February 2009 - Posts
My good buddy Rodney wrote up a great explanation of all the activities we’re doing as part of EnergizeIT. Damir wrote up a special edition of the TechNet Flash newsletter talking about all the cities – including registration links for all sorts of activities
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Hello Folks, I’m on my way to Montreal for the MITPro Windows 7 Install Fest . It will be great. but if you can’t make it tonight, EnergizeIT is coming your way. Here’s what you can expect. I hope to see you there! Cheers!
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Well the cat is out of the bag and inboxes, Facebook and the Twittersphere are full of Energize IT chatter. If you subscribe to the Canadian versions of the TechNet Flash or MSDN Flash you would have received this invitation in your inbox on Thursday
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This came through my twitter feed this morning from a friend in Kingston… Shameless plug for an event in Ottawa that is NOT Obama related taking place tonight – Ottawa Windows Server UserGroup has asked myself, Pierre Roman, Christian Beauclair
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The team is hard at work on the upcoming Energize IT events and we will be showing you how to take advantage of the Microsoft-based platform, Windows 7, and a Software + Services approach to help your organization reduce costs and increase scalability.
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Hello folks, Since Windows 7 Beta 1 became available i have been slowly upgrading all my machines. It started with my test box A Dell Latitude D830, followed by my production machine a Dell Latitude E4300. I thought to myself, WOW this rocks!!! so i went
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I first got certified in Windows 2000 sometime in 2002 with my Windows 2000 MCP. At the time I really didn’t put a lot of thought in certifications but used the vouchers my school gave me to write that exam as well as the A+ and Network+ exams from
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No… I’m not the guy with the trench coat asking if you want to buy the letter C, but I do want to make sure you’re in the know. Talking with head-hunters / recruiters / IT Managers out there and there’s one thing they’ve told me again and again.
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My developer colleague John Bristowe (known affectionately as JohnB in team discussions) passed along this document and download link on our internal discussion list. I thought it strange that “a dev guy” would find this interesting, but after perusing
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A while ago we posted an update to the TechEd DVD’s that were included with the Techie Crunch kit given away at TechDays Canada. I just wanted to post an update as one of our own Canadian Silverlight MVPs has created a new fix. I gave it a
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Philip has been involved with Small Business Server since the BackOffice SBS 4.x days. He has worked in the SMB market for most of his I.T career. With the advent of SBS 2003, the SMB market became the primary focus due to the SBS 2003 feature set providing
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I just sat through Mark Relph’s kick-off presentation at the Cloud Computing Conference in Toronto. He talked about what we at Microsoft are doing in what is generally called the Cloud Computing Space and what we call Software+Services. This got me thinking
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I had posted this entry on Thelazyadmin.com but after reading a comment asking about a previous post I thought I’d throw it up here as well! A few weeks back we posted an entry on how to boot from a Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2 VHD . Booting
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With every new OS release comes some new features, changes to old features, fixes, kernel updates and more. While you might have read about some of these new features you probably have questions and now is your chance to find out more about Windows
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Microsoft has assembled quite a team over the last years whose sole mission is to participate in an ongoing conversation with the Linux, Open Source and Microsoft communities about interoperability. While I was in Seattle for our annual internal
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Wait a second! Why am I announcing this on the Canadian IT Pro blog? Well – I wanted to bring this resource to your attention as well… and maybe ask you a favor. What? Why? We have been talking about Infrastructure Optimization for a while now. We went
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