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Dynamic Lock: Walk away securely.
One of my pet peeves when walking through organizations that I consult for is seeing unlocked and unattended workstations. I hate seeing this, knowing that anyone can sit down at their desk and do… whatever. I know people who would sit down at these unlocked workstations, and send an e-mail to the entire organization (in…
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Urban Armor: Protect your device!
Are all phone protector cases created equal? I have discovered over the years that, much to my dismay, they are not. Some cases look pretty and are sleek, but they do not do a very good job of protecting your phone. Others are big and bulky, and your phone is safe… but you never want…
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Rules for my sons…
These are now rules for both my sons! Thanks Peter! I like these a lot! Rules For My Unborn Son by Walker Lamond 1. Never shake a man’s hand sitting down. 2. There are plenty of ways to enter a pool. The stairs ain’t one. 3. The man at the grill is the closest thing…
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Should You Forgive a Drunken Attack?
Last week Jews around the world fasted for Yom Kippur. The translation is Day of Atonement. In the days leading up to Yom Kippur we are meant to seek forgiveness from others for our transgressions against those we might have wronged. The thinking is that while G-d can forgive sins against him, it is only…
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Password Vault: Success!
I can’t believe it has been two years since I signed up for my password vault, but there it was in my mailbox… the reminder that it is time to renew my ‘premium’ service with my password vault service. I did it gladly, giving over my credit card information. Why premium, you ask? Well, for…
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The New Mitch?
The photograph on the left was taken in front of La Floridita on Calle Obisbo in Old Havana by Greg Starks in February, 2017. The photograph on the right was taken in the same spot by Eduardo Bensusan in July, 2017. Conclusion? Eduardo is obviously a much better photographer than Greg, except that Greg had…
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Happy 10th Birthday!
i started blogging at The President’s Blog for MITPro.ca about twelve years ago. However it was ten years ago today that The World According to Mitch went live, completely separating myself from my former position. of course, back then the address was not http://www.garvis.ca – that would come later – but it was my own…
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Touch: You can touch this!
Occasionally I am sent a press release about a new product, or a soon to be released product, that I think is worth talking about. That happened this week when I received a kit about an upcoming product called Touch Earbuds. The Touch Earbuds are the next generation of a product I looked at a…
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SCOM Unmonitored: Never Again!
In my last article I showed you how to enable the System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Agent Proxy using PowerShell. We used the cmdlet: PS C:\> Get-SCOMagent | where {$_.ProxyingEnabled -match “False”} | Enable-SCOMAgentProxy While this does work, it is what I call a point-in-time solution… that is, it enables the Agent Proxy on everything…
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SCOM: Unmanaged?
Congratulations! You have installed System Center Operations Manager, and you have installed all of the management packs that you needed. Unfortunately you are getting that big, ugly, EMPTY green circle… you know, the one that is supposed to have green check marks in them? Yeah, it happens to me too. The solution, often enough, is…
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SCM is gone… Say Hi to SCT.
For the past several years nearly every client of mine (that I have consulted on Active Directory) has been introduced to the Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM), a great tool that helped create Group Policy Objects (GPOs) for any number of Organizational Units (OUs), including Default Domain Policy, Domain Controller Policy, Client Workstation Policy, and…
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Hyper-V Server Clustering Network Issue: Validation Failed?
If I’ve told you once I’ve told you a thousand times… When you build a Failover Cluster on Windows Server make sure you run the Validation Tests… and make sure those tests succeed (or at the very least nothing FAILS… Warnings are acceptable). So as I sit at a client trying to cluster two Hyper-V…
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Fifteen Tabs: Shut em all down!
Those of us who try to keep the banging of our heads against a wall to a minimum will have long since learned that we don’t know everything, and more often than not there is someone out there who knows more than we do. “But Mitch, how can you say that? I read your blog…
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Will you pay?
An article showed up in my Inbox today: Intel Core i9: It’s not whether you need 12 cores, but whether you’ll pay for them. It is an interesting read, and a very good question. I have always liked ZDNet. Their people do a good job of keeping a pulse on the industry. Their question is…
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A New Perspective…
This blog is older than I ever thought it would be. So every once in a while I like to give it a facelift. This morning you should notice a big difference. I picked a new template last week. I have modified it though… the pictures in the cover are shots I took in Cuba…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
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