February 2007 - Posts
James ? (Mississauga, Ontario) Install Vista from USB Flash Drive A few weeks ago my brother was in town and we were at a Toronto Raptors game and someone came up and introduced themselves, says they saw one of our sessions and enjoyed it. I always like
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Just catching up on my RSS reading and noticed some videos over on the Canadian Developers blog from the recent Vancouver Techfest. There are some very interesting, short, videos filmed by our own John Bristowe where he interviews a number of smart people
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This podcast was sitting in my "to be edited" folder on my machine. I met up with Kai Axford (Senior Security Strategist) on his Eastern Canada tour at the end of January / beginning of February trip up north. I really like his style of engagement with
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I carried along my Podcast recording device (M-Audio Microtrack 24/96) when I was down in Seattle for TechReady a while back. You never know who you can run into and if they will be willing to sit and have a chat about something or other. One of the people
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Back when I was living in Winnipeg, Mitch Tulloch had started something called IT Lounge . Every few weeks a bunch of IT people from all disciplines would gather at a pub, have a few pints, some food and some great conversation. We had some good times
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One of the things that worried me a little when I got to Microsoft was losing my "touch". As IT Pro Advisor's we work in the realm of the virtual lab a lot and well that is nice for learning and demos, it is removed from the real world. Because of this
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Nelson and Danielle Ruest (Victoria, British Columbia, IT Pro) Windows Vista Nelson and Danielle Ruest are authors of the Definitive Guide to Vista Migration, a ten-chapter eBook produced by Realtime Publishers and released one chapter per month. The
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Graham Jones (Vancouver, BC, IT Pro and UserGroup Lead) Hard Disk #2 has gone belly up! I got this in the mail yesterday evening. I can't believe Graham's luck with hard drives and his second miraculous save by Vista Complete PC Backup process. Graham
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I am always amazed at how fast Rodney is able to get a post up about a topic!! He reminds me of Hammy the squirrel from one of my kids' favourite movies - Over the Hedge . I think Virtual PC 2007 was out and released for about 17 seconds before Rodney
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A while back I worte a quick post on how to get Virtual PC/ Virtual Server 2005 R2 running on Vista. One of the tools I mentioned was a beta version on Virtual PC 2007. We'll it ain't beta no more! Virtual PC 2007 was released today and offers the following
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So you may have heard of the changes around Windows Vista and Volume License Keys (VLK) and activation. With previous versions of Windows, you could purchase a VLK and use it as many times as you wanted to install the OS, and in the case of XP, you would
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That might be a silly question to ask you, a seasoned IT Professional, but it is a real question. Many of today's kids and their parents are not web aware. What is being "web aware"? Well educating yourself, your family, you kids about the dangers of
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Graham Jones (Vancouver, BC, IT Pro and UserGroup Lead) Office Groove 2007 My friend Graham Jones pinged me earlier today to talk about how he and the VANTUG executive committee are using Groove 2007 as a collaboration platform in order to plan for an
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I was having a coffee with my good friend Pierre Roman earlier this week and the topic of Daylight Savings Time came up in discussion. As a Technical Account Manager at Microsoft, it's part of his job to contact and inform all of his customers about the
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J’ai pris un café avec mon ami Pierre Roman cette semaine et la matière de l'épargne Temps de jour a été soulevée dans la discussion. Pierre est un Directeur Technique chez Microsoft et c’est son responsabilité de contacter tous ses clients au sujet des
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Hold on a second there. I can't spill the beans just yet. On behalf of the team, I wanted to first of all say THANK YOU!!! It is nice to know the audience is listening but more importantly - willing to give some constructive feedback. Who did we hear
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You have most likely heard about CETS, the Child Exploitation Tracking System, that has been in use now for over 3 years. The system was designed and built by Microsoft in an effort to help police forces battle child exploitation on the web. I recently
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So you've got your hands on Vista, installed it and then tried to add the Vista PC to the SBS domain. Doesn't work very well does it? Well the SBS team has been hard at work and there is a fix now! Previously you would have to manually join the Vista
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As you have heard, the team was in transit back from an internal training conference called TechReady. Tons of sessions and content on things like Longhorn server, Windows Server Virtualization and Windows Mobile 6. I was catching up on my RSS feeds while
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Well we are all back from our internal training week. It was an interesting time, lots of fun and my first chance to see Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates speak in person. I actually got to see Bill speak twice, once to a large crowd and once at a much smaller
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Even though the entire team is out in Seatte for TechReady4, our internal technical training extravaganza, I did not want to miss the opportunity to let you know that a very important tool to help you test your applications for Vista compatibility is
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I just found this video of a walkthrough of the Microsoft Digital Ice House. If you are in Toronto and haven't seen it, get down to Dundas Square and check it out. It will be open from 10am to 7pm until Saturday February 3rd! Video: Microsoft Canada’s
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I am compiling a list of all the comments and thoughts on the blog since I asked the question - what do you think about how we're doing... Some great responses and very clear indications of what you like and don't like to read / listen to / see. I'll
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Well not really, but we are all off to Seattle for our annual world wide team meeting and training sessions. We'll try our best to post new entries, and review comments but in case you see the site go quiet for a few days don't worry, we will be back!
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So a while ago I posted the question "Is anyone using Powershell?" I got a few responses but none from our beloved Canadian readers!!!! Well with the relase of Vista to the world, the PowerShell team has also released the RTM build for Vista as well.
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Graham Jones (Vancouver, BC, IT Pro and UserGroup Lead) Character sets and email being flagged as Spam I haven't come across this myself as of yet, but it is something that you should be aware of in case you are emailing individuals and getting strange
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I just noticed that Developer Advisor Jean-Luc David posted some information on the Ice House as well as some more photos. You can see that over at the Canadian Developers Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/cdndevs/archive/2007/01/31/microsoft-digital-ice-house.aspx
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