The World According to Mitch

On Wednesday I got together with five thousand of my closest friends at the Direct Energy Centre in Toronto for the launch of, among other products, Windows Server 2008.  It was one of those events that you had to be at to believe! Most of you know that I wear many hats wherever I go, and this event...

One of the great supporters of the IT Pro community in Canada is Rick Claus of Microsoft Canada. Rick has been a great inspiration to me and to my career over the past few years. If I had to point to a single moment in time that has most positively altered the course of my professional life it would...

As you may know last week Microsoft hosted the MVP Summit in Seattle and Redmond. In total ninety-seven Canadians were there, and we were a force to be reckoned with. Check out our pictures page, and notice the sea of red hockey jerseys at the keynote address! http://www.flickr.com/photos/canadian_mvp...

Most Microsoft MVPs are awarded in a specific technology. There is one group however that does not fall into any specific technology group, and that is the User Group Leader, and to fit us into their framework Microsoft created a competency called MVP: Windows Server - Customer Experience . At the summit...

I wrote this article recently for another publication but decided it would be a good first contribution to TechNet Canada's IT Professional Connection blog. It is called 'Why I am not an SBSer.' Read it at http://blogs.technet.com/canitpro/archive/2007/01/17/guest-blogger-why-i-am-not-an...