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 ...

So against all the commercials from mobile operators there are still places with absolutely no cell coverage ;). Now its time to give final review to sessions for TEC.

Eight years ago, George W. Bush succeeded Bill Clinton, becoming the 43rd President of the United States. It was the beginning of an eight year period of Republic reign in which the United States of America was engaged in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, A Department of Homeland Security was formed and the economy went down the drain. Eight years ...

This September – at least for me – is a speaking season. I’m speaking at two conferences. First is TEC 2009 organized by Quest in Berlin. TEC will gather many of well known people as speakers – let me quote Gil here: TEC is comprised to two conferences this year. TEC/Identity and Access features speakers from Microsoft (Alex Weinert, Markus ...

“I’ve always believed in information equality.” While hundreds of companies charge their customers for services with knowledge and experience as unique selling points (USPs), I’ve sat on the sideline enjoying the view. I heard these companies (most of them Microsoft Partners) complaining about shifting expectations and a changing ...