November 2006 - Posts
One of the great things about being part of the IT Pro team here at Microsoft Canada is that we get to play with a lot of toys that Microsoft sells. Playing with the toys we get is all well and good but it's not fun unless you can share what you have
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The latest installment of the TechNet Magazine is available online today. This issue covers one of my favourite subjects, Exchange Server 2007! There is a great article in there on my favourite feature of Exchange Server 2007 as well, and that is the
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Dave Lewis (Oshawa, Ontario - IT Pro) Windows Server 2003 R2, PMC and PSS An IT Pro in Oshawa Ontario wanted to share an experience he had with Product Support Services recently. I encouraged him to do so as all to often we let things get in the way of
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Simon Collier (Edmonton, Alberta, IT Pro) Windows Server 2003 R2 and DFS During the Edmonton stop of the Vista/Office/MOSS 2007 launch tour I met Simon Collier. Simon wanted to share some learnings he aquired with his implementation of Windows Server
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Congratulations Edmonton, you are the first city in Canada to be ready for a new day as we brought the Vista/Office 2007/Exchange 2007 launch event to the Shaw Center in Edmonton. It was cold, snowing and blowing but that did not stop almost 1300 IT Pro's,
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The launch has begun in Edmonton and at the time of this writing the Keynote is being delivered. It is cold (-27 windchill), snowing and blowing but that did not deter the people of Edmonton from showing up in huge numbers. Just take a look at this overhead
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A while ago we asked you to submit your nominations for the 2006 Canadian IT Pro Innovation Award. There were a lot of great entries and we had a hard time pairing the list down to a top five. After a few long discussions and some heated debate we managed
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Ryan Fitzsimmons (Edmonton, Alberta) Adding and Removing Windows Components over the network Your Solutions is another new series on the CanITPro blog where we will be highlighting IT Pro's across Canada who have come up with innovative ways to manage
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A few weeks ago I was in Redmond for MS101, a new hire training program. Looking for a reason to cut class, I managed to arrange an interview with Bruce Payette from the PowerShell team. Here is our conversation about PowerShell! http://www.canitpro.ca/podcasts/BPPowershell.mp3
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Dumb question I know, but if you are looking to get your hands on one I know a way you maybe able to snag one for free! Now you are interested aren't you! Complete the TechNet Launch 2007 Quiz and get yourself entered in a draw for an xBox360! There are
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I got it in my internal email as I was leaving work and didn't get a chance to check it out until now to verrify - Windows Vista RTM is available on the TechNet Plus Subscribers Download! That would be the x86 and x64 English only at this point in time
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It has been a long beta, but PowerShell was released to web yesterday. Many people still ask what PowerShell is and the official answer is "Windows PowerShell is Microsoft's new command-line shell and scripting language designed specifically to improve
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Mark Seniow (Richmond Hill, Ontario) Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta 2 From the Trenches is a new series on the CanITPro blog where we will be highlighting IT Pro's across Canada who are running the latest Microsoft technologies in their pilot and production
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A few months ago Microsoft bought Winternals/Sysinternals and brought Mark Russinovich and all the other talented people into the fold. One question that was asked over and over was "What about the free Sysinternals tools?". Those tools have been available
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I was signing in to my TechNet Plus subscription to download a copy of Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 to install on a laptop I will be using for the upcoming Business Value Launch tour (more on this setup later) and I happened to notice that Office 2007 RTM
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Every few years you hear that this version of Windows is "the most secure ever". Now that statement has always been true to the time when it was made, but with Vista things just feel a little more secure. There are a host of new security features in Vista
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I know that Vista just RTM'd and you may have heard that we are getting ready for the biggest Launch in Microsoft Canada's history with Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System, but that's no reason to miss out on a very exicting TechNet Monthly
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So I am sitting in Redmond for MS-101 (you'll hear more about this next week) and someone just popped in and announced that Vista had been Released to Manufacturing (RTM). Quick check of my email and there was a global email sent out by Jim Allchin confirming
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When I was a system administrator I found it a struggle to locate knowledgebase articles in a fast effecient manner. Well I just came across this little nugget about Live Search . "We are happy to announce that the Support Knowledge Base is now over 99.5%
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A lot of you have been asking for pre-configured VHDs so that you can test some of the latest Microsoft technologies. We get tons of requests for the VHDs we use when we are on tour, but due to licensing issues (i.e. the Core I|O VHDs were built with
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We have has a great response to the 2006 TechNet Innovation Awards but we are still looking for more nominations. If you are an IT Pro who has done something really cool for your organization, then submit your name or nominate a colleague for the 2006
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The other night I was at the Waterloo Wellington IT Pro User Group meeting in Waterloo, Ontario. It was an interesting meeting in that rather than having some one present on a topic for the entire evening, three members of the user group presented shorter
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Snowballs are also reported to be seen in hell... :) No seriously - we have and it makes sense . I've been working with customers for a while as a consultant in my past life that have both Novell and Microsoft as parts of their infrastructure. This announcement
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