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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
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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
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Damir and I have returned from Montreal after dropping in for the My TechNet Security tour. We had a great time at the Montreal IT Professionals Group talking about data security tools in XP and Vista and then a packed house at the event on Thursday.
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Rick visited St. John's Newfoundland and I made my way to Ottawa for the My TechNet Security tour and again the sessions led to some great Q&A at the end of the day. There were some great questions on SQL database encryption and you can find out more
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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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On the recent Future of the Server Room tour Rick and I tried something different and allowed attendees to email or text their questions in throughout the day. It was quite successful as we got over 200 text messages and 50 emails over the 5 stops. I've
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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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I recently got an email from Ralph Shillington, an MCT and former colleague, on a new resource that he is making available on the web. His company, iFoundTime Inc . is posting a series of SQL Server and .NET tutorials online and is also asking for your
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Here at the Canadian IT Professionals blog we've been doing what Rick likes to call "Commando Podcasts" in which we grab someone turn on the recorder and have a quick chat about a (hopefully) interesting topic. A lot of you may listen to more "professional"
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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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This podcast was sitting in my "to be edited" folder on my machine. I met up with Kai Axford (Senior Security Strategist) on his Eastern Canada tour at the end of January / beginning of February trip up north. I really like his style of engagement with
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I just wanted to remind you of a post I made earlier in the month... ( here it is if you don't remember ) We're still looking for your feedback and comments around how we're doing with the blog AND I'm going to sweeten the pot by randomly choosing a winner
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A few weeks ago I had the priviledge of sitting down with Barnaby Jeans, and Greg Mathieu (Business Information Group) to talk about virtualization. The following is a description of the recording. From simplifying disaster and recovery planning to server
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If you attended any of the launch events held across Canada in the last month or so, you may have seen the session we presented on security in which we talked a little about a new feature in Vista called BitLocker. One common question was wether or not
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As we deliver the Business Value Launch content to IT Pro's across Canada one slide that we show at the end of each session contains a list of links for more information. Typically we have a post tour thank you page with all these resources but due to
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