The World According to Mitch

Last year Microsoft launched a great way to get to TechEd… the Get On The Bus Tour.  Unfortunately for me, last year’s bus tour was restricted to US citizens.  Some of us were none too pleased about that, but met the bus in Los Angeles when they all got off. It seems that our voices…

If your e-mail server is managed by Videotron, Rogers, Bell, Hotmail, or any of the myriad services that have a huge infrastructure then this article, while possibly interesting, will likely not apply to you. Likewise if you work for a large corporation, or frankly any corporation and someone else is in charge of DNS and…

As I drove to the train station this morning I tuned the radio to my usual Talk Radio station and was interested to hear that ‘After the break John’s guest will be the man who got the first iPad in New York City.’  I admit I have not been following the craze too closely but…

If you are looking for a good deal on electronics, you should consider heading to one of the big electronics stores in the weeks after Christmas. .Not only do they have pretty good specials,  but you are also very likely to find open-box specials – returned items that are complete, new products that people bought…

**Writer’s note: This article was planned and blocked a week before it was written; in the meantime when I mentioned on either Twitter or Facebook that the article was being written, I received a number of requests to include other (that is, non-Microsoft) offerings.  Because I have not had the time to test those offerings…

If you are an IT Professional in the Greater Toronto Area then you will not want to miss this event! http://itprotolotusfoundation.eventbrite.com/ Small business is still big business. Every company needs the ability to do e-mail, create, share and centrally manage documents and files and ensure that all their information is backed up and protected. But…

For more information about the Windows Springboard Series visit http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8418918. In my last article I described the proper way to install Windows 7 on an Intel-based Mac using Boot Camp.  But aside from the complete driver set, what else does Boot Camp offer? In the Windows Taskbar (see image) you see a lot of the…

For more information about the Windows Springboard Series visit http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8418918. If you are reading this article on your Mac, this is an important article for you. Before you start though, I suggest you read my previous article outlining how I got to the point where I, the Mitch you all know and love as a…

For more information about the Windows Springboard Series visit http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8418918. <MDG NOTE: I wrote this article several months ago, when I bought my MacBook Pro.  I have since sold that machine but not because I was anything but satisfied with it… I just found it to be an expensive laptop to run Windows on!> If…

I was so excited about the product from the minute I heard of it.  In January, 2007 Kevin Beares took me into his office and showed me the three servers running a VERY early alpha (read: dogfood) build of what would eventually be called Microsoft Essential Business Server 2008.  As he explained the technology I…

For more information about the Windows Springboard Series visit http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8418918. My name is Mitch, and I am a PC and I run Windows 7! This statement will not surprise anyone who knows me.  As a Microsoft MVP and trainer I have been quite vocal about Microsoft’s new client operating system, and everything I love about…

As I sit watching Rabbi Wise’s computer upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7 I am thinking about a conversation that he and I just had. Three weeks ago he and I started discussing the benefits of Windows 7 over his currently Windows Vista, and he asked if I thought it was really worth the…

I love Microsoft Office 2010. It’s not that I was not a big fan of the current Office 2007, but I feel that Microsoft has done its job – found ways to improve the new model. My current ‘favorite’ improvement is with Microsoft Office Outlook. It solves a problem that has caused me inconvenience for…

During the current period of redesign and reconstruction of the IT Pro Toronto Website and Servers all of my articles and product reviews that would normally be posted to the on-line eZine at www.itprotoronto.ca/Zine will be posted directly to my blog.  When the site is back up (hopefully the beginning of May) these articles will…

When Microsoft announced the Server Core functionality of Windows Server 2008 a lot of people got very excited.  Server Core is essentially the functionality of a server OS without any of the bloat of either a regular server or workstation OS.  There is no graphical user interface (GUI) and it requires much fewer resources than…