October 2006 - Posts
Well the Core I|O Tour has been over for a bit now and the team has been going through all those feedback forms we ask you to fill out. Yeah, we actually read them! Better yet we even respond to some of them! Whodathunkit. After reading the comments a
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A while back I posted about the licensing changes around Virtual Server 2005 R2 and Windows Server 2003 R2 EE and DE . During the Core I|O Tour '06 this was something we mentioned a lot as well. As a refresher, if you buy Windows Server 2003 R2 EE you
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Robocopy is one of my top ten tools I have been using for years. I often recommend it to people asking how to migrate fileservers, copy files over the network, pretty much anytime you need to copy more than a few files. Now robocopy is pretty powerful
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On October 23rd 2006, Microsoft Canada hosted an mini MVP summit in Mississauga which was streamed to satellite sites and MVPs across Canada. It was a great time and I got the chance to sit down with the Canadian MVP Lead Sasha Krsmanovic, SBS MVP Cal
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J'ai juste reçu un email d’un collègue qui m'informe que maintenant "TechNet Magazine" est maintenant disponible en français (et 7 autre langues)! Visitez le site de web http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/default.aspx?loc=fr pour lire l'édition
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You probably have heard me talk about Antigen services over the last tour or so and how I used to recommend it to most of my enterprise customers when I was a consultant. The ability to have multiple scan engines and signature files at multiple entrypoints
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As we head into a deluge of product RTMs in the next weeks (no I don't know the date for Vista RTM) I saw that Windows Defender has RTM'd. Windows Defender has been in beta for quite a while now, but testing has been completed and Microsoft's Anti-spyware
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I have been asking people lately if they have tried, or if they are using Powershell. Far too often I hear the response "What the heck is Powershell?" Well if that is you, I have some resources for you. You may want to take a peek as PowerShell is the
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I just received an email from a colleague in Redmond looking for beta testers for a new server product set - "Centro". “Centro” is the code name for a new Microsoft® infrastructure solution that will help midsize businesses with less than 250 PCs in their
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A little while ago I wrote a post on how Rick convinced me to run Vista as a standard user . Vista sure makes this easy but Colin Harford has written a nice guest blog post on how he is able to run as a standard user on XP. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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So IE7 for XP and 2003 shipped the otherday and will be pushed out via Windows Update in the future. IE7 for English clients will be available for WSUS server synchronization from Microsoft Update starting Wednesday, November 1, 2006. This release will
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You may have loaded one of our blogs today and wondered where you ended up, I know I did. Well this still IS the CanITPro blog, we just found someone to make it look prettier. Mark Zielinski, our latest D&PE intern has been working hard to give our
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I have been using IE7 on XP for a long time now. In fact the beta and RC releases where one of the first things I installed on my own PCs when I needed to rebuild them. Over time I got used to the new layout, and now I am hooked on the tabs, the integrated
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The Core i|o Tour '06 has come to an end. Rick took the tour East visiting Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa, Halifax while I took it West (along with Bruce) to Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver (Rick was here too) and Winnipeg before we met again for the tour
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A colleague just emailed me a link to the SharePoint Team Blog on which a multi-tabbed spreadsheet was posted with a comparison of features of current SharePoint technologies (Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003) with those
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It seems the URL I provided in my earlier post on the 2007 Launch Tour was incorrect. Please use http://www.microsoft.ca/technet/anewday2007 to register for the Launch Event in your city. Sorry about that. Damir
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Maybe it is just the fact that I grew up on the East coast - but I always love doing an event down east. It could be in Halifax, Saint John, Moncton, Fredericton, St. John's - doesn't matter. East Coasters are just a friendly bunch and go out of their
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I got asked this question a lot since the first early betas for OneCare - why isn't the 1.0 final product available to Canadian Subscribers? Humm.... I still don't have the answer to that one, but I can at least distract you with this belated announcement
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Interoperability is key today and I have always said the right tool for the right job. At the same time, security is big on everyone's mind. BitLocker is one of those security tools that is a key feature in Vista. Trying to dual boot Vista and Linux WHILE
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It's getting close. The launch of Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System is almost here. This time around the entire IT Pro team at Microsoft Canada will be going out across the country for the 2007 Microsoft Office System and Windows Vista
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OK... it's already the weekend, but I thought that this was worth sharing with y'all. Mark Zielinski is a Co-Op/Intern/Assistant that keeps things running in my group down in the Mississauga head office of Microsoft Canada. He wrote up this post and I
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I've been busy visiting my friends down east in Halifax for the eastern stop of the IO tour (more on that visit later). I always mention to the audience whenever I speak that I am looking for stories to share with the greater Canadian IT Professional
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So I know a number of you are running Vista on your PC and you may be curious about how to install Virtual Server 2005 R2. A while back The Virtual PC Guy , Ben Armstrong, wrote a bit on how to install Virtual Server 2005 R2 on Vista . For a lot of you,
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So a few weeks back Rick was mentioning to me that for the first time ever he is running as a standard user on his Vista PC (he has been for 10 months now!). I backed up, then blew away my Toshiba M7 the other day and loaded up Vista RC2 and decided to
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One thing I struggled with as an IT Pro was do we, or don't we innovate. I came from the camp that said "we don't innovate, we deploy and manage" and for a long time I agreed with that. The problem with that frame of mind is that what we deploy and manage,
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Colin Harford (Edmonton, Alberta, IT Pro) An IT Pro's call to PSS During the Edmonton stop of the IO Tour I met Colin Harford, a member of the Edmonton User Group executive, and he was asking Bruce and myself about an issue he was having with Live Communications
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What a week. The IO Tour '06 took me to Vancouver and Winnipeg this past week and it was far the usual event. Vancouver was a blast with the VANTUG / VANSBS user group meetings kicking the week off. I had a great time chatting with the user groups about
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I was chatting online the other week with Brian - an IT Pro friend of mine here in Ottawa. Brian is the president of TechDelta - a consulting company that has been delivering Microsoft solutions (technical architectures, implementations, migrations, etc.)
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Just a quick note that the slides from the IO'06 Tour are now available on the post event download site. http://www.microsoft.ca/technet/iotour06/thanks Sorry about the delay, there was a communications problems between myself and a member of the team
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Just un petit note que les diapositives pour la tournée IO'06 sont maintenant disponibles au site de web http://www.microsoft.ca/technet/iotour06/thanks . Je m'excuse au délai, il y avait un problème de communication entre moi et mon équipe quand j'étais
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Nothing like flying back from one edge of the country on a 5 hr flight to land just in time to cab it to the local Microsoft office in order to start up the local Ottawa Windows Server UserGroup meeting. That was me on Wednesday. To recount this weeks
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The otherday I wrote a bit on the licensing changes around Windows 2003 R2 EE, DE and virtualization. Well licensing is something that is always causing confusion and multi-core processors just add to that confusion. Well our friends in Redmond have a
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