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Jason headed to Europe in November

November promises to be a fun time across Europe.  Here are a few of the places I will be:

November 3 – Brussels

Am looking forward to seeing some of my friends at the System Center Users Group in Belgium.  More details to follow on what I will be speaking on.

November 5 – London [...]

Favorite TechEd Australia and New Zealand moments

I really enjoy giving sessions at TechEd – and the international events are great for giving me different perspectives on bandwidth, regulatory compliance, etc.  Over the past two weeks, I gave 6 breakout sessions (AU sessions & NZ sessions), did a few podcasts, press interviews, etc.

In fact, the first article from that week [...]

Jason and DPM at TechEd New Zealand

Am back in Auckland for my third TechEd !  

This promises to be a great week, so here is where you can catch me and hear more about DPM 2010:

Monday @ 14:55 – SVR215 – Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010, Part 1: Technical Introduction

Why is Microsoft in [...]

Jason at TechEd Australia 2010

Hello to all my friends Down Under !

Am so excited to be back for my third TechEd Australian event.  This week, I will be delivering/co-delivering four sessions:

Thursday, 13:45 — MGT303 – Introduction to System Center Essentials 2010 – in Meeting Room 6

System Center Essentials (SCE) 2010 is designed to deliver enterprise-class management [...]

Two new things for System Center Operations Manager – Me and a Management Pack

This week, the OpsMgr team added two new items that are hopefully of interest to some of y’all.

A new Technical Product Manager … me !!  

I am very excited to be taking on OM!  Yes, I will still have DPM and SCE roles, but with those products wholly launched, am looking [...]

Getting Ready for Wood Badge

Am getting ready for Wood Badge in a few weeks, which is a training program for adult leaders within Boy Scouts.  Per a BSA website:

Reflecting the best of nearly a century of Scouting experience, the course draws upon the most current leadership models used by corporate America, academic circles, and successful outdoor organizations [...]

Jason is going Down Under (again)

Woo Hoo – am very excited to confirm that I will be returning for my third TechEd Australia and TechEd New Zealand next month.

TechEd Australia (August 24-27)

I have at least three confirmed sessions:

Protecting Application Servers with DPM 2010 – This session will focus on protecting and recovering Exchange 2010 and 2007, SharePoint [...]

It’s almost here !

I hope everyone had a great Independence Weekend !

It’s hard to believe that one year ago, I was drafting a table of contents over that weekend – and now I am counting down the days until the book is on the shelves (hopefully yours). 

It is due out on July 26th and is [...]

Getting Ready for Tech-Ed US in New Orleans

Are getting excited about TechEd this week. 

TechEd (in any country) is my favorite event – partly because I have been coming to them since I think 1994, and partly because this is the best event to meet IT Pros and really talk about the products, how they work, when they apply, etc.

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