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Where’s Mitch?
As I mentioned last week I am now spending a lot of my time as a Virtual Technical Evangelist for Microsoft Canada. Part of my duties in that role include blogging, which is what brought you here. However for the time being I am going to post most of my articles on the Canadian IT…
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Virtual Technical Evangelist
As I told you on Monday, I have a new role at Microsoft Canada. As a Virtual Technical Evangelist (Windows Infrastructure) I will be working very closely with the DPE (Developer Platform Evangelism) team on events such as the Windows Server 2012 Launch Tour that we kicked off yesterday in Toronto. I was introduced to…
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The Dawn of a New Day
As I sit in my office getting ready to close up, it is a little after 10pm, September 3rd, 2012. That makes tomorrow a very important day in the world of IT. Microsoft has announced that on September 4th, 2012 they will make Windows Server 2012, the newest generation of one of the most successful…
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Installing Windows Server 2012 on an HP ProLiant!
The day has finally arrived. This morning (September 4th) all us geeks will be eagerly waiting for Windows Server 2012 to be available for download. It really is quite exciting! I have been running the Release Candidate (RC) bits on my HP ProLiant ML350s for several months, but this week-end I was going to spend…
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Taekwondo: Care to comment?
I want to preface this post by saying that I don’t get it. I have been in Taekwondo for four and a half years, and have in that time achieved my 2nd Dan Black Belt… but even before I started I am reasonably sure that I would not have gotten it. A commentator on Australian…
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It’s Coming… Can we now compare Hyper-V with vSphere as both new products prepare for launch?
On July 5th I published an article titled A Response to VMware’s ‘Get the Facts’ page comparing vSphere to Hyper-V & System Center’. In the seven weeks since it went live it has become the 4th most read article I have ever published (in seven years as a blogger), as well as being by far the…
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User Account Options in Windows 8
Earlier today I discussed the Picture Password and PIN codes in Windows 8. What I didn’t mention is that for non-corporate users (who will still continue to log on using domain accounts) you have a new option in Windows 8… and that is to use your Microsoft Account to log on to your system. Cool,…
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Logon Options in Windows 8
The three-fingers salute is gone. Okay, that is not entirely true, but if your computer is not domain-joined, you will no longer need to press Ctrl-Alt-Del to log onto Windows. That doesn’t mean that you won’t be asked for a password… However, built into Windows 8 there are two new ways to log on: PIN…
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Proof that WTF Canada has a sense of humour!
World Taekwondo Federation, that is. At the bottom of their membership page (http://www.wtfcanada.com/eng/membership/) they have links to join them on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and others… and over the logos for each site they have scrawled the words ‘Share and Enjoy!’. For those of you who are Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fans, you likely don’t…
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Just in time… Second Shot Exams Are Back!
Why do I say Just in Time? Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 exams are coming out soon, and there’s a good chance that you may still have to write a few exams to earn your MCSE! I don’t know if they are THE most popular promotions that Microsoft Learning offers, but if they are…
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Norwegian Justice… and oxymoron
Thirteen months ago Anders Breivik slaughtered seventy-seven people. Today he was sentenced to 10-21 years in prison, the maximum allowable under Norwegian law. In his final statement, Breivik stated the following: Since I don’t recognize the authority of the court I cannot legitimize the Oslo district court by accepting the verdict," Breivik said. "At the…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 