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The One Inch Punch Revisited…
“Mitch, you cheated!” I was astounded… Within hours of posting my video yesterday of my One Inch Punch I received dozens of likes and comments, both privately and in public. However one person responded that I had cheated… not only had I straightened my fingers (giving me 4” from tip to knuckle), but I also…
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TechEd 2013: Call For MCTs!
Are you a current MCT? TechEd wants you! The Call For Staff for TechEd, including Hands On Labs, MCT Ambassadors, and Certification Prep is open, and I am hoping to see a few Canadian MCTs throw their name into the Goblet of Fire! Ok, it’s not a goblet, there’s no fire… but you do get…
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TechEd 2013: Call For MCTs!
Are you a current MCT? TechEd wants you! The Call For Staff for TechEd, including Hands On Labs, MCT Ambassadors, and Certification Prep is open, and I am hoping to see a few Canadian MCTs throw their name into the Goblet of Fire! Ok, it’s not a goblet, there’s no fire… but you do get…
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The One Inch Punch
As many of you know I have been forced to take a break from Taekwondo since my auto accident in December. That does not mean that when asked I cannot suit up to help the judging at the Colour Belt Grading Tests. I did that this Wednesday, and afterwards some of us were hanging out…
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Video Conversion Software Giveaway
Welcome to Spring! As you know, from time to time software vendors contact me with promotions and giveaways for you, my readers. I like to pass along the ones that are really appealing, so when Digiarty Software told me that they are giving away copies of the WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe (the latest and…
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Activation Headaches: Here is your aspirin!
This post was originally written for the Canadian IT Pro Connection. There are three concepts in Microsoft licensing that people often mistake for a single entity, when in fact the three are connected but very separate. They are: Licensing Activation Product Keys Because the three are so tied together it is easy to get yourself…
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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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The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
