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Are You Virtual? CLICK HERE!
For months I have been talking to you about the Microsoft Virtual Academy. Are you registered? If you do it now you can get access to all sorts of great learning tools on Virtualization and other Microsoft Technologies! If you click here and let me know that you did, you can win! I am going…
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Customer Service: United Drops the Ball
I fly a lot, and have seen all sorts of crews. I understand that Flight Attendants are human and, like the rest of us, are prone to having bad days. With that being said, I was very disappointed this week-end by the crew of United 846 from Buenos Aires (Ezeiza) to Washington (Dulles). They is…
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10215A–Your last chance this year!
If you are a Microsoft Partner in the Greater Toronto Area you might have heard that the Microsoft Partner Network offers subsidized courses on topics such as Server Virtualization. Well due to overwhelming demand, they are doing it one more time. The week of December 19th (Monday through Thursday) I will be teaching Course 10215A:…
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Mastering Windows 7 Deployment–a Review
This week I was teaching the Deploying the Optimized Desktop class for the Microsoft Partner Network, and one of my students asked me if there was a good book on the Windows Automated Installation Kit. While I am not aware of a book specific to that product, I told them about the book Mastering Windows…
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Command Line Switches
One of the skills that you will need to know to be good at Desktop Deployment using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT 2010) is the ability to discover and maintain a list of command line switches that you use frequently. At the request of some of my students, I am going to post a few of…
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Día de la conmemoración
For the first time in 15 years I am not in North America for Remembrance Day. Nonetheless I have been wearing my poppy all week, and several people have asked me about it – at work, at the community event at Microsoft, at my hotel, in stores and restaurants. In my broken Spanish I have…
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The Dawn of a New Community
I had no idea when I was scheduled to come to Buenos Aires that I would be here to watch such a momentous event. A month ago Elias Mereb, a fellow MVP from Venezuela, found out I was coming down and introduced me to Daniel Levi, a DPE at Microsoft Argentina. Daniel told me that…
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Virtualization Infrastructure: Which platform is right for you?
Over the past year as a Virtual Partner Technology Advisor for Microsoft Canada I have heard a lot of people say a lot of things about Hyper-V, and not all of it has been from people who work for (or are otherwise strongly invested in) VMware. Some of those arguments are reasoned, others emotional, but…
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Are You Intune? You can be for only $99!
If you are with a Microsoft Partner in Canada, then this training is for you! I will be delivering a one-day hands-on class on Windows Intune: Implementing and Supporting Technical Training across Canada. Because it is sponsored by the Microsoft Partner Network the cost for this one-day session is just $99… and that includes breakfast…
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vPTA: What NOT to take away from my 1-day virtualization training!
As a Virtual Partner Technology Advisor I have a really cool job… I go to Microsoft Partners across Canada and demonstrate not simply the virtualization component of Hyper-V, but the entire environment that the partner could leverage to architect a virtualization solution for their customers. When we developed the program last year we had several…
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What’s in MY laptop bag?
A couple of years ago I posted an article about what I keep in my laptop bag. Of course that has evolved over the years, but if you have seen my ‘portable datacentre’ you’ll know that I have to pack it pretty efficiently. It is a full Cloud solution with Hyper-V and Live Migration. Would…
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Been quiet…
I know I have been quiet for a few days… On Tuesday I will be on a couple of airplanes which will give me the chance to start writing again… Stay tuned for the 10 NEVER TRY THIS list from my vPTA sessions 🙂
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A Dead HP Laptop?
A friend came to visit from Montreal today, and asked if I would mind taking a look at the laptop I sold him (used) nearly five years ago. It is an old HP OmniBook with a Pentium III processor, which has served Rick faithfully for the last few years, and before that belonged to a…
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Logon Failures with SCE
I like to practice what I preach, even if it inconveniences me a little bit. So as annoying as it was last week when my user account password expired and I had to select a new one. It was more annoying because my System Center Essentials stopped working at the same time. It reminded me…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 