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Windows Home Server Team Meet Channels 9 & 10

A few of the guys from the Windows Home Server team (CJ Saretto, Mark Pendergrast and Brendan Grant) caught up with the folks from Channel 9 and Channel 10 (Microsoft’s Developer and Enthusiast Community Sites) to talk about the upcoming Professional Developer Conference in LA and also show off some new home server hardware.

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MVP Summit Day 3: Sleepless in Seattle

The originality police may be knocking on my door shortly for that headline, but on Tuesday night my jetlag really decided to kick in as I awoke at 2.30am and couldn’t get back to sleep. So Wednesday ended up as a bit of a blur! We were back to campus for the second day of our Windows Home [...]

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MVP Summit Day 2: Meet the Team…

Tuesday arrived here in Seattle with it’s usual grey outlook and more drizzle - it’s strange how you can travel thousands of miles and yet still feel like you’re back home. This is one pretty damp city in April. Someone mentioned to me that Seattle gets about the same rainfall as many other cities in [...]

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MVP Summit Day 1: We Got Started

The 2008 MVP Summit kicked off yesterday with a half day session which included a great presentation from outgoing MVP General Manager Sean O’Driscoll on the power of social networksin the Web 2.0 era and their impact on business (I’m a Marketer by trade, so found this really interesting as a lot of the clients [...]

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MVP Summit Day 0: It’s the Dalai Lama!

One of the cool things about the MVP Summit is that you get to stay in a pretty decent hotel. The deal is, you pay for your travel expenses (funded mainly by Virgin air miles in my case) and Microsoft pick up the tab for your hotel. There’s over 1700 MVPs here in town scattered [...]

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MVP Summit: All the Way to Redmond

Early start this morning, and I’m now on the way to Heathrow on the first leg of my journey to next week’s MVP Summit. Fortunately, I’m flying Virgin rather than BA, and missing the T5 fiasco - however, American Airlines may do their best to scupper me flying from Chicago to Redmond, as I’m due [...]

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Meeting the Windows Home Server Team Next Week - What’s Your Message?

So next week is the Microsoft MVP conference, and over 1700 MVPs are heading over to the Microsoft campus in Redmond to meet and hear about Microsoft’s plans for the future, as well as feedback what’s important in their respective communities. Most of the Windows Home Server MVPs will be there, and we have two full [...]

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Windows Home Server: Protect and Simplify Your Digital Life Now Available

One time (or should that be “short time”) WHS MVP and now Microsoft employee Rick Hallihan’s book, “Windows Home Server: Protect and Simplify Your Digital Life“ is now shipping at Amazon. Here’s the lowdown: Windows Home Server (WHS) simplifies the process of backing up PCs, and this complete reference brings the power of WHS to everyday PCs [...]

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Congratulations to the New Windows Home Server MVPs!

It’s January 1st 2008, and a number of new Microsoft MVPs for Windows Home Server have been announced, joining Grey Lancaster, Ken Warren and me (who are now officially old-skool). Please give a big round of applause (or if you see them, a big round of drinks) to: Andrew Edney (author of the Windows Home Server [...]

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I Got Podcasted

A week or so ago, the guys over at PerfectDisk invited me to be interviewed about Windows Home Server, We Got Served and the MVP Program for their PerfectDisk podcast. So, if you want to hear me speak with a very scratchy and gravelly voice over the telephone, (I had a pretty heavy cold on the [...]

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