Archive for June, 2010

Microsoft’s “Dynamic IT” 7-year anniversary at Tech·Ed!

MS Tech·Ed North Ameria has been running this week in New Orleans…

Watch the Tech·Ed videos online - The keynotes (1 and 2) have great insight into Microsoft’s vision; how their 7-year old promise of “Dynamic IT” is just beginning to be realized this past year and even more so with their Azure cloud computing platform, System Center 2010, and [...]


Windows Service Accounts: Finally Avoid the Maintenance Nightmare!

You either love or hate “Local Service”, “Network Service”, and “Local System”. Have you ever avoided setting up individual Service Accounts for SQL Server, IIS, SharePoint, or other enterprise applications and simply defaulted these built-in accounts? Perhaps you didn’t know that it’s “best practice” to use domain accounts for these services. Or, perhaps you knew [...]


Forrester Blogs Revamped - Making Leaders Successful

Most of us use Forrester, Gartner, and any number of other aggregated information hubs for reducing the communication clutter to make effective decisions. Forrester recently revamped their blogging strategy and platform to improve information access and updates. Inevitably, this social aspect of Forrester’s research will provide insight that wasn’t possible through the standard email alerts, [...]


Next Week is Internet Week!

From June 7–14, stay on top of the latest in internet technologies at Internet Week in New York. Events cover everything from Advertising, Arts & Entertainment, Conferences & Panels, Parties, Social Media, and Startups & Technology.
I am personally looking forward to the release of Microsoft Expression Studio v4 on Monday. Expression Blend is [...]