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Jacob comes for a visit
A lot of people asked me how I could bear to part with my dogs when I moved out of my house. Well I do have shared custody of them, and I am allowed to take them when I want. In truth my lifestyle now is not conducive to having dogs – I work from…
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Bypassing IT: A REALLY bad idea.
Wow. I just read an e-mail that made me lose a lot of respect for one of the most respected publications in the world of journalism: The Wall Street Journal (www.wsj.com). The article, Ten Things Your IT Department Won’t Tell You, outlines several (would you believe 10) issues that employees encounter with corporate systems, and…
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Office Customization without VL Media
Over the years I have written quite a bit about Desktop Deployment, especially using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT). It allows us to install not only our operating system but also our drivers, patches, and applications with little or no user interaction. Recently I did some consulting for a small company of seven users. They…
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The Evils of Offices…
I have really been enjoying working at Yakidoo. The people are really nice, I am enjoying the work, it’s all good. However they are out to get me, the lot of them… As I have mentioned in the recent past I have been losing weight. It is, as anyone who has gone before me knows,…
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Nothing Technical Today
If you are Jewish, and especially if you are from Montreal… make sure you do this: Find 15 minutes where you can watch YouTube videos, and look up Yid-Life Crisis. Trust me, they are hilarious… even if you don’t speak Yiddish! 🙂 Thanks to my sister Jen for showing me the way!
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Losing a Part of Me… What I would like to share.
Last week I posted on Facebook that I have lost 25lbs in the past three months, and a lot of people offered words of congratulations and encouragement. I want to thank them for that. The truth is, I have struggled with my weight for the past twenty years. Since before I got out of the army…
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Surface Pro 3: Two weeks later
Are there problems with it? Yes. Do I absolutely love it? I love my kids and my dogs… but I suppose I do like it as much as I have ever liked a laptop or tablet… and I have had quite a few of them over the years! What are the problems? There is really only…
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MVP? Martial Artist? Read on!
Over the eight years I spent as a Microsoft MVP I was honoured to meet so many wonderful people, fellow MVPs and Microsoft employees alike. While we are usually viewed as IT Pros, Developers, experts in our field, I have learned that none of us is one-dimensional, and often have a lot of other interests…
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My parting words as a Microsoft MVP
I want to thank all of you who commented – both publicly and privately – on my losing my status as a Microsoft MVP. Let me sum it all up, and hopefully answer all of your questions. 1) I was informed on Monday that I was not being renewed. However this was several weeks after…
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Cloud-Based VDI!!! No.
I was having a conversation this week with a colleague about his plans to create a hybrid-cloud environment by moving many of his datacenter workloads onto Windows Azure. After all, it makes plenty of sense – eliminating new capital expenses and reducing ongoing operational expenses just makes sense. “And once we have tested it, we…
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Another One Down: Happy New Year!
This Wednesday evening we, the Jewish people, will celebrate Rosh Hashanah. It is the Jewish New Year, and we are ringing in Year 5775. As is customary, I have spent some time over the past few days reflecting on the joys and sadness of the past year. The year 5774 started out tremendously for me. I…
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Home Entertainment in 2014
As some of you know I recently moved into a new condo. Unlike my previous living arrangements, I will be living here alone… although my children will visit, they (and the dogs) will be living with their mother. You all know me as a Windows guy, and that has not changed; however there are so…
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More Free EBooks from Microsoft Press
You have to give Microsoft Learning (and Microsoft Press) credit… they have finally figured out that their parent company will make more money if they help people to learn their products, rather than charging them for the privilege. When the Microsoft Virtual Academy went on-line we were all thrilled, and continue to be so as…
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How do YOU manage?
A year ago I left the world of technology evangelism and became, once again, a full time consultant. It’s true… up until that point a great deal of my recent experience has been in training and talking, rather than hands-on doing. While that is certainly how a lot of people still see me, I can…
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Communications – I’m talking to you, IT guy!
Let’s face it… most technical people did not get into their fields because of their love of communicating. It is not uncommon to see IT pros (and developers) avoid communications with non-technical people, often shying away from any human contact whatsoever. The ultimate portrayal of this was Sandra Bullock’s character in the 1995 movie The Net. …
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 