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December 2008 - Posts

• What is the Benefit of Doing the Job Right? Let's ask Todd...

  Todd Lamothe is a colleague who I have been working with for almost 3 years now.  He is also a great friend.  Todd has worked alongside with the executives of the Ottawa Windows Server User Group for a long time.  He was also instrumental Read More... Posted Monday, December 29, 2008 4:05 PM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• Leveraging User Groups and/or Study Groups - Americans and Canadians Have Similar Interests

  While I was teaching MDOP last week in Washington DC, 1 of the attendees who is also an analyst and consultant expressed an interest in how we leverage User Groups and Study Groups.  I shared our model with him and how this came to be as a result Read More... Posted Monday, December 29, 2008 3:50 PM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• Certification Study Groups - the "Hybrid" Study Method

  How do you study for certification exams? Some of us prefer self-study with learning materials and working at our own pace.  Others, prefer a classroom setting or to leverage boot camps so that they can be catapulted into the topic. Regardless, practice Read More... Posted Monday, December 29, 2008 9:11 AM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• Dell Stepped Up and Did Me Right!

  OK, my friends and colleagues and I don't always agree when it comes to computer purchases.  There are 2 schools of thought here which I see. 1) Buy on sale and keep upgrading as needed 2) Hand pick your equipment and pay more but it tends to last Read More... Posted Friday, December 19, 2008 1:10 PM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• Industry's Top 10 IT Certifications

  I was reading an article in Tech Republic this morning which I received by E-mail.  The article discusses an opinion on the Top 10 IT Certifications and their value.  I have linked the article below: http://downloads.techrepublic.com.com/thankyou.aspx?&tag=nl.e101&docid=399997&view=399997&load=1&authId=xLd8S10LPl52HeuL3tdMAjOwuo0GaJ8tMsfvor+X1qvMQsewzdXBKNTsF40k5vhv Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 17, 2008 5:34 AM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• Troubleshooting instinct does not change much from PCs to cars to TV remotes... Long Live the Internet Search Engine!

  This week, after discussions with several of my colleagues, I decided to look into getting a Personal Video Recorder (PVR).  I live in Gatineau and we get our cable service from Videotron.  Now from my research which is not specifically current, Read More... Posted Saturday, December 13, 2008 4:48 PM by Brad Bird | 1 Comments

• HP Update - Little annoyances

  Normally when I install a printer, I add the driver and that is it.  I don't generally have use for all of the applications and "Bells & Whistles" that come with them. Last year, I purchased and HP OfficeJet 6300 All-in-One which I Read More... Posted Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:12 AM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• IT Community Resources - Leverage them and benefit

  I have been an executive for the Ottawa Windows Server User Group for almost 4 years now.  The group has certainly grown as far as interest and attendance.  We also created a number of successful study groups to help IT Professionals achieve Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 09, 2008 1:25 PM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• Selecting 'Use Network Name for Computer Name' in MS Cluster Service when clustering the RMS in Operations Manager 2007

  On occasion we need to create generic services to make them highly available.  This is the case when clustering the RMS server in Operations Manager 2007. Here is the source: (Thanks to Rory McCaw for locating it.) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/198893 Read More... Posted Monday, December 08, 2008 9:40 PM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• MMS Call for presentations - I submitted 1 VMM and 1 DPM candidate

  This year, I elected to submit a couple of presentation suggestions for the Microsoft Management Summit 2009. I submitted "Backing up Virtual Machines in Data Protection Manager - How Deep can you go?" and "Physical to Virtual Migration Read More... Posted Monday, December 08, 2008 3:26 PM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• Teaching OpsMgr in NYC

  Well, they heard a Canadian was coming to teach OpsMgr so they found him the smallest site in town...  The Empire State Building! Whoa, you know you are in a big building when you need to go through security like at the airport with scanners and Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2008 8:58 PM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments