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TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier - The Value of Microsoft Premier Field Engineers during an Office 365 Deployment

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Lex Thomas — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:00:05 GMT

Lex Thomas welcomes Microsoft Premier Field Engineers (PFE) Tony Wyatt and Dan Smith to the show as they discuss the value a dedicated PFE can bring to an IT organization. Tune in as they describe an Exchange and Office 365 deployment and how their expertise assisted a successful hybrid on-premise and cloud migration.

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(Episode 19) Windows 8 Tips: Explorer Tricks

ChrisCaldwell, Kevin Remde, Lex Thomas — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:00:48 GMT

In part 7 of their Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Kevin Remde and Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas give us a quick introduction to some of the new File Explorer (formerly “Windows Explorer”) features and capabilities.

[2:01] Demo: Quick Access Toolbar
[7:38] Demo: Advanced Menu Options
[13:40] Demo: Show all folders
[16:41] Demo: Open New File Types

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TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier – How Premier Delivers Value to Our Customers

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Lex Thomas — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:00:39 GMT

Lex Thomas welcomes Sr. Technical Account Manager Mike Mitchell to the show as they discuss the value and benefits Microsoft Premier Support brings to customers. Tune in as they chat about the Service Delivery Management process, technical resources and support Microsoft offers to its customers as well as how you can engage a Technical Account Manager to meet and attain your datacenter, development and IT infrastructure goals.

[2:04] What is Microsoft Premier Support and how do they work with customers?
[3:09] What’s the value of having a dedicated Technical Account Manager?
[4:28] What’s the customer experience like when dealing with a TAM?
[11:07] How is success measured?

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(Episode 18) Windows 8 Tips: Tweaks and Customizations

ChrisCaldwell, Kevin Remde, Lex Thomas — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:00:18 GMT

In part 6 of their Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Kevin Remde and Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas show off some of the new kinds of customization options found in Windows 8.

[2:16] Demo: Start Screen background
[6:33] Demo: Scheduled Maintenance
[11:00 ] Demo: Power Options – Hibernate or Sleep

(Episode 17) Windows 8 Tips: Security and Privacy

ChrisCaldwell, Kevin Remde, Lex Thomas — Mon, 20 May 2013 21:00:08 GMT

In part 5 of their Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Kevin Remde and Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas briefly introduce you to some of the new security-centric improvements in Windows 8.

[2:04] Demo: Control Your App Privacy
[6:12] Demo: SmartScreen
[11:33] Demo: Automatic Updates
[17:31] Demo: Turn on BitLocker

TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier - Multi-Forest Directory Consolidation with Office 365-D/ITAR

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Lex Thomas — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:00:41 GMT

Lex Thomas welcomes Rabih Andari and George Bryan from the Microsoft Consulting Services team as they discuss a tool they developed that helps migrate large organizations to Office 365. Tune in as they share with us an interesting case study on how this tool helped automate the process in which they consolidated a very complex multi-forest, multi-domain environment without any interruption of service while saving the company millions of dollars.

[3:56] What was the situation? How did Microsoft Consulting Services help?
[8:22] What was the customer experience like?
[12:15] How is this migration tool different from other tools / services in the market?
[17:50] How does the migration process actually work?
[20:05] How does this all work from a technical standpoint?
[36:20] How can customers interested in this service contact you?

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(Episode 16) Windows 8 Tips: New Options and Features

ChrisCaldwell, Kevin Remde, Lex Thomas — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:00:28 GMT

In part 4 of their Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Kevin Remde and Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas show off some of the newer and useful features found in Windows 8.

[3:05] Demo: Windows 8 File History
[14:03] Demo: Virtual Machines and Hyper-V
[22:52 ] Demo: Windows To Go
[31:55 ] Demo: Storage Spaces

TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier - Cyber Security and How to Protect Your Assets

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Lex Thomas — Wed, 01 May 2013 13:00:48 GMT

Lex Thomas welcomes Principal Cyber Security Architect, Michael Howard to the show as they discuss the importance of protecting your applications and datacenter. Tune in as they offer some practical advice and how you can adopt the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) as well as how you can get started securing your own environment.

[2:29] How important is Cyber Security and what is the Security Development Lifecycle Threat Modeling Tool?
[7:11] What advice do you have for people trying to address their Security concerns?
[12:55] How do I get started with the SDL?

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(Episode 14) Windows 8 Tips: Productivity

ChrisCaldwell, Kevin Remde, Lex Thomas — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:00:59 GMT

In part 3 of their Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Kevin Remde and Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas show us some improvements in Windows 8 that will help people be more productive.

[1:35] Demo: Windows Key Shortcuts
[14:27] Demo: Manage startup with Task Manager
[20:11 ] Demo: Get more done with Task Scheduler

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(Episode 13) Windows 8 Tips: Mastering the Interface

ChrisCaldwell, Kevin Remde, Lex Thomas — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:00:35 GMT

In part 2 of their Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Kevin Remde and Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas dive deeper into the new modern user interface for Windows 8.

[2:32] Demo: Closing an App
[4:54] Demo: Mastering IE in Win8
[10:11 ] Demo: Run two apps side by side
[13:15] Demo: Make a large app tile smaller
[15:16] Demo: Contextual Search

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(Episode 12) Windows 8 Tips: Getting Started

ChrisCaldwell, Kevin Remde, Lex Thomas — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:00:17 GMT

Kevin Remde welcomes Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas to the show as they kick off their 8 part Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series. Tune in for part 1 as they show us around the new modern user interface in Windows 8.

