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TechNet Radio: How Microsoft IT Uses SQL Server 2005 to Power a Global Forensic Data Security Tool [TechNet Radio: How Microsoft IT Uses SQL Server 2005 to Power a Global Forensic Data Security Tool]

auroraqueen — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:51:48 GMT

SQL Server 2005 powers a 27 TB data management system called ICE 3.0 that gathers forensic data from more than 85 Microsoft corporate proxy servers into a single database. The ongoing work of forensics engineers, such as query activities and analysis, is not interrupted by event processing or database loading.

Eric Ostrowski – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Michael Murphy – IT Pro Evangelist

Hariharan Sethuraman – Hariharan Sethuraman is a program manager in cross-IT (XIT) for the Microsoft IT group. He manages tools and application development programs that have an impact across Microsoft. Hari recently managed programs in the information security space.

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TechNet Radio - Review of Windows Server “Longhorn” Beta 3 Product/Workload Scenarios [TechNet Radio - Review of Windows Server “Longhorn” Beta 3 Product/Workload Scenarios]

auroraqueen — Tue, 08 May 2007 23:19:13 GMT

Listen in as David Lowe, Senior Product Manager for Windows Server, and Matt Hester discuss how Windows Server “Longhorn” has been designed around server roles and workloads that meet customers’ needs. Get an understanding of how roles map to workloads, how workloads combine to deliver clear value in specific customer scenarios and why we have chosen certain high-priority scenarios as the focus for our launch. Plus we have the monthly segment with Kai Axford and Mark Griesi from the Security Response Team, discussing the May Security Updates.

Participants

Eric Ostrowski – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Aurora Queen – TechNet Content Manager

Matt Hester – IT Pro Evangelist

David Lowe – David Lowe is Senior Product Manager for Windows Server with Microsoft Corporation. In this role, he coordinates worldwide launch activities for the next major version of Windows Server, code-named “Longhorn”, and works with customers on pre-release deployment planning and readiness. David has been with Microsoft since 2001, and in this time he has also been Senior Product Manager for Security and IT Professional portfolios with Microsoft Learning. Prior to joining Microsoft, David was Senior Lecturer in Internet Technologies at the Centre for Advanced Technology Training in Dublin, Ireland, where he specialized in Web development and XML. David holds a Bachelor of Science degree from University College, Dublin, and he is the author of "BizTalk Server: The Complete Reference", published by Osborne-McGraw Hill.

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TechNet Radio - Behind the Scenes of Windows Server “Longhorn” Beta 3 [TechNet Radio - Behind the Scenes of Windows Server “Longhorn” Beta 3]

auroraqueen — Tue, 01 May 2007 20:07:38 GMT

Matt Hester talks with Iain McDonald, Director of Windows Server Program, about the new and enhanced features of Windows Server “Longhorn” Beta 3. They discuss some of the design principles and key architectural changes behind Windows Server “Longhorn”, and provide background on the joint development work with the Windows Vista team.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Matt Hester – IT Pro Evangelist

Iain McDonald – Iain McDonald has worked for Microsoft for 15 1/2 years; currently he is a director in the Windows Server group. A native of Australia, he started working for Microsoft’s Australian Subsidiary in 1991. After moving to the US in 1992, he spent 6 years in the Exchange Server development team where he worked on the first three versions of that product. Over his time in Exchange, his responsibilities moved from the connectivity components, to the deployment in Microsoft, to being the Project Manager for the 5.0 & 5.5 releases. At the end of 1998 he moved to the Windows group where he accepted responsibilities as the Project Manager for Windows 2000. In this role he owned day to day operations of the development group, & project schedule. For Windows XP & Windows Server 2003 he was Project Director where his responsibilities included day to day operations of the development group, project schedule & the overall feature set of Windows. In his current role in the Windows Server organization, he owns program management for Windows Server. Recently, he has been doing some stuff for Longhorn Server and releases after that. Prior to working for Microsoft he worked with Northern Telecom, as software development contractor & spent his twenties as a good for nothing professional musician. He lives in Seattle with his wife, Melanie, 2 dogs, a noisy Harley & too many guitars.

