September 2008 - Posts
After one of our events last year I got an email from Paul Gartner in Montreal. During the event I indicated that if you or anyone you knew was looking to deploy some of our newer technologies I may be able to get some additional resources to help through
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Technorati Tags: techDays_CA Hello Everyone! While we don’t have all the speakers listed as there are over 60 across the country (most should be there for the end of the week), we do have the sessions and you can sign up for the early bird price
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The Toronto stop of TechDays Canada 2008 is just a month away!! Things are heating up and we are getting together a great roster of speakers for the Data Management Track across all 7 cities. Starting with Toronto, you will be able to hear from folks
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I'm sure many of you have seen the I'm a PC ad campaign that we have ben running over the last little while. The most recent ad starts out with a what looks like the PC guy from the Apple Mac/PC ads saying "Hello, I'm a PC and I've been made into a stereotype".
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If you read part 1 of this blog post you are aware that a SBS 2003 R2 Server was deployed and the next step was to deploy a terminal server to host the Jonas Construction Software. While Synergenics did design a very suitable server to run terminal services
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I am the first to admit that Vista did not perform to expectations when first released. I know a lot was driver related and there has been a noticeable difference experienced in the last year and I know a lot of people who are actually using Vista who
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You’ve used them. www.technet.com , www.msdn.microsoft.com , www.codeplex.com , and maybe even expression.microsoft.com . You may have visited the forums, downloaded software but what else is there? Turns out quite a bit. Years ago when I got my first
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John Oxley’s 2nd post on TechDays has raised a couple of questions in his personal email (yes, that email is his personal email). I thought it best if they came in the form of a quick Monday morning post – the week the registration site goes live. Here
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Hello Everyone! Your feedback on TechDays has been great and I really want to thank you so much for taking the time to share your comments with me. I thought, as there has been three major themes in all the questions, I’d share my answers
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With all the announcements, release of new products and technologies and changing business needs it is hard to keep up. VMWare releases a free version of ESX, Hyper-V is released, Hyper-V Server is announced and will be available shortly, Small
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Do you work in a small IT shop or are you the only IT resource that your company has? Are you the "go to" guy/gal for anything to do with technology? Do you (or others) consider yourself a "jack of all trades"? Do you work in a small
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With all the talk about TechDays going on recently there is another conference coming up shortly. I attended SecTor 2007 and I`ll admit it was the best con I attended last year and that includes the internal Microsoft ones I was able to attend.
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Technorati Tags: TechDays_CA Hello Everyone! While I guess the surprise is out. TechDays is real and no longer just a dream. We’ve been working hard over the last year to bring a similar experience as TechED across Canada. Yes, not just in Toronto …..our
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Wraps are coming off the packaging and details are starting to make their way on to the web . Hold on to your seats folks - we'll have more details coming soon. Keep your eyes peeled for a full disclosure post coming up before the weekend. This is something
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Since I started in this role I have heard a lot about the Imagine Cup . Not knowing anything about it, I started looking into it. Well it turns out it’s a wonderful competition where students from around the world are using their minds, their know-how,
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Well you go away for two short days and come back to a flurry of activity on the virtualization front! In case, as was mine, you were too busy getting ready for Monday Night Football you might have missed the Hyper-V launch that happened on Monday where
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If you remember from a couple ( 1 ) ( 2 ) of previous guest blog posts, Graham out in Vancouver was talking with Ron about using WHS as a very small office solution for centralized and easily expandable storage, centralized backup and remote access. This
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Ahhh! September is here, the nights are getting cooler, the sun is going down earlier and we are starting to get into the swing of things. With the team prepping for the AlignIT Tour and TechDays we'll be coming to a city near you. I really love getting
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With Hyper-V now in the RTM stage and available for download I thought I'd share this interview with Sean and Rick from Around the Clock IT. They implemented Hyper-V when it was still in the RC stages and have been running some production servers in a
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A couple of questions for ya... Do you work in a small IT shop or are you the only IT resource that your company has? Are you the "go to" guy/gal for anything to do with technology and you consider yourself a "jack of all trades"?
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Virtualization technologies are being adopted at a rapid pace. One concern that I often hear about relates to support of the operating systems and applications running in the virtual environment. Microsoft has supported Microsoft operating systems in
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A short while ago, I meet with a friend who is responsible for the management of a testing lab. The federal department he works for, setup a lab to allow each business unit owners to come and test their Line of Business applications against the
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