If you are interested in System Center VMM R2, you may want to read the System Center VMM team blog . Today there is a post by Vishwa Kumbalimutt, a Principal PM on the VMM team about the new features in the SCVMM R2 RC release which will be out soon...

Microsoft announced today that Photosynth will be integrated with Virtual Earth .  That is very cool.   Photosynth which was released back in August 2008 is a technology that allows you to automatically “stitch” together groups of photos...

So I was at MMS last week and saw this very cool demo at one of the keynotes. The demo by Bill Morein, Sr. Program Manager in the App-V team, was preceeded by a discussion about how to adminster the compute fabric. Bill talked about how the management...

Ever wondered about what decisions go into our Windows Operating systems? Well, this is your chance to take a behind the scenes look at the OS and find out. Stephen Rose, a community leader within Microsoft, has a site called Building Community One...

I read Iain McDonald's (Windows Server engineering) article about the history of the server and client OS's . I'll admit I typically don't pay attention to the about screen but found the explanation to be very easy to follow and interesting. It's definitely...

Most companies today are asking questions and looking for quidance into how to virtualize. Virtualization helps cut costs in power and facilities and also can help companies "Go Green" by reducing their energy consumption. One of the new tools available...

I am working on a project to develop a Services Oriented Infrastructure with the DevHawk (Harry Pierson) and in just about every meeting lately, Harry mentions durable messaging at least once and why our project team needs to focus on getting others to...

CodePlex is Microsoft's open source project hosting website. You can use CodePlex to create your own projects that you want to share with the world, join other projects, or use what is on the site already. There lots of projects and links to resources...

So this is my first blog. I read alot of different blogs on various topics, but decided to start one myself and put some information about what I do, what I am working on, and also some stuff about me outside of work. Maybe not a ton of useful information...