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TechNet Radio - How Microsoft IT Implements System Center Operations Manager 2007 [TechNet Radio - How Microsoft IT Implements System Center Operations Manager 2007]

auroraqueen — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:02:53 GMT

As a first step in building an end-to-end solution, Microsoft IT used System Center Operations Manager 2007 to consolidate two of its largest management groups into one group, the Enterprise Monitoring Team (EMT). Michael Murphy talks with Tom McCleery, the Group Manager of the EMT about how Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, the next generation of Microsoft Operations Management and successor to MOM 2005, significantly changes the way that EMT monitors its operations. They discuss how new templates and improved management pack design enables group managers to adjust their monitoring definitions and configurations without having to depend on EMT specialists.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

John Weston – IT Pro Evangelist

Tom McCleery – Tom is the Group Manager of the Enterprise Monitoring Team for Microsoft. He leads a team of engineers responsible for instrumenting Microsoft’s production server environment, corporate network infrastructure, and infrastructure services (i.e. AD, DNS, DHCP). Prior to his role on the Enterprise Monitoring Team, Tom was the Sr. Operations Manager of Microsoft’s Network Operations Center.

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TechNet Radio - Community Corner: An interview with five time SMS MVP, Ed Aldrich [TechNet Radio - Community Corner: An interview with five time SMS MVP, Ed Aldrich]

auroraqueen — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:08:11 GMT

Returning from the just completed Microsoft Management Summit, Ed Aldrich speaks with John Weston about the new System Center suite of products. Ed Aldrich is founder and co-facilitator of the New England Area SMS User Group (the largest and oldest known SMS specific User Group in the country). They discuss the new features of Systems Management Server (SMS), entitled System Center Configuration Manager 2007, such as built-in functions to simplify OS deployment and Network Access Protection (NAP).

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

John Weston – IT Pro Evangelist

Ed Aldrich – Ed's been around the game for a long time... after a 20 year gig in the US Navy, as an electronics technician and cryptographic whiz, he spent six years supporting the Trident submarine Command and Control systems in Newport, RI. This was followed by another six years at Fleet Financial Group, and another two years at Gtech Corporation (the world's largest lottery systems integrator), where Ed became their SMS 2.0 expert, deploying the very first production deployment of the SMS 2.0 product in New England (March '99). This role provided a rich learning experience from RTM, thru SP1 and on to SP2. This task saw the single handed deployment of over 40 SMS sites. Next, it was on to the role of the "SMS King" and corporate AntiVirus Administrator at CVS/pharmacy where he migrated their SMS v1x system to SMS2/SP3/SP4, and and ultimately on to a totally new 17 site SMS 2003 infrastructure. He also designed, deployed and administers the Altiris and Symantec AntiVirus client management systems' enterprise wide.

Ed is five time SMS MVP (2003-2007) and Industry Expert speaker at the Microsoft Management Summit series (2002-2006) He was also a participant in the SMS 2003 Early Adopter Program program; author of the Systems Management technical knowledgebase EdNet 2002; and, founder and co-facilitator of the New England Area SMS User Group (the largest and oldest known SMS specific User Group in the country).

Ed is currently employed as a Systems Engineer with 1e, Ltd, a Microsoft UK Gold Partner (infrastructure).

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TechNet Radio - A conversation with Mark Griesi from the Microsoft Security Response Team [TechNet Radio - A conversation with Mark Griesi from the Microsoft Security Response Team]

auroraqueen — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:55:16 GMT

In this episode of TechNet Radio Kai Axford, Sr Security Strategist from the Trustworthy Computing Team, and Mark Griesi discuss the technical details of the April security bulletins. They also talk about the scenario that led to the out of band release of MS07-017 which addressed the Windows Animated Cursor Handling vulnerability. In conclusion Kai and Mark discuss the difference between responsible and irresponsible disclosure, how it affects customers and Microsoft’s view of each.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Mark Griesi – Mark Griesi is a Security Product Manager on the Security Response Team at Microsoft.

Kai Axford – Kai Axford is a Sr Security Strategist on the Trustworthy Computing Team at Microsoft.

