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Thursday, July 01, 2010 9:44 AM
I have decided that the forums on www.SMSUG.ca are not being used and due to some SPAMMER populating the membership list, I have closed them down. This is a good thing as it means I will arrange for the site to be convert to a blog only site. With the new site will come a new look a feel. (wait for it)   If you are looking for ConfigMgr , SCCM , SMS, v.Next... Read More...
2010 myITforum Donation
Thursday, January 07, 2010 1:39 PM
With the start of a new year, it is that time again to support the System Management Community, with that in mind I have made my yearly donation of $250 USD to MyITForum (MIF). Why do I do it? Well as a past User Group leader for www.OWSUG.ca , I know how much it cost to host a small user group community. OWSUG is small in comparison to MIF! Our network traffic... Read More...
myITForum Donation
Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:23 AM
With the start of a new year, it is that time again to support the System Management Community, with that in mind I have made my yearly donation to MyITForum (MIF). Why do I do it? Well as a User Group leader for www.OWSUG.ca , I know how much it cost to host a small user group community. OWSUG is extremely small compared to MIF! Our network traffic is nothing... Read More...
Job posting
Wednesday, December 03, 2008 3:47 PM
Make sure that you stop by the OWSUG Job forums. There have been 10 new posting