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Just how far will we go to get awesome TechDays 2011 content?
Oh - about 32,990 kms – based on the exact flight paths for a round trip from Ottawa –...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 08/22/2011
TechDays 2011 Session Submissions Now Open!
Are you passionate about technology? Do you have a desire to share your knowledge with your...
Author: DamirB Date: 08/18/2011
“The SQL Guy” Post #4: SQL SERVER NOW SUPPORTS COMPOUND OPERATORS
Saleem Hakani switches gears a bit to talk about how to make code more efficient with compound...
Author: DamirB Date: 08/16/2011
Security Bulletins for the Regular IT Guy #33, August 2011
Over pints Pierre Roman, Bruce Cowper and Rick Claus decided they would put together a concise and...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 08/09/2011
“The SQL Guy” Post #3: THE POWER OF SQL SERVER 2008 CENTRAL MANAGEMENT SERVER
Here is another great article from Saleem Hakani of the SQL Server product team at Microsoft. ...
Author: DamirB Date: 08/09/2011
“The SQL Guy” Post # 2: USING THE MIRROR DATABASE FOR REPORTING/QUERYING PURPOSE
Before I get to the meat of this blog post, I have to acknowledge the fact that the technical...
Author: DamirB Date: 08/02/2011
The Microsoft Cloud Like You’ve Never Seen It Before
By now, you’ve heard a lot about the “Microsoft Cloud”. We’ve talked a lot about what is Windows...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 07/28/2011
“The SQL Guy” Post # 1: BEST PRACTICES FOR USING SQL SERVER NETWORK PROTOCOL
When I first joined my team at Microsoft, I was labelled “the SQL guy” for my SQL Server and Oracle...
Author: DamirB Date: 07/26/2011
One Man’s Journey from Google Apps to Office 365
Kanwal Khipple told me about how he moved from Google Apps and Gmail to Office 365. I thought that...
Author: DamirB Date: 07/18/2011
Windows Intune Beta–V2 now available
Originally it was US only… …but it’s now available IN CANADA. In case you don’t already know - I’m a...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 07/14/2011
Security Bulletins for the Regular IT Guy #32, July 2011
Over pints Pierre Roman, Bruce Cowper and Rick Claus decided they would put together a concise and...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 07/12/2011
The Hammer of Thor, the Lightening of Zeus, None compares to Windows Powershell! It can CLOSE MY OPEN FILES!
Hi, I’m Sean. I’m an ITPro and about three years ago (and you can’t tell my wife this) I began my...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 07/06/2011
Where do you get your “In Person” fix?
My team is in the midst of our planning cycle right now and a question came up that has me...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 06/21/2011
Security Bulletins for the Regular IT Guy #31, June 2011
Over pints Pierre Roman, Bruce Cowper and Rick Claus decided they would put together a concise and...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 06/14/2011
Power of Community: Virtualization Reality–Sydney
One of the challenges we face as IT folk is taking the time to work on our professional networking...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 06/07/2011
Virtualization Reality–Updated Cities and Registration
Just wanted to give everyone an Heads-Up that I have been updating the original post regarding...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 06/03/2011
Virtual Reality Community events Registration Details
Lots of interest since the post announcing the cities that signed up to host us! Let me help you out...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 05/25/2011
Traveling and eating alone–don’t do it!
I tried something last night– I was getting hungry and starting to dread finding someplace to...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 05/15/2011
T-2 TechEd 2011 in Atlanta – A Cannuck view
(Might look a little blurry, since I had not had my Starbucks or Timmies as of yet) I’ve made...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 05/14/2011
Security Bulletins for the Regular IT Guy #30, May 2011
Over pints Pierre Roman, Bruce Cowper and Rick Claus decided they would put together a concise and...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 05/10/2011
Tour Stops for VirtualReality community tour
I thought I should update you on the progress of the community tour called “VirtualReality:...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 05/10/2011
Virtual Reality: The truth about Microsoft’s Interoperable Virtualization Stack
It started off as an idea a couple of months back. That idea was around getting the soup to nuts...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 05/04/2011
A Career in IT Requires more than Code, Prove you have the Skills for Free!
Originally posted on the Canadian Developers’ Connection blog by my colleague Susan Ibach....
Author: DamirB Date: 04/26/2011
Deploying a Simple Cloud App: Part 6 - Taking Down the Application
If you’ve started reading from this post, you’ll need to go through the previous parts...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 04/25/2011
Deploying a Simple Cloud App: Part 5 - Promoting from Staging to Production
If you’ve started reading from this post, you’ll need to go through the previous parts...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 04/24/2011
Deploying a Simple Cloud App: Part 4 - Configuring the Hosted Service, Deploying the Package, and Testing
If you’ve started reading from this post, you’ll need to go through the previous parts...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 04/23/2011
Deploying a Simple Cloud App: Part 3 - Configuring the Service Package
If you’ve started reading from this post, you’ll need to go through the previous parts...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 04/22/2011
Deploying a Simple Cloud App: Part 2 - Provisioning a Storage Account
If you’ve started reading from this post, you’ll need to go through the previous parts...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 04/21/2011
Deploying a Simple Cloud App: Part 1 - Provisioning and Configuring SQL Azure
If you’ve started reading from this post, you’ll need to go through the previous parts of this...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 04/20/2011
Office 365 Public Beta is Available!!
Over the last few weeks Ruth Morton and I have been out on the AlignIT Tour talking to IT managers...
Author: DamirB Date: 04/18/2011
We’re growing… And we need you!
As many of you know I work for Microsoft Enterprise Services as a Senior Technical Account Manager....
Author: Pierre Roman Date: 04/15/2011
Security Bulletins for the Regular IT Guy–# 29, April 2011
Over pints Pierre Roman, Bruce Cowper and Rick Claus decided they would put together a concise and...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 04/14/2011
Creating a SAN using Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3
When Microsoft released their iSCSI Software Target to general download in April they opened up a...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 04/12/2011
All for SAN and SAN for ALL!
As Pierre Roman pointed out on April 5th, Microsoft released its Software iSCSI Target to the...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 04/07/2011
The Microsoft iSCSI Software Target is now free
Hello Folks, Over the last few years while demonstrating the Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2...
Author: Pierre Roman Date: 04/05/2011
Rogers Windows Phone 7 (Samsung Focus) Update is live
Whoo-Hoo! I saw a tweet, plugged in my Samsung Focus on the Rogers network and look what popped up?...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 04/01/2011
Mark Russinovich talkin' Windows Intune Technology Tune-Up
Here's a word of advice. If you ever get a chance to see Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 03/31/2011
VMWare Admins–Cut your chops on some free Hyper-V training
I posted an article a couple of weeks back and I wanted to remind by Virtualization brethren of the...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 03/25/2011
Dynamic Memory and Remote FX support now in SCVMM 2008 w/ SP1
A quick note to say that SP1 of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 is now released and...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 03/24/2011
Windows Intune Now Available–PC Management in the cloud
Yet another cool announcement from MMS 2011 – Windows Intune is now RTM and available for a free 30...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 03/23/2011
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta (SCVMM 2012)
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Available in a Beta release RIGHT NOW – the next generation of...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 03/22/2011
Upgrading Hyper-V R2 to SP1
With Service Pack 1 now released for Hyper-V R2 it is about time to start deploying it and updating...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 03/21/2011
A follow up to IE9–the IEAK is now live
As a follow up to my IE9 Release To Web post on Tuesday, I just got word that the Internet Explorer...
Author: Rickster-CDN [MSFT] Date: 03/16/2011