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TechNet Radio - How Microsoft IT Enables High Performance Computing [TechNet Radio - How Microsoft IT Enables High Performance Computing]

auroraqueen — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:33:38 GMT

Jeff Kahn, Product Manager, US Windows Server Marketing and Cathy Palmer, Lead Program Manager for HPC System Administration, chat about the market for HPC and Microsoft’s new and exciting offering for that market, Compute Cluster Server 2003. Cathy details the steps in setting up a CCS cluster and explains what an Admin has to do to maintain a CCS cluster. They also look at some interesting applications and scenarios for HPC and talk about how Microsoft is focusing on making management and deployment of such systems interoperate with existing enterprise infrastructure.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Jason Bennett – TechNet Content Manager

Jeffrey Kahn – Mr. Kahn is a Product Manager in the US Windows Server Marketing team, responsible for driving market adoption of Windows Compute Cluster Server, Microsoft’s new offering for supporting lower cost, easier to use High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure. In his current role, he’s primarily responsible for field training, supporting and expanding Microsoft’s HPC partner ecosystem, and customer awareness and demand generation. Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Kahn spent 10 years in various marketing and sales roles for companies including American Power Conversion, Inacom Information Systems, Siebel Systems, SE Technologies (an enterprise software consulting firm), and Vigilos, Inc. (an Enterprise Security Management software company).

Cathy Palmer – Dr. Palmer is a Lead Program Manager on the High Performance Computing (HPC) team. The team’s responsibility is to define the system administration solution for Compute Cluster Server (CCS). With a solid version one solution released in June 2006, her team is working with customers and partners to define the next version offering, which will leverage Longhorn services and performance and provide a comprehensive and easily to manage system tailored for high performance clustering. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dr. Palmer spent 10 years at Cray, Inc., as an operating systems developer and as a software project leader for ASCI Red Storm, a 10,000 node MPP system for the Department of Energy.

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TechNet Radio - Assess Your Hardware and Device Readiness for Windows Vista using Windows Vista Hard [TechNet Radio - Assess Your Hardware and Device Readiness for Windows Vista using Windows Vista Hard]

auroraqueen — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:00:14 GMT

The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment is an assessment and inventory tool designed to help customers and partners quickly assess their PCs’ readiness for Windows Vista upgrades network-wide with a single networked PC. Chris Avis sits down and talks with Baldwin Ng, the Product Manager for the Microsoft Solution Accelerators Core Engineering Team, about WVHA and how it is designed to remotely connect to PCs on a network, assess their hardware and device compatibility with Windows Vista, and automatically create comprehensive reports with assessment results and upgrade recommendations for each PC. They also discuss how the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment does not require the installation of any software agents on PCs to perform the assessment.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Chris Avis – IT Pro Evangelist

Baldwin Ng – Baldwin Ng is the Product Manager for the Microsoft Solution Accelerators Core Engineering Team. He works with customers, partners and Microsoft product teams including Windows Vista, Windows Servers, and others to build world-class solution accelerators to empower today’s IT professionals. His current projects include Windows Vista Readiness Assessment, Microsoft Assessment and Deployment Solution and Model-Based Deployment. Baldwin has more than 14 years of product management and development experience in the internet services, digital e-commerce and mobile device industries. He frequently speaks at technology events including TechEd, TechReady, Worldwide Partner Conference, SMB Nation and others. Baldwin received an MBA from the University of Washington and graduated from the University of Rochester with MS and BS degrees in Engineering.

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TechNet Radio - Collaborate with Windows Vista in Windows Meeting Space [TechNet Radio - Collaborate with Windows Vista in Windows Meeting Space]

auroraqueen — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:30:08 GMT

Windows Meeting Space, the new collaboration feature in Windows Vista, is a simple yet powerful tool that enables you to work face-to-face with small groups of Windows Vista users. Kevin Remde speaks with Todd Manion, a Program Manger for the Windows Networking Division about how Windows Meeting Space allows you to easily share programs, your desktop, or files with other Meeting Space participants. He also talks about the supporting architecture, how you can use Group Policy controls to configure it, security features, and troubleshooting tips.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Kevin Remde – IT Pro Evangelist

Todd Manion – Todd Manion is a Sr. Program Manager in the Windows Networking Division. Todd was responsible for the Windows Meeting Space and wireless projector experiences in Windows Vista. Before this, Todd also worked on the Windows Peer to Peer Networking stack.

