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I served as a Product Manager for a variety of Microsoft products — acting as primary evangelist, GTM planner, feature stakeholder, and field enabler — from 2005 to 2011. Here is an archive of my blogs, articles, and projects as part of my role at Microsoft. 

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  • Is your Tape Drive certified to work with DPM?

      No – it isn’t certified for DPM.  But not for the reasons that you might think. Microsoft does publish a list of devices that have been tested with DPM at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/dpm/cc678583.aspx. However, this does not mean that those devices are certified to work with DPM.  It means that they have been tested for use…

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  • New Whitepaper – How to protect Hyper-V with DPM 2010

          Over the next several weeks, we are pre-releasing several whitepapers around DPM 2010’s Release Candidate. The first WP to be released is about how to protect Microsoft Virtualization environments – including Hyper-V R2, Hyper-V and Virtual Server 2005 R2 sp1.  DPM 2010 is a key part of the Microsoft Virtualization story, as the backup…

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  • Data Protection Manager 2010 Release Candidate – now available

    I could say a lot of fluffy marketing stuff, but the most important thing to say is – COME AND GET IT ! We are very excited to announce that the Release Candidate for DPM 2010 is now available for public download.   Download the Release Candidate for DPM 2010 If you would like to see…

  • Jason is headed to Boston to amp up Iron Mountain on DPM and the Cloud

    Hey everyone, We have seen some really good excitement around the partnership of pairing Microsoft’s backup solution for Windows servers with the trusted name of Iron Mountain for offsite vaulting.  But it is about to get better … My friends at Iron Mountain are gearing up for some very cool stuff around Data Protection Manager…

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  • MCP certification business card

    Every once in a while, I find a clever applet that I’d like to share.  This one is the “MCP Virtual Business Card”. www.MCPvirtualBusinessCard.com It uses your LiveID and then allows you to do all of the normal business card contact info, as well as easy links for social networking.  But what I thought was…

  • Frustrated with Backup and Management? Don’t bang your head into the wall.

    David Mills, another Product Manager in System Center, recently recorded this video. I will confess that David is my wingman for almost everything that I am doing in System Center this year, so I especially like the actual head-banging.  I may actually just take those few seconds and make it an infinite loop that could…

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