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While attending a flurry of IT Professional user group meetings across Canada, I have spoken to many IT Pros experiencing great success is expanding their compute capacity utilizing Microsoft's enterprise-grade, bare-metal hypervisor solution. Hyper-V...
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Even before joining Microsoft Canada’s DPE team as a Virtual Evangelist (the Virtual part means I am a contractor in case you were curious, but I also specialize in Virtualization so it works in my favour!) I have had the opportunity to crisscross our...
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Dan Stolts is a Senior IT Pro Evangelist with Microsoft. Earlier this month he sat down with Tony Asaro on TechNet Radio to discuss the Virtualization Landscape in a Heterogeneous World . Listen in and let me know what you think! –MDG...
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For full details please see http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrreporting/thread/c42ba8cf-02a5-4e2e-8d20-39b05a4a5740 select distinct R.Netbios_Name0 as 'Name' , R.User_Name0 as 'User' , CS.Manufacturer0 as 'Manufacturer'...
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A frequent question asked at every #CANITPRO Camp I have attended has been how one would setup their own lab. This process is easy to do and will provide you a tool to try out many of the Step-By-Step posts listed here on the #CANITPRO blog. To setup...
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I know what you're going to say. But Chris, I'm not a developer, sure I use HTML now and then but I don't have the time to create an App. I get it, your day job is kind of your night job too and there are only so many hours in the day. Don't worry, n...
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In the previous Step-By-Step post , we showcased how to enable the Active Directory Recycle Bin function in Windows Server 2012. Once completed you now have the capability to restore deleted objects from within Active Directory. Next step is to learn...
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A post about the minimum user rights needed to setup Service Principal Names....
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During yesterday's #CANITPRO Windows Server 2012 session, Mitch Garvis made mention of an interesting ability made available on Windows Server. All IT professionals at one time or another have made the mistake of accidentally deleting an object in Active...
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As mentioned in previous posts, now that #CANITPRO Camp V2 is in play, labs from version 1 are being converted into Step-By-Step posts to be provided as a resource to IT Professionals. One of the labs conducted in version 1 of the camps was Virtual Machine...
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Hello Folks, I’m In South Carolina right now enjoying the sun and the golf courses. However, like any IT professionals, I sometimes have to access my systems and tools to address certain issues remotely. You may need remote access to address other scenarios...
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Yesterday, I participated in a great Microsoft Jumpstart session entitled Live Q&A: Introduction to Hyper-V conducted by virtualization experts Jeff Woolsey & Symon Perriman . This session covered all aspects of Hyper-V and I was happy to assist...
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The past weeks have seen Pierre, Mitch and myself drink bigger doses of caffeine than what would be contained in the mug pictured above although Pierre might chime in that the mug looks no bigger than the espresso cups I use for my morning jolt. It has...
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Use this query to find all webcam – SQL reports select CS.Name0, SD.Name0, SD.DeviceID0 from dbo.v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM CS join dbo.v_GS_SYSTEM_DEVICES SD on CS.ResourceID = SD.ResourceID Where SD.Name0 like '%Webcam%'...
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Use this WQL query to find all webcam http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrai/thread/fa5fcfe2-69ef-4482-adfc-de25d6d19669/?prof=required select SMS_R_System.Name, SMS_G_System_SYSTEM_DEVICES.Name, SMS_G_System_SYSTEM_DEVICES.DeviceID...
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I have been getting a lot of questions recently about virtual machine CPU usage, especially around things like Symmetric Multi-Threading (SMT). Jeff Woosley, the Principal Product Manager (WSSC) at Microsoft, recently sent out this clarification...
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The IT Pro Evangelism team, Microsoft Learning and the Microsoft Virtual Academy are pleased to announce the next FREE & PUBLIC event Live Q&A: Introduction to Hyper-V on Wednesday April 3 rd , from 8:30 am – 10:30am PST with virtualization experts...
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Microsoft has released a poster diagramming virtual networking in Hyper-V 2012. Much of it revolves around Virtual Machine Manager, and is actually branded System Center 2012 SP1 . If you are building or managing datacenters – even smaller...
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Are you a current MCT? TechEd wants you! The Call For Staff for TechEd, including Hands On Labs, MCT Ambassadors, and Certification Prep is open, and I am hoping to see a few Canadian MCTs throw their name into the Goblet of Fire! Ok, it’s...
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I had the chance to be one of the first customers in the world to be deploying Windows 8 in a production environment. In the spring of 2012, we were part of a Rapid Deployment Project with Microsoft around Windows Server 2012 which involved deploying...
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I submitted a blog post recently on upgrading System Center 2012 to Service Pack 1 see it here: Upgrading to System Center 2012 SP1. During testing, I encountered an issue launching the Orchestrator 2012 SP2 Web Console where I was greeted with...
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The Ottawa Windows Server User Group is running another study group again this spring, this time for Windows 8. Having written and passed the exam this past weekend, I can tell you this exam is challenging. Studying for it is necessary and working with...
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This week is going to be a great week for Pierre, Mitch and I as activities are underway to design version 2 of the Windows Server 2102 #CANITPRO camp. Details regarding the new camp dates will be available shortly and will be posted predominantly on...
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As mentioned in an earlier post, the tour of the Windows Server 2012 V1 #CANITPRO Camp has now completed and we are currently working on creating version 2 of the camp. Further details regarding version 2 will be forthcoming, however I wanted to ensure...
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Last week Pierre and I completed the last Windows Server 2012 #CANITPRO Camp in St. John's, Newfoundland. The camp was a great showcase of virtualization capabilities for Windows Server 2012 and was well received by audiences across Canada. So much so...
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