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TechNet Radio - The Evolution of High Performance Computing [TechNet Radio - The Evolution of High Performance Computing]

auroraqueen — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:58:21 GMT

Shawn Hansen, Director of HPC Marketing, and Ryan Waite, Group Program Manager for HPC chat with Chris Avis about the evolution of HPC, from it’s roots in academic and government computing to its important role in enterprise computing. As the market evolves performance continues to be key but ease of use and interoperability with existing enterprise infrastructure become important. Shawn and Ryan talk about how Microsoft’s Compute Cluster Server meets these changing customer needs.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Chris Avis – IT Pro Evangelist

Shawn Hansen – Shawn Hansen is Director of Marketing for High Performance Computing at Microsoft. Shawn is responsible for worldwide marketing and product strategy for Windows Compute Cluster Server. Previous to Microsoft, Shawn led marketing and product management teams for the Server Networking and Virtualization Business Unit (SVBU) at Cisco Systems. Shawn joined Cisco Systems as part of its acquisition of Topspin Communications. Topspin had successfully become a market leader in I/O virtualization and InfiniBand technologies. Previously, Shawn Hansen held product management positions at CacheFlow and Novell, and holds a degree in Humanities and Japanese Literature from Brigham Young University.

Ryan Waite – Ryan Waite is the Group Program Manager for High Performance Computing at Microsoft. Ryan is responsible for the technical design and technical partnerships of the HPC team. Ryan has been at Microsoft for almost 15 years, working in test, development, and program management roles on a variety of version 1.0 products including Exchange Server, Small Business Server, the Web Server Appliance, and for a change of pace, Windows Mobile for Smartphones. Ryan’s passions involve simplifying complex tools for use by the general computing community: Small Business Server allowed small businesses to harness the same types of server technologies previously used solely by large corporations, and Compute Cluster Server is bringing cluster based supercomputing to scientists, researchers, and engineers that would have previously found setting up and using a cluster a daunting task. Ryan lives in Seattle and in his spare time enjoys sailing, drinking, and sometimes both at the same time.

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TechNet Radio - Scaling out Excel Calculations using Windows Compute Cluster Server [TechNet Radio - Scaling out Excel Calculations using Windows Compute Cluster Server]

auroraqueen — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:24:30 GMT

Chris Avis speaks with Sanjay Kulkarni, a Program Manager on the Excel Services team, about how Excel Services is being released with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and can be integrated with Windows Compute Cluster Server to provide an enterprise wide solution for Excel based calculations. The products provide a scalable and secure way to share a cluster for off-loading the long running calculations. Windows Computer Cluster Scheduler provides guaranteed execution and fault tolerance that can be leveraged by Excel calculations.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Chris Avis – IT Pro Evangelist

Sanjay Kulkarni – Sanjay Kulkarni is a Program Manager on Excel Services team in Microsoft Office. His areas of interest are highly scalable and available distributed systems. He has over 18 years of experience in design and implementation of distributed systems.

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TechNet Radio - How Microsoft IT Deployed Windows Vista Wireless Group Policy [TechNet Radio - How Microsoft IT Deployed Windows Vista Wireless Group Policy]

auroraqueen — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:29:24 GMT

New features in Windows Vista Wireless group policy provided the Microsoft Identity and Access Management (IAM) team with the ability to deploy a group policy object to automatically configure wireless network settings for Windows Vista and Windows XP clients. The team was able to leverage the new interoperability feature to configure wireless network settings for both Windows Vista and Windows XP within a single group policy object in each domain. The enhanced security features allowed the team to block clients from connecting to specific Adhoc networks and configure stronger authentication and encryption methods. In this interview Michael Murphy speaks with Brian Davies about the team's design and deployment methods for the group policy rollout.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Michael Murphy – IT Pro Evangelist

Brian Davies – As a Technologist on the Identity and Access Management team, Brian Davies is responsible for managing the Active Directory and Group Policy within all Microsoft IT managed domains and providing product feedback to the Windows product group. He is currently working on the BitLocker Drive Encryption deployment within Microsoft for Windows Vista. Brian has spent most of his 9 year career with Microsoft managing the Active Directory and Group Policy.

