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TechMentor Conference Giveaway from myITforum.com

The TechMentor conference is kicking off in Las Vegas on Oct 10th and they are giving away a 5-day pass to one lucky person.  Hopefully I can be that lucky person.  I’d love to sit through Don Jones’ PowerShell sessions and Mark Minasi’s Windows Server and Active Directory sessions among many of the other speakers [...]

#Exchange 2010 & 2007 – Control POP3 Enablement per Mailbox

Last year I wrote a basic control script to manage Exchange 2007 Active Sync enablement.  Recently, I had a need to write an extremely simple POP3 control enablement script.  The main difference is this just set to run in an Exchange 2010 environment utilizing 2010 PowerShell Snapin.  Functionally and logically it’s all the same.  The script is [...]

What Is The Best SmartPhone On My Carrier?

I routinely get asked by friends and family which SmartPhone they should pick up.  This is always a difficult discussion as the Smart Phone industry of today, similar to the PC industry of the early 2000′s, is changing rapidly almost daily.   I’ve decided to start a post that I will maintain – though I’m [...]

#PowerShell and WMI to Determine OS Architecture for Automation

I’m in the process of writing some of the more complicated PowerShell code I’ve ever written to automate some laborious tasks at my new job.  The process I generally like to take when writing something like this is to modularize parts/steps of the automation as standalone components to be reused and consumed elsewhere.

Part of [...]

So I Resigned From My Pretty Awesome Job.

On Friday 3/4, I resigned from my current job as IT Systems Architect/Team Lead for our Systems and Messaging group. It was one of the more difficult decisions I’ve made in my ~12 year IT career. It’s hard to leave a company who has treated you well. In 4.5 years with them, I’ve been promoted [...]

My Initial Motorola XOOM with Android Honeycomb Impressions

You may have heard about a big launch today if you’re a Google Android fan… namely the Android Honeycomb powered Motorola XOOM.  I was able to spend some uninterrupted hands-on time with the XOOM and got some fuzzy questions answered.

I’m not going to review the device in the traditional sense, but rather as a [...]

One reason why #Cisco UCS rules…in a picture.

Cable management and Airflow…..

Legacy Blade Systems…..

Cisco UCS Chassis…..

#Exchange 2007ActiveSync: Control Which Users Are Enabled…Automagically

Last year when we launched support for Windows Mobile 6.x devices via Exchange ActiveSync, I had a challenge of making sure only approved users were enabled for ActiveSync support. By default in Exchange(all versions), all mailboxes are enabled for ActiveSync, and specifically with Exchange 2007 when the CAS role is installed into the Organization. I [...]

2010 Review – Top 5: What didn’t happen to me….

This time of the year we see an overplay of “My Year in Review” type of articles and TV segments.  I, instead of looking at what DID happen, want to look at what DIDN’T happen for me this year.

Winning the lottery.

Nope.  Perhaps next year… though it would help if I worked on playing [...]

Hay it’s December 31st, time for some New Years Resolutions…

Well.. I run 1920×1200 resolution at home and 3 monitors at 1600×1200 at work… think I will strive for 2560×2048 and 1920×1200 respectively. ok that was lame.

I never make New Years resolutions because I’ve always thought they were pitfalls for failure and most of the time forgotten by January 21st.  However, this year I have some [...]