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Attend a TechNet Event in April : Registration is Open
TechNet Events Presents: System Center Essentials 2010 and Windows IntuneSummary: System Center...
Author: chenley Date: 03/09/2011
How to Stop All of Those Unwanted Programs that Automatically Run at Startup!
Download AutoRuns here.One of the things about being an IT guy is that everyone asks for technical...
Author: chenley Date: 03/08/2011
How To disable the Shutdown Tracker in Windows Server 2008 R2
I use a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine that is installed on my Lenovo W510 laptop to do...
Author: chenley Date: 03/05/2011
What is a Virtual Machine?
Hyper-V is a platform that is used for running virtual machines. Maybe it’s the term virtual...
Author: chenley Date: 03/04/2011
Charlie Sheen and Anne Hathaway Reading Dr. Seuss
I’m a little disappointed that True Grit did not win Best Picture last night at the Oscars. I...
Author: chenley Date: 02/28/2011
It’s Time to READ “True Grit”
With the Oscars Looming and True Grit nominated for Best Picture I am torn at the prospect of seeing...
Author: chenley Date: 02/27/2011
Memories Longer than the Road that Stretches Out Ahead.
Yesterday I made some comments about Apple that some of you have taken to mean that I hate them. It...
Author: chenley Date: 02/25/2011
Intel Announces Thunderbolt
Today on All things Digital Arik Hesseldahl talked about Intel’s new HD Audio/Visual...
Author: chenley Date: 02/24/2011
Hyper-V: Microkernelized or Monolithic
Type 2 Hypervisors (Virtual PC, VMware workstation, Virtual Server 2005R2 etc.) all have one thing...
Author: chenley Date: 02/23/2011
Windows XP Mode
In our last Virtualization 101 discussion we introduced you to Windows Virtual PC and discussed some...
Author: chenley Date: 02/21/2011
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1
Today on the TechNet download center there are 5 new items. Two of those Items are Windows 7...
Author: chenley Date: 02/16/2011
3 Things to Know Before You Upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7
Yesterday we talked about Type 2 hypervisors and why you might want to actually use them. I...
Author: chenley Date: 02/15/2011
Windows Virtual PC
In our last discussion we talked about the differences between type 1 and type 2 hypervisors. ...
Author: chenley Date: 02/14/2011
Hypervisors
Yesterday we talked about the fact that IBM had single handedly created the world of...
Author: chenley Date: 02/09/2011
Provide Feedback to Microsoft
I love working with technology, and I believe in my heart that I have one of the greatest jobs on...
Author: chenley Date: 01/12/2011
Computer Engineer Barbie
My wife and I (along with most of the parents we know) debate the value of letting our daughters...
Author: chenley Date: 12/13/2010
TechNet Events 2011
I am happy to announce that I received the registration links today for a series of TechNet events...
Author: chenley Date: 12/09/2010
A Great Discussion with John McAllister
I had the opportunity to interview John McAllister. He is great! he has changed the way that we...
Author: chenley Date: 10/26/2010
Bettering Medical Science with the Microsoft Cloud
I love Medicine! For years I was certain that i wanted to be a doctor. I loved research! I did an...
Author: chenley Date: 09/28/2010
Is Windows Azure the Answer? Yes!
The world of IT is changing, again. This time we are looking at a change in the way we think about...
Author: chenley Date: 09/15/2010
Server Bedtime Story
I have been making up bedtime stories for my children for more than an decade. Some of them are...
Author: chenley Date: 09/09/2010
August Movie Review “ Star Trek”
I have never been confused for a Trekkie. It’s not that I don’t like Star Trek. The...
Author: chenley Date: 08/30/2010
Top 15 Windows Server Innovations In the Past 15 Years
Windows IT Pro is celebrating its 15 year anniversary this year. Congratulations! That’s a...
Author: chenley Date: 08/27/2010
How the Microsoft Cloud is Changing the World. (And Mars Too!)
While I was at TechEd I had the opportunity to interview Patrick Butler Monterde. He has done some...
Author: chenley Date: 08/25/2010
Enable the Active Directory Recycle Bin
One of the coolest new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 is the Active Directory Recycle Bin. I...
Author: chenley Date: 08/16/2010
Bytes Interview with Matt Hester
Last summer I worked with one of my best friends, Matt Hester, on a new book entitled “Windows...
Author: chenley Date: 08/16/2010
Ten Days until Tech ED 2010 (and I can’t wait)
If you are an IT Pro this is the biggest event of the year! The who’s who of the...
Author: chenley Date: 05/27/2010
Ghost Town Tech
Have you ever noticed how sometimes sweeping changes can occur without pomp and circumstance right...
Author: chenley Date: 05/06/2010
Windows Server in an Amazon Cloud
This week Microsoft began allowing the modification of the terms of some of its Enterprise licensing...
Author: chenley Date: 03/26/2010
Website Spark : Free Software and Resources for Independent Web Development
WebsiteSpark is designed for independent web developers and web development companies that build web...
Author: chenley Date: 03/10/2010
Cloud Services : The Bet for Microsoft!
1969 was really an important year, I was born, Woodstock, a man on the moon, and of course the...
Author: chenley Date: 03/04/2010
Give Me Direct Access!
To paraphrase a statement by Arthur C. Clarke “the way to find the limits of what is possible...
Author: chenley Date: 02/04/2010
Great Trial Software!
As I am sure you are all well aware one of the ways that Microsoft makes our software available for...
Author: chenley Date: 02/02/2010
Chris Henley: A Published Author!
I really can’t believe i am writing this post. I never thought I would be a published...
Author: chenley Date: 02/01/2010
Save $97 Dollars on a TechNet Plus Subscription
What’s better than saving %25 percent on your new TechNet Plus Subscription? Saving 28% on...
Author: chenley Date: 01/21/2010
"To Windows Server, the Quiet King of Communication and Collaboration!"
During my college days long ago I learned that all communication is built on a...
Author: chenley Date: 01/13/2010
Chris Henley Acquires Remington 887 Nitro Mag
"Born of the gun making expertise that brought you the best-selling, most trusted...
Author: chenley Date: 01/11/2010
Using Disk2vhd to Build Virtual Hard Disks from Online Physical Machines
I spend a lot of my time talking and writing about Hyper V and virtual machines. Windows...
Author: chenley Date: 12/07/2009
Is Bitlocker FIPS 140-2 compliant?
So I was at one of my live events here a few weeks ago and we were talking about bitlocker drive...
Author: chenley Date: 10/13/2009
Windows 7 Launch Events
It's official! Microsoft has scheduled a series of launch events around the United...
Author: chenley Date: 08/24/2009
How to Do an Offline Defragmentation of Active Directory in Windows Server 2008 R2
This last week I received an interesting question via email. "I occasionally do offline...
Author: chenley Date: 08/03/2009
IT Pro Momentum Windows Server 2008 R2 - Exchange 2010
I get so excited about the IT Pro Momentum projects I thought I would share just one more with...
Author: chenley Date: 06/23/2009
IT Pro Momentum Pilot Project- Windows Server 2008 / Virtualization
I am hearing great things from the IT Pro Momentum Program. Today our focus is on a school...
Author: chenley Date: 06/22/2009
IT Pro Momentum Pilot Project- Windows 2008 R2/Windows 7
Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 are getting a lot of airtime in the media. I...
Author: chenley Date: 06/19/2009
IT Pro Momentum Pilot Project - System Center
One of the best things about my role as an IT Evangelist is being able to assist organizations with...
Author: chenley Date: 06/17/2009