[1:34] Demo: Basic Navigation, Sharing, Search
[7:44 ] Demo: Group Apps on the Start Screen
[10:04] Demo: Easy Access – Pin Apps to the Start Screen
[17:48] Demo: Shutting Down

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TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier – Windows 8 Tips and Tricks and Hello Surface Pro!

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Lex Thomas — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:00:01 GMT

In this month’s edition of Taste of Premier, Lex Thomas compares and contrasts the Surface RT and the recently released Surface Pro as well as shares with us some of his favorite tips and tricks for Windows 8.

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TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier - What’s New in Office 2013

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Lex Thomas — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:00:18 GMT

Lex Thomas and George Scott ring in the new year by discussing new features found in Office 2013. Tune in as they chat about new deployment capabilities such as “Click-to-Run” as well as how you can run side-by-side installed versions of Office and how you can easily integrate cloud storage such as SkyDrive Pro into your organization.

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TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier - What’s New in Windows Phone 8

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Lex Thomas — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 08:00:24 GMT

Lex Thomas welcomes Director of Technical Sales, Jeffrey Strasser to the show as they discuss the latest features found in Windows Phone 8. Tune in as they chat about the new user interface, ease of use, security, NFC and wireless charging, streaming music, and much much more.

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TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier - Premier Support for Developers & “Surface! Surface! Surface!”

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Lex Thomas — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 08:00:54 GMT

Lex Thomas welcomes Jeremy Rule to the show as they discuss Microsoft Premier Support for Developers. Tune in as they chat about what services are available such as application development, field engineering, 24 hours a day/ 7 day technical support and much much more! And what’s that you say? Surface! Surface! Surface! The Microsoft Surface tablet is now available and be sure to check out what Lex as to say about that!

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TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier - How Windows To Go for Windows 8 can Work for You

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Lex Thomas — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:00:00 GMT

Lex Thomas kicks off Season 2 of his “Taste of Premier” series and in this episode he covers Windows To Go for Windows 8. Tune in and find out what it is, how to use it, how to build it, what requirements are needed as well as how this can impact your business to help implement a truly flexible work style in the ever popular Bring Your Own Device (B.Y.O.D.) to work movement.

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TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier – How to Enable Hyper-V on Windows 8 Release Preview

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TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier – How to Enable Hyper-V on Windows 8 Release Preview

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Lex Thomas — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:44:39 GMT

Lex Thomas and Rob Hefner are back on today’s show as they demo for us Hyper-V virtualization capabilities found within Windows 8. Tune in as they preview for us some of the features found within the Windows 8 Release preview as they show us how to enable and configure it.

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TechNet Radio: IT Time - In Depth walk through of the 5 Basic Protocols in the TCP/IP stack

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Lex Thomas — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:53:52 GMT

Principal Technical Account Manager for the U.S Premier Services team, Lex Thomas is back for today’s show as he delivers a protocol lesson with how TCP/IP works, what it consists of, what to look for in a trace, as we as what each protocol does in the TCP/IP stack.

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TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier – “3-2-1 Deploy!” (Part2) Preparing for and Deploying Windows in Your IT Environment

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Lex Thomas — Sat, 26 May 2012 01:56:57 GMT

Lex Thomas and Rob Hefner are back for today’s show, as they take us through the planning stages of a Windows Deployment from T-minus 8 weeks. Tune in as they cover the importance of VM Deployment testing, drivers and application updates, documentation and end-user training.

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TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier – “3-2-1 Deploy!” (Part 1) Preparing for and Deploying Windows in Your IT Environment

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Lex Thomas — Wed, 23 May 2012 01:55:03 GMT

Premier Field Engineer, Rob Hefner joins us on today’s show as talk about the necessary steps your organization should consider when making a Windows deployment. Tune in as we cover VDI scenarios, the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, WDS, System Center and much, much more.

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TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier - Engaging Microsoft Premier Support for Large Enterprise Projects

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Lex Thomas — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:41:42 GMT

In today’s “Taste of Premier” Lex Thomas welcomes Principal Technical Account Manager Brent Gatewood and Sr. Premier Field Engineer Aimee Long as they provide some insight into how Microsoft Premier Support helped deploy a successful 300,000+ seat email migration by creating a simulated customer lab environment and use case scenarios. They also share with us their Top 5 Tips for large projects like this as well give a quick glimpse at Windows 8.

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TechNet Radio: IT Time - Using Network Monitor to Troubleshoot Office 365 Connectivity Issues (Part 3 of 3)

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Lex Thomas — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:00:36 GMT

In Part 3 of 3, of the Using Network Monitor series, Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas demos for us Netsh, a tool which allows us to look at data that’s already provided by components built into Windows 7 or Windows Server. Tune in as he shows us how to capture traffic prior to encryption or through a reboot as well as how traces are Network Monitor compatible.

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TechNet Radio: IT Time - Using Network Monitor to Troubleshoot Office 365 Connectivity Issues (Part 2 of 3)

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Lex Thomas — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:00:20 GMT

In Part 2 of the Using Network Monitor series, Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas demos for us Nmcap, a Command Line capturing tool which is great for capturing network traffic. Tune in as he discusses the start/ stop filter for use with specific traffic as well as circular logging and chained capture files.

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TechNet Radio: IT Time – Using Network Monitoring to Troubleshoot Office 365 Connectivity Issues (Part 1)

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Lex Thomas — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:04:02 GMT

In today’s episode, we welcome Lex Thomas, Principal Technical Account Manager for the US Premier Support Services Team here at Microsoft. Tune in as he guides us through this multi-part series on how you can use Network Monitoring to troubleshoot potential Office 365 connectivity issues.

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