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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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  • Come learn about DPM at Tech-Ed 2009

    I have a full line-up for Tech-Ed 2009 and System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Sp1 – May 11-15, 2009. May 11, 2:45-4:00 PM VIR04-INT Why Virtualization and Data Protection are Better Together May 12, 10:15-11:30 AM MGT204 Technical Introduction to Data Protection Manager 2007 sp1 May 12, 1:00-2:15 PM MGT316 Protecting Applications with Data…

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  • Come learn about DPM at MMS 2009

    The only thing more fun than Las Vegas in the Springtime has got to be the DPM sessions at the Microsoft Management Summit 2009 (MMS-2009.com) – April 27 – May 1st. If you are coming – check out our DPM sessions: MONDAY         April 27 @ 1:30PM SO20 breakout session Ray Maker…

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  • DPM Disaster Recovery Webcast – April 15th

               What better day to talk about ‘disasters’ than tax day in the US !?! On Wednesday, April 15th, I’ll be giving a TechNet Webcast on ‘Disaster Recovery with Data Protection Manager and Iron Mountain’. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032410562 It is 1PM Pacific, which makes it kind of late in the evening for my non-American friends – and…

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  • Try DPM 2007 SP1 – with just a web browser

    We are really excited to have recently launched 3 TechNet Virtual Labs (vLabs) on DPM 2007 SP1.  Virtual Labs is a very cool offering where we’ve taken the same Hands-On Labs that you could try at Tech-Ed, IT Forum, Microsoft Management Summit or any other Microsoft conference – and we’ve hosted them on a monster…

  • Podcast – How does DPM 2007 really work

    I originally recorded this topic about a year ago and have been adding some guidance around Express Full’s, Transaction log backups and schedules — based on questions that I routinely hear at live events. In this 23 minute video, I’ve updated it to cover: –  Brief Overview of DPM 2007 SP1 –  How do Express…

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  • DPM 2007 Sp1 podcast — Exchange item recovery

             As we continue our podcast series for DPM 2007 (now with Service Pack 1) — here is a new TechNet Edge podcast on how to do individual item level restore with DPM 2007 and Exchange 2007. This particular topic is not "SP1 specific", but is one of the most common questions…

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