December 2007 - Posts
I was talking with Dana Epp when Rodney and I were out in Vancouver for the MySecurity tour a couple of months back. He was telling me about when he was trying to get a straight answer on how he license System Centre Virtual Machine Manger in his office
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Poor old Santa Claus. Another year has come up and he is having SO much trouble dealing with managing the elves. Production problems left right and centre. Suppliers are backed up because they can't communicate properly with poor Santa. Simple difficulties
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On behalf of the Canadian IT Pro team I'd like to wish everyone the best in this holiday season and best of luck in 2008! It has been an exciting year for our team with Ruth and I passing the one year anniversary at Microsoft and on
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In my previous guest blog entry I touched on some “MVP Program Basics”. I received a few notes from people who read it and thought they are a good match. I look forward to receiving more and possibly getting a few new MVPs out of all those
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In case you didn't know another RC1 build of Server 2008 was released late last week which includes the Hyper-V beta. You can download the beta here ! Hyper-V is the hypervisor based virtualization technology that can be included in x64 versions of Windows
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Sorry to Mr. Townsend and Mr. Daltry of the Who. Their version was WAAAAAY better. My Replication Sql servers going d-down (Talkin' 'bout my replication) Data's droppin' on the ground (Talkin' 'bout my replication) Stripe set in there's gettin' old (Talkin'
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Nominations close for the 2007 IT Pro Innovation Awards. If you or someone you know is doing something innovative with technology be sure to get the nomination in by December 15th. IT Pro Innovation is an interesting thing. Not only because it makes things
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This is the last podcast in the series from my time at SecTor. Kevin Coleman was the Chief Strategist at Netscape before becoming a Senior Fellow and Strategic Management Consultant with the Technolytics Institute – an executive think-tank. When Kevin
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I know a lot of people who are running Vista and disabling UAC. I'll admit UAC can make for a frustrating install and setup experience with the repeated prompts with every application you install and every MMC console you launch. Turing it off, while
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About a week ago Damir gave me a Palm Treo 750w to try out. I recently switched to Rogers so I'd have the freedom of switching SIM cards between devices. I am a bit of a gadget guy and love to try new mobile devices and SIM cards make this
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It has been a while since I posted an update on the Kid's Help Phone project. It is not because we've been slacking but I've been away with little time to catch up with Ted and Neil. Well I am back and met with them a week or so ago and things
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Most of you know I moved to the GTA from Winnipeg when I took this job. There are a lot of things I like about living here but traffic is not one of them. Now traffic is no treat in Winnipeg, but in the GTA it is a little different. Most traffic in Winnipeg
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At the recent SecTor event I had a chance to sit down with Kai Axford, who is part of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing team, and Warren Bulmer from the Toronto Police Service after their session on Computer Forensics ( PPT and WMV available). What do
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Garth is the Chief Architect with Enhansoft in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He has over 18 years of IT experience, 11 of which have been dedicated to SMS, He started working with Systems Management Server when it was a v1.1. He can be found in Microsoft newsgroups,
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Work / Life Balance is something that is important to everyone - regardless of what career or profession you are currently involved with. My personal philosophy is that you only have ONE life - regardless of how you work it out - you only have 24 hours
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A few weeks ago I had the chance to take in SecTor. Normally when I go to an event like this I hang out in the Community Zone or am presenting or doing some other work. This time I showed up as an attendee, went to a load of sessions, networked, and hung
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I am giving Sean the day off this week as I wanted to share some serions news with you all. It must be serious as it could not wait until Friday to post this "funny" news. There has been a lot of news flying around here and elsewhere about Windows Home
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The other day Nelson Ruest sent me an email from a session he and his wife Danielle attended by Sean O'Driscoll on Web 2.0, social network sites and community. I asked him if I could post it here as it was an interesting discussion and they agreed. Afterall
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Tomorrow, Tuesday December 4, marks the last stop of the Unified Communications Launch Tour . If you have not yet registered to attend the event, although registration has closed we can still take a few more folks so come down to the Metro Toronto
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