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• Vote NOW: For Peyton Hillis for the Madden NFL 12 Cover

  Four wins down. One to go. Browns running back Peyton Hillis defeated quarterback Aaron Rodgers of the Super Bowl XLV champion Green Bay Packers in the semifinals of the tournament to be on the cover of Madden NFL 12. Prior to his win over Rodgers, Hillis... Posted Apr 20 2011, 10:31 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Fun Stuff, Fun and Family, Football, Screen Casts, Health and Fitness

• Heartland IT Pro User Groups

  One of the great aspects of my job is I get to work with a lot of different user groups and meet lots of people from the IT Pro community.  Well I did my best to get a list of all the IT professional  user groups I work with in the Heartland... Posted Feb 25 2011, 10:03 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows XP, Exchange, Active Directory, Search, Hardware, Virtual PC, IE, Windows Vista, Events, Office 2007, System Center, TechNet, Windows Server, ISA Server, Group Policy, SQL 2005, WebCast Question Logs, Fun Stuff, TechNet Events, Live Event Questions and Answers, Exchange 2007, Live Events, Interviews, 2007 Office system, IT Pro Resources, Management, Fun and Family, XBOX 360, Book of the Month, System Center Data Protection Manager, Podcasts, migration, Virtual Server, Podcast, Small Business Server, ForeFront, Small Business Server 2003, PHP, Data Protection Manager, Windows 2003, Social Media, Windows 2003R2, SXSW, Windows Desktop Search, free training, TechEd, Windows Server 2008, Football, Tech Ed, IT Pro Momentum, A More Secure and Well Managed Infrastructure (SWMI), SQL 2008, Screen Casts, Apache, Windows 7, Hyper-V, MySQL, Health and Fitness, MAP, Cloud computing, IT Manager, IE 8, Featured, Cloud, expert, Azure, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit, Social Marketing, Office 2010, Writing, running, Matt Hester, Pages, IT Investigators, goofy, Event Resources, techent radio

• Winter X Games 15 Rollout

  Too COOL or as Keith would say KEWL.  I had to share: Share this post: Read More... Posted Jan 31 2011, 09:11 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Fun and Family, Podcast, Screen Casts

• Walt Disney World Goofy Challenge Training Week 5: Surfing Lake Erie

  What a week!   This week marked a great week of training.  If you recall from last week, 13 was my Sunday run.  Before I get into the run a huge thanks to Kevin for showing me the trail and running early in the morning on Sunday, to... Posted Oct 05 2010, 07:41 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Fun and Family, Screen Casts, Health and Fitness, running, goofy

• Want to know what it is like at an interview?

  My good friend Keith has a great post about the interview process I went through at Microsoft, and has a great video, check it out and let me know what you think:   IT Pro Interviewing - Level 100 Share this post: Read More... Posted Aug 26 2010, 08:11 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Fun and Family, Screen Casts

• Bytes by TechNet, Chris Henley and I Chat

  Working with one of my best friends is a fantastic.  More importantly getting to sit down and chat with Chris is even cooler.  Although why is he the interviewer, I am after all his mentor.  :-)  In this interview Chris and I discuss... Posted Aug 10 2010, 09:01 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Interviews, Fun and Family, Screen Casts, Windows Server 2008 R2

• Happy Monday, skip to it!

  Happy Monday, this was filmed at a halftime show at a US Naval Academy game: The group is called the Kings Firecrackers Share this post: Read More... Posted Jul 19 2010, 08:46 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Fun and Family, Screen Casts, Health and Fitness

• OFFICE 2010, SharePoint 2010 Launch events REGISTER NOW, seating is limited!!!!

  We are coming to a city near you and we want to see you at the events!  We are going to talk about Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.  Come out and spend some time hearing how these products can rock your world!  Here are just a small sampling... Posted Apr 15 2010, 09:29 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows XP, Exchange, Active Directory, Search, Hardware, Virtual PC, IE, Windows Vista, System Center, ISA Server, Group Policy, SQL 2005, WebCast Question Logs, TechNet Events, Live Event Questions and Answers, Exchange 2007, Live Events, Interviews, 2007 Office system, Fun and Family, XBOX 360, Book of the Month, System Center Data Protection Manager, Podcasts, Virtual Server, ForeFront, Small Business Server 2003, Data Protection Manager, Windows 2003, Social Media, Windows 2003R2, SXSW, Windows Desktop Search, Windows Server 2008, Football, IT Pro Momentum, A More Secure and Well Managed Infrastructure (SWMI), SQL 2008, Screen Casts, Windows 7, Hyper-V, Health and Fitness, IE 8, Windows Server 2008 R2, Social Marketing, Writing

• It’s Not That Important

  We have all been there, your driving, you hear your cell phone ring, ding or beep, trust me it is not that important and here is why (please take a minute to read the article): Child killed in 3-car accident in Columbia Heights It is probably like hundreds... Posted Mar 20 2010, 07:36 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows XP, Exchange, Active Directory, Search, Hardware, Virtual PC, IE, Windows Vista, System Center, ISA Server, Group Policy, SQL 2005, WebCast Question Logs, TechNet Events, Live Event Questions and Answers, Exchange 2007, Live Events, Interviews, 2007 Office system, Fun and Family, XBOX 360, Book of the Month, System Center Data Protection Manager, Podcasts, Virtual Server, ForeFront, Small Business Server 2003, PHP, Data Protection Manager, Windows 2003, Social Media, Windows 2003R2, SXSW, Windows Desktop Search, Windows Server 2008, Football, IT Pro Momentum, A More Secure and Well Managed Infrastructure (SWMI), SQL 2008, Screen Casts, Apache, Windows 7, Hyper-V, MySQL, Health and Fitness, IE 8, Windows Server 2008 R2, Social Marketing, Writing

