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Jabra Prizes!
I received a little care package from my friends at Jabra yesterday… and I plan to share them with you! All you have to do is attend one of my upcoming presentations (I’m scheduled in Victoria, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, and Calgary betwen now and June 6) and you could win a Jabra speakerphone puck! They…
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Seventeen Days Out: The final decision to test or not will be made today.
My journey to the Second Dan Black Belt test in Taekwondo continues. Today is going to be a key day in my journey to my Second Dan Black Belt. Of all of the requirements for the test I am solid on most of my patterns (the last one just requires more practice), I know what…
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Bringing Governments into the Modern World of IT
I recently attended Microsoft’s Canadian Leadership Summit in Redmond, where I had the opportunity to meet and chat with some amazing people. I overheard one conversation between two Canadian IT industry leaders who were lamenting the difficulties in getting various departments in different levels of government to adopt new technology, or more accurately to upgrade…
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Does Quebec Have a Future in Canada? Whose Call is it?
Last week the National Post (one of two national newspapers in Canada that are actually quite focused on Ontario) published a survey asking Canadians to respond to the question of whether Quebec actually deserved to remain in Canada. “Does Quebec have a future in Canada?” Of course, if you have lived in Canada or North…
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19 Days Out: Where my Black Belt prep stands!
It is difficult to imagine, but I am now inside the three week mark. In nineteen days – June 2nd, 2012 – I will be testing for my Second Dan Black Belt in Taekwondo. I have not been blogging as much as I should, so I am going to take this opportunity to review the…
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70-659 Vouchers Giveaway!
Hey folks my friends at TekSource Corporate Learning (www.teksource.ca) in Toronto have told me that they have just received nine (9) more vouchers for the 70-659 exam (TS: Microsoft Windows Server 2008: Server Virtualization). Knowing that so many of you were disappointed when Ruth (Technology Advisor, Microsoft Canada) announced that she was out of them,…
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Private Cloud Training from Microsoft Learning
Hey folks! I have been asked to post here information about the release dates for Private Cloud training from Microsoft, so here it is: 10747A: Administering System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: June 29, 2012 (currently in Beta) 10748A: Deploying System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: June 29, 2012 (currently in Beta) 10750A: Monitoring and Operating a…
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More Software Giveaways!
I love it when companies ping me and ask me to give stuff away for them, especially when they are good packages that I use on a regular basis – such as the WinX DVD Ripper (Platinum) v6.85. Angie from WinX just sent me a whole slew of packages to give away, and since the…
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Jabra Who? Jabra GO!
Last week someone started calling me the Gadget Guy. Actually, to be more accurate, they told me that I was the New “Q” from the James Bond franchise. I wasn’t entirely sure why, but I was showcasing a bunch of new laptops and other mobile devices running Microsoft Windows 7 (and even Windows 8 on…
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Get Your Head in the Cloud!
In case you missed it, Microsoft released the System Center 2012 bundle a few weeks ago. Well after the incredible success of Microsoft Canada’s IT Pro Virtualization Boot Camp we have decided to do it again! Starting this week Microsoft Canada, the IT Evangelism Team, and a select group of MVPs will be presenting two…
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Everything you Wanted to Know and Ask about Windows Deployment!
For those of you who are interested in deploying Windows (and with 707 days left until #EndOfDaysXP who isn’t?) there are a couple of incredible webinars coming up that you definitely should not miss! Stephen Rose will be holding a couple of discussions with MDT Product Manager Michael Niehaus (if you have ever heard me…
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Virtualizing your Domain Controllers
I am asked all the time what the best practices are for domain controllers in a virtualized environment. There are several that I will call out, but let’s begin with the simplest rule. You should never have ONE domain controller. This rule is not only true in virtualized environments, it is always true. If you…
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Renewing my MCT
According to my MS Learning Transcript I became a Microsoft Certified Trainer in July of 2006. Unlike professional certifications, the MCT credential has to be renewed on a yearly basis, and on March 15th this year I renewed again. It is actually fairly simple, as long as you haven’t done anything to mess it up. …
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Are you a SkyDriver?
Well if you aren’t, you should be! Right now loyal SkyDrive users have the opportunity to upgrade their default 7GB free on-line storage to 25GB on-line storage… but that’s not the best part. Here are some huge changes that will rock your world with cloud-based storage: 1) SkyDrive is a free service… that is not…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 