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Wow they are busy down in Redmond! Yesterday Service Pack 2 for Office 2007 was released and today Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 were completed! I’ve been doing some digging to find out what is new and noteworthy as well as
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A while back Ruth did an interview with Cameron McKay about an upcoming infrastructure project he was in the planning stages on. While the planning is done and the implementation also complete, I thought it was time to revisit with Cameron and talk
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In my previous post on our EnergizeIT activities out east and why there were not readily apparent on the mass mailing, I mentioned that we were going to a number of cities, including Halifax, Moncton, Fredericton and St. John’s. I neglected to include
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I met Mohamud Ashoor in my travels to Vancouver at various VanTUG events and we regularly chat on IM as well. A few weeks back he was telling me about his home lab setup and how he uses it to sharpen his skills, keep up with technology. In our discussions
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You might have heard that the first Windows 7 beta was released today and you may have even downloaded it! If not you can find out how to get it here ! While you are downloading it be sure to check out the new, revamped Springboard portal
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Update: Contest closes on December 31st! Get your answers in and get entered to win! Now that I got your attention I wanted to talk to you about the sad state of, just kidding :) Yes the headline is true, we got an Xbox Elite to giveaway along with a
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Typically the things we chat about on this blog are aimed at the more experienced PC user and most IT Pros know a thing or two about computers. I came across this blog recently and have added it to my RSS feed as it is a great mix of hardware, software,
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Ok so that isn't exactly math but it does remind me of the calculus I took in high school but let me explain :) I know there is a lot of interest in Windows 7 with nearly everyone asking me when there will be a public beta. I know there are a few
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Building High Availability Infrastructures with Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering Cluster Team Blog: http ://blogs.msdn.com/clustering Clustering on Microsoft TechNet: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=107273 Clustering Webcasts: http://msevents.microsoft.com
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I am the first to admit that Vista did not perform to expectations when first released. I know a lot was driver related and there has been a noticeable difference experienced in the last year and I know a lot of people who are actually using Vista who
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A short while ago, I meet with a friend who is responsible for the management of a testing lab. The federal department he works for, setup a lab to allow each business unit owners to come and test their Line of Business applications against the
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If you're like me you probably looked at the IE8 Beta and the "what's new" and saw things like Web Slices , Adaptive Zoom , Rendering Modes and Web Standards Support . All interesting things but really focused on the developer. What
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[Cross post from http://blogs.technet.com/cdnitmanagers/archive/2008/06/23/windows-client-roadmap.aspx ] Today a letter from Bill Veghte, Senior VP of Windows at Microsoft, has gone out to all Windows customers about the “end of sales” date (June 30)
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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
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As soon as you embark on a career in IT - you get classed as a free technical support resource for all your friends and family - it's the norm. I got this email from a friend of mine (Richard Hagemeyer - a prof. in CompSci at Algonquin College )
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