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Why I Will Not Help You With Your Computer, or ‘Are you kidding me?’
A friend of a friend asked me for help with her computer the other day. I was still on vacation, but my understanding was that she had a reasonably simply question. I took the call. Let me preface this by saying that I really respect her honesty. She was upfront with me, and I appreciated…
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Missing the Obvious: A great reason to ask for expert opinions.
I received the following e-mail from a colleague, and was glad to answer her questions. However the most important question of all is her last one… “Have I missed any other issues that I should be looking at before beginning this migration?’” I am so glad she asked that, because none of us are experts…
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Software Piracy Hurts Us All
This post was originally published in October, 2006. References to current versions include Windows and Office XP, as those were the current versions at the time. The only corrections I made were to spacing and no other changes have been made. Unfortunately as I discovered this week it is still relevant. –M — Software Piracy…
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Day 3: Strategy
There are two types of people who play backgammon. People who play the game casually and, when playing with another person of the same caliber, will probably win more or less as many as he loses. Then there are the people who have studied the game, the strategies, the odds. I remember as a teenager…
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Cruise Day 2: Key West
I cheated, I know. We docked in Key West this morning, and my cell phone announced the occasion loudly by chiming that I have e-mail, despite Roaming Data being turned off. As I waited for Theresa to get ready (I showered first) I looked at the e-mail quickly… there was only one that needed an…
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Caribbean Cruise: Day of Departure
As we left Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida I felt my hands shaking a bit. It had nothing to do with the rumbling of the engines of the Carnival Freedom, but rather the beginning of a long process of decompression and relaxation that I hope will be completed before we return to the same…
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Vacation!
In two hours Theresa and I will board our cruise for a much needed vacation. I will be disconnected during that time, but rest assured I will be writing. When we return to dry land you can expect a series of posts based on the cruise… A travelogue if you will. I want to thank…
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How to get a head start on the NEW Management and Virtualization Competency
Normally when I find an interesting and relevant article I will retweet it or possibly post a link to it here. However since so many of my Microsoft Partners and students have either achieved or are striving to achieve the MPN Virtualization Competency, I asked Eric Ligman for permission to re-publish his very clear article…
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The World According to Mitch: 2011 in Review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 24,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 9 sold-out performances for that many…
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Layer 1 or Layer 2 Hypervisor? A common misconception of Hyper-V, and a brief explanation of the Parent Partition
In the world of Server Virtualization, there are two types of hypervisors: Layer 2 hypervisors are installed as an application (or service) on an existing operating system (such as Microsoft Windows). Layer 1 hypervisors are in and of themselves operating systems that are installed on the ‘bare metal’ – directly on the hardware. The hypervisor…
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Hyper-V: Survival Guide–A Wiki!
If you are interested in Hyper-V, this is for you! The TechNet Social has a wiki page on Hyper-V that is constantly growing, and you should bookmark it and refer to it as needed. The link is: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/125.aspx
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A response to a recent blog response
Yesterday a gentleman named Cameron wrote a very insightful response to an article I write back in July (Certifications Alone do not Make the Pro, July 20, 2011). He points out that as he has been in IT for 26 years, he actually pre-dates most certifications. Please read his comment, but this is my response. …
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Skills Measured: Improving your chances of passing certification exams
I have a friend who has been using Hyper-V since it was released with Windows Server 2008. I know that because at the time I did some consulting for his company, and was given a tour of his environment. That is why I was a bit surprised to hear that he recently failed his certification…
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Free License for NetCmdlets!
Register and get the license, it’s free until Christmas! Use it, but first, get the license! It’s free until Christmas. It’s not an MVP thing, it’s a promo. You can share with everybody!! http://www.powershellinside.com/promo/xmas/?utm_source=PowerShellInside&utm_campaign=d243a54cf2-PowerShell_NetCmdlets&utm_medium=email
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Have a Cup of Coffee (or two!) on us…
What a great deal… Microsoft Canada has posted a link to download the Release Candidate editions of System Center <fill in the blank> 2012, which are all in pre-release and ready to test (and are fully upgradeable to the final RTM versions!) directly. However because the total package is about 6GB, it will take a…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 