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Aaron’s Mission Trip
In December I reached out to some of my friends, family, and colleagues about a fundraising effort for my son, Aaron. Aaron is a student at Meadow Green Academy in Mississauga, Ontario. Every year the school sends students from their Grade 8 class on a Mission Trip to the Dominican Republic to do charity work.…
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The Great Debate: Virtualization Experts Butt Heads
On March 5th ZDNet hosted an on-line debate between two industry experts on server virtualization (http://www.zdnet.com/debate/hyper-v-or-vmware/6348000). Jason Perlow (cleanly on the Hyper-V side) and Ken Hess (squarely and religiously in the VMware corner) are both recognized industry experts for whom I have a great deal of respect. I did not watch the debate live, but…
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Report from the Summit
A few days ago my ‘Report from the MVP Global Summit’ was posted on-line (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2012/03/05/from-the-mvps-one-more-report-from-the-mvp-global-summit.aspx). I am glad to say that they have revised it to include the pictures… including a bunch of great friends! M
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A Report from the MVP Global Summit
The week before the MVP Summit I got an e-mail asking me if I would be interested in blogging about the Summit for Microsoft Press. As I was planning on blogging anyways I agreed… and rather than posting several smaller articles here, I sent one giant article to Microsoft; it was published today at blogs.msdn.com,…
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Hanging With HP at MVP Nation!
This weekend I am having a blast geeking out in Redmond. Friday and Saturday I am at MVP Nation, which is being billed as the world’s first conference entirely on Windows 8. Raymond Comvalius and I gave a talk this morning, and will do another tomorrow morning. in between I am hanging with my HP…
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Some pictures from the first few days at MVP Summit!
I am writing a blog article about Summit, but it is being reserved for later. For now, here are some pictures! –M
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Windows 8 On-Screen Keyboards
So I am thrilled to post my first blog article on Windows 8, at least from the Consumer Preview. This will be the first tip of many I am sure. I am doing my best to stick to the tablet experience, even though I have the full keyboard on my HP EliteBook 2740p. As such,…
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Under the Wire Revisited… Another exam deadline leads to success!
I don’t mind deadlines; they are great for enforcing discipline for tasks that I have to get done in order to get paid. However when it comes to taking certification exams I hate them. I do not like studying, and even though I have taken myriad of exams they are usually on technologies that I…
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Managing Your Servers Remotely using the RSAT Tools
In this day and age of virtualization it is not that it is getting harder to sit down at a server to administer it… it is just getting easier to administer it remotely. Where it does get easier is when you have several servers – often a mix of physical and virtual – that you…
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Ending Snow Days? Sorry kids, but it SHOULD happen soon.
This month I had lunch with Sharon Bennett, a veteran of the IT industry and blogger. We discussed a number of topics relating to both technology and community… I asked her a ton of questions, and the one that got me the most intriguing answer was: ‘What would you like to see technology do in…
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Golfing with my Dad
It is good to get away during the winter. This past January my beautiful wife Theresa and I got onto a plane with our younger son heading to Florida. Theresa and I were taking a cruise, but we planned for a few extra days in Florida with my parents. I brought my golf clubs just…
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What NOT to Take Away Revisited
Several months ago I posted an article called vPTA: What NOT to take away from my 1-day virtualization session. It was very well received. Most of the material I use for that session has been incorporated into the DPE team’s Virtualization Boot Camp. Damir decided to edit and repost that article on the CanITPro blog. …
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Planning for Success: A fat man’s plan to test for his Second Dan Black Belt
I would expect that when people first see me the first thought that comes to mind is that I am a Martial Artist. One person thought they were being funny and said ‘you look more like you practice sumo wrestling than taekwondo.’ As mean as the snide remark may have been, I suppose it is…
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Virtualization Boot Camp… Failover Clusters sometimes DO fail!
A few weeks ago during the Virtualization Boot Camp in Toronto one of the students encountered an issue with their cluster… i.e.: They horked it beyond repair. I wrote an article on cleaning it up, which was just reposted by the Can IT Pro blog. Check it out! http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/archive/2012/02/14/how-to-clean-up-cluster-nodes-from-destroyed-clusters.aspx
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 