June 2009 - Posts
Patching is a necessary evil. A lot of IT pros don’t like to talk about patching due to the amount of work it can generate for them in their already PACKED jobs. It came up as a heated topic of discussion at a user group event I attended a while back
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Yesterday, Rodney’s blog post reminding everyone that the Windows 7 Beta code will start to reboot your computer every two hours if you don’t migrate to the Release Candidate version before July 1 got me thinking about all of the great people I met during
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I just wanted to post a reminder that the Windows 7 Beta is set to expire on July 1st, 2009. What does that mean? Well it isn’t going to explode, eat your data or lock you out. What is going to happen is that the PC will force you to
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“Is it a school day tomorrow?” I get this question almost every day from my kids. Doesn’t matter if it’s from my kindergarten aged twins or my “seasoned veteran” son who’s in grade 2. It’s on their minds as something they have to do – their task that
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Last week when John blogged about the fact that TechDays registration was coming soon, I have received a number of emails and phone calls from folks across the country asking “When can I sign up?” and “Where can I get more details about TechDays 2009?”.
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Are you a father, mother, brother, sister, uncle, aunt have friends, neighbors or know someone with kids? Chances are you are or do, so when I say online safety is something that should concern all of us, whether you have kids or not, it shouldn’t
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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 7.
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Three guys got together over pints in February 2009 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 up to them at a User Group meeting they were attending
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Hi Everyone, I’m spending some time this afternoon catching up on some emails, reading planning briefs and building out our Fiscal Year 10 plan. As an FYI – we have a July to June fiscal year. Starting July 1st we are in our FY10. If
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Hi Everyone, Thanks for your all your emails. After my announcement on Monday we’ve had many inquiries from those that need to gain approval, want to get the dates booked in their calendar or just want more information. I’m sure you understand
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Sasha Krsmanovic from the MVP team is back with another guest blog post on Microsoft Fix It. I saw this on a KB article a while ago and gave it a whirl and loved the fact that I could run a verified MSI to fix the problem I had rather than
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You may have heard about Bing , a new search decision engine, that was recently released. Miguel Carrasco , an MVP from my hometown of Winnipeg, got early access to Bing and wrote up this post on Bing, what it is, how it is different and I hope you give
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TechDays 2008 was such a success that we had many comments and feedback that we should expand it to more cities. Given our goal to support your development with skills growth, connecting you with your peers and experts to share insights and lessons
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