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Hello folks, Windows has been reimagined to be all about you and your style of working.  That means that you can “personalize” your experience.  Here is my start screen. I have all the apps I use everyday at the right side to give me really quick access to them.  that is just one of the things I do to make my experience ...

Hello folks, In this series, we’ve looked at deploying or leveraging the goodness of Windows Server 2012.  we’ve looked at VDI, Data Deduplication, DirectAccess, Hyper-v among others… Today we’ll look at ReFS.  It’s part of the Windows Server 2012 Storage Platform. It has been designed from the ground up to meet a broad set of ...

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 such as: Provide access to applications to devices that are unmanaged. Deliver one ...

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 that the labs that took place during the camp were shared with the ...

In my last role as a Technical Account Manager supporting large corporate and public sector customers, I often had discussions regarding moving to the latest versions of Office. Funny enough, the answer in a lot of cases was not the ones I expected (licensing and/or cost). But the fact the training budgets were cut and that users needed more hand ...

  Recently I sent out a call to MVPs across the country to share some of the interesting things they are doing with the broader IT Pro community across the country.  One of the folks that responded is Sean Wallbridge, a Microsoft SharePoint MVP from Victoria, BC.  In this post Sean shares with you the process of creating a blog in ...

Many individuals who attended the IT Virtualization Boot Camp or Private Cloud Boot Camp in the last few months have asked how we set up the systems and how we are able to reset computers back to a pre-Camp state to take to the next event.  The actual reset process is a simple XCOPY of the pre-Camp VMs and boot files over the ones that IT ...

Over the last few weeks while travelling across Canada for the Private Cloud Launch Tour, as well as the Windows Server 2012 Install Camps, I have often been asked whether or not it is possible to use Server Manager in Windows Server “8” Beta to manage Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 server machines, or if there is a way to install the Windows ...

Continuing with our theme of how to make use of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010, here we have the first of a 3-part series for our French-speaking readers on how to manage drivers using MDT 2010 to help ensure your deployment of Windows 7 on your new PCs works well.  The series is written by Yannick Plavonil, a Microsoft MVP based in ...

This post is the fourth and final post in a 4-part series for our French-speaking readers on how to use MDT 2010 to deploy Windows 7 in your environment. The series is written by Yannick Plavonil, a Microsoft MVP based in Quebec. You can find this and more on his own blog – Revue du Geek. Let me know what other topics you would like covered in ...