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TechNet Radio - Community Corner: Windows Vista Networking with MVP and IT Hero, Doug Spindler [TechNet Radio - Community Corner: Windows Vista Networking with MVP and IT Hero, Doug Spindler]

auroraqueen — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:37:41 GMT

In this episode of the Community Corner, John Weston interviews Doug Spindler, John Weston interviews Doug Spindler, President of the Pacific IT Professionals, an independent organization for IT Pros, www.pacitpros.org. Doug talks about innovations in Windows Vista networking technologies, such as TCP/IP, IPv6, performance enhancements, and security advantages. Doug and John also discuss the recent Launch events and building the tech community with User Groups.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

John Weston – IT Pro Evangelist

Douglas Spindler – Douglas Spindler has been an independent technology advisor in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is currently the President of Pacific IT Professionals, (Pac IT Pros), http://www.pacitpros.org, an impendent association for IT Professionals. He has written numerous articles on Technology for many popular trade publications, is an International Speaker, and International Technical Trainer and can sometimes been seen on the evening news commenting on Technology. For the past 4 years Microsoft has awarded Douglas with the title of MVP, was selected by Microsoft to be their MVP Spotlight and was awarded the prestigious title of IT Hero by Windows IT Pro Magazine.

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TechNet Radio - Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management [TechNet Radio - Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management]

auroraqueen — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:11:19 GMT

Blain Barton continues his conversation on Group Policy, discussing how Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management increases administrators’ control over managing Group Policy objects. He speaks with Kevin Sullivan, a Lead Program Manager, and Winni Verhoef, a Senior Product Manager focused on the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack and the underlying components of Advanced Group Policy Management. They talk about the difference between what Windows Server does already with Active Directory and GPMC and what’s in the Advanced Group Policy Management as well as workflow management, offline editing, versioning, the roll-back mechanism and what’s new in relation to Windows Vista.

Plus we have our monthly segment with Kai Axford and Mark Griesi from the Security Response Team, discussing the February Security Bulletin.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Blain Barton – IT Pro Evangelist

Kevin Sullivan – Kevin has been working in the technology field focused on Microsoft management technologies since the early ‘90s. With IBM Global Services he worked on many Standard Desktop projects and SMS roll outs beginning prior to SMS 1.0. He began training and consulting on SMS, Windows and eventually Windows 2000 and Active Directory. Group Policy was a relatively heavy focus for customers as it was new, it was very different from System Policies and it was essentially a part of the Active Directory offering which was a huge paradigm shift for IT organizations. In the last seven years he’s worked for software companies as a Technical Product Manager assisting in all facets of product development. Working with developers to help them understand the customer needs has been a major focus of his work along with being a bit of a technical evangelist. Helping customers understand how Microsoft’s technologies fit into their environments has always been a critical component of his work.

Winni Verhoef – Winni Verhoef started his career at Microsoft 8 years ago in The Netherlands as an Evangelist. In that role, he promoted Microsoft’s client products to audiences in various programs (TS2 like) until he shifted to educating partners on the server side with the introduction of Windows 2000 Server. Later, Winni joined marketing and managed several Microsoft server products. He then moved to the US 2 years ago and into the client group since less than a year. After some successful projects like Windows Vista Registration and the Windows Vista Product Guide, he is now focusing on the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, in particular the underlying components of Advanced Group Policy Management and Asset Inventory Services.

Kai Axford – Kai Axford is a Sr. Security Strategist at Microsoft.

Mark Griesi – Mark Griesi is a Security Product Manager on the Security Response Team at Microsoft.

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TechNet Radio - Group Policy: Windows Vista, Longhorn Server, ADMX and the Central Store [TechNet Radio - Group Policy: Windows Vista, Longhorn Server, ADMX and the Central Store]

auroraqueen — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:56:25 GMT

In this episode, Blain Barton sits down with Kevin Sullivan, a Lead Program Manager, and Jason Leznek, Senior Product Manager for Windows Vista to discuss the Group Policy evolution in Windows Vista. Kevin and Jason will cover the details on Windows Vista and Longhorn Server Group Policy Basics, ADM vs. ADMX, ADML and discussing the central store. Plus Michael Murphy brings you another customer interview from Launch Tour 2007.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Blain Barton – IT Pro Evangelist

Jason Leznek – Jason Leznek is a Sr. Product Manager for Windows Vista. He has been with Microsoft for ten years working with enterprise customers on reducing the cost of ownership and operations of their desktop infrastructures.

