Category: User Group

• Transitions & Changes

  I received an e-mail this week from the Montreal IT Professionals Community (MITPro) inviting me to the 2014 Annual General Meeting. I remembered a day nine years ago in January, 2005.  Later in the day I would be heading to the first meeting of the group who had been brought together to build a user…

  Mitch Garvis

  February 24, 2014

  Community, IT Pro Connection, User Group

  IT, MITPro, Montreal, User Group

• Why We Support Communities

  I wrote this article a few days ago, and decided that before I posted it here I would offer it to the CanITPro Team – IT Pro Connection.  They published it on January 31st as a guest blog post.  I am now republishing it here, so that it can get the most exposure.  I have…

  Mitch Garvis

  January 30, 2012

  Community, IT Pro, IT Pro Toronto, Uncategorized, User Group

• The Dawn of a New Community

  I had no idea when I was scheduled to come to Buenos Aires that I would be here to watch such a momentous event.  A month ago Elias Mereb, a fellow MVP from Venezuela, found out I was coming down and introduced me to Daniel Levi, a DPE at Microsoft Argentina.  Daniel told me that…

  Mitch Garvis

  November 8, 2011

  Argentina, Cloud, Community, User Group, Virtualization

• The Wonder that is TechEd

  The quiet of the Exhibitor Hall is disturbed by the sounds of preparation.  To my left there is a crew frantically working to fix something with a carpet.  There is some hammering, more yammering, and the sounds of carpet tape being unfurled. To my right there are two security agents talking, but they are too…

  Mitch Garvis

  May 17, 2011

  APP-V, Ask the Expert, Blog, Certs, Deployment, Hyper-V, IT Pro, IT Security, MCP, MDOP, MDT, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Microsoft Learning, Microsoft MVP, Microsoft Office, Springboard, Springboard Technical Experts Panel, STEP, SWMI, TechEd, TechNet, User Group, Virtualization, Windows 7, Windows Server, Windows Server 2008 R2

• Get on the Bus!

  For the third year in a row the Springboard Bus Tour will hit the road leading up to TechEd.  If you have never met the bus you are missing out, because it delivers expert advice, great learning, and huge career benefits to IT Pros.  It delivers answers to questions you may have been having about…

  Mitch Garvis

  April 14, 2011

  App Compat, APP-V, Article, Ask the Expert, Bus Tour, Community, Deployment, Energized Tech, Garvis.ca, Get on the Bus, IT Pro, MDOP, MDT, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Microsoft MVP, Microsoft Office, Ontario, Sean Kearney, Springboard, Springboard Technical Experts Panel, STEP, SWMI, SWMI Consulting Group, Toronto, Travel, User Group, Windows 7

• 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…

  Mitch Garvis

  March 29, 2011

  Article, Blog, Community, Deployment, Energized Tech, Hewlett Packard, HP, IT Pro, Jacqueline Hutchinson, MDT, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Microsoft MVP, Sean Kearney, Springboard, Springboard Technical Experts Panel, STEP, SWMI, Unattend.xml, User Group, Windows 7, Windows PE, Windows XP, WWITPro