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System Center Essentials: Installation Gotchas
A few months ago I received HP’s branded System Center Essentials (HP Insight with Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010) to prepare for my current tour. As with any server-based application, the best practice is to make sure that your host operating system is patched with the latest Service Pack, Security Patches, and Critical Patches. Additionally…
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Server Core, Target, and Initiator: Commanding them to work!
Many of you (thousands, impressively!) read the three articles that I wrote in April for Microsoft Canada about Microsoft’s Software iSCSI Target 3.3. If you didn’t, you can read them all now by clicking below: All for SAN and SAN for All Creating a SAN using Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3 Creating HA VMs for…
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Office365 Outage: It happens… know about it.
I have been using Microsoft Office365 to manage my e-mail since the beta program, and last month purchased the full program for SWMI Consulting Group. Office365 includes, among so much more, the mail service in a cloud (Exchange 2010). I have had few complaints – someone else manages it for me, and I can focus…
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IT communities… Catch them!
It is great to see the mainstream media catching on… In this article (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/business-categories/biz-categories-technology/get-plugged-in-with-an-it-user-group/article2128023/) the author speaks of two groups that I have been involved in the formation of, and I have been walking around on a cloud all day!
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End of Days for Windows XP.
Quite a number of people have asked me why I continue to tweet the number of days until Microsoft ends support for one of it’s most successful operating systems ever, Windows XP. Especially knowing that we seem to be a long way off – today is Friday August 12, 2011 and we are 969 days…
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Happy 30th Birthday PC!
The official birthday of the IBM PC is August 12, 1981. Today, on the 30th birthday of that (at the time less than auspicious) event, there are some who believe the era of the personal computer is behind us, with the advent of tablets and smartphones. I disagree… that may be true for a segment…
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Preconceived Notions
This week finds me in three areas that I have heard people disparage: Salt Lake City, where I met some of the nicest people in the world and, more importantly, where I did not meet anyone who wasn’t as nice as could be! Even when spending my free afternoon at Temple Square, nobody tried to…
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Your Certification Journey Starts with a Single Step!
Sunday morning I woke up to find a foot of snow in my driveway; time to break out the shovel! I dressed up warm (the thermometer read -9C / 19F), grabbed my shovel, and opened the garage door… and was flummoxed. Where should I start? There was a wall of snow all along both sides…
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Poetry! Haiku of the day
This came across my Twitter feed today and made me laugh: Haikus are easy But sometimes they don’t make sense Refrigerator It made me laugh, and it’s Friday… so let’s call this the Friday Funny! Have a great week-end everyone!
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Dedication
I am teaching a MCITP Boot Camp at a training centre in Virginia Beach. Although the hours of my class require me to be here from 6:30am to 5:00pm, I I am usually here much later than that – last night I left around 7:15. The reason I bring this up is not to show…
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Certifications versus Degrees
As I peruse the articles I have written over the years that were not originally written for my blog (or, as is the case here, that was originally on my old blog, was republished elsewhere, and did not get transitioned over to the new site after the moves) I am finding a number of articles…
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Usage Based Billing
I am probably taking a very unpopular position on this issue, but as you may (or may not) know, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is currently holding hearings regarding Usage-Based Billing (UBB) for Internet Service Providers (ISPs). On the Working World Blog there is a piece about it that I read with interest.…
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MCITP: Server Boot Camp, Virginia Beach
It was REALLY last minute… on Friday I got a mass e-mail from a training provider scrambling to replace a trainer who had cancelled at the last minute. By some miracle of scheduling I was available; after a few hours of back and forth e-mails I booked my flight for Sunday to be at the…
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Master Lee’s Joonbi Taekwondo: Humble and Insightful Lessons
I have been teaching a class in Virginia Beach for the past two weeks, and not surprisingly one of my students has a son in Tae Kwon Do. He had a class last Friday, and although with my injured foot I would not be able to participate, I asked if I could visit to watch. …
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An Real Honour from a True Geek Leader
Earlier in the week I received a Direct Message on Twitter from Jeff Wouters. He is one of the IT Pro bloggers that I make a point of referencing whenever I can. He is out of the Netherlands, and one of three IT Pros out of that country that I know and REALLY respect. So…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 