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Going Green
Theresa and I bought a new car recently.  It's Green .  To be specific, it is actually a colour called Aloe Green Metallic , which to me sounds like a pretentious way of saying it's green. The car was actually available in one of seven...
Stupid Mistakes: Why we should always pay attention!
In September I gave a lecture at the Toronto IT Professionals Community on different deployment technologies available to small and medium business – specifically Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 4.1 , Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK...
A Gotcha to Installing EBS in an Existing Environment
I encountered a problem this week-end that baffled me for a while… Here is the infrastructure, the problem, and the solution. This network diagram is a rough sketch of the relevant portions of the network. At present I have a server (HP DL585 G2) working...
A Discussion of Essential Business Server with a passionate SBS Consultant and Community Member
Technorati Tags: Michael D. Alligood , Mitch Garvis , Mitchell D. Garvis , EBS Consultant , Essential Business Server , SBS , SBSC , Certified Small Business Specialist , Small Business Server I had dinner with a colleague this evening, Michael D. Alligood...
CONTEST! How would YOU do it?
So here I am, sitting at home, planning to plan.  Seeing as so many community members (most of whom are smarter than I am) read my blog, I have a challenge for you all: Help me build my home infrastructure. Here are the materials: ONE monster server...
A Secure, Well-Managed Disaster Zone
I owe a great debt to Microsoft Canada (Damir!) and Hewlett Packard Canada (Laurie!) who came through to supply me with a server for my last two projects.  If you happen to find yourself in the market for a server for a small to mid-sized company...
A Myth of (Virtual) Fingerprints
I was sitting in a cafe minding my own business the other day when I overheard a couple of network administrators discussing the benefits of virtualizing their server room.  As this is a topic about which I am quite passionate I was delighted to...
Can vs. Should
There is a big difference between things that can be done as opposed to what should be done.  I have discussed virtualization in great detail of late because of how interesting it is to the average IT Professional.  Windows Server Virtualization...
IT Pro Toronto - Event #1
Tuesday evening was the inaugural meeting of the IT Professionals Community of Greater Toronto ( www.itprotoronto.ca ).  The event was hosted at Nexient in Mississauga. The evening's presentation was entitled ' Virtualization Fever... Catch...