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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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After 5.5 years, I am leaving Microsoft. When I first joined, it was after 15 years in the backup/recovery and high availability market. I joined to be part of DPM v1, which had been in market for about a month, because the idea that Microsoft producing its own backup solution could change how Windows administrators…
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Last week, my friends at TechNet EDGE released an interview that we did at TechEd 2011 in Atlanta last month: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/videoembed/system-center-operations-manager-data-protection-manager-highlights-at-teched As always, thanks for reading (and watching),
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At TechEd 2011, we announced that the OpsMgr 2012 Community Evaluation Program (CEP) is now taking applications. What is a CEP Many of you are likely familiar with Microsoft TAP’s, Technology Adoption Programs, where a small pool of customers partner with our engineering teams to preview and provide feedback on pre-beta software. TAP participants provide…
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Good morning, all. Keith Combs and Chris Henley run a weekly ‘radio call-in show’ called Talk TechNet – and this week, they asked me to talk about DPM (2010 and 2012). You can listen in, live or afterwards, at https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032485880 Keith & Chris – it was lots of fun! Thanks for having me… Thanks for…
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Over the weekend, the DPM community lost one of its best – Ruud Baars. While you may be familiar with some of the DPM voices and faces, Ruud was one of the quiet and sometimes unseen, true innovators of how to deploy DPM in the real world. If you received answers to questions in the…
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If you are coming to the Microsoft Management Summit 2011 next week, you have some great opportunities to learn more about Data Protection Manager. We have four breakout sessions with DPM. I will be at all four talks but am sharing the stage this year with some great SMEs from the DPM community, including: BB16…
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