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A Sour Note From Toronto 2015 Volunteers
Let me start by saying that I had the greatest time at the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games. It was a pleasure to spend eight days (plus training) with a group of mostly like-minded individuals who, when they were asked, signed up by the tens of thousands to volunteer at the Games… in any capacity…
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Windows 10: Love it… or Don’t.
With the General Availability (GA) of Windows 10, I have been inundated with calls asking my opinion. I have probably shocked a few people with my response. Firstly I want to be clear: I do like Windows 10. I think it has a lot of great features and improvements, and I am sure there are…
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A Tale of Two Tablets…
I like my Surface Pro 3. Despite a couple of hiccoughs before the drivers were stable I have always liked it. It is a wonderful computer for what I use it for… and frankly, for a lot of things I don’t use it for. So when I started commuting to a new office in Toronto…
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How To Cheat With PowerShell
Admit it… you are a crappy coder. You may be a pretty fair IT Professional, but you cannot script your way out of a paper bag. There’s a support group for you. Hi, my name is Mitch, and I’m a lousy scripter. Admittedly I have never been to an AA or NA meeting; I have…
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PowerShell: HELP!
This is a guest article written by my colleague Michael. Mike and I have been working closely together for the past two years, and I have turned him into a monster! He is now trying to learn anything he can get his hands on. So when he wrote me an e-mail with a suggestion for…
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Toronto 2015: What an experience!
A year ago I got an e-mail from WTF (World Taekwondo Federation) Canada reminding me to apply to volunteer for the Pan Am Games. I was walking back to my hotel in Bellevue, Washington one afternoon in January when the e-mail offering me a position came. I started getting excited right then and there. I…
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The World Has Changed…
I looked at my eBay profile today to see if someone had left me negative feedback out of spite. He hadn’t… But as I was in there I took notice of an interesting stat. Member since: 2003. I was a latecomer to online commerce for the simple reason that I didn’t have a credit card…
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iSCSI Virtual Disks: If you have to make a bunch… Use PowerShell!
I don’t mean to sound like a broken record but when you have to do things over and over again, it simply doesn’t make sense to do it manually. Sure, the GUI (Graphical User Interface) in Windows is great… but if you have to click through the same wizard ten times to create ten of…
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Chicago: Where to go
You may have figured out by now that I am not a big fan of parties… and certainly not big and loud ones. So when I go to an event like Microsoft Ignite (as I did in May) I tend to shy away from the evening events, in favour of smaller dinners and pubs. If…
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Welcome to Windows 10: Jumping off the Edge.
I sat down at my computer this afternoon to a notification that my Windows 10 beta was done, and the actual Release to Manufacturing (RTM) bits were downloading. Woohoo! Okay… I’m not nearly as excited as I once would have been, but it’s not a bad thing. It is however amazing for me to think…
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iPhone 6: The Plusses & Nots…
Friday afternoon I went to the Apple Store in Mapleview Mall (Burlington) to pick up a new phone. I was served by the lovely Miss Stefanie, who was really great (see article). I was on the fence about the iPhone 6 versus the iPhone 6 Plus, so Stefanie suggested I do what she called ‘The…
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The Apple Store… Overpriced, but not just a pretty face!
Okay, I finally needed a new phone because the old one died. As you probably know my girlfriend’s name is Stephanie. Well the lovely and patient girl at the Apple Store was also named Stefanie (Different spelling, same pronunciation). She was a big help, except when deciding which phone to choose. I was actually very pleased…
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Distinguished Names: How do I…
Yeah yeah, I know… A little while ago I talked about how to determine the Distinguished Name (DN) of an Active Directory Object, and I got a flurry of requests for doing it with PowerShell. Now, normally I do like to show you how to do things via the GUI, and then what the PowerShell…
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OEM Servers: Myths vs. Realities
In a recent conversation I realized that there are still a lot of misconceptions about OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) operating system rights with regard to Windows Server. While I am not here to say who is right and who is wrong (whether one should or should not buy OEM operating systems), I still think it…
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Goodbye Vegas: A Friday Post :)
Thanks, I needed that. As I write this I am sitting on a plane outbound from Las Vegas. Aside from spending five marvelous days with great friends, I really needed the vacation. This was, far and away, my most enjoyable trip to that city; part of that is because it is my first visit that…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
