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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
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My blog post a few days ago about how using web cams, headsets, Microsoft Office LiveMeeting and Office Communications Server 2007 helped us to give everyone on the Community Team a richer experience during meetings got a number of emails and comments.
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The My TechNet Security tour is officially underway with the first stop in Winnipeg complete. As you are aware if you've ever attended an event we always have time for Q&A at the end of the day and there were a lot of good questions. All were answered
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One of the challenges we on the Community Team at Microsoft face is working across distances. Because we are often on the road, and with the team split between Ottawa, Mississauga and Calgary, getting everyone together for a meeting is a challenge. I
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I was catching up on my RSS reading and noticed a post by my fellow IT Pro Advisor, Ruth Morton , on the Canadian IT Managers blog . It seems that the time is nearing, time for another round of DST "fun". She posted some great links which I'll share here...
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I do! I am the first to admit that licensing can be really confusing but there are some tools that can help you (including the CanITPro team) navigate the waters so to speak. In the virtualization realm there are some calculators which I linked in a previous
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Licensing. It can be a headache, it is often misunderstood and things are different in the virtual environment. There are some great virtualization specific licensing resources I wanted to share to help you navigate these waters. First of all there are
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Sean Kearney (Toronto, Ontario) Exchange 2007 Sean Kearney is our Friday Funnies guest blogger but he has a serious side too! This is a great tip on how to change the default port and SmartHost in Exchange 2007. This might come in handy for those trying
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Ghostbusters? Maybe, but what if you need to get clarification or help on something Microsoft related? If you guessed the IT Pro or Developer Advisors you guessed right. We are your connection point back into Microsoft. Now we will never claim to know
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This webpage has an Email link , and IT Pro's in Canada are starting to use it. This is fantastic because we are posting more and more Your Solutions articles, and little tidbits of useful information. Like this one..... Through the blog we got an email
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David Parker (Edmonton, Alberta) Exchange 5.5 and 2003 In the last few weeks, as you are all aware of, DST patching has been the main goal of every admin from Halifax to Victoria to Tuktoyuktuk . There are a lot of things that need patches and updates
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I thought I would let all the Ottawa area IT Pros know that there will be a couple of interesting events coming up that I will be both participating in and presenting. Here are some of the details: I'm speaking about and demo'ing Windows Vista and OneCare
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When I first met with the guys at KHP they had a list of things they wished worked better in their organization, I mean who doesn't? I remember being in that position where you would love to do this, buy that or implement the latest technology. Problem
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One of the things that worried me a little when I got to Microsoft was losing my "touch". As IT Pro Advisor's we work in the realm of the virtual lab a lot and well that is nice for learning and demos, it is removed from the real world. Because of this
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One of Microsoft's biggest customers is Microsoft. Internally we try to use as many of our own products as possible and start using them well before they hit RTM stage. This process is known as dogfooding and as you can imagine, there are a number of
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