We use a "tag" system for keeping track of topics on BrianMadden.com. Here's everything we have that's been tagged with "Microsoft MVP". This includes forum posts, blog entries, podcasts, videos, and presentations.
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A look at the process of creating a vendor certification exam, and what we can learn from it to help prepare for these kinds of exams. Disclaimer: I am not a vendor certification kind of guy. Until recently, I have never taken a vendor certification exam, never wanted to, never thought I would. I’m...
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Hi folks, Works is currently in the process if upgrading their window 2000 domain to windows 2008 and have a Metaframe XPe farm. Does any know of any XPe authentication issues with 2008 Active Directory or any gotches that we should be watching out for. any help would be gratly appreciated. cheers Terry
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I know. It's summer and there just isn't much new news until the fall. But in addition to working on my golf swing I've been spending my summer kicking the tires of the new version of SoftGrid, or as it is now known App-V (short for Application Virtualization), that is due to be released...
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Chris Lord, Sr. Program Manager at Microsoft presented a Sequencing Deep dive @ Tech-ed 2008. The presentation describes 'inside the virtual file system', the sequencing process, volume management, Dynamic Suit Composition, State Management, Sequencing process. Last year when I visited Microsoft...
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It has been about two years since Microsoft purchased Softricity, and probably a good time to take one more look at what has happened since, and is happening now. [For reference, when Microsoft purchased Softricity, I spoke with Brian Madden in one of his podcasts I also wrote an article last year at...
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I had an opportunity to hear a pitch from a company called " DNSstuff " recently, which was interesting. Most of us know a bit about how the Domain Name Service (DNS) works. But there are very few "experts" in DNS because we rarely need to worry about it. We enable it and it usually...
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Tim Mangan is at Microsoft Management Summit 2008 (MMS), Microsoft's annual show dedicated to Management Products, this week in Las Vegas. Held at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas this year, MMS is the annual conference for System Center, including System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM, formerly...
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The annual MVP conference at Microsoft's campus is Redmond is a great opportunity for the twenty-or-so Terminal Server MVPs to spend a few days with Microsoft's Terminal Server product group. While most of the conversations are NDA, one cool thing that the TS team has done over the past few years...
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Introduction Application Service Providers (ASPs) provide customers with a hosted application solution. Although many may have thought that the ASP market died in 2001, it has managed to hang in there and is surviving if not thriving in some cases. I have worked with three of them in the last year alone...
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Next week Microsoft MVP (Most Value Professional) summit will take place in Seattle and Redmond. https://www.mvpsummit2008.com/ It's a multiday Microsoft event where MVPs will receive access to exclusive content and can give direct feedback to Microsoft product teams and executives. All the MVP's...