For those of you that are still subscribed to this blog with your RSS reader, you might want to point to one of the two places that I'm now blogging: For work : http://on10.net/blogs/bjeans/ Personal: http://barnabyjeans.ca/blogs/barnaby See...

As an IT Manager or IT Professional you probably spend a lot of time under pressure at work. So when the time comes to relax you probably want to make the most of it. So as a test, we want to find out if you are interested in getting together (virtually...

I think Bruce says it best in his blog post: For all of you wondering if I had disappeared from the planet, you may be pleased to know that I am simply moving blogs. Based on your feedback the Canadian IT Pro team is amalgamating our efforts...

After I published this blog post , I was pointed to a great resource from one of our MS MVP's The " Unofficial x64 FAQ " is maintained by Charlie Russel who is one of our MVP's living out in B.C. If you are trying to figure out how to get Windows working...

WOW! What an amazing event . I spent most of today in the John Bassett theatre at the Metro Toronto Convention Center watching Damir and Rick deliver an excellent set of sessions on Communicating and Collaborating. For anyone out there that was unable...

This one is for the Canadians out there. If you are interested in trying out the MSN Messenger 8 beta, just leave me a comment here with your email address, where in Canada you are, and if you have been to any of our events. Right now I have 10 invites...

Back on December 16th, 2005 we launched the Canadian IT Professionals blog to complement the Canadian IT Managers blog . The Canadian IT Professionals blog is designed to give Canadian IT Pro’s a central place to stay current on all things Microsoft...

According to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913086 Microsoft is now making Security and Critical updates available as an ISO image . If you have many machines to update, but aren't using a centralized update management solution, you may want to check...

After 5 weeks of touring across the country and delivering presentations in 10 different cities, all I can say is WOW! The Canadian IT Pro's and Developers are great. As Damir mentions in his post "It has been an amazing five weeks..." For those...

As I am sitting here in Winnipeg on the last stop of the SQL Server / Visual Studio Launch Tour, I have been thinking more and more about how to provide meaningful information to the IT Managers as well as the DBA's, Administrators, and Developers that...

From Volker Will's blog: The ISA Server Team will release an update to the ISA Server 2004 Firewall Client. As part of the development process, they are running a short beta program to collect valuable feedback. Highlights: Support for the Microsoft...

Here is the third of the Launch 2005 audio recordings. This was recorded live on November 22nd as part of the Launch 2005 activities in Vancouver. If you were not able to attend the Architecting for High Availability Session, download the mp3 version...

Here is the second of the Launch 2005 audio recordings. This was recorded live on November 17th as part of the Launch 2005 activities in Victoria. If you were not able to attend the Managing and Monitoring SQL Server 2005 Session, download the mp3...

Here is the first of the Launch 2005 audio recordings. This was recorded live on November 8th as part of the Launch 2005 activities in Toronto. If you were not able to attend the Delivering Business Intelligence Session, download the mp3 version to...

Today we announced that we are putting forward the Office Open XML document format to Ecma with the intention of making the formats an ISO standard. The official press release: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/nov05/11-21Ecma.mspx ...

It's about 3:30 on a Sunday afternoon and I'm sitting in my hotel room in Vancouver overlooking a very foggy harbour. We've completed four of the ten cities on this cross Canada tour. So far, we have been to Toronto , Ottawa , Edmonton , and Victoria...

Let the fun begin. As Mark posted earlier today , the Launch activities are underway. I have posted a few behind the scenes and setup photos to the flickr group ( rss ), and hope to post more as the day unfolds. Remember, get spotted wearing...

Well, we're into the final few days before the first event on the SQL/Visual Studio Launch tour. Mark Relph has been busy blogging and has a couple of posts you should really read: Sneak Peak at the software (Yes we are giving away software)...

For those of you that have asked questions about whether we will be handing out software at the Canadian launch events, Mark Relph has just written about this on his blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/mark_relph/archive/2005/10/28/486419.aspx Enjoy, ...

Are you planning on attending the SQL/VS/BizTalk Launch ? Are you planning on blogging about it? If you are, you may want to add your blog to the TechNet Event Bloggers site ( http://techneteventsbloggers.net ). As I mentioned in a previous post , you...

If you are trying to figure out which version of SQL Server 2005 has the feature that you are interested in, take a look at http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2005/productinfo/sql2005features.mspx for a great matrix that should help. Tags: [ Microsoft ]...

If you have attended any of my sessions in the last few months we have been giving out the IT Pro Resource Guide laminated info sheet. If you would like to get this electronically, or haven't had a chance to get one yet, we have made it available online...

My Colleague Ryan Storgaard has just started a series of posts on his blog that focus on the benefits of SQL Server for an ISV. http://blogs.msdn.com/stoey/archive/2005/10/14/481345.aspx I think that Ryan hits on one of the key messages when he talks...

Are you blogging about the joint SQL Server / Visual Studio / BizTalk launch this November? If you are, you might want to consider tagging your blog posts to make it easy to search for anything "Launch 2005" related. Simply tag your posts with Launch2005...

Last week I had the opportunity to visit both Edmonton and Winnipeg as part of the TechNet Innovations tour and User Group Tour. I had the opportunity to meet lots of great IT Pro's and answer lots of questions. For both the Edmonton Microsoft User Group...