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I love Microsoft Office 2010. It’s not that I was not a big fan of the current Office 2007, but I feel that Microsoft has done its job – found ways to improve the new model. My current ‘favorite’ improvement is with Microsoft Office Outlook. It solves...

At TechEd NorAm 2009 in Los Angeles the Community Corner had an XBox 360 setup to play Guitar Hero… Some buddies and I played a couple of songs.  Watch them now! (I seem to recall we also did Hotel California with me on vocals… be glad that video...

I couldn’t believe it.  There is actually a contest to write haiku about Windows Server 2008 R2.  I used to write poetry, so I gave it a shot.  Here are MY entries, based on the two technologies that I use most often: Virtualize All / Hyper...

In her recent article ‘ Windows 7: Seven points of imperfection ’ (posted on IT World Canada, and written for PC World US) Jacqueline Emigh  calls out seven deficiencies in Microsoft’s new client operating system. While I understand that columnists...

<Originally posted October, 2006> Earlier today someone referenced this article from my old blog which will, eventually, be migrated over to my new blog.  However in the meantime I am reposting it.  To be frank the perfect record no longer...

I can hardly believe it has been nearly a year since I sat down to speak with Stephen Ibaraki.  Stephen is a very well respected professional, a past-president of the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS), Advisor to Chair of Culminis (now...

I have seen a lot of contests recently… some promise cash, others cool prizes.  This contest will actually help you to grow your business! Microsoft Canada has a great contest for IT professionals and implementers.  Do you have a story about...

When Microsoft announced that rather than throwing large launch events in select cities they would enable Influencers to throw ‘House Parties’ there was a lot of ridicule; many said it wouldn’t work, others poked fun and even shot mocumentaries about...

Back when I was a computer support technician I used to carry a binder of CDs and DVDs, including (but certainly not limited to!) every version and edition of Windows client and server.  This came in handy every time I replaced a hard drive because...

This article explains how to install a new domain forest on Windows Server Core, or in the Windows Server CLI (Command Line Interpreter).  I will not discuss any other option for RODCs, existing domains, child domains, and so on… there are a plethora...

If you are a small business owner or consultant you must read this article!  http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2009/09/10/why-small-businesses-use-windows-small-business-server.aspx

If you either post or watch videos on-line then you know YouTube… but how about SoapBox?  A couple of years ago MSN started a competing service to YouTube which I have found very convenient.  I don’t use it often – I have posted precisely six...

The World According to Mitch did not start out as a blog, but as e-mail blasts.  When I decided to blog I started The President’s Blog at www.mitpro.ca .  However when I stepped down as leader of that group in January, 2007 I needed to find...

<Edited July 14> Since May I have been telling people that they would have to wait for details of the new Microsoft Office 2010 applications coming down the pipe. Yesterday the veil was lifted, as the beta program was made available to a wider audience...

Yesterday morning I was sitting in Artisano’s Bakery and Café in Oakville (as I am now) and twitted as much.  Barry, a fellow Oakvillain whom I met in Seattle when I was living in Montreal replied that it was a great place, and would I be there in...

For more information about the Windows Springboard Series visit http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8418918 . My first computer had a cassette drive; my next had two 5.25” floppy disk drives (which cost nearly as much as the computer).  Going forward...

Over the past six years I have had the honour of leading and participating in two major Canadian IT Pro user groups; I have spoken at scores of user groups across the country and around the world, and have been in touch with so many of the user group...

Of all of the innovative technologies I came face to face with at TechEd last month the most incredible of them all was a gentleman in a wheelchair. It wasn’t just any wheelchair of course… it was (I would later learn) an iBOT… a wheelchair designed to...

This is the first of many entries in this blog focused primarily on the fact the WE ARE PREGNANT!!!   It will also be a general blog about the Garvis household from my perspective.   To see Mitch’s perspective you just have to go see...

For more information about the Windows Springboard Series visit http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8418918 . A lot of people cannot understand how IT Professionals and enthusiasts can get excited about some things.  I ordered my new laptops last week;...

If you do not live in the Greater Toronto Area, or say between here and Niagara, this is probably not for you.  However if you can get to Oakville next Tuesday and are interested in IT then this session is for you! **Special Event** Seminar with...

One of the reasons I like attending conferences like TechEd is that very often attendees get news first… either by design or occasionally by accident.  An example of the latter, I learned last night, is that one presenter accidentally showed off...

For more information about the Windows Springboard Series visit http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8418918 . I was wondering out loud today if you were ready for Windows 7. Yes, you… and don’t look around because WE BOTH know who you are. You are an IT Professional...

Take a behind- the-scenes look at the next generation of Windows at www.TalkingaboutWindows.com , a video blog offering IT professionals genuine insight on Windows 7 from the Microsoft engineers who helped build the product. Listen as engineers talk about...

I am a member of a private community of Microsoft Certified Trainers on a well known networking site.  In the last couple of days one of my colleagues complained that his students were passing their exams by using Brain Dumps, and that these tools...