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The most wonderful time of the year....
You might hear Microsoft folks talking about the end of the year and wonder what's up, it is only May? Well our fiscal year end is June 30th and when we say year end, we mean the end of the fiscal year. Because of the way the fiscal cycle is laid out, Read More...
Connecting with Students - Grabbin' a pint with future ICT Pros!
As an IT Professional who has worked in the industry collecting a salary for over 17 years (man I am dating myself) I am psyched to have a job where I have an opportunity to connect with students who have already made a commitment to train and work within Read More...
Share Your Experiences at Heroes Happen Here Events!!
On Wednesday, we launched Windows Server 2008 , Visual Studio 2008 , and SQL Server 2008 at the first Heroes Happen Here event in Toronto.  As the next few weeks go by we will be visiting other cities across the country to allow you to learn more Read More...
Upcoming UG Meetings of interest - Ottawa Area
My buddy Garth asked me to post this up on the Blog to see if we can drive some registration and interest on an upcoming UserGroup meeting here in Ottawa. I've been working with Garth for almost 3 years as he runs the Infrastructure focused OWSUG group. Read More...
Community Connection Resources
As part of the Microsoft Windows Server 2008/ SQL Server 2008/Visual Studio 2008 Launch events , we are visiting 14 cities across Canada conducting workshops featuring “learning circles” on the following key industry relevant topics: Impact of Virtualization Read More...
Community Connection Events - diamond in the rough
We've been getting a number of inquiries as to "What the heck is this event?", "Why should I bother going?" and "What's in it for me?". I thought I'd spend a little time on this post to elaborate what's going on and really help expose the diamond in the Read More...
Heroes Happen Here, eh? What's going on up north for Launch 2008 Activities.
If you remember way back - I posted the initial confirmation and tickler that Canada was having a major event on February 27th to mark the Launch of Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL 2008. As you have probably read online over the last little Read More...
Unified Communications Launch Tour Wraps Up in Toronto
Tomorrow, Tuesday December 4, marks the last stop of the Unified Communications Launch Tour .  If you have not yet registered to attend the event, although registration has closed we can still take a few more folks so come down to the Metro Toronto Read More...
SecTor Resources
Last week, Rodney and I both had the opportunity to attend the Security Education Conference in Toronto (SecTor). It was an excellent conference, one that I would recommend if you have anything to do with IT security in your job and can make it to the Read More...
SQLTeach Vancouver Resources
Database Mirroring Resources: SQL Server: Database Mirroring Best Practices and Performance Considerations Database Mirroring in SQL Server 2005 SQL Server 2005 Database Mirroring FAQ SQL Q&A: Server Tuning, Mirroring, Log Shipping and more SQL Server Read More...
My TechNet Q&A - Toronto
Well it is a wrap! The MyTechnet Security Tour wrapped up last week with the final event in Toronto and Regina. Rick, Damir and myself had a great time meeting with IT pros in Canada to talk about security, and answer questions along the way. We had a Read More...
Last Chance for SecTor
Based on the recent success of the My TechNet Security Tour, IT pros and developers in Canada care about security. Computer security impacts our lives in so many ways from personal things like online banking, to protecting corporate assets. In order to Read More...
My TechNet Q&A - Vancouver
Last week Rick and I were in Vancouver for the My TechNet Security tour and again we had some great questions again. One of the SMS questions that came in had to do with deploying your self signed Root CA via Active Directory. When using an internal CA Read More...
Ignite Your Career - IT Pro Style
I've been on the road now for 6 weeks - connecting with IT Professionals and IT Managers across the country (literally - St.John's to Vancouver). One of the questions that come up in almost every stop over the last 3 years of working on this team has Read More...
The Black Art of Security
Security. It is on the minds of more and more people these days as evident by the large draw of the My TechNet Security Tour, the coverage in the press, and conversations with other IT professionals in Canada. Security is important. One of the challenges Read More...
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