Welcome to 2009. Here’s a deal for you. Welcome to 2009 - where we've got a LOT of great stuff lined up for you. First of all, our "Monsters of Tech" class in Denver this coming April is still open for registration, and we've lowered the per-student price to just $2,000 for the entire week. Check out the

Registration Now Open: MONSTERS of TECH Training! Concentrated Technology is ready to bring you up to speed on today's most critical new technologies and products: Windows PowerShell, Windows Server 2008, and more - all from the most experienced and popular experts in the world! We've announced our first 2009 class dates in Denver, CO, and additional dates

[UPDATE] We Want to Come Train You - Maybe for Free Greg and I are looking to put together some classes in 2009 - public, in-person training on Windows PowerShell, What's New and Changed in Win2008 (which will help set you up for Win7, too, of course), and Terminal Services. They'd be delivered in a week-long format of expert-led training. To

Now With a Full Week’s Supply of Content! Beginning next week, we'll be bringing you new, fully-technical content every day of the week! Our goal is to help you learn new technologies, new tricks, and new decision-making criteria so that you can be more effective and efficient. We'll do this through short, easily-digested articles arranged in series so

Don & Greg to Keynote the Las Vegas TechMentor Conference With the conference exactly a week away, this is news that's worth republishing. Don and Greg have been asked to present the Tuesday afternoon keynote for the Las Vegas TechMentor Conference. Our first joint keynote, in this presentation we'll deliver a fun and educational presentation we call Don't Be an

Free Tool Adds Change Control to Active Directory Wish you could stop people from adding incomplete objects to AD? Wish you could block new objects and changes that haven't been reviewed and approved? You can: Just get ADMC, a free tool - with a free permanent license - that extends ADUC and adds complete change control, business rules,

URGENT: Update Your Feed URL for This Blog Very soon, we're going to be rearranging things on our Web site to make our blog and podcast easier to use and easier to feed. To that end, we're asking that you please update your RSS bookmark to use our new Feedburner URL. That way, when we move things around,

Greg to Present Designing Your Virtualization Architecture in Denver on September 29th I've been asked to present my highly-successful session Designing Your Virtualization Architecture for the free Rocky Mountain Windows Technology User Group's Virtualization Event coming up at 12:30p on October September 29th. The RMWTUG is a well-established group run by Dennis Demartek who plans on 300-500 people in attendance at this

We’re for SMB IT Professionals! Greg and I have been doing a LOT of thinking recently, trying to find new ways that we can help you guys. Obviously, we can't do everything, and we can do the most good if we focus in on something we're good at. One of the things Greg and I

Don Jones’ PowerShell CBT Nuggets Available My 25-volume CBT Nuggets computer-based training videos on Windows PowerShell are now available! These are 100% video-based, almost 100% demo-focused videos that walk you through using PowerShell, and through a number of fairly advanced topics like modularization, regular expressions, and even producing custom objects in pipeline functions. And they're just

Don Talks about Compliance with CS Techcast Don was interviewed by the guys over at the CS Techcast podcast. They've got a great format for their podcast, with the three of them informally bringing the week's news, analysis, and interviews into a ~30 minute format. Its worth the listen. In this week's Techcast, they interview Don on

Greg Awarded MVP in Microsoft Terminal Services Well there's a fine how-do-you-do that arrived in today's Inbox. Earlier this morning, I received a letter from Microsoft announcing: Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award! The MVP Award is our way to say thank you for promoting the spirit of community and

BREAKING: Hyper-V Releases Today! (Cross-posted from the Realtime Windows Server Community) Microsoft has given me the OK to announce that Hyper-V officially releases today! It'll take a while for Microsoft to get the bits up on the web site, but for now you can grab all the information you need to prepare at this

Come. Experience. Learn. TechMentor… Don and I have both been regular speakers for TechMentor for many years now. We both feel very passionately about this completely vendor-neutral conference where we get to tell the whole truth. If you want to learn the best possible IT content available today, come join us at TechMentor. Still

AD & Exchange conferences in Vegas and Berlin Check out www.tec2009.com, as NetPro's Directory Experts Conference becomes The Experts Conference and adds a standalone conference of Exchange sessions along with their popular (and deeply, deeply hardcore) directory/identity tracks. Call for papers is now open, and venue specifics are provided. Pricing starts at under $1500 if you register toot-sweet