Rod Trent MVP, myITforum'er : Microsoft

myITforum.com Polls : .NET 3.5 Deployment

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:16:25 GMT

What percentage of your Workstations and Servers have .Net 3.5 installed? Participate here: myITforum.com : .NET 3.5 Deployment Read More......(read more)

Restarting a file transfer using Microsoft File Transfer Manager

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:36:01 GMT

Say you were downloading Windows 7 from MSDN or TechNet and the download was taking forever, and you ended up shutting down your computer before Windows 7 was completely downloaded. How do you get the Win7 download to start back up from where it...(read more)

Microsoft SOLUTIONACCELERATORS Satisfaction Survey

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:02:17 GMT

SOLUTION ACCELERATORS are free tools and guidance created by Microsoft to help IT Professionals with the use of Microsoft products and technologies. Your answers will help direct Microsoft investments in Solution Accelerators. This survey contains less...(read more)

The Microsoft/Yahoo Choice/Value/Innovation web site

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:29:54 GMT

Choice. Value. Innovation. - Home Read More......(read more)

Nexus SC: The System Center Team Blog : Brad Anderson promoted to Corporate Vice President of Management and Services Division

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:56:10 GMT

In a bit of a break from our normal System Center topics, today we thought we’d share the exciting news that earlier today it was announced within Microsoft that Brad Anderson has been promoted to corporate vice president, Management and Services...(read more)

Vista main culprit in Microsoft layoffs | InfoWorld | News | 2009-01-22 | By Tom Sullivan, InfoWorld

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:40:09 GMT

Windows Vista has been trouble for Microsoft perhaps since the operating system's beginning. And this last quarter was certainly no exception. Despite a dip in client software revenue, however, one analyst says the workforce reduction Microsoft...(read more)

The truth of the rumored Microsoft layoff should soon be revealed | NetworkWorld.com Community

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:43:12 GMT

Will Microsoft nix thousands of jobs in January or won't it? If it does, will this be called a layoff, or will it be named some sort of euphemism? The Wall Street Journal has set the rumor mill wildly spinning again today with yet more reports...(read more)

Fudzilla - Microsoft getting ready to lay off 17% of staff

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:19:50 GMT

Worldwide cutbacks The rumor that Microsoft was set to lay off people on January 15th, 2009 is no longer a rumor but a fact. Staff at Microsoft have been informed that the company is readying major layoffs to its worldwide operations and it's...(read more)

Full of I.T. : IT Managers – This hub’s for YOU!

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:13:14 GMT

IT Managers – This hub’s for YOU! Breaking News: The IT Manager Community Hub is LIVE! Spread the word! For several months now, I’ve been working with people in the Microsoft BMO on this project, which started because of a recognition that IT Managers...(read more)

Microsoft TechNet Forums have completed their move to the social

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:16:51 GMT

Main Forums page: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/categories/ The new location for the ConfigMgr forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/configurationmanager/ Read More......(read more)

MN System Center User Group meeting November 19th

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:49:56 GMT

MN System Center User Group This month we have another excellent opportunity as we have two presenters from Microsoft. Geoff Choi will focus on App-V, formerly called Soft Grid, and talk about how this will revolutionize the way we currently deploy...(read more)

Microsoft licenses 1E’s Wake-up and Nomad products for 200,000 desktops within Microsoft!

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:35:26 GMT

This is BIG news: http://www.myitforum.com/absolutenm/templates/IndustryNews.aspx?articleid=5933&zoneid=71 Read More......(read more)

Windows 3.x sees it’s final blue screen

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:43:21 GMT

RIP: November 1st, 2008. http://www.myitforum.com/absolutenm/templates/IndustryNews.aspx?articleid=5915&zoneid=71 Read More......(read more)

Learn about Windows 7

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:15:57 GMT

Windows 7 Preview Video – Mike Nash, CVP Product Management, Windows Read More......(read more)

The Cloud is called Azure…

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:54:07 GMT

http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx Read More......(read more)

Bill Gates starting new technology company?

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:25:04 GMT

Apparently, so… http://www.myitforum.com/absolutenm/templates/IndustryNews.aspx?articleid=5848&zoneid=71 Read More......(read more)

Microsoft is “V” crazy…

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:30:48 GMT

Firdous Gangat posted that Microsoft has adorned their Kidaro acquisition with a new name: Med-V . App-V, Hyper-V, now Med-V. What’s next? Win-V? Read More......(read more)

Silverlight 2 releases – download available on Tuesday, October 14th…

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:05:14 GMT

http://www.myitforum.com/absolutenm/templates/IndustryNews.aspx?articleid=5791&zoneid=71 Read More......(read more)

VMC to Hyper-V Import Tool Available

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:49:20 GMT

VMC to Hyper-V Import Tool, VMC2HV for short, imports the configuration from a Virtual Machine Configuration (VMC) file. Both Virtual PC and Virtual Server use VMC files to store the hardware and other properties of a VM. It reads the VMC file and maps...(read more)

Windows 7 – second verse same as the first

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:18:47 GMT

Winfuture.de has posted screen shots for Windows 7. Not much different than Windows Vista… http://winfuture.de/screenshots/Windows-7-Meilenstein-3-Build-6.1.6801-3540-1.html Read More......(read more)