Rick Claus (RicksterCDN)

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Microsoft Azure Summit | Microsoft Events Join Microsoft Azure events to migrate and modernize with Agentic AI and advance your journey to becoming an AI-first Frontier Firm.

Going live on March 12th (Asia and Europe timezones) as well as April 23rd (Americas). Lots of great resources - sign up for the free event at aka.ms/MigrateandModernizeSummit

I was in studio helping to put together a "Migrate and Modernize" virtual event. It's got a keynote from Amanda Silver (and friends) as well as two technical sessions (one Infra, one Dev) with actual DETAILS / DEMOS on how to Modernize workloads and how (and when) to migrate them.
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It's actually quite good to watch. Players and team personalities.

Small back dog.lying down on a cream coloured blanket.on a leather couch. It's eyes are closed and she is sleeping.

Bailee has decided it's best to get a quick snooze in before work after having breakfast.

Wrapped up #microsoftAItour in London with a proper English breakfast before heading to Heathrow. Beans, eggs and proper bacon.

So long UK!

Let me give ya a quick tour of the London stop for the #microsoftAItour event here at the Excel center.

I'm talkin about managing traditional infrastructure workloads using AI tools... One more tool in your toolbelt.

Photo of a very long and steep escalator going down to the London underground station below. Mostly empty with a few people.

Serious elevation loss in some of these London Underground tube stations.
Traveling around prior to the Microsoft event on Tuesday.

Quick little montage of my travels down to São Paulo for #MicrosoftAItour

Really cool to meet and connect with ya after the session.

NDSU softball player staying on second base throwing the bison sign in celebration

batter in a green uniform swinging at a pitch coming in from a softball game

team dig out photo with the NDSU bison, softball team, waving in celebration

Low camera angle, looking upward towards the sky, surrounded and in circled by the softball team looking down

The shot as well as some other good ones from the herd...

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One of the photos I took (out of 1000 + across 5 games) of my daughters final D1 softball season was selected as candidate for picture of the week. I snapped this just after the 2 run double by NDSU throwing the Bison horns.

Do me a favor and give it a vote?

www.instagram.com/p/DUlOjB6jjP...

Heading out to Sao Paulo today to talk about one more tool in your toolbox.

Still in the air. We had some SEA.....HAWKS.... Chants as the time ran out.

Delta pulled it off.

Darkened airplane cabin with seat back monitors playing the football game.

Applause whenever the Seahawks score. Mostly every screen on this flight from Orlando to Seattle is playing the game. Fan gear all around.

Good times!
#GoHawks

Small black dog wearing dog sized seahawks jersey sitting on an ottoman.

Bailee is dressed for the occasion...

#GoHawks
#SEAHAWKS

PLEASE RP: This is for IT Directors/Managers.

Are you managing a team that has been securing & operating your IT team during these trying times?

Let your Sysadmin/IT Pros/DevOps people know that you appreciate them.

TELL THEM.

Say the words.

It matters.

I do share! Started taking pictures at her first away tournament in freshman year and made a shared folder for the players, coaches and parents. The athletics director asked if they could use them for socials.

I now get press/team credentials for all her games.

D2 is no joke! It’s still top tier for athletes IMHO.

I shoot a Nikon z6ii mirrorless camera with both a 70-200 prime zoom (F2.8) or a 24-70 prime zoom (f2.8). Nice set of fast lenses to capture those moments in time.

You think I could keep a secret?

Close on the colours. She’s a Bison with Fargo ND.

No offense taken my friend.

Absolutely!
All levels should be respected. They are all athletes !

Female university softball player hitting a softball down at first base

Little League softball player staying on second base with a glove raised, wearing a red shirt

Takin’ a red eye to fly out and watch the kickoff to my daughters final D1 softball season.

What a ride.

Walk N Talk: I chat with Yash Shekar about the huge native NVMe performance boost here NOW for to Windows Server 2025. What it is, how to enable it, and a sneak peek at what's to come.
Full Video: youtu.be/pa0EPn8NzuI
#WindowsServer

Excited to be heading down to São Paulo next week to talk about using AI Tools to manage traditional hardware / workloads. It will be my first time in Brazil and connecting with the IT Infra Community. Will you be there? #itpro #AgenticOps #PneumaticNailer

on campus yesterday creating some content between meetings. One was a scrappy chat with a Windows Server feature PM, the other was a larger funded project with an engineering lead. Both of these will be awesome, why? genuine "human to human" storytelling. Get out there and make stuff. #STORYTELLING

Rice crispies.