March 2009 - Posts
Regardless… Like Murphy said… “He who laughs last probably made a back-up”. In this case “He who laughs last probably applied MS08-067 to all his systems”. I’ve received a lot of questions from enthusiasts & customers about the latest version of Conficker
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(This is part 3 of a 4 part series, you can read the first post here ) Here is the second part of my discussion with Shane Schick on the Myths & Realities of the IT Skills & Talent landscape in Canada. This part is titled “Myth 3 – I have
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(Cross-Post. This is part 2 of a 4 part series, you can read the first post here ) Here is the second part of my discussion with Shane Schick on the Myths & Realities of the IT Skills & Talent landscape in Canada. This part is titled
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(Cross Posted With Mark Relph’s Blog ) Working in today’s IT industry comes with a variety of challenges, especially in these tough economic times. Jobs are becoming more complex, employers expectations are high and employees need more than just
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Qixing wrote up this post and took some photos from these events on the CanUX blog and I thought I’d share it here as well… This week Rod, Joey and I kicked off the EnergizeIT tour on the west coast. Joey showed you the Road Warrior Office we had
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So you were at TechDays and you went home with your 6 month subscription to TechNet Plus and wonder what else there is besides software you can download? How about some free virtualization training and some free exam vouchers? You see there
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I managed to find a spot for myself on the DirectAccess dogfood going on now at Microsoft. This is by far the single best technology that Microsoft has produced that I can remember. Remember back to when you first got Outlook Anywhere back
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Every so often you miss something, perhaps it was all the Energize IT prep the team was heads down in, regardless I woke up this morning with tweets , emails, blog posts in my RSS all about a free PowerShell book. Free as in beer, not even an email registration!
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Peter Piluk is a 15 year veteran Jack of All IT guy from Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. He has used every version of Windows since 2.0 and every version of MS-DOS since 2.1 and has been using Vista since its beta days. Peter has been involved in just about
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We’ve written a few posts here on IE8 centered around what you need to know as an IT Pro and/or dev. In fact I just wrote one and posted it a few hours ago. I have been using IE8 final now for a couple of days (call it a perk of working here)
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So IE8 has been released to the web and is ready to download. I’ve run through the betas, the RC and went to www.microsoft.com/ie8 this morning as soon as I heard it was released. If you haven’t you can hit that link and download it now for
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A while back Ruth did an interview with Cameron McKay about an upcoming infrastructure project he was in the planning stages on. While the planning is done and the implementation also complete, I thought it was time to revisit with Cameron and talk
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A little while ago I got an email from a friend of mine who works at Dell Canada. It talked about a game they developed in conjunction with us (Microsoft) and Intel that allows you to test your skills and knowledge at protecting a data center from security
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I noticed that Christian over on the Developer blog has posted up that we’re heading out to “la belle province” with EnergizeIT kickin’ it in Montreal next week. From Damir’s TechNet Flash editorial to Rodney’s blog post – you still might have missed
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In my previous post on our EnergizeIT activities out east and why there were not readily apparent on the mass mailing, I mentioned that we were going to a number of cities, including Halifax, Moncton, Fredericton and St. John’s. I neglected to include
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Three guys got together over pints a while ago and talked about how one of the issues facing Technical Professionals today is keeping their systems patched and up to date. This issue was brought to the forefront at a User Group meeting we were attending
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I recently got an email from Yaroslav Pentsarskyy who has a blog at http://www.sharemuch.com/ . He contacted me with feedback that the Canadian IT Pro blog, and others blogs that the Canadian Audience Team contributes to like the Canadian Developers
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