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...

My credit card was refused on Friday. In a shoe store in Montreal while standing with my mother my credit card was refused. Of course this was a slightly embarrassing situation, exacerbated by the fact that my mother was standing there, and knowing that my balance should have been more than sufficient...

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...

I have spent so much time concentrating on events like SMB Nation that I almost (I said almost!) forgot to remind my Canadian friends to come out and see me at a user group presentation in their area! I have three upcoming dates confirmed, with a number of others in the planning. If you are in one of...

For those of you who have not been following the saga, I moved from Montreal to Toronto recently. With the exception of four years in the middle somewhere I had lived my entire life in Montreal, and as I was quite happy there it will come as a bit of a shock to those who do not know me that the final...

With on-line dating having come into the light and grown so prominent over the past few years I feel it is important to bring to light some of the scams that have come along with it. I admit it... I have nothing to be ashamed of. My name is Mitch and I am an occasional on-line dater. With my divorce...

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...