January 2009 - Posts
Hello folks, I was reading Mohamud’s post and it made me think of my own lab environment. I had been thinking about writing about it for a while now, but something always came up. So, this morning I gathered the documentation i had kept when i setup my
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I met Mohamud Ashoor in my travels to Vancouver at various VanTUG events and we regularly chat on IM as well. A few weeks back he was telling me about his home lab setup and how he uses it to sharpen his skills, keep up with technology. In our discussions
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I met Jonathan Cusson in Montreal a couple of months ago while I was there with the IT Manager “AlignIT” tour. We got to talking about virtualization and he offered to write a couple of posts on things he’s doing at Alpha Mosaik and in his spare time.
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Hot off the presses, or in this case the IE8 Team Blog , is the announcement that IE8 RC1 has been released and is ready to download! The IE8 team has focused on three major areas with the work put into IE8, consumers, IT Pros and developers and each
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I ran across this post on the Windows 7 Team Blog and thought I’d pass on the information. It was previously announced that the download deadline for the Windows 7 beta was going to be January 23rd but this date has been extended. From the
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There has been some confusion around the submission process for the Ignite IT Awards . In the submission form you’ll see that one of the field is “Project title”. Because of that many people are not submitting en entry for themselves or their team because
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So as you’ve seen with Rick’s posts we are in Vancouver for TechDays Vancouver. We all got out West a little early and Rick and I decided to take a day off and spend it skiing. We headed up to Cypress Mountain based on the advice of the bartender at the
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Day one is about to wrap up for TechDays Vancouver. Lots of people, lots of technology and probably the coolest part – LOTS OF CONNECTIONS. We brought back the designated “Ask The Experts” area, based on feedback we got from the other cities. We encourage
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Today is Day One of TechDays Vancouver – our last BIG stop on our skills development conference and experience. I was recently talking with our team earlier this month talking about our “post conference experience” and what sort of resources and tools
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John Policelli is a solutions-focused IT consultant with over a decade of combined success in architecture, security, strategic planning, and disaster recovery planning. He has designed and implemented dozens of complex directory service, e-Messaging,
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I wanted to get a quick note out to say that I will be heading out to Vancouver as part the last city of TechDays 2008 Canada . It’s the end of our pilot of events in Canada which were designed based on YOUR FEEDBACK - to give you and your colleagues
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It’s called the Ignite IT Award . And it’s a way for the community to recognize and reward the work that you do. Yes, that‘s not a typo… The community, your peers… They can review any submission and will have the opportunity to vote for their favorites.
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I posted this to my other blog, thelazyadmin.com but thought it might be useful to post here as well. One of a new features in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is the ability to boot from a VHD. It is pretty simple to enable this feature and have
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With all the news about the release of the first public look at Windows 7 something might have slipped past you and that was the release of Windows Server 2008 R2. As you might imagine there are quite a few upgrades and improvements and there is
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You might have heard that the first Windows 7 beta was released today and you may have even downloaded it! If not you can find out how to get it here ! While you are downloading it be sure to check out the new, revamped Springboard portal
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So I spent $5 on what is one of the most secure ways to do any online logins, in this case my PayPal account. PayPal now offers a one time password token (OTP) to give its users a more secure login methodology. Now instead of a username and
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There is a little battle going on right now in Twitterland between Mark Relph (@mrelph) and Rick Claus (@Rickster_CDN) on who's going to install Windows 7 on their Dell Latitude E4300 notebook first. Looks to me that Mark is winning but that's now
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I got back into the office yesterday and in the course of a number of " Happy New Years " and other conversations, I was also asked what I did over the Holidays. Besides spending some well-deserved time with the family (I probably travel more than my
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