Michael Murphy – IT Pro Evangelist

Desmond Vassell – Desieco, Inc.

Dejan Kovacevic – Manhattan IT

Ash Idnani – Computer Place

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TechNet Radio - An Interview with the Co-Founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak [TechNet Radio - An Interview with the Co-Founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak]

auroraqueen — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:54:01 GMT

Steve Wozniak visited the Microsoft campus for the first time to promote his book, "iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It". After presenting to a room packed full of enthusiasts, Steve sat down and spoke one on one with Mike Ward about his book, the Apple I and II, current technology, and of course his favorite pranks.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Mike Ward – IT Pro Audience Marketing Manager

Steve Wozniak – A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades, Steve Wozniak, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Wheels of Zeus (wOz), helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple's first line of products the Apple I and II and influenced the popular Macintosh. For his achievements at Apple Computer, Steve was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honor bestowed America's leading innovators.

In 2000 Steve was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was awarded the prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, The Economy and Employment for “single-handedly designing the first personal computer and for then redirecting his lifelong passion for mathematics and electronics toward lighting the fires of excitement for education in grade school students and their teachers.”

Making significant investments of both his time and resources in education, Wozniak “adopted” the Los Gatos School District, providing students and teachers with hands-on teaching and donations of state-of-the-art technology equipment. Wozniak founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and was the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet and Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose.

Steve is currently a member of the board of directors for Jacent, a developer of cost-effective telephony solutions, and Danger, Inc., developer of a end-to-end wireless Internet platform.

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TechNet Radio - How Microsoft IT Deployed and Architected SharePoint [TechNet Radio - How Microsoft IT Deployed and Architected SharePoint]

auroraqueen — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:08:23 GMT

Michael Murphy interviews Sean Livingston about how Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 were deployed internally at Microsoft. In this episode they discuss challenges faced, the architecture, design decisions, lessons learned, and planning that went into the upgrade and rollout of Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. Plus we bring you interviews from the recent New York City Launch Tour 2007 event.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Michael Murphy – IT Pro Evangelist

Sean Livingston – Sean Livingston’s professional career began in the Canadian Armed Forces, and after almost 10 years of service he moved to Houston and later Seattle to work as a consultant focusing on infrastructure and development using Microsoft technologies. He joined Microsoft in 2005 to work as an engineer within Microsoft’s internal IT group focusing on collaboration technologies.

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TechNet Radio - Community Corner: An Interview with User Group Leader and MVP, Lee Benjamin [TechNet Radio - Community Corner: An Interview with User Group Leader and MVP, Lee Benjamin]

auroraqueen — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:14:33 GMT

John Weston returns with his monthly segment, The Community Corner, to interview Lee Benjamin who is chairman of the largest Exchange User Group in the world. They break down the three themes of Exchange Server 2007, Anywhere Access, Operational Efficiency and Built-in Protection. Lee also details how to upgrade from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2007 and what you need to be doing today to prepare for Exchange Server 2007.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

John Weston – IT Pro Evangelist

Lee Benjamin – With over 20 years experience in the messaging industry, Lee runs ExchangeGuy Consulting Services, specializing in everything about Exchange including: migration and upgrade advice, technical writing and evaluation, product strategy, and training and courseware development. Lee is chairman of the largest Exchange user group in the world, ExchangeServerBoston, and a director for BostonUserGroups, an umbrella organization of over 50 user groups in the New England Area. Lee is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer, a regular speaker at industry and vendor seminars and conferences, and is an analyst with messaging industry analyst Ferris Research.

