The World According to Mitch

Because I am beta testing Windows Server 2008 (and have been for about a year now) I have had access to Windows Vista SP1 for a while now, but honestly I have been a bit hesitant to make the jump too quickly. When I am on tour I live by my laptop, and the thought of it conking out and needing any amount...

I have known Richard Campbell for some time now and every time we meet up we have the same discussion that I should do a segment for RunAs Radio (Once upon a time it was for .NET Rocks Radio) but we just never seemed to follow up. This week-end we caught up on line and decided that he and his co-host...

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...

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...

‘Is that a time machine? It looks like a time machine!’ I momentarily thought I was in the movie Pursuit of Happyness, but the man asking me the question was just making a joke. I was standing at the gate waiting to board my plane in Houston, and the man was referring to the cube PC with the translucent...

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...

As I addressed the group of MITPro members last night at our meeting (Monitoring Active Directory Security using MOM) I realized I have unintentionally written a catch-phrase into my vernacular. I am sure that few of you have not heard me say (or write) that it is an exciting time to be an IT Professional...

One of the benefits of being an active part of the IT Pro community is that you get invited to beta test everything, and if you are smart you will pick and choose the things that most interest you knowing that they may be more advanced but in the earlier stages will crash a lot. I have now been beta...

One of the advantages I am glad that MITPro has been able to bring to its members is participation in many of the beta programs that Microsoft has running right now. It is truly an exciting time to be an active member of the IT Pro community because of the plethora of new programs coming out - Small...