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SQL 2008 Implementation, At last… Structure and automation.
Hello folks, In December I had written a little piece regarding Todd Lamothe, the system administrator for the County of Lennox and Addington , and his deployment of Windows 2008. Well, he’s been driving hard to bring more value and order in his environment. Read More...
“My users have noticed that I’m not around as much anymore”
Hello folks, Todd Lamothe, the system administrator for the County of Lennox and Addington was in town a few weeks ago to present at TechDays and we started to talk about fun, and cool stuff he’s been doing. Well let me tell you, he’s been busy.  Read More...
Mission Impossible? Not with Hyper-V
  Louis-Philippe Gauthier (Sherbrooke, Quebec) We’ve all been there, boss calls you in at the last minute for your input on a project that has been brewing for months but all of a sudden needs to be implemented ASAP.  Louis-Philippe from Centre Read More...
Deploying a Small Business (Part 2)
If you read part 1 of this blog post you are aware that a SBS 2003 R2 Server was deployed and the next step was to deploy a terminal server to host the Jonas Construction Software. While Synergenics did design a very suitable server to run terminal services Read More...
Deploying a Small Business (Part 1)
With all the announcements, release of new products and technologies and changing business needs it is hard to keep up.  VMWare releases a free version of ESX, Hyper-V is released, Hyper-V Server is announced and will be available shortly, Small Read More...
Virtualization solves issues at CDSBEO - Part II
This is part two of a two part discussion of technology in use at a local school board here in the Ottawa region. As I mentioned in the previous post - I love discovering how technology is being used to help support the delivery of education. While I Read More...
Jean-Philippe on Vista Deployment
Jean-Philippe Breton is the Infrastructure and Desktop Deployment Team Leader for Alphamosaik , a Microsoft Gold Certified partner located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  He and his team recently lead a 10,000 seat deployment of Vista with SP1 for Read More...
Virtualization solves issues at CDSBEO - Part 1
This is part one of a two part discussion of technology in use at a local school board here in the Ottawa region. Being a father with one of three children in the school system and two more about to join in, I am always curious as to how technology is Read More...
SharePoint Powers SaskEnergy
Will Craddock is the president of the Regina IT Professionals group and is part of the IT team at SaskEnergy .  SaskEnergy is Saskatchewan's natural gas distribution company, a provincial Crown corporation with roots of more than half a century in Read More...
HPC in the real world
A while ago I posted a couple of entries related to High Performance Computing (aka HPC).  You can read them here ( Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 ) but I wanted to share a real world example of how HPC is being used and how it impacts the mining industry, Read More...
[From the Trenches] - AlphaMosaik MOSS2007 Interview Original French Responses
William Heurdier (Montreal, Quebec) Here are the original French-language responses provided by William Heurdier of AlphaMosaik on their deployment of MOSS 2007 Beta to production. The English-language Q&A can be found here . ------------------------------------------ Read More...
[From the Trenches] - AlphaMosaik Implements Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Beta in Production!!
William Heurdier (Montreal, Quebec) Before the Windows Vista, 2007 Microsoft Office System, and Exchange Server 2007 Launch got under way, I had a chance to talk to William Heurdier of AlphaMosaik in Montreal. AlphaMosaik boldly implemented Microsoft Read More...
From the Trenches - Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta 2
Mark Seniow (Richmond Hill, Ontario) Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta 2 From the Trenches is a new series on the CanITPro blog where we will be highlighting IT Pro's across Canada who are running the latest Microsoft technologies in their pilot and production Read More...
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