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Oakville.com
Hey folks! For those of you who have been asking about my Tech Tuesdays column in Oakville.com, I wanted to reassure you that it is coming. In fact, it has been submitted and approved, and is scheduled to run on Tuesday, March 20th. This was due to my missing a deadline (those of you who…
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Aaron’s Mission Trip
In December I reached out to some of my friends, family, and colleagues about a fundraising effort for my son, Aaron. Aaron is a student at Meadow Green Academy in Mississauga, Ontario. Every year the school sends students from their Grade 8 class on a Mission Trip to the Dominican Republic to do charity work.…
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The Great Debate: Virtualization Experts Butt Heads
On March 5th ZDNet hosted an on-line debate between two industry experts on server virtualization (http://www.zdnet.com/debate/hyper-v-or-vmware/6348000). Jason Perlow (cleanly on the Hyper-V side) and Ken Hess (squarely and religiously in the VMware corner) are both recognized industry experts for whom I have a great deal of respect. I did not watch the debate live, but…
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Report from the Summit
A few days ago my ‘Report from the MVP Global Summit’ was posted on-line (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2012/03/05/from-the-mvps-one-more-report-from-the-mvp-global-summit.aspx). I am glad to say that they have revised it to include the pictures… including a bunch of great friends! M
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A Report from the MVP Global Summit
The week before the MVP Summit I got an e-mail asking me if I would be interested in blogging about the Summit for Microsoft Press. As I was planning on blogging anyways I agreed… and rather than posting several smaller articles here, I sent one giant article to Microsoft; it was published today at blogs.msdn.com,…
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Hanging With HP at MVP Nation!
This weekend I am having a blast geeking out in Redmond. Friday and Saturday I am at MVP Nation, which is being billed as the world’s first conference entirely on Windows 8. Raymond Comvalius and I gave a talk this morning, and will do another tomorrow morning. in between I am hanging with my HP…
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Some pictures from the first few days at MVP Summit!
I am writing a blog article about Summit, but it is being reserved for later. For now, here are some pictures! –M
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Windows 8 On-Screen Keyboards
So I am thrilled to post my first blog article on Windows 8, at least from the Consumer Preview. This will be the first tip of many I am sure. I am doing my best to stick to the tablet experience, even though I have the full keyboard on my HP EliteBook 2740p. As such,…
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Under the Wire Revisited… Another exam deadline leads to success!
I don’t mind deadlines; they are great for enforcing discipline for tasks that I have to get done in order to get paid. However when it comes to taking certification exams I hate them. I do not like studying, and even though I have taken myriad of exams they are usually on technologies that I…
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Managing Your Servers Remotely using the RSAT Tools
In this day and age of virtualization it is not that it is getting harder to sit down at a server to administer it… it is just getting easier to administer it remotely. Where it does get easier is when you have several servers – often a mix of physical and virtual – that you…
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Ending Snow Days? Sorry kids, but it SHOULD happen soon.
This month I had lunch with Sharon Bennett, a veteran of the IT industry and blogger. We discussed a number of topics relating to both technology and community… I asked her a ton of questions, and the one that got me the most intriguing answer was: ‘What would you like to see technology do in…
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Golfing with my Dad
It is good to get away during the winter. This past January my beautiful wife Theresa and I got onto a plane with our younger son heading to Florida. Theresa and I were taking a cruise, but we planned for a few extra days in Florida with my parents. I brought my golf clubs just…
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What NOT to Take Away Revisited
Several months ago I posted an article called vPTA: What NOT to take away from my 1-day virtualization session. It was very well received. Most of the material I use for that session has been incorporated into the DPE team’s Virtualization Boot Camp. Damir decided to edit and repost that article on the CanITPro blog. …
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Planning for Success: A fat man’s plan to test for his Second Dan Black Belt
I would expect that when people first see me the first thought that comes to mind is that I am a Martial Artist. One person thought they were being funny and said ‘you look more like you practice sumo wrestling than taekwondo.’ As mean as the snide remark may have been, I suppose it is…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 