February 2011 - Posts

• Off to the MVP Summit 2011

  Getting the last few things ready before I leave the wife and little one, and head over to Seattle, USA for the Microsoft MVP Summit. This years event we’ll be focusing on ConfigMgr 2012, and this is an opportunity for me to get my hands dirty and talk with the product group for an entire week. The event of the year for me, and with the snowy conditions out there I’ve managed to book in a day of boarding! I’ll take load of pictures, loads of non-NDA notes from the event and share what I can. And once MS get the next public release out I can think about making some cool videos and articles of all the new features Posted Feb 26 2011, 05:29 AM by Robs Blog - MVP in the dark arts

• Nokia and Microsoft move beyond pillow talk

  Looks like Microsoft and Nokia have formed an alliance with Nokia using Windows Phone OS for its devices ... Tons of info over the web about this development, my jumping off point this morning was: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12427680 Posted Feb 11 2011, 04:02 AM by Robs Blog - MVP in the dark arts Filed under: Microsoft, Nokia

• Dec founder Ken Olsen departs for the big cloud in the sky (using DECnet)

  A shame, but another leader in the industry has passed on, If you don't know about Ken, its worth the read, one of the industries pioneers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Olsen   Posted Feb 08 2011, 08:14 AM by Robs Blog - MVP in the dark arts Filed under: Founder, DEC, Ken Oslen

• Wally Mead - ConfigMgr 2007 R3 and ConfigMgr 2012 Beta 1 videos

  Took me a while, but I managed to create three videos with runtimes of around 1hr 30min+ each from the days video taken at the WMUG November 1st 2010 meeting in London, England in which Wally Mead, Senior Program Manager, gave us a run through of ConfigMgr 2007 R3 and two great sessions on ConfigMgr 2012 split up as overview and migration pieces. Here's the link to the videos: http://wmug.co.uk/groups/wmug_event_content/pages/wmug-event-1st-november-2010.aspx I used about 8 or so hours of my life, Camtasia, AVItoALL, PowerPoint, sprinkling of RobSkills(TM) and then hosted on Vimeo to get these to you. Thus, after all that effort I expect you to donate to the RobSkills(TM) fund for impoverished children (a charity front i use to launder money). Not going to donate? Well, I still hope you get some value from watching the videos and I will generate more for the community as I get them recorded. Posted Feb 08 2011, 05:49 AM by Robs Blog - MVP in the dark arts Filed under: WMUG, ConfigMgr 2007, Videos, R3, Rob, Configmgr 2012, Beta1