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February 2008 - Posts

• SID vs GUID

  Last week, in a study group session we were having a discussion about the notion of a SID or Security Identifier and a GUID or Globally Unique identifier. In the group it was suggested that these are one and the same, this did not sit right with me for Read More... Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 2:55 PM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• I feel Canadian

  Although I have lived in the capital region for almost 4 years now, today was my first time skating on the Rideau canal. Last year, at the young age of 32, I decided it was about time I learned how to skate (Not just propel myself forward on ice skates Read More... Posted Sunday, February 17, 2008 3:21 PM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• Upcoming User Group Event on February 21 - Ottawa

  Upcoming UG Meetings February 21 st 2008 User Group Meeting Overview of Windows SteadyState, How to give your computer a short term memory Topic: The topic of this presentation will be Microsoft Windows SteadyState, the product formerly known as the Microsoft Read More... Posted Friday, February 15, 2008 5:42 AM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• 70-622 New study group schedule released for the OWSUG

  Wow, the study group members are dedicated. More than half of the group wanted the schedule rewritten to include a session on family day and the overall session should pursue a slightly more aggressive schedule. As requested, here it is. Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 2:08 PM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments Attachment(s): 70-622 Schedulev2.zip

• Stay the course and NEVER give up!

  One of our members recently passed the 70-620 exam and earned himself the MCTS: Installing and Configuring Vista certification. The reason I am writing this is to help motivate others. This particular member, wrote the exam with me in December. At that Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 4:26 PM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• ost file recovery

  Ah I love learning! Especially at my own expense... NOT! We recently underwent a mail sever upgrade from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2007 and while I did not lose any mail, I lost a contact list and a bunch of notes. Well, not exactly lost... Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 2:46 PM by Brad Bird | 2 Comments

• Wireless woes!

  I consider that I am pretty good with wireless. Unfortunately, I have been through 3 routers... The first was a wireless B which dies almost immediately after a power failure and I took advantage of the latest technology at the time... Wireless G. Now Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 4:40 PM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• Camtasia - a thing of beauty for creating demos

  I was just asked to prepare some demo videos of OPSMAN to be critiqued before I am unleashed to present overseas. I have never created demos before and recorded them. I have given plenty of demos but webcams and recording is new to me. I asked around Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 2:57 PM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• 70-622 studygroup is about to start

  The studygroup for the 70-620 group was by far the most successfull group yet. The 70-622 group will start on Feb 11 and have the closeout party in the week of May 19. For many members, this will mean MSCITP certification. Some members have completed Read More... Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 9:41 PM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• Testing System Center Data Protection Manager in SBS2003R2

  Data Protection Manager is a pretty cool product and boasts mean restore times and capabilities. I will compare a full backup using SBS Backup function to the same with DPM and will post the results as far as time taken, size, etc. Let's see how DPM Read More... Posted Saturday, February 02, 2008 6:55 PM by Brad Bird | 1 Comments