The World According to Mitch

One of the great advantages to MVP Summit is the information that is made available to us; speak to any MVP and chances are they were in no fewer than a dozen sessions over the course of four days, not to mention all of the break-out sessions, the Open Space sessions on the first day, and a plethora...

For years I have been saying that Small Business Server was the best solution for small businesses that did not have huge IT budgets; it allowed them to take advantage of the same enterprise-level tools such as Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server, and SharePoint Server without having to purchase several...

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 It! '  Although the main focus of the...

So I'm here in Petaling Jaya, a satellite city and a completely different world from Kuala Lampur, and everything is strange to me. I am at the CPLS where I will be teaching this week, setting up my labs. As I wait for my virtual machines to copy from machine to machine I walk around the training...

One of the things that has impressed me about Microsoft since I started paying attention is the lengths that it goes to with regards to encouraging IT Pros, both with community building and with helping individuals to succeed. Microsoft Canada, through its TechNet Canada Team, has been sponsoring user...

Another day, another dollar. That expression from my father's era or earlier assumed that on any given day a man would show up to his job, and do pretty much the same thing as he had done the previous day, and nothing would really change. While there are still a lot of people who work that way I...

Some time ago I was asked to submit an on-line profile for a web site. I did, and adding a small touch of humour at the end, after listing some of my accomplishments and whatnot, I added the line ‘Mitch is not married, has no kids, and has never been to Cleveland.’ Since then I have used a variance of...

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...

An interesting post appeared in a newsgroup that I monitor today. A desktop support technician in the United Kingdom lamented a colleague who had attended a two week MCSE boot camp and indeed earned that certification. Unfortunately he later encountered a number of simple issues that he could not resolve...

Greetings from Chicago, Illinois. Actually to be fair I am in Schaumburg, a suburb of the big city, and I have not yet seen a building over twenty-five stories, except on the flight into O’Hare. It is always exciting to introduce exciting new concepts to fresh audiences, which is one of the reasons I...