The World According to Mitch

I had a conversation with my Exchange Server last night. Microsoft has been talking about Unified Messaging for a couple of years now, and I have been interested in it since the outset but because I do not always have the infrastructure (or the time) to do a lot of the things I would like to do , this...

For more information about the Windows Springboard Series visit http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8418918 . There are two truisms that come to mind this morning: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing; and The more you know the more damage you can do. Let's start by clarifying that I am not your average...

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 hear the 'buzz'... the fact that organizations...

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...

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...

This past Monday I had the opportunity to present what I call a 'Let's Get Excited' presentation to an architect audience at Microsoft Canada.  I was asked to showcase several new features of Windows Server 2008, due to launch on February 27th. While preparing for the presentation I...

I cannot be sure when I first started receiving spam in my Inbox, but in all likelihood it was around the time I got my first Internet e-mail account, circa April, 1995.  It was a minor nuisance then, and before long it became a major pain.  Fortunately as spam developed so did anti-spam technology...

For those of you playing with Vista, stick these fixes on. While you wait for news of Vista SP1 rest assured that the team are hard at work addressing some of the more common issues with the current Vista release. Two packages have been released to address a number of performance, compatibility and reliability...

Here we are. July has past, and as we look out onto August I see something more than just another month. July has been a bit of a whirlwind for me. I moved from Montreal to Toronto, and though I have accomplished much this past month the reality is I have chiefly been on vacation. I am moved in and my...

Many of you know that earlier this year I wrote a series of e-learning courses for Microsoft Learning that eventually became the Collection 5974: Designing, Deploying, and Managing a Network Solution for a Small- and Medium-Sized Business. The project was a joint effort of several parties comrpising...