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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. …
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Sad Times for an Industry
I used to say to my audiences that while the number of jobs in IT will go down, the best will always be in demand. I then spent several months essentially unemployed. The IT field has changed dramatically over the course of the last few years. I suppose it is natural for an industry as…
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WSUS: Watch out!
Here’s a great way to waste time, network bandwidth, and storage space: download excess patches that you do not need. For bonus points, download languages you don’t support. Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is a great solution that has come a long way since it was introduced. However it gives a lot of us functionality…
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Surface Pro 3 and Windows 8: Not everybody’s cup of tea
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… I do like my Surface Pro 3. With that being said, I know everyone has different tastes, and some people are not going to like it. A couple of months ago my sister, a long time Mac user (and Apple Fanboi) told me that her new…
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Cloning with Customization Specifications
Being back in a VMware environment, there are a few differences I need to remember from Hyper-V and System Center. It is not that one is better or worse than the other, but they are certainly different. Customization Specifications are a great addition in vCenter to Cloning virtual machines. They allow you to name the VM,…
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Rock the Vote!
For over a decade I have been working on this blog, first on MITPro.ca, then a couple of different URLs and every year my readership has grown… and I have worked hard to maintain the level of posts that you have come to expect. While this year has been a difficult one for me (more…
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Do you still like this blog?
I hope you do! In 2011 we were awarded one of BizTech Magazine’s 50 Must Read IT Blogs. We need your help to stay on the list! Please take a moment to vote here: https://list.ly/~ZTczk and let me know that you still find my writings useful and handy… or at least amusing and interesting 🙂
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Goodbye TechNet… But not quite.
September 1st came and went… most of us in North America enjoyed the long Labour Day weekend, whether we were with family, at the cottage, enjoying the CNE, or doing whatever people who don’t live in Toronto do for Labour Day. What most of us did not feel was the hard stop of all of…
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Back to … here.
I’ve been with Yakidoo for a little over a week, and it is great to be back in charge of a datacentre… albeit a smaller one. One thing that I think surprised me though was, after all my time as a Microsoft Virtual Evangelist, I was so happy to be back in a VMware environment. …
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Another Easily Averted Tragedy…
This morning we all woke up to the terrible and shocking news that a shooting instructor (I refuse to call him a Range Master) was shot and killed by a nine year old girl with an Uzi sub-machine gun (SMG). It is a tragedy on two fronts – of course it is a tragedy for…
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DNS Gotchas in vSphere
As I once again immerse myself in a VMware environment as System Administrator, I am getting to do all sorts of fun stuff that I haven’t done in a while. However there is one gotcha that I encountered that I know, I knew, and have even taught on countless occasions. VMware does not do Dynamic…
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DHCP on Server Core
I am loving being back in charge of a proper IT Infrastructure, and of course every admin is going to want to put his own touches on their servers. One of the things I did in my first week was create a couple of new domain controllers running Windows Server Core. Of course, when you…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 