Category: Article
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The Student Has Become The Master!
Monday evening I attended the monthly user group meeting of the Wellington Waterloo IT Pro User Group (http://www.wwitpro.com/) in Kitchener, Ontario. The topic for the evening was called Windows 7 Deployment as presented by Sean Kearney (yes, THE Sean Kearney, a.k.a. The Energized Tech, a.k.a. (the former) Friday Funny Guy!) from SWMI Consulting Group and […]
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A Do-it-Yourself SWMI? No sweat!
Ok, let’s be honest. We all know that we need to secure our Active Directory infrastructures, but many of us are not entirely sure how. You may even know that Group Policy is a great tool to do it centrally, but with literally thousands of Group Policy settings available in Windows Server 2008 R2, where […]
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Creating a Bootable USB Key
It seems that some of my articles got chopped during the move to WordPress. Doh! Here are the simple instructions to create a bootable USB key: Open a Command Prompt session with Administrator privileges. Run the Disk Partition utility (diskpart.exe) Type List Disk to see a list of drives on your computer. Determine which is […]
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Mitch Visits One Police Plaza
A couple of weeks ago one attendee was a detective with the NYPD, and he offered to take me behind the scenes at One Police Plaza so that I could take a look at a few of the units that use information technology (IT) for a lot more than just paperwork and filing. I had […]
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Customer Service… do YOU get it? Wake Up!
I spend far too many nights in hotels. One of the services I rely on is the wake-up call, and this week I was reminded of the episode of Seinfeld by that name… I got to the hotel, left my 6:30am wake-up call, and went to sleep with the peace of mind that I would […]
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Troubleshooting MDT Scripts
I have a Windows 7 Deployment Point DVD that I created using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 for a client, and it has been a godsend during the past ten days. Because the client wants to make copies to send to their remote locations around the country, I spent a couple of hours scripting as […]
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When Our Work is REALLY Worthwhile
The title is of course misleading… work is almost always worthwhile – in one way or another. However this incident reminded me that some of us work for much more than a paycheck. I have spent the week overseeing the deployment of a secure IT environment for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation of Canada. As […]
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Dawn of a New Day
Ok, the title may be overstating things a little. However today does mark a great change for The World According to Mitch. I would like to welcome all of my readers to MGarvis.WordPress.com. Huh? What do you mean? After so many years are you saying that Mitch, always the proponent of running your own servers, […]
The World According to Mitch 