Category: CanITPro
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A Banner Day!
In 2007 I was asked to write a guest blog post for the Canadian IT Pro Connection. Over the course of the next few years I wrote several articles for them, many of which were cross-posted to or from this site. However it was last month when I joined the team I went on a…
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Where’s Mitch?
As I mentioned last week I am now spending a lot of my time as a Virtual Technical Evangelist for Microsoft Canada. Part of my duties in that role include blogging, which is what brought you here. However for the time being I am going to post most of my articles on the Canadian IT…
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The Social Side of Microsoft TechEd – My evenings in Orlando
This week was a real roller-coaster of ups and downs… in more ways than one. I have been attending Microsoft TechEd for the past five years, and this year’s conference brought me back to where it all began for me… Orlando, Florida. The Orange County Convention Center is not the worst of them – although…
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Canadian Get Together at Microsoft TechEd 2012!
(Third in the series… see http://wp.me/p1bbHH-oX for more info!)Hey fellow Canucks, Eh?! Welcome to Orlando! It is an amazing place to be for an amazing event to be at! We are going to have an incredible time at the 20th anniversary of this amazing event. So for all of you who have been eagerly waiting to…
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Some pictures from the first few days at MVP Summit!
I am writing a blog article about Summit, but it is being reserved for later. For now, here are some pictures! –M
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End of Days for Windows XP.
Quite a number of people have asked me why I continue to tweet the number of days until Microsoft ends support for one of it’s most successful operating systems ever, Windows XP. Especially knowing that we seem to be a long way off – today is Friday August 12, 2011 and we are 969 days…
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The Genesis of my Career as an IT Consultant and Trainer
I can’t believe it has been eight years… I wrote this article for TechRepublic while I was still working for IGS Security in Montreal. These articles are the genesis of my career as a computer consultant and IT Trainer and Presenter. The first article tells of how and why I began to transition from a…
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I am You, You are Me.
A couple of months ago I was in the cafeteria at Microsoft and I came up with an idea for a blog article, which I then gave to Rick Claus for the IT Pro Connection. It was originally titled ‘I am You, You are Me.’ He added the rest of the title, but I didn’t…
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Gartner agrees with me… Hyper-V is for real!
In September Microsoft Canada contracted me as a Virtual Partner Technology Advisor, tasking me with evangelizing Microsoft virtualization solutions. One of the reasons I was such a good fit for the role is that I am very familiar with both Microsoft’s and VMware’s server virtualization solutions – I teach and consult on both platforms. I…
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Office 365–Complex or Options?
Last week Microsoft officially launched its cloud-based infrastructure offering, Office 365. As a virtual insider I have been using this solution for the past six months for my IT consulting firm, and frankly had forgotten that it was a beta offering. That is because while the packaging may be new, all of the applications –…
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IT Pro Connection & the TechNet Flash
A couple of weeks ago Microsoft released Microsoft iSCSI Software Target for download, and I was thrilled. I immediately decided to write about it, but before publishing what would end up the first of three articles, I decided to ping my buddy Rick Claus, IT Pro Evangelist for Microsoft Canada, and ask him if he…
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