June 2007 - Posts
Almost two years ago I saw Bruce using this tool at a TechNet event and asked him where I could get it. The tool was in it's Alpha stages so he was unable to pass it on but I am happy to say that now, after a long development road (it was built by Matthijs
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A hush sits over the room. The Canadian IT Pro team sits down for an "after meet". A chance to sit down, cool off for a few minutes and relax after the years activities. John steps up to the mic. "Ok guys it been a great year. Time to decide on exactly
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Based on the title you might have thought this was a New Year's Eve post but it is not. Microsoft's fiscal year end is June 30th and we are all in review mode right now. We are reviewing ourselves, our team, our events, our blogs; pretty much everything
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Graham Jones (Surrey, British Columbia, IT Pro) In part 3 I described the “struggles” with the establishment; a “people” problem again. Now I will get back to some of the “techie” stuff. FORTRAN 66 was widely recognized as a “suitable” language for technical
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With all the tours, Energize IT and other travel out of the way for a few weeks I had a chance last week to catch up on some reading. I came across a lot of articles on a new law enacted in parts of the US and being considered here in Canada by some .
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Yes, he is back with yet again, another humorous look at what makes you an IT Pro. If you haven't seen Sean's other posts be sure to read them here and here for a good laugh! I've gone ahead and convinced him to become a regular on the CanITPro blog so
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I saw Brian Bourne give this presentation at Energize IT and asked to have it written up as a guest blog post. Over the past few years his company, CMS Consulting, has been doing security audits and this lead to their list of top 10 mistakes. --------------------------------------------------
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David F. Skoll (Ottawa, Ontario, IT Pro) A few months ago, through this blog, I met David. We had an interesting conversation through the comments section and via email about a number of things. One of those things was the solution he built for his business
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Energize IT was a success! · Number of Attendees: 1,483 · Number of Sponsors: 21 · Number of Sessions: 39 · Number of Tracks: 8 · Number of Hands on Labs: 3 · Amount Raised for Charity: $3,386 “This was probably one of the best conference's I have been
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On the recent Future of the Server Room tour Rick and I tried something different and allowed attendees to email or text their questions in throughout the day. It was quite successful as we got over 200 text messages and 50 emails over the 5 stops. I've
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Graham Jones (Surrey, British Columbia, IT Pro) Graham Jones continues his series on the past 40 years he has spent in the industry. -------------------------------------------------- In part 2 I described my initial experiences of trying to do software
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Sean Kearney is back with his humorous take on his experience at Energize IT '07. The entire team got to meet Sean, as well as many other people, at Energize and he is as funny in person as he is in his blog posts. It was a great day and I am already
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2:45PM and the third track of the IT Pro track has started with Brian Bourne doing his thing and demoing rootkits and rootkit detection. Ali Rohani was up just before that to show off what's coming with regards to Unified Communications. The IT Pro tracked
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Energize IT '07 is less than 24 hours away! Have you registered at www.energizeit.ca ? Yes, great, we have a great line up and it is going to be a fantastic day filled with fun, networking, technical talks, learning, labs and did I mention fun? So what
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Just in time for Energize IT 07 our team has been outfitted with the very cool Nikon Coolpix S50c digital camera . It has some typical features for a point and shoot digital camera (3x optical zoom, 7.2 Megapixels, auto-everything, etc...) but the one
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So Apple released Safari for Windows to public beta (a new OSX version too of course) and listed a dozen reasons why I am going to love it. Now I use IE7 roughly 90% of the time with Firefox filling the other 10% because there are some very cool extensions
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So a while back I mentioned how excited I was about Energize IT '07 as this is the culmination of a wild year personally. Rick mentioned yesterday that Energize is a little like the TechEd of the North in a way. I've been put in charge with the IT Pro
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I almost missed this one. I knew that we RTM'ed it last week or so, but I didn't know that we released Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 to the web (in a newly refurbished website on virtualization) so quickly - just yesterday infact on www.microsoft.com/technet/virtualserver
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I was asked this the other day by an IT Pro who had just finished visiting the registration page and registering for the event. Hummm... well... sort of, but not really. Let me explain. Last year - the guys on my team of community IT Pro Advisors came
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Graham Jones is back with part 2 of his look back on 40 years in the industry. This is an excellent look at the journey he has made, how things have changed and I am looking forward to the rest of this series. --------------------------------------------------
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One of the things a lot of people are still concerned with is security. In fact a recent survey by King Research found that 73% of IT Pros fear losing their jobs over a security breach . Now there is not one single tool or technology that will make you
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Steven Syfuhs (Ottawa, Ontario, IT Pro) Rod and I wrapped up the Future of your Server Room tour last week in Toronto where the second session on virtualization technologies was still quite a hit. Both Rod and I are big believers in virtualization and
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Graham Jones (Surrey, British Columbia, IT Pro) Graham Jones emailed me the other day asking to share his experiences after coming to the realization that it's been 40 years since he finished his Engineering degree. 40 years is a long time and during
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Sean Kearney sent this little story in through the blog contact form and we just had to publish it. I laughed so hard reading his confession which he claims is quite accurate with regards to his journey into geekdom. --------------------------------------------------
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Renaud Lepage (Le Gardeur, Quebec, IT Pro) I met Renaud on the Montreal stop of the Future of the Server Room tour at Trois Brasseurs where Rick and I held an IT Lounge after the event. Renaud mentioned that he just ordered a MacBook and was going to
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