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Creating a Multi-OS Deployment Point with MDT!
Hey folks, I know for months you’ve been on me because the screen shots in my Multi-OS Deployment Share post were lost. Today I am glad to say that I have created a video of it for the DPE team, and am glad to share it with you here! Remember, this video creates the deployment…
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The Student Has Become The Master!
Monday evening I attended the monthly user group meeting of the Wellington Waterloo IT Pro User Group (http://www.wwitpro.com/) in Kitchener, Ontario. The topic for the evening was called Windows 7 Deployment as presented by Sean Kearney (yes, THE Sean Kearney, a.k.a. The Energized Tech, a.k.a. (the former) Friday Funny Guy!) from SWMI Consulting Group and…
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Upgrading Virtual PC machines to Hyper-V
Recently I sat a Microsoft Partner training class to prepare me for a new product. The virtual hard drives (VHD) and the virtual machines (VMC) were distributed to work on Virtual PC on Windows 7. Someone asked the instructor if the machines could be used in Hyper-V, so we decided to try it out. Of…
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Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 and Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Resources
A buddy of mine said it as well as I could… so go view his post on the latest Microsoft Windows Service Pack 1 🙂 http://www.amcdougall.ca/?p=41
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Why one should be careful with words…
In my class this morning I was espousing the virtues of PowerShell. I sad that it could do ANYTHING, and that I was pretty sure that if I asked him to, my friend Sean Kearney could write me a PowerShell script that would tie my shoes for me. Later in the day I glanced at…
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A Do-it-Yourself SWMI? No sweat!
Ok, let’s be honest. We all know that we need to secure our Active Directory infrastructures, but many of us are not entirely sure how. You may even know that Group Policy is a great tool to do it centrally, but with literally thousands of Group Policy settings available in Windows Server 2008 R2, where…
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Creating a Bootable USB Key
It seems that some of my articles got chopped during the move to WordPress. Doh! Here are the simple instructions to create a bootable USB key: Open a Command Prompt session with Administrator privileges. Run the Disk Partition utility (diskpart.exe) Type List Disk to see a list of drives on your computer. Determine which is…
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A chip off the old block…
This morning as I drove my (nearly) 13-year-old son off at school I asked how he thought he would do on his report card (which come out today). He told me he was confident about some subjects, but not French. ‘It would be easier if they hired pretty young blonde French teachers instead of old,…
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Regarding External Hard Drives
For the moment I am taking down the article I wrote about Seagate GoFlex drives. This week I lost 700GB of data on one and until they are ready to help (without my buying their software) I think it is a HUGE #Fail on their part and they do not deserve my endorsement.
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The Right-Wing Rabbi…
For those of you politicos the title is VERY deceiving. It’s about hockey, not politics. I met Rabbi Stephen Wise in the months leading to the birth of my son, Gilad. He is the spiritual leader of Congregation Shaarei Beth El in Oakville, Ontario. Since I’ve known him we have had a friendly rivalry, as…
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Ontario Lottery & Gaming–Another Cash Grab?
I was reading the Globe and Mail on the train the other day and there was an article about the Ontario Lottery & Gaming casinos, and their voluntary exclusion program (which they admit is relatively toothless and ineffective). The Self-Exclusion program (http://www.knowyourlimit.ca/self-exclusion.html) is a program where people who see themselves as having a problem can …
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HP Experts Day!
From January 11th to the 12th, HP will be hosting an “Expert Day” event on its forums. This is focused on HP desktops, notebooks, Windows and printers. HP experts will be joined by Microsoft MVPs helping HP users around the world. It is really a great opportunity to get help for your systems. They will…
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Mitch Visits One Police Plaza
A couple of weeks ago one attendee was a detective with the NYPD, and he offered to take me behind the scenes at One Police Plaza so that I could take a look at a few of the units that use information technology (IT) for a lot more than just paperwork and filing. I had…
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Customer Service… do YOU get it? Wake Up!
I spend far too many nights in hotels. One of the services I rely on is the wake-up call, and this week I was reminded of the episode of Seinfeld by that name… I got to the hotel, left my 6:30am wake-up call, and went to sleep with the peace of mind that I would…
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Airport Security
Yes, airport security is getting tougher… but for the frequent flier there are a number of options to make the experience easier, beginning with BEING COOPERATIVE. I got to #YYZ this morning without having checked in ahead of time, went through US Customs (was randomly selected for secondary screening!), then went through security and was…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 