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Just got word that the High Definition videos of our recent JumpStart training program on the MS virtualization stack is now available online at TechNet Edge . Yup – it’s your one stop shop to get access to over 15 hours of co-presented goodness...
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Whoo-Hoo! I saw a tweet, plugged in my Samsung Focus on the Rogers network and look what popped up? (12:35) I hit the update Now button and then it started (12:37) some more checks and then this… (12:39) quickly followed by a backup procedure and...
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Here's a word of advice. If you ever get a chance to see Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich talk - in person or online - go see him. I haven't missed one of his talks over the last 6 years whenever he was speaking at an internal technical...
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After all the product announcements, betas and sneak peaks at all things management related at MMS last week, one thing crept out out of the Las Vegas haze that might have gone unnoticed. We’ve launched an online Virtual Academy called the MVA (Microsoft...
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I posted an article a couple of weeks back and I wanted to remind by Virtualization brethren of the VMware faith that there are some free online JumpStart courses coming next week just for you! With all the stuff announced at the Microsoft Management...
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A quick note to say that SP1 of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 is now released and available to download. We announced the availability of the BETA of SCVMM 2012 earlier this week – but this brings some important support of our newest Hyper...
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Yet another cool announcement from MMS 2011 – Windows Intune is now RTM and available for a free 30 day trial or purchase. It’s a very interesting service that provides a one stop shop for keeping your PCs running at their best, no matter where they are...
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As a follow up to my IE9 Release To Web post on Tuesday , I just got word that the Internet Explorer Administration Kit for IE9 is now available for download! Here’s the direct link. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=671b9cf6...
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Over pints Pierre Roman, Bruce Cowper and Rick Claus decided they would put together a concise and timely podcast each “Update Tuesday”. The object is to keep it simple by letting you know in plain non technical language what the updates are...
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I am a big advocate of certification – putting your money where your mouth is – and have been for years. Heck, my first certification exam was “windows 3.11 and dos 6.22 for support professionals”. I’m not joking – it was my first cert and first course...
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I kicked off a new podcast called CareerBytes for the Regular IT Guy yesterday. In the premiere episode, Jeff Woolsey and I talked about the importance of building your skills by knowing how to work in a heterogeneous Hypervisor environment. It is a matter...
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Following the success for “ Security Bulletins for the Regular IT Guy ”, I’ve been toying with the idea of expanding on the concept of frank and matter of fact talks on a variety of subjects that are relevant to Technical Professionals...
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A little something snuck out last week, besides Service Pack 1 for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. The team who put together TechDays 2010 in 8 cities across Canada, working with over 180 speakers and partners to reach in excess of 5500 Technical professionals...
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It’s There! Both in a single standalone x86/x86 install ISO and integrated ISO. It popped up around noon PST or so – I can almost hear the internet pipes buzzing as people Technical Professionals around the world download this anticipated update. What...
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Over pints Pierre Roman, Bruce Cowper and Rick Claus decided they would put together a concise and timely podcast each “Update Tuesday”. The object is to keep it simple by letting you know in plain non technical language what the updates are, what they...
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A good friend of mine, John Weigelt, National Technology Officer for Microsoft Canada had an interview with Mary Allen from http://itincanada.ca about cloud computing and what are points to know about the good ol’ US Patriot Act, Canadian PIPEDA and security...
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It’s January, start of a new Calendar year and typically time for regular folk to take a personal inventory of what’s been going on over the last year and plan for what lies ahead. IT departments don’t necessarily run on the same schedule, but you might...
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If SharePoint is your thing – you gotta be at the SharePoint Summit 2011 running January 31st to Feb 2nd in Toronto (La version français en Québec le 11 et 12 avril ). It’s THE GO TO EVENT with regards to access to SharePoint experts, Partners and...
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Over pints Pierre Roman, Bruce Cowper and Rick Claus decided they would put together a concise and timely podcast each “Update Tuesday”. The object is to keep it simple by letting you know in plain non technical language what the updates are...
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During my session at TechDays Calgary about Cloud for the IT Pro, I “challenged” the Technical audience to get out there and dip their toe into the Platform As A Service world with Windows Azure. The challenge was quite simple: Sign up for the introductory...
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I’m still trying to keep it funny and light hearted for a Friday post. I found about about a special 7 day series of Blog posts happening on TechNet on the “Hey Scripting Guy” blog - it’s a little spin on Charles Dickens “A Christmas Carol” called “A...
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It’s hard to believe my team started TechDays 2010 in Vancouver WAY BACK in September! This has been one long run from planning over a year ago to delivery wrapping up next week in Calgary. I thought I would share some interesting thoughts and lessons...
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I’ve been attending CloudCamps that have been hosted in the various TechDays cities ( disclaimer: we sponsor the room and AV – events are completely run by CloudCamp organizers) and a very comment topic / thread comes up on issues of Security wen considering...
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OK- so being an IT Pro or Geek can’t be all work and no fun. I know how exciting it can be planning out your Active Directory migration from x86 DCs to Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 DCs, but eventually you need some form of Down Time. It’s different...
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One of the internal notification emails I get is from a group that writes up TechNet articles on things that Microsoft Internal IT (a.k.a MSIT) do to manage the 90,000 ish employees of the largest software company in the world. They are rather interesting...
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