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TechNet Radio - Reliable Recovery with Data Protection Manager Version 2 [TechNet Radio - Reliable Recovery with Data Protection Manager Version 2]

auroraqueen — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:17:45 GMT

In this episode Matt Hester interviews Jason Buffington about Microsoft Data Protection Manager Version 2 (DPM v2). DPM v2 blends the best aspects of continuous data protection (CDP) with traditional tape backup into a single and reliable data protection solution that enables IT administrators and end-users to rapidly and reliably recover from seamlessly integrated disk and tape. DPM v2 was specifically designed to protect and recover SQL Server, Exchange Server, SharePoint Portal Server, and Windows file services. Jason talks about the underlying technology and how combined with Microsoft’s experience in Windows Server technology, DPM v2 provides a technically advanced and comprehensive data protection solution for the most demanding Windows environments.

Plus we have our monthly segment with Kai Axford and Mark Griesi from the Security Response Team, discussing the January Security Bulletin.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Matt Hester – IT Pro Evangelist

Jason Buffington – Jason Buffington has been working in the networking industry since 1989, with a majority of that time being focused on data protection. He is a Certified Business Continuity Planner, as well as a Microsoft MCSE-MCT and in 2005 was awarded Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) in Storage technologies. Jason has spoken around the world at events such as SNW, DRJ, CPM, Network Storage Conference, FOSE-Storage, HP-Compaq ENSA, SAN World, and numerous disaster recovery seminars. He has been published in several periodicals, including Storage Networking World, StorageInc., Storage Management Solutions, Network World, CTR, DRJ, TechTarget/SearchStorage and Enterprise Storage. With over 15 years of storage experience, Jason recently joined Microsoft as Senior Technical Product Manager for Data Protection Manager (DPM). He has previously held leadership posts as Director of Business Continuity for NSI Software with Double-Take, and Cheyenne/CA with ARCserve. Jason studied Computer Science at Texas A&M.

Kai Axford – Kai Axford is a Sr. Security Strategist at Microsoft.

Mark Griesi – Mark Griesi is a Security Product Manager on the Security Response Team at Microsoft

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TechNet Radio - Collaborating with Sharepoint Server 2007: An interview with Arpan Shah [TechNet Radio - Collaborating with Sharepoint Server 2007: An interview with Arpan Shah]

auroraqueen — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 23:11:07 GMT

Matt Hester speaks with Arpan Shah, Group Product Manager for the Sharepoint Team, about Office Sharepoint Server 2007. They discuss deployment, the upgrade paths to move a 2003 Sharepoint Portal Server to a 2007 Sharepoint Server, new features and functionalities such as Enterprise Search & Business Intelligence, and also how it’s easier than ever for the Administrator to maintain Sharepoint Sites.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Matt Hester – IT Pro Evangelist

Arpan Shah – Arpan Shah is a group product manager at Microsoft who drives technical readiness for SharePoint Products and Technologies, working closely with partners, customers, and the development team. His portal technology experience dates back to 1999, and he was a core member of the team that launched Content Management Server (CMS) 2002 and SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) 2003. His current focus is on Windows SharePoint Services (version 3) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Arpan is a frequent speaker at technical events.

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TechNet Radio - How Microsoft IT Deployed Microsoft Office 2007 [TechNet Radio - How Microsoft IT Deployed Microsoft Office 2007]

auroraqueen — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:29:33 GMT

The beta release of the 2007 Microsoft Office system provided the Microsoft IT Messaging and Collaboration Services (MACS) team with the opportunity to test improved deployment tools which are designed to simplify the enterprise-wide rollout of applications. The team has found that the single build folder, single customization patch, and script hooks resulted in a more efficient deployment solution, helping to ensure that deployment scenarios are fully tested before the release of the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and to also extend the productivity-increasing benefits of the enhanced Office system applications to users throughout the company. In this interview Michael Murphy speaks with Eric Vigesaa about the team’s experience with delivery process, installation and use of new deployment tools.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Michael Murphy – IT Pro Evangelist

Eric Vigesaa – As the Program Manager for Office system client applications, Eric Vigesaa is responsible for deploying the Office 2007 client applications inside Microsoft and driving product feedback to the development team. He is currently planning the dogfooding efforts for the next version of Office client. Eric spent 4 years designing features for Microsoft Excel 2003 and 2007 before transitioning into his current internal dogfooding role.

