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 ...

May and June this year are speaking engagements months for me. Mostly these engagements are local events in Poland - if you're interested in them, please visit my Polish blog. One event will be in English and is organized on-line through Live Meeting by my friend, Polish MVP - Robert. If You have spare 75 minutes on the 19th ...

It has been a while since I have posted anything on my blog. I have been quite busy until a week or so ago. For the end of march at Microsoft TechDays 2010 (Antwerp, Belgium) I had to create, prepare and deliver a presentation about FIM 2010 and some demos to go with that. The cool part about this is that my presentation made it to Microsoft ...

Last week, while I was in Redmond for the 2010 MVP Summit, I also had the chance to visit some computer stores in the neighborhood. After visiting both the Best Buy and RadioShack in Bellevue, I decided to take the advice a couple of fellow-MVPs and Softies gave me and visit Fry’s in Renton on Saturday. While I intended to  look for a ...

I’ve used a Dell Latitude D630 laptop for the past 13 months. It’s been my loyal companion on two Tech·Eds, a MVP Summit, at least a dozen demos and presentations and has been with me to work with various customers. This device is equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 processor, 4GB RAM, a 14,1” 1440x900 screen, Dell integrated WiFi and ...

Being a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) is a one-year gig. My first year as a Directory Services MVP started January 1, 2009. Since then I proudly displayed the MVP logo on the left hand side of my blog. From the Least Amount of Administrative Effort point of view, I was curious to find out whether I could keep the logo there. With ...

Today I received an e-mail I was re-awarded again with the MVP Award for Directory Services. This year is the fifth time I have received this award! J   ---------- Dear Jorge de Almeida Pinto,   Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2010 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community ...

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 ...

I will be attending the Tech∙Ed Europe conference from November 9th to November 13th, 2009. This year, Tech∙Ed EMEA has become Tech∙Ed Europe. IT Pros and Developers share one venue again and Barcelona (Spain) was traded in for Berlin (Germany). I don’t have many must-see sessions, but a lot of (IT Pro, obviously) sessions appeal to me. Mark ...

Some time ago, when Windows 2008 was released I had some spare time (where are those days) and I wanted to master some of my .NET coding skills. What is better than find an idea to use them … and that’s how 1Identity Snapshot Recovery Tool was created. Snapshot Recovery Tool is command line tool which might be used to un-delete existing ...