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Windows 8: Does the Modern Interface Mean Diminished Functionality?
This post was originally posted during the pre-release period (https://garvis.ca/2012/07/16/windows-8-does-the-new-metro-interface-mean-diminished-functionality/). Following a recent comment to another article I decided to bring it back (updated for RTM) today. I hope you enjoy it! –MDG ‘Mitch, I have been in love with the Search feature in Windows 7 since you demonstrated it at the House Party launch…
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Haiku is the greatest form of flattery
This will be my last haiku on Windows Server 2012 of the week. It has been a great week that has best been experienced seventeen syllables at a time. However if you want to experience true greatness, download the eval of Windows Server 2012 and see for yourself the power of the cloud OS! Today’s…
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The Haikus continue–You are getting in on it!
Following my first two published haikus on Windows Server 2012, I got my first couple of submissions from you! Sean Kearney, Canada’s foremost PowerShell MVP and overall enthusiast, sent me a few poems of his own. Here is the first, with two more coming (thus far, and for those of us who know Sean, there…
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The Haiku Goes On…
Yesterday I began my journey to improve the world through haikus about Windows Server 2012. Here is my second Windows Server 2012 haiku! And remember… if you like the poem, you will love the product! Download your evaluation copy today! Also… if you have a poem about Windows Server, Hyper-V, Windows 8, or Office 2013…
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Windows Server 2012 Haiku
In 2009 there was a contest to write haiku about Windows Server 2008R2. On Monday I was in a meeting with a colleague who reminded me of this, and I went back to my blog to see if I could find my original entries (A Windows 2008 R2 Haiku!). It got me thinking… what would…
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Saved by Jabra: how my Bluetooth earpiece made my life easier this week.
In May I posted about the genesis of my relationship with Jabra products (see Jabra Who? Jabra GO!). Since then (and not strictly because of them) I have changed the way I do business in a lot of ways. The Jabra devices I have in my arsenal have made a lot of those changes a…
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Exciting Software–Thou shalt evaluate!
As I sit on board the Via train on my way to Montreal I am thinking about what a great way to travel this is. For one thing, I don’t have to drive; I also have relatively decent Internet connectivity, which means I can use my time efficiently, and not have to worry about the…
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Server Manager: Manage multiple servers just got easier.
This post was originally written for the Canadian IT Pro Connection blog, and can be seen there at http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/. One of the things I love about Windows Server 2012 is the ability to manage multiple servers from the same Server Manager console. In this video I will perform the following steps: Add a second server…
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Following My Own Advice: New DCs at SWMI
Earlier this year I published an article in which I told you that it was okay to virtualize your domain controllers; however in the piece I opposed the idea of doing a P2V (physical to virtual) migration of them, or to upgrade them from one version of the OS to another. This weekend I followed…
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In interesting survey from VMworld…
I have a lot of conversations with people about virtualization… it’s what I do (well, among other things). While most people agree that I am technically knowledgeable on both Microsoft and vSphere virtualization, sometimes my analysis and commentary strike people as skewed and unrealistic based on my relationship with Microsoft. For the past couple of…
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What Does Being an MVP Mean to ME?
This month I will be speaking at the SMB Nation Fall Conference. My main presentation will be on what IT will look like for small- and mid-sized businesses in what I call the ‘Post-SBS Era.’ I will be discussing Private Cloud, System Center, Virtualization, Office 365, Azure, and Windows Intune. I have also been asked…
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When I’m Sixty-Four… TERABYTES!
Okay, I am asking for a show of hands: How many of you remember 100MB hard drives? 80? 40? While I remember smaller, my first hard drive was a 20 Megabyte Seagate drive. Note that I didn’t say Gigabytes… Way back then the term Terabyte might have been coined already as a very theoretical term,…
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From Server Core to GUI to… MinShell?
This post was originally written for the Canadian IT Pro Connection blog, and can be seen there at http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro. In Windows Server 2008 we were introduced to a revolutionary way to install Windows Server: Server Core. Server Core may look boring – there’s nothing to it except the command prompt – but to an IT…
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A humbling accolade
A year ago I was in Phoenix, Arizona when I found out that my blog, The World According To Mitch, was selected by BizTech Magazine as one of their 50 IT blogs you must read. It was quite an honor to be recognized by my peers. I was in Montréal, Quebec this year when I…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 