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What not to Learn… Revisited for 2013!
In October, 2011 I posted an article called vPTA: What NOT to take away from my 1-day virtualization training! It was only partly tongue-in-cheek on the environment that I have been using for several years to demonstrate server virtualization from a pair of laptops. A few months later Damir Bersinic took that list and made…
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Microsoft Certified Career Day!
Our industry moves fast! There was a time when if you learned a system you e set for a long time. Now Microsoft is releasing operating systems every three years (client AND server), and the management tools are constantly evolving. A carpenter who takes a year off work may be out of practice, but will…
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Visiting With The Dragon
Most of you know by now that I am a martial artist. I have written enough about Tae Kwon Do over the years that even if you only visit my blog occasionally you are likely to have come across something about TKD. For all of these years that I have been going to Seattle I…
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It’s Official: My SIXTH MVP Award Category
Two weeks ago 1,400 Microsoft MVPs gathered in Redmond, Washington (the MotherShip, as some call it!) to ‘geek out’ for three days (or as many as six for some, depending on pre-day and post-day events). We spent at least two and as many as four days in closed-door sessions with the product teams for which…
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Microsoft Store Yorkdale
I am back at the Microsoft Store in Yorkdale again this evening… my son’s keyboard stopped working. The staff here helped him out and got us on our way in no time flat! I just wish that Emily was here so that I could have done an impromptu presentation in the theatre 🙂
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Converting VHDs to VHDX and other questions…
Many of the articles I write for both The World According to Mitch and the Canadian IT Pro Connection come directly from people I meet through my travels. They send me questions about technology by e-mail and rather than simply replying to them, if I feel the questions are relevant, I write them up as…
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Windows 8: Client Hyper-V and Why It Matters
Recently I sat down with Kevin Remde from Microsoft’s US DPE team to discuss virtualization in Windows 8. We had a great discussion about VDI, client-side Hyper-V, and a lot of other interesting options. Let us know what you think! -M http://aka.ms/fe3epl
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Converting an SD Card to Permanent Storage in Windows Devices
So as you know I was all excited to buy the very first Microsoft Surface Pro. I bought the 128 GB model because I knew that despite the fact that I have all sorts of external hard drives I was even likely to ax out 128 GB pretty quick. Fortunately between Cloud-based storage (SkyDrive for…
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Supported Hosts Revisited
In a recent article I posted a list of hypervisors that are supported by System Center 2012 (See https://garvis.ca/2013/01/28/system-center-vmm-supported-hosts/). I have since been informed that although this list of hosts may work, the only supported hosts are indeed as listed in the TechNet article. ESXi 5.0 is not supported, nor is ESX or ESXi 4.0.…
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How Surface changed my thinking… and helped my shoulder
I travel heavy. When going through airport security it is not uncommon for me to pull three or four laptops out of two laptop bags. In addition to that I will have external hard drives, a plethora of cables, and all sorts of other junk. It has resulted in very strong – albeit often aching…
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Virtual Launch Event for the new Office 365 for business
Office arrives in the cloud on Feb. 27th! Virtual Launch Event for the new Office 365 for business. Date Wednesday, February 27th 8 am PDT and 5 pm PDT Why Attend? Learn how the new Office 365 can help people do their best work in a world of devices and services Hear customers talk about…
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Passwords Revisited… a post from a fellow MVP
Many of you know that I am a fanatic about changing passwords and password complexity. I have written time and again about the subject. (See Pass the Word…) I am also a big hater of what my friend Dana Epp refers to as ‘Security Theatre.’ I have often berated people at Rogers, AT&T, and a…
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A Tour of the Surface Pro with Tom’s Hardware
On the day that Microsoft released the Surface Pro I sat down with Alex Davies from Tom’s Hardware (www.tomshardware.com) and gave him a little tour of the device. He recorded it and that recording went live on Monday. Check it out and let me know what you think! –MDG http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Microsoft-Surface-Pro-Hands-on-Demo,21030.html
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 