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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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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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It’s called the Ignite IT Award . And it’s a way for the community to recognize and reward the work that you do. Yes, that‘s not a typo… The community, your peers… They can review any submission and will have the opportunity to vote for their favorites.
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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.
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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.
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After one of our events last year I got an email from Paul Gartner in Montreal. During the event I indicated that if you or anyone you knew was looking to deploy some of our newer technologies I may be able to get some additional resources to help through
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I was talking with Dana Epp when Rodney and I were out in Vancouver for the MySecurity tour a couple of months back. He was telling me about when he was trying to get a straight answer on how he license System Centre Virtual Machine Manger in his office
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Sean Kearney (Toronto, Ontario) Windows 2000 and 2003 Sean Kearney is showing his serious side again. This is a great tip (and much easier than a post I wrote years ago ) on converting dynamic disks back to basic. As a field technician with more years
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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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David F. Skoll (Ottawa, Ontario, IT Pro) A few months ago, through this blog, I met David. We had an interesting conversation through the comments section and via email about a number of things. One of those things was the solution he built for his business
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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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Dani Sarfati (Winnipeg, Manitoba) DST Patching So as you can imagine, the DST changes have been on the top of everyone's mind lately. I can't count the number of things I've had to patch besides computers. My GPS had a patch, my Moto Q and my wife's GSM
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Gim Muthukumarana (Toronto, Ontario) Using WSS 3.0 without Active Directory The other night I attended a meeting of the Toronto Chapter of CIPS . Before the meeting got started I got into a conversation with Gim Muthukumarana from Iserve Technology Consulting
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James ? (Mississauga, Ontario) Install Vista from USB Flash Drive A few weeks ago my brother was in town and we were at a Toronto Raptors game and someone came up and introduced themselves, says they saw one of our sessions and enjoyed it. I always like
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Daniel Sarfati (Winnipeg, Manitoba) Fix Exchange 2007 SMTP Connectors with ADSIEDIT Daniel Sarfati sent me an IM with an issue he had after he upgraded his Exchange 2003 organization to Exchange 2007 and removed the old Exchange server. I asked him to
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