Since I’ve shared some key information on Tech·Ed Europe 2010 earlier, I guess you’ve already concluded I’ll be attending Tech·Ed Europe this year. Together with two colleagues (Roland Zenhorst and Dave Stork) I’ll be staying in a triple room at the abba Berlin hotel ****. We’re flying in on Sunday November 7, and flying back home to Amsterdam ...

With Microsoft planning for the next version of the Windows Desktop, collectively referred to as Windows 8, promising to supersede Windows 7 and Windows XP together, some of us feel a need to chip in. Here’s your chance!  Together with Michael Pietroforte and a bunch of other Microsoft MVPs and insiders, we’re running a poll with ...

Four years ago, on June 26th 2006, I posted the first piece of writing to this blog space. Little did I know back then the adventure I was getting myself into… Looking back, it’s not just the experience of writing stuff down for the whole world to see. It’s not just the half million pageviews on this blog.  It’s the feedback I get from ...

June 2010 is poised to be an incredibly prolific month this year for me. Not only will I be celebrating my 4th year of blogging (right here on DirTeam), but I’m also invited to some venues to help out, co-organizing an event and even doing some live TV stuff. Exciting!         ...

In four weeks time, Microsoft Netherlands will host an IT Pro event, named TechNet Deep Dive. This event focuses primarily on datacenter management, security and identity management. The common theme is the New Efficiency. The event will be hosted on June 1, 2010 at Spant! in Bussum (in the Netherlands). Speakers For this event ...

Tech·Ed is the annual Microsoft event, where IT Pros and developers meet with Microsoft representatives and Microsoft MVPs to learn and exchange information. Tech·Ed events are organized all over the world and Tech·Ed Europe is the event for IT Pros and developers from the European continent and the UK. As a Tech·Ed veteran of sorts, I’m looking ...

On Wednesday March 3, 2010 Hyper-V.nu (the Dutch Hyper-V Community) organizes another meeting for Dutch Hyper-V enthusiasts. This time, they’re partnering with Nobel for the location, food and drinks. About the event The event will be held at Nobel at Gooimeer 18 in Naarden, the Netherlands from 9AM to 4PM. The website for the event is ...

This morning I performed a ‘zero to live migration’ demo for the joined HP Netherlands, Hyper-V.nu (Dutch Hyper-V Community) meeting. You can find more information on this meeting on my previous blog post. I brought my photo camera with me and asked Jaap Wesselius to take some pictures, while I showed some slides from a custom slide deck (in ...

On November 24, 2009 HP Netherlands and Hyper-V.nu (the Dutch Hyper-V Community) organize a special meeting. Between 9 AM and 12 AM several speakers will contribute to a deep dive into the possibilities in Windows Server 2008 R2 and the use of Microsofts desktop virtualization products. It’ll be fun hanging out with Jaap Wesselius and Hans ...

With the release of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, The Dutch Network User Group (in Dutch: ‘Netwerk Gebruikersgroep Nederland’ or ‘NGN’ for short) organizes a Windows 7 Deployment event on Monday October 26th, 2009 in Ede, the Netherlands. The event will not be focusing on the cool new features of Windows 7, but instead on the deployment ...