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Expand your knowledge on Windows Server 2012!
Okay, we know that you are probably upset that Windows Small Business Server is being retired. Fortunately Windows Server 2012 R2 will do you well… but do you know everything you will ever need to know about Windows Server 2012 R2 for the SMB space? Probably not… but that’s okay, because we are here to…
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Wireless Network Security… OMG!!!
Last week I wrote a piece called An Epic Advantage to Windows 8 & the Cloud. I was happy to share that Windows 8.1 and Windows SkyDrive (soon to be renamed Windows OneDrive) automatically maintain the passwords for wireless networks across devices. For the most part the article was well received, but there were some…
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Welcome to Cote St. Luc, Montreal
I came to Montreal to visit my father this week. I arrived Tuesday evening and picked my father up at his apartment in the Cote Saint Luc section of town. After dinner we drove around looking for a place to park. I found two spots that looked good, but my father found the signs (well…
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Surface Pro 2: Oh yeah!
It is not so hard to believe that it has been a year since I bought my Microsoft Surface Pro. I liked it, but as I am not an average computer user, it did not take too long for me to realize that it was simply not powerful enough to be my primary laptop. Don’t…
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An Epic Advantage to Windows 8 & the Cloud
The vast majority of computer users will never care about this. That is because the vast majority of computer users use a single computer for years on end. They use them at home, and then maybe (assuming it is a laptop) they take it to Internet cafes, possibly school or work, and likely on the…
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Microsoft Store Grand Opening Weekend
This week-end’s grand opening of the Microsoft Store in Square One (Mississauga, Ontario) has been a truly amazing time. Saturday was busy all day – people lined up to buy Microsoft Surface devices, Xbox One, games, software, accessories, and some simply came to get concert tickets. Whatever the reason, there were hundreds of people here…
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Microsoft Store #84 (Square One!)
What a day… I arrived at Square One reasonably early this morning expecting to be one of the first people in line to get into the new Microsoft Store. I wasn’t even in the first 200! Fortunately I had registered as an MVP and was ushered into the VIP section. This is not my first…
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The Harsh Realities of the Exam Room
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how tough I found Exam 74-409 was in my article Another Tough Exam. I also mentioned that Microsoft exams were meant to be tough, and going into an exam unprepared can (and usually will) come back to bite you. Last week I decided to bite the bullet…
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A New Look to The World…
…Not the entire world, of course, only The World According to Mitch. I have made some changes, most of them cosmetic, that I hope you will appreciate. WordPress (the platform on which I blog) has hundreds if not thousands of themes available, and every year or so I try out a new look. I try…
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Changes for MCTs
You may not have heard the complaints about the Microsoft Certified Trainer program… you may not be involved or interested in the program, or you may live on Mars. However if you are an MCT, you have heard a lot of complaints over the past few years. I have done my best to keep my…
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Does Microsoft Learning listen?
I often tell people who are worried about taking Microsoft exams for fear of failing that I have failed more exams than most people have ever taken – to date over twenty failures, including one miserable exam that I only passed on my fourth attempt. Don’t worry, I do pass more than I fail. Something…
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Gee thanks…
This is one of those situations I laugh at… because even great organizations like Microsoft Learning Experience is going to make the occasional mistake.. especially when it’s systems are all automated and unmonitored. I received the following e-mail today congratulating me on passing my exam yesterday: I was reasonably sure that I already had that…
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Certification Planning
I maintain a spreadsheet of every certification exam I take – pass or fail. Excluding the title line it currently consists of seventy (70) rows, dating back to my first failed exam in December of 2001. I don’t remember when I started maintaining it, but it goes back a while, and consists of the following…
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Another tough exam…
As a subject matter expert (SME) on virtualization, I was neither excited nor intimidated when Microsoft announced their new exam, 74-409: Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center. Unlike many previous exams I did not rush out to be the first to take it, nor was I going to wait forever. I actually…
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A Modern Christmas Carol by Mitch
Twas the night before Christmas in faraway Japan One Jewish boy was still working with aplomb and elan. He tried to clear his dashboard of servers of red, While visions of sashimi swum round in his head. He raised his head up from his screen on occasion, To see some of his colleagues showing true…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 