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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
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Looking Back Three Times a Day… with a beginners mind!
As I sat on the flight waiting to take off today I was thinking back to a great class I took while visiting Master’s Taekwondo in New Westminster, British Columbia. Master Young Suh invited me to train with his class, and after he worked us hard for an hour, he had us close our eyes…
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Oh il Sam Sa
Recently Grand Master Kim’s Oriental Martial Arts College held its annual Big Bow Ceremony, where we all greet each other with respect. The Grand Master stands alone at the front; next the Masters are grouped, then the remaining Black Belts. We all stand before the rest of the school, who are loosely arranged by belt…
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Imagine Cup… Change the World!
Are you a student? Are you ready to change the world? All it takes is one good idea. Imagine Cup, one of the premiere worldwide technology competitions, is looking for students, to help solve some of the world’s toughest problems through technology. This year, Microsoft will be hosting a Canadian Imagine Cup competition with two…
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Ottawa & the NCR… Let’s Get Virtual!
If you are an IT Pro in the National Capital Reason, we have an event for you! On Friday, February 17th and again on Saturday, February 18th Microsoft Canada’s Evangelism team is bringing the IT Virtualization Boot Camp to you! Damir Bersenic and I will be hosting the event, for two days of geeking out……
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Oakville.com
Today is the day… My first article went live at Oakville.com, and that is very exciting for me. It is great to be able to give back to the community where I live… that I have called home for the past five years. It is amazing… the first time I spoke with my wife (Theresa)…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 