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Free Online Training and Resources from Microsoft
Have you ever wondered how you can help build your IT skill set? Based on feedback and constructive criticism, Microsoft Canada identifies key areas where they can improve and help you by providing better resources to answer your questions, solve your real world problems and help you achieve your business goals. Maybe it’s just ensuring…
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Licensing Simplified – at Home and at Work
Have you ever wondered if there’s an easier way to understand licensing, for both home and business use? Based on feedback and constructive criticism, Microsoft Canada identifies key areas where they can improve and help you by providing better resources to answer your questions, solve your real world problems and help you achieve your business…
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Security – How to Help Keep Your PC Protected
Have you ever wondered how you can help keep your PC protected? Based on feedback and constructive criticism, Microsoft Canada identifies key areas where they can improve and help you by providing better resources to answer your questions, solve your real world problems and help you achieve your business goals. Maybe it’s just ensuring you…
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Help and Support from Microsoft
Have you ever wondered where to go to get help with your common, everyday IT challenges? Based on feedback and constructive criticism, Microsoft Canada identifies key areas where they can improve and help you by providing better resources to answer your questions, solve your real world problems and help you achieve your business goals. Maybe…
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The Late Great Steve Jobs
On a cold December evening I was walking through the Christmas tide When a stranger came up and asked me if I’d heard John Lennon died. And the two of us went to this bar and we stayed to close the place, And every song we played was for the Late, Great Johnny Ace. -Paul…
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Advice for IT Pros Planning to Open their Own Companies, Part III
In the first article of this series, Advice for IT Pros Planning to Open their Own Companies, I explained a bit of my own history, and why I was writing these articles. The actual advice is split into sixteen points, the first eight were listed in my next article, Advice for IT Pros Planning to…
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An interesting movie…
I took Theresa to see the movie ‘The Debt’ tonight. We both enjoyed it (I more than she), but probably for very different reasons. I think it is the first time I have ever watched a movie and said to myself ‘Wow… I think I have to see the original in Hebrew’ after watching a…
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Designing and Building an SMB Infrastructure for SWMI CG
As companies grow it is important that their IT infrastructure mature with them. with respect to Small Business IT Professionals, of which I know many and for whom I have great respect, there are several challenges that IT departments must address as they mature beyond Small Business Server with regard to planning, architecture, hardware, and…
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The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot…
It was three years ago when I put my HP ProLiant DL585 server in my basement. I ran a wire from my router to the basement and plugged the server in. It was crude, but worked great. And then one day, a couple of years ago, I started needing more servers down here, some temporary…
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VMLimited… Are you stuck in the past?
Tad the VMLimited Sales Guy… he looks like he would be lost working at WKRP Cincinnati, but he does drive the point home! http://vmlimited.ctp.trafficmgr.com/
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IT communities… Catch them!
It is great to see the mainstream media catching on… In this article (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/business-categories/biz-categories-technology/get-plugged-in-with-an-it-user-group/article2128023/) the author speaks of two groups that I have been involved in the formation of, and I have been walking around on a cloud all day!
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Happy 30th Birthday PC!
The official birthday of the IBM PC is August 12, 1981. Today, on the 30th birthday of that (at the time less than auspicious) event, there are some who believe the era of the personal computer is behind us, with the advent of tablets and smartphones. I disagree… that may be true for a segment…
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Preconceived Notions
This week finds me in three areas that I have heard people disparage: Salt Lake City, where I met some of the nicest people in the world and, more importantly, where I did not meet anyone who wasn’t as nice as could be! Even when spending my free afternoon at Temple Square, nobody tried to…
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Experience…
I don’t remember where I heard it or who first said it, but my class this week have been loving my definition of ‘experience’. Experience is what you gain mere moments after you needed it. It’s true, too… We learn from our mistakes, and if we don’t make them we would be better off… but…
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The ultimate guide to Sysinternals!
If you are like me, you rely on Sysinternals tools every day to do your job. For years it has been relatively unsupported, but today Mark Russinovich and Aaron Margosis have announced that their new book, Windows Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference, has been released! Read all about it on Mark’s blog at http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2011/07/18/3439288.aspx. Don’t miss it!
The World According to Mitch 