June 2008 - Posts
Every once in a while we end up getting hardware to take a look for and try out. The latest gadget to cross our path was the Samsung ACE Mobile 6 device from Bell. I asked Paul Laberge on our team to take it for a spin and share his impressions.
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I am a little stoked right now. I've just finished up reading all the announcements on Hyper-V that RTM'ed today and I thought I should share some of that excitement with you - in small relevant chunks. You can get it from Windows Update starting on July
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[Cross post from http://blogs.technet.com/cdnitmanagers/archive/2008/06/23/windows-client-roadmap.aspx ] Today a letter from Bill Veghte, Senior VP of Windows at Microsoft, has gone out to all Windows customers about the “end of sales” date (June 30)
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Just in case you missed it - Windows Home Server has an Release Candidate 4 edition of PowerPack. Three big things in it for me - x64 home client connector software (a must for my x64 Vista boxes) file corruption bug fix (something that never affected
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David Elfassy began his career in IT in the early 90's; delivering Microsoft Official Curriculum, specializing in Microsoft Exchange Server since 1997. He worked as project lead on many migrations and implementations of Microsoft infrastructure technologies
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The digital lifestyle has been one that most readers of this blog have probably been living for quite a while. We all seem to be up on the latest gadgets, tweaks and using technology in every part of our lives. About a year ago we saw this video at an
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This is part two of a two part discussion of technology in use at a local school board here in the Ottawa region. As I mentioned in the previous post - I love discovering how technology is being used to help support the delivery of education. While I
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When you talk to many folks in the industry about the role of an architect in an organization, very often the conversation switches to a development focus. Things like "architects are the folks that design the applications our developers write" or "architects
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Yesterday the SQL Server team reached a key milestone with the release of SQL Server 2008 RC0. SQL Server 2008 provides a comprehensive data platform that is secure, reliable, manageable, and scalable for your mission critical applications. With
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Jean-Philippe Breton is the Infrastructure and Desktop Deployment Team Leader for Alphamosaik , a Microsoft Gold Certified partner located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He and his team recently lead a 10,000 seat deployment of Vista with SP1 for
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If you are like me, or anyone else I know, you like to personalize your notebook. We like to show of our personalities, spice up the look, promote your favourite sports team or cover up cracks and scratches. You might have seen my notebook.. ..and I've
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As soon as you embark on a career in IT - you get classed as a free technical support resource for all your friends and family - it's the norm. I got this email from a friend of mine (Richard Hagemeyer - a prof. in CompSci at Algonquin College )
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This is part one of a two part discussion of technology in use at a local school board here in the Ottawa region. Being a father with one of three children in the school system and two more about to join in, I am always curious as to how technology is
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