• Screencast: Windows 7 Enhanced Security and Control: Introduction

  So as some of you have seen I did 4 brief screencasts on Windows 7 and some of the security improvements.  Well I had a camera, got a liitle bored it was one rare moments I had some extra time,  and I had a green screen.  I decided to record... Posted Dec 09 2009, 12:39 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: IE, Group Policy, Fun and Family, Screen Casts, Windows 7, IE 8

• Proud Dad Moment: Mitchell’s first TD

  Here is a proud moment I got to witness and extremely lucky one of the team moms (thanks Liz!!!) was video taping that day.  BTW the voice you here in the background yelling go, is little ole me.  I was very excited.  Go Mitchell! Share... Posted Nov 19 2009, 07:22 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Fun and Family, Football, Screen Casts

• Windows 7 Film Fest Contest

  Check out the fun films from the Windows 7 Film Fest   The contest took 17 film teams in the Seattle area competed.  Rules were to create a 30 second to 2 minute film, targeted to IT Pros.  Each team picked a different genre from a hat... Posted Nov 09 2009, 08:31 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Fun and Family, Screen Casts, Windows 7

• Now this is funny, Bolt owns ESPN

  I particularly like the guys stretching and warming up: Share this post: Read More... Posted Sep 29 2009, 09:28 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Fun and Family, Screen Casts, Health and Fitness

• What is the diet of a professional Football Player?

  I was looking around ESPN and saw this post about the typical meal for a NFL player.  More specifically during the 2 a-days practice a typical offensive lineman needs to take in 7500 calories a day! 975 grams of carbohydrates 277 grams of protein... Posted Sep 08 2009, 03:44 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Fun and Family, Football, Screen Casts, Health and Fitness

• Harold Becomes a Chef for a day

  My teammate, technical editor, and friend Harold Wong , became a chef for the day at a Japanese Steakhouse Benihana .  I am so jealous, that looked so much fun.  Basically Benihana offered a program.Be The Chef at Benihana.  The package... Posted Aug 21 2009, 03:53 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Fun and Family, Screen Casts

• Confessions of A PC-Aholic

  Video: Laptop Hunters $1000 - Lauren Gets an HP Pavilion There was also another interesting article on MSN here: I'm a PC, and this time Microsoft's buying Share this post: Read More... Posted Mar 26 2009, 09:01 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hardware, Windows Vista, Fun and Family, Screen Casts, Windows 7

• Brief History of the Web from MIX09 IE 8 launch!

  Check out this fun video! Share this post: Read More... Posted Mar 19 2009, 11:43 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: IE, Fun and Family, Screen Casts, IE 8

• Announcement: Windows 7 Rocks Screencast Contest: Now Accepting Applications!

  Alright Keith and I are at it again and this time we want to give away the cool stuff like a: Lenovo T61P ! Okay do I have your attention now?  As some of you may recall we had a contest last time just for the MVP’s and a lot of you wanted in on... Posted Mar 01 2009, 12:00 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows XP, IE, Windows Vista, Live Events, Fun and Family, Podcasts, Windows 2003, Windows 2003R2, Windows Server 2008, Screen Casts, Windows 7, IE 8

• Holiday Gift Giving Guide a TV interview on Windows Mobile Devices

  Every so often you watch a TV show and think I know that person.  Well My buddy Zain, and believe or not the person who hired me for my first job in Texas got a great chance to do an interview on a Fox news station in Houston.  He talked about... Posted Dec 17 2008, 11:16 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows XP, Hardware, Windows Vista, Interviews, Fun and Family, Screen Casts

• Fun for the Surfing Days, check out Mayne Street

  I was browsing one of my favorite sites espn.com and noticed they have a new online show called Mayne Street starring Kenny Mayne.  If you like his humor and want to have a good laugh check out his show it is pretty funny.  I have included my... Posted Nov 26 2008, 07:11 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Fun and Family, Screen Casts

• Anyone out there: MVP Contest Check Up

  Hey all you MVP rockstars are you out there?  Are you working hard on putting together your screencasts to win some cool prizes?  Remember the contest we started: Do you want to win* a Lenovo T61P ThinkPad or Xbox 360 Pro with 60 GB?  ... Posted Nov 17 2008, 09:14 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: IE, Windows Vista, TechNet Events, Fun and Family, Virtual Server, Windows Server 2008, Screen Casts, IE 8

• Matt and Keith Invade PDC and chat after they showed Windows 7

  Keith and I got to go to PDC well we decided to chat about what we saw after they announce Windows 7 launch: Share this post: Read More... Posted Nov 01 2008, 05:09 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Fun and Family, Screen Casts, IE 8

• Do you want to win* a Lenovo T61P ThinkPad or Xbox 360 Pro with 60 GB?

  Are you a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) ? Do you want to win * some great prizes just in time for the holidays? How does a 8GB or 120GB Zune sound or an Xbox 360 Pro? What you want something bigger, okay how about a: Lenovo T61P!!!! Okay... Posted Oct 10 2008, 08:00 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: IE, Windows Vista, TechNet Events, Fun and Family, Virtual Server, Windows Server 2008, Screen Casts, IE 8

• Want to be Like Michael Phelps?

  Too funny! Check out the Michael Phelps Diet: Michael Phelps diet from Saturday Night Live   Share this post: Read More... Posted Sep 16 2008, 10:34 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Fun and Family, Screen Casts, Health and Fitness

• Second Part of Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld Commercials is live

  I really enjoyed the second part of the commercial, let me know what you think, click on the picture: New Family Video Part 2 of Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld Share this post: Read More... Posted Sep 12 2008, 08:13 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows Vista, Fun and Family, Screen Casts