning. My session deals...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 12/10/2007
What is all this voice mail!?!?!?
I was in Riverside, CA today delivering a Technet session on Unified Communications and Office...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 12/06/2007
New Contact Phone Number for me....
I still have my cell phone number and have no intention of getting rid of it (yet) so feel free to...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 12/03/2007
Exchange 2007 SP1 is Live on the web....
You can grab it here... Exchange 2007 SP1 Download Update - provided a more reasonable URL...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 11/29/2007
Session Resources and Slides from Nov 15th Redmond Event...
I have had several people email about additional resources for the sessions we delivered in Redmond....
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 11/19/2007
SilverLight "Fire Starter" Event in Redmond, Wa on Nov 29th....
Yeah, yeah, yeah.....more developery stuff..... Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter On November 29, 2007...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 11/19/2007
Managing Mobile Devices....
Another question from a customer -- Do you have any info on locking a Mobile 5 device? Particularly...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 11/19/2007
Books for SBS 2003....
I have had a couple of requests lately for some good reference materials for SBS 2003. MS Press has...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 11/19/2007
Active vs Passive Mode Command Line FTP....
I recently received the following question from a customer (and I have received this many times over...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 11/19/2007
Final Event Update - 11am - For Redmond, Wa
We are going ahead with our afternoon events! The power has been up since 10am with no blinks so it...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 11/15/2007
10am Update for Events in Redmond, Wa
The power just came back on! At this time we are planning to go ahead with the afternoon events. I...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 11/15/2007
Morning Update on today's events at Bella Botega in Redmond, Wa....
If you are reading this, you probably were impacted by the power outage we had (still have) in...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 11/15/2007
Sockets Programming for Vista...
subtitled..... "What the Hell? Developer stuff on Chris' Blog?!?!?!?!?"...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 11/13/2007
Tech Support Tag...
I get a LOT of email. Most of the email is asking for support or guidance or how to find something....
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 11/13/2007
Back in the blogging saddle.....
I have been noticeably (or maybe not....) absent from blogging the past few weeks. I was going to...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 11/12/2007
Virtualization Webcast resources......
Here are the resources noted in the webcast from earlier today.... Microsoft Virtualization Home...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 10/22/2007
Data Protection Manager 2007 is out the door....
See Jason Buffington's announcement over on the DPM Blog. I played around with DPM a bit for...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 10/17/2007
Missing Graphics....
You will notice some missing graphics on my blog today. I host the images on my home servers and...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 10/04/2007
Windows, Office and Exchange Connections in Vegas...
Have you heard of Windows Connections? or Office Connections? Or SharePoint Connections? What about...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 10/03/2007
Zune 2.0 is here!
Larry Larsen over at on10.net has posted some details regarding the new Zune 2.0 players. You can...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 10/03/2007
Technet resources....
Based on the email I receive, I sometimes wonder if people know about all of the excellent Technet...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 10/01/2007
Exchange Webcast info....
Here are the scripts I used in my session this morning. You can also get more scripts from the...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/28/2007
Halo 3 - Diorama
If you are a Halo fan, go here...... If you are not a Halo fan, go here...... Cheers!
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/17/2007
Cool Virtualization Screencast....
If you have not had a chance to check out Keith Comb's blog, take some time to do so now. He is...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/14/2007
Exchange 2007 OWA WebReady Document Viewing.....
I recently received and email from a customer about some issues he was having with OWA WebReady...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/07/2007
Who cares about optical media?
Everyone does. If you have a PC you use optical media - CD's and DVD's mostly - usually for reading...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/05/2007
Technet Radio Interview with Edwin Yuen on Virtual Machine Manager.....
I did an interview with Edwin a week or so ago on Virtual Machine Manager. You can listen to the...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/04/2007
Exchange Web Services resources....
My recent webcast on Exchange Client and Web Access generated a number of emails looking for...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/29/2007
I have a new job....
...sort of... We recently re-arranged our team to get more inline with our customers. We are now...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/28/2007
System Center Event resources....
I have complied a list of resources that are for the System Center portion of the Live Events I am...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/22/2007
New Technet Virtual Labs Online.....
Been a while since I posted, and this one was supposed to go up almost a month ago! Have you taken a...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/08/2007
Technet Radio Interview with Baldwin Ng....
Back in March I interviewed Baldwin Ng, a senior Product Manager for the Microsoft Solution...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 07/25/2007
What do you want to hear about?
This week I am going to a bunch of internal training as a part of our TechReady readiness effort....
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 07/22/2007