Category: DPE

• Thank you for your support!

  What a year it’s been. That’s right, it’s been a year since I joined the DPE Team at Microsoft Canada as a Virtual Technical Evangelist.  I blogged about it here and I was as excited as could be.  I can assure you that the excitement has not waned for one minute during my tenure here.…

  Mitch Garvis

  September 9, 2013

  DPE, Evangelism, Microsoft Canada

• Microsoft Certified Career Day!

  Our industry moves fast! There was a time when if you learned a system you e set for a long time.  Now Microsoft is releasing operating systems every three years (client AND server), and the management tools are constantly evolving.  A carpenter who takes a year off work may be out of practice, but will…

  Mitch Garvis

  March 11, 2013

  Certifications, Certs, DPE, Microsoft Learning

  Certification, certifications; Microsoft Learning, Certs, MCSE Private Cloud, Private Cloud

• 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…

  Mitch Garvis

  October 1, 2012

  Blog, CanITPro, DPE

  Canada

• Trying it Out: How to prepare to test your new operating system

  This post was originally written for the Canadian IT Pro Connection blog, and can be seen there at Trying it Out- How to prepare to test your new operating system. This is a really exciting season for IT Pros across Canada.  Last week Microsoft released Windows Server 2012 to the public, and on October 26th…

  Mitch Garvis

  September 11, 2012

  Boot Camp, Boot from VHD, CanITPro, DPE, Testing

  Canadian IT Folks, Disk partitioning, Hyper-V, IT Camps, Operating system, Windows Server, Windows Server 2012

• 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…

  Mitch Garvis

  September 10, 2012

  Blog, CanITPro, DPE, Evangelism, Travel

• Virtual Technical Evangelist

  As I told you on Monday, I have a new role at Microsoft Canada.  As a Virtual Technical Evangelist (Windows Infrastructure) I will be working very closely with the DPE (Developer Platform Evangelism) team on events such as the Windows Server 2012 Launch Tour that we kicked off yesterday in Toronto. I was introduced to…

  Mitch Garvis

  September 6, 2012

  Boot Camp, DPE, Evangelism, Microsoft Canada