Sasha Krsmanovic from the MVP team is back with another guest blog post on Microsoft Fix It.  I saw this on a KB article a while ago and gave it a whirl and loved the fact that I could run a verified MSI to fix the problem I had rather than editing the registry or making other system changes. ------------------------- Do your family, neighbors or friends consider you their unofficial IT department? I bet you just love to receive those calls, especially now that the summer has finally

Sean Kearney has been doing some work with PowerShell as of late and sent in this little write up about searching with PowerShell! Enjoy, and remember if you have any tips you want to share email us! ------------------------------ A post I threw onto "Energized about Technology" and "Energized Tech". A simpler intro to a small script that can be a function in PowerShell. Today I had to search for something in a Text file. In PowerShell there's a simple command GET-CONTENT Which lets me simply enough,

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 about how things went.  Turns out Cam was one step ahead and posted an entry on his blog which we are cross posting here. ------------------------- And here we are.... it's March 15th, I'm now 25 Years old, and the largest infrastructure project

  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 d’élaboration des moyens d’enseignement du Québec (CEMEQ) had such an experience and used Hyper-V to save his weekend :) ------------------------- The following takes place between 3:30pm and 4:15pm… 3:30 PM   I get back from a meeting

Nelson and Danielle Ruest (Victoria, British Columbia, IT Pro) The Future of your Server Room Rick and I recently got the chance to meet a couple (a married couple) of MVPs from Victoria, B.C. They have something in common with us as they also tour delivering technical sessions on what's new, what's coming and why you should care. They've blogged here before on the e-book they are publishing and submitted this "review" of the Future of The Server Room tour event in Vancouver. --------------------------------------------------

Good friend of mine, MVP and technical author Mitch Tulloch sent this post in and it could not be more timely.... -------------------------------------------------- Mitch Tulloch here as guest poster to the Canadian IT Pro Blog. Well, the word is out—at WinHEC today, as reported by Redmond Channel Partner , Bill Gates announced that the official name of Windows Server Code-Name "Longhorn" will be Windows Server 2008. If you're keen on learning all you can about this upcoming platform, I have some

Graham Jones (Surrey, British Columbia, IT Pro) I have been chatting on and off with Graham about a project he's working on as well as listen to him lament about Hard Drive woes. This post came in the inbox late last night and I was happy to read that Graham as decided to spruce up his home network with a beta install of Windows Home Server (WHS). I've been using it now since it was made available internally a while back and I can say that it has come a long way. My wife no longer bothers to ask

Mitch Garvis (Montreal, Quebec, IT Pro) SBS 2003 R2 and Windows Server Technologies Mitch Garvis is an IT Professional who has a strong background in Small Business Server so when he asked me to post an article he wrote on why he does not consider himself an "SBSer" I was a little shocked. After reading what he submitted, I had to admit that some of it made sense. I can't say it all did or his ego will puff up and it might explode killing everyone in a 5 mile radius :) I really like the advice he

A little while ago I wrote a post on how Rick convinced me to run Vista as a standard user . Vista sure makes this easy but Colin Harford has written a nice guest blog post on how he is able to run as a standard user on XP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are all guilty of it at one point or another. We all like to make our users run without admin privileges, either by not granting them admin access, or by using group policy,

I was chatting online the other week with Brian - an IT Pro friend of mine here in Ottawa. Brian is the president of TechDelta - a consulting company that has been delivering Microsoft solutions (technical architectures, implementations, migrations, etc.) for the past 15 years. He was working for a large government agency that wanted the abstraction of DFS for shares while also enabling the Access Based Enumeration featureset of Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1. He was complaining to me about the

My name is Jean-Luc David and I’m a Team System MVP. Damir has graciously given me the opportunity to post a series of blogs on Team Foundation Server for IT Pros. The topic is of particular interest to me because I’ve written a book on Team System. (Shameless plug: Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System by WROX Press – coming to a bookstore near you and Amazon.com). Visual Studio 2005 Team System is a software development lifecycle suite to help architects, developers, testers and project managers

I hooked up with Mitch while in Winnipeg. Nice guy – very knowledgeable and has a passion for writing and technology. I am very glad he has decided to share his experiences and skills with the IT Pro guys in addition to their Managers… ————— Hi this is Mitch Tulloch MVP here in Winnipeg. I'm usually a guest blogger on the Canadian IT Managers blog but I asked Rick Claus if I could also post something here on the Canadian IT Pro blog. A couple of days ago,