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A follow-up to my article on configuring iSCSI Initiator in Server Core & Hyper-V Server
There are real advantages to being a veteran of the IT industry… you learn to do something, and it continues to work through version changes; when people discover features in Windows 2008R2 I am often amused to point out ‘Yeah, that’s been there since Windows Server 2003… it’s just never been popular.’ One disadvantage, though,…
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VMLimited… Are you stuck in the past?
Tad the VMLimited Sales Guy… he looks like he would be lost working at WKRP Cincinnati, but he does drive the point home! http://vmlimited.ctp.trafficmgr.com/
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A brief response to the vSphere 5 vs. Hyper-V question…
I know, I’m slow to react on this issue… especially knowing my background; I should have been out of the gate and all over this issue a month ago. With that being said, I expect that the Virtualization team at Microsoft has been dancing with glee for the past two months, ever since VMware announced…
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System Center Essentials: Microsoft monitoring and management for SMBs
Most of you know that Microsoft’s System Center family of products are the leading solutions for IT systems management. They have come a long way in the past seven years, to the point where it is a rare company that does not have at least one System Center product installed in their organization. Although there…
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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…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 