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My RSS feeds for keeping up with ICT news/developments (Microsoft, VMware, Cloud and gadgets)

Currently, there are many technological advancements taking place every day. To keep up with them is already very hard. To make it a bit easier I use RSS feeds to quickly filter what I think might be of importance to me.

A list of the RSS feeds I currently use can be found here , but you can also download an XML export of my RSS feeds here for easy import to your preferred RSS reader (assuming it supports XML import). I also advise you to check Microsoft’s RSS feed index so you can customize it to your own needs.

I personally use Google Reader for my RSS feeds because then my RSS feeds will be accessible from everywhere as long as I have a browser and an internet connection. When you are often on the road without an active internet connection, a dedicated client with cached articles from the RSS feed might also come in handy.

PS: The Microsoft blog rss feed had many articles added daily and can be hard to keep up with, but you can pretty quickly weed out duplicate articles and articles in foreign languages.

I hope this has been helpful to you.

 

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1st Dutch PowerShell User Group (DuPSUG) meeting on November 23rd

At November 23rd the 1st Dutch Powershell User Group (DuPSUG) meeting will be held in November at Master IT in Eindhoven for free.

Sessions:

  • Using Windows PowerShell 3.0 to manage the remote Windows 8 workstation
    Ed Wilson (Microsoft Scripting Guy)
  • PowerShell and WMI
    Richard Siddaway (PowerShell MVP)
  • What’s new in PowerShell 3.0
    Bert Wolters (Microsoft Certified Trainer with Master it Training)
  • Protect your PowerShell scripts with version control
    Stefan Stranger (Senior Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft Netherlands)
  • From command, to script, to function, to advanced function, to tool.
    Jeff Wouters (freelance Technology Specialist at Methos IT)

Read more about the meeting, the sessions and the speakers here: http://www.dupsug.com/

Also keep in mind that the available seats are very limited, so quickly sign up if your interested.

 

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My ever growing collection of applications and tools

Thanks to the internet and the great communities and companies all over the world, there are a lot of great applications and tools available. In the past years I’ve found and used numerous of them for all kind of purposes, both personally and professionally.

Because there are so many of them, it is hard to remember all of them. That’s why I decided to create a list on my Office 365 SharePoint website for all people to see and use:
http://bjornhouben-web.sharepoint.com/Lists/Applications

The summary view is shown by default for this list. If you want to change to a different view, click on “Summary” at the top and choose the view you want to use instead:
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I put a lot of effort in providing metadata for these applications, so you can search and filter more easily.
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If you’d like, you can also export it to Excel. You can even subscribe to the RSS feed so you will be alerted when new applications have been added.

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I hope you like the list. If you know of other great applications or tools that I have not yet listed, please let me know so I can add them.

Thanks in advance.

PS: I will update the other lists in the future as well. So they will work in a similar way and will also contain a lot of useful content.

 

 
 

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