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TechNet Radio - Building IT Community: An interview with MVP, David Sanders [TechNet Radio - Building IT Community: An interview with MVP, David Sanders]

auroraqueen — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:13:29 GMT

David Sanders, a Microsoft MVP and the CEO of Culminis, speaks with John Weston about building IT community, how you can start a successful user group and what user groups can do to help the IT Pro world. They also get a chance to discuss what they think of Office 2007 and tips to help you prepare for it.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

John Weston – IT Pro Evangelist

David M. Sanders – In addition to being a Microsoft MVP, Dave is the CEO of Culminis, Inc. (www.Culminis.com). Culminis specializes in providing support and value to IT PRO user groups worldwide with presence in over 75 countries representing two million IT Pros. Dave also volunteers as President of the Carolina IT Professionals Group (CITPG), a group he founded in 1999. CITPG is an IT PRO user group with over 6500 members, and has won national and regional awards for extensive public service. He sits on several Boards in his community doing community service and in particular working with organizations to help children and the homeless.

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TechNet Radio - Building IT Community: An interview with MVP, David Sanders [TechNet Radio - Building IT Community: An interview with MVP, David Sanders]

auroraqueen — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:12:04 GMT

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

John Weston – IT Pro Evangelist

David M. Sanders – In addition to being a Microsoft MVP, Dave is the CEO of Culminis, Inc. (www.Culminis.com). Culminis specializes in providing support and value to IT PRO user groups worldwide with presence in over 75 countries representing two million IT Pros. Dave also volunteers as President of the Carolina IT Professionals Group (CITPG), a group he founded in 1999. CITPG is an IT PRO user group with over 6500 members, and has won national and regional awards for extensive public service. He sits on several Boards in his community doing community service and in particular working with organizations to help children and the homeless.

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TechNet Radio - Deploying Microsoft Office 2007 [TechNet Radio - Deploying Microsoft Office 2007]

auroraqueen — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:21:39 GMT

In this episode Chris Avis sits down with Josh Edwards, a Technical Product Manager on the Microsoft Office Client Technical Product Management Team, to discuss deployment of the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Responding to challenges with current deployment, new tools were created for migrating from previous versions of Office to Office 2007. Josh details how these tools will help organizations understand the impact of migrating and the impact on their data. He also talks about what's new inside of Group Policy for managing Office deployment and managing desktops post deployment with new management packs for MOM.

Plus we have our monthly segment with Kai Axford and Mark Griesi from the Security Response Team, discussing the December Security Bulletin.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Chris Avis – IT Pro Evangelist

Josh Edwards – Joshua Edwards is a Technical Product Manager on the Microsoft Office Client Technical Product Management Team In this role, Josh focuses on deployment, management, and security issues related to the Microsoft Office programs and applications and technical evangelism with IT professionals. Josh has been with the Microsoft Business Division PMG for four years. Previous Microsoft experience includes MSN and Xbox where he worked on innovative Internet services and products, in addition to entrepreneurial and consulting roles prior to joining Microsoft. Josh holds a degree from Brigham Young University. He grew up in Saudi Arabia and has lived in Russia, Ukraine, and other locations around the globe.

Kai Axford – Kai Axford is a Sr. Security Strategist at Microsoft.

Mark Griesi – Mark Griesi is a Security Product Manager at Microsoft.

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TechNet Radio - Open XML Formats in Office 2007 [TechNet Radio - Open XML Formats in Office 2007]

auroraqueen — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 03:53:24 GMT

Michael Murphy, interviews Gray Knowlton, the Group Product Manager for the Office Client Technical Product Management team. They discuss how Open XML Formats are intended to be standard file formats to which any Developer or Implementer will have access, key aspects of the modular architecture, why Microsoft chose to standardize the Open XML Formats, and how the design of the Open XML Format makes solution development much simpler than it's been in the past.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Michael Murphy – IT Pro Evangelist

Gray Knowlton – Gray Knowlton is the Group Product Manager for the Office Client Technical Product Management team. Gray has also engaged on product management topics for Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office InfoPath, and the Open XML Formats. Prior to joining Microsoft, Gray has held various product management, system engineering and other technical roles at leading desktop software companies, and integrated solution providers for large-scale news organizations.

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