January 2007 - Posts
Ssssso IIII jjjjust gggot bbback frommmmm tttthe iiiiice hhhhouse anddddd ittttt wwwwwaas a cccccold one. Today we released Vista and Office to the world and as you may have seen on this blog, we built an Ice House in downtown Toronto to celebrate. Today
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I just wanted to remind you of a post I made earlier in the month... ( here it is if you don't remember ) We're still looking for your feedback and comments around how we're doing with the blog AND I'm going to sweeten the pot by randomly choosing a winner
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So I managed to sneak into the Digital Ice House as it was open to media for a short period this afternoon and took some video (coming soon) and some pictures I thought I'd share right away. Living Room Master Bedroom Bathroom You can see all the pictures
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The day is near, January 30th is upon us and Vista and Office 2007 are set to be released to the public. So what are we doing to celebrate the consumer launch? Well if you are in the GTA area, come down to Dundas Sqaure (that is at Yonge and Dundas for
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Graham Jones (Vancouver, British Columbia, IT Pro) Graham Jones from VANTUG is the one of the grandfathers of user groups in Canada (he is probably going to kill me for putting it that way) having been part of VANTUG for many years including acting as
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Graham Jones (Vancouver, BC, IT Pro and UserGroup Lead) Windows Vista, Complete PC Backup I was working away yesterday when I got IM'd by Graham Jones from VANTUG out in Vancouver. He was asking about how to kick off the Complete PC Backup restore option
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Having just completed the Windows Vista, 2007 Office System, and Exchange Server 2007 Launch Tour one of the questions I often got asked on tour was Is there a way for me to test out Windows Vista without using up one of my PCs? I can understand that
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A few months ago at the last stop on the Core I|O Tour, Rick and myself were talking about Data Protection Manager and how it can be used to simplify backups and restores of your data. Someone from the audience asked a question at the end that stumped
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One of Microsoft's biggest customers is Microsoft. Internally we try to use as many of our own products as possible and start using them well before they hit RTM stage. This process is known as dogfooding and as you can imagine, there are a number of
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We all search online, everyday, usually multiple times a day. Now imagine if for every search you do, you could help some of the 9 million refugee children in the world? Sound interesting? Well than I challenge you use http://click4thecause.live.com as
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Are you a student? Are you looking for a challenge? Do you think you have what it takes to win the cup? No not the Stanley Cup (although that would be cool too), the Imagine Cup! Time is running out to get yourself registered and finish round one of the
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If you're looking for a great resource to get up and running with Exchange Server 2007 or to learn about the product and how to use it, check out the 24 Hours of Exchange 2007 Webcast Series . Being a racing fan, I immediately thought of the 24 Hours
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Brett Finch (Edmonton, Alberta, IT Pro) Windows 2000, XP and SBS 2003 Brett Finch is a member of the executive for the Edmonton Microsoft Users Group and recently told me about how he gets tickets to see his hometown Edmonton Oilers. I gotta say, after
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A few weeks ago I had the priviledge of sitting down with Barnaby Jeans, and Greg Mathieu (Business Information Group) to talk about virtualization. The following is a description of the recording. From simplifying disaster and recovery planning to server
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If you were at the Fredricton launch event, you may have been wondering who the new IT Pro advisor was helping Rick out in session two and showing off SharePoint 2007 in session 3. Well our team has grown once again and I'd like to introduce Ruth Morton,
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Last week I had the pleasure of talking about Vista with members of the Toronto Delphi User Group. Because they are a developer related user group I got Christian, one of our Developer Advisors, to post my wrap up on the Canadian Developers Blog. You
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Did you? Were you there? Video: Vanashing Point Toronto Too bad I can't win :(
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Have you? Am I going to see you there? http://www.vanishingpointgame.com/ http://vanishingpointwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page Video: Vanishing Point - Las Vegas
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As I was cleaning my inbox and catching up on RSS feeds (remember my new year resolutions here on the blog?), I noticed over on Canadian Developers that Carleton University will be the location of the next GameCamp on Saturday, January 27th. I didn't
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My how time flies... I swear I was at the Business Desktop Deployment centre on the TechNet website earlier this week and now I get the email (and blog post from Windows Vista ) that we've now RTM'ed. In case you missed the Business Value Launch 2007
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Mitch Garvis (Montreal, Quebec, IT Pro) SBS 2003 R2 and Windows Server Technologies Mitch Garvis is an IT Professional who has a strong background in Small Business Server so when he asked me to post an article he wrote on why he does not consider himself
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C’était du fun faire cette présentation en français avec mon ami et collègue Pierre Roman. Si tu rappelle, ce n'est pas son "day job" présenter les séance avec l'équipe TechNet. Je l'ai demandé d'écrire un petit post qui décrit ces expériences. I'll ma
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After nearly two months traveling across Canada meeting over 13,500 IT Professionals, developers, technical and business decision makers, the Canadian launch tour has come to an end and we have our sights set on the consumer launch scheduled for January
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If you attended any of the launch events held across Canada in the last month or so, you may have seen the session we presented on security in which we talked a little about a new feature in Vista called BitLocker. One common question was wether or not
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Je suis maintenant en train de prendre un vol pour Québec a partir de Fredericton. Je vais présenter les 5 scéance pour les professionelles de TI en français avec un colegue d'Ottawa - Pierre Roman. J'ai demandé qu'il écrive un petit post de blog. Le
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The weather was not as extreme as it was out west in Regina, leading to a stellar turnout of over 400 people for the Eastern stop of the Business Value Launch of Office 2007, Vista and Exchange 2007. I found this stop quite refreshing - as our team has
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Wow! -20C, 45Km/hr winds, snow and blowing snow, snow plow operators on strike and 300+ IT Pros and developers STILL made their way to the Regina Business Value Launch event! We had people out from as far away as Medicine Hat, Weyburn and Saskatoon; it
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Daniel Sarfati (Winnipeg, Manitoba) Fix Exchange 2007 SMTP Connectors with ADSIEDIT Daniel Sarfati sent me an IM with an issue he had after he upgraded his Exchange 2003 organization to Exchange 2007 and removed the old Exchange server. I asked him to
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The latest installment of the TechNet Magazine is available online today. This issue covers Sharepoint 2007! There are great articles with some more indepth info on some of the cool things we've been showing on the Business Value Launch tour and much
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With the Christmas break over, the Windows Vista, 2007 Microsoft Office System, and Exchange Server 2007 Business Value Launch Tour starts up again for the remainining threee cities - Regina, Fredericton, and Quebec City. I'll be having fun in the cold
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I hope all is well with you, your family and your extended "IT family" so far this year. How were your holidays? That is to say - if you had some to take or if you were actually able to take them ... I didn't get any support calls or requests from anyone
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