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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.
- Windows Server – Backup, File Sharing, Hyper-V, and Storage features
- Windows Storage Server – purpose-built and OEM’d filer
- System Center – Data Protection Manager (DPM) and OpsMgr
- Also authored game recommendations on Xbox.com
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I have long believed that training’s primary purpose is as a deployment enabler. In fact, prior to these last four years at Microsoft, I originally established and drove the education offering for Double-Take for the same reason – to pragmatically equip customers and partners to understand the product(s) better, thereby accelerating adoption and reducing support…
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On Thursday morning (yes tomorrow), I’ll be delivering a webcast on reducing costs and improving your backup and recoverability with System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM). http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032412440 Event Overview In today’s economy, more than ever, IT Pro’s are looking for ways to reduce costs while still improving existing processes or fixing things that aren’t meeting…
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This has been an exciting month for me and DPM on two fronts: First, for Fiscal Year 2010 (starting last week at Microsoft), I am re-focusing exclusively on DPM within System Center and will not be also driving Windows Server file services or Windows Storage Server. It was very cool to be part of the…
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Congratulations to my friends at Dell for their launch of storage appliances that are powered by Windows Storage Server 2008. This is a great example of what happens with the partnership of Microsoft with a server manufacturer. In this case, instead of simply pre-installing Windows Server and a standard Dell PowerEdge server (which is already…
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Later today, we’ll be delivering a TechNet webcast on managing Data Protection Manager in large enterprises. Essentially, there are three things we want to cover: Using PowerShell to automate tasks across DPM servers Using the DPM management pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 Using Bocada’s Centralized Manager for DPM 2007 To watch the…
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This is a very good day to be in storage and a Windows network administrator – because HP just announced that they are shipping storage appliances that are powered by Windows Storage Server 2008. For more on the WSS08 release last month, check out these blogs: May 5 – Announcing Windows Storage Server 2008 –…
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