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  • Jason is going Down Under (again)

    Woo Hoo – am very excited to confirm that I will be returning for my third TechEd Australia and TechEd New Zealand next month. TechEd Australia (August 24-27) I have at least three confirmed sessions: Protecting Application Servers with DPM 2010 – This session will focus on protecting and recovering Exchange 2010 and 2007, SharePoint…

  • It’s almost here !

    I hope everyone had a great Independence Weekend ! It’s hard to believe that one year ago, I was drafting a table of contents over that weekend – and now I am counting down the days until the book is on the shelves (hopefully yours).  🙂 It is due out on July 26th and is…

  • Why don’t you back up? (well)

    Barbara Imbert at Seagate recently blogged about Symantec’s 2010 SMB information security survey.  As a summary of the findings: 74% are Somewhat/Extremely concerned about information protection 42% lost confidential/proprietary information in the past 12 months 100% saw losses – lost revenue & direct financial costs In the past year, 62% lost devices and 73% saw…

  • Congratulations DPM MVPs

      Am very excited to announce three new Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP’s) that have been awarded for their work with System Center Data Protection Manager.   These folks have passionately tweeted, blogged, spoken and otherwise educated folks on DPM (2007 and 2010). Fatih Karaalioglu – FaKaOnline.com Islam Gomaa – Islam’s blog Mike Resseler – DPM-blog  …

  • Video : Dad Life

    This video has nothing to do with Microsoft, System Center, Data Protection Manager, Essentials 2010, Boy Scouts or Video Games. But if you are a dad (or know one) … then this video is worth 2.5 minutes of your day: http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12714406&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00adef&fullscreen=1 Dad Life from Church on the Move on Vimeo.

  • Yes, there is a Video Game belt-loop for Cub Scouts

    If you have read my blog, then you may know that I am a Gamer and a Dad (hence my other blog — XboxDad.com).  What you may not know is that I am also a Cubmaster for one of my son’s Cub Scout Pack and an Assistant Scoutmaster for my other son’s Boy Scout Troop,…

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