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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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  • New Book – Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Administration Instant Reference

    Huge Congratulations to my friend, Matt Hester. Matt is a one of the folks that taught me how to blog, so that I could use social networking to convey my passion for technology products.  He also happens to be an IT Pro Evangelist for Microsoft, meaning that he spends most days speaking at local events…

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  • Are You A Collaboration Basket Case?

      originally posted on As an old-school backup guy, one of my favorite sayings is: “If you are putting all your eggs in one basket, it better be a good basket” It’s true for Virtualization (which I will talk about in a future post) and it’s true for collaboration platforms like Exchange or SharePoint.  And…

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  • TechTarget write-up on DPM 2010

    Hi DPM Fans !! Yesterday, we did a TechNet webcast on what is coming in just a few weeks with the Release Candidate for DPM 2010. Well, “Good news travels fast”, as our friends at SearchWindowsServer.com (Tech Target) have already done a write-up on what they heard. Other than one misspelling of “DMP” (which I…

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  • TechNet Webcast : DPM 2010 Release Candidate preview

    DPM 2010 is getting sooooo close !! For months, it seemed far away, but with the calendar now officially 2010, it is time to sprint to the finish line.  Last year, I said that we would have a Release Candidate for DPM 2010 shortly after the holidays.  True to our word, please join us this…

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  • Microsoft “gets” Small Business

    repost from Because It’s Everyone’s Business This week, a new report from Compass Intelligence ranked Microsoft as #1 among the top technology vendors that are effectively serving small businesses. Stephanie Mehta at CNN Money.com published an article this week that listed the top ten vendors, with Microsoft going from #6 last year to #1.   Ms.…

  • Am I really writing this stuff ?

      Today has been a very cool day that caused me to be introspective – so I wanted to share a little of myself with you. Earlier today, I did my first post as one of the “System Center Expert” contributors to Microsoft’s blog on the “Because it’s Everybody’s Business” initiative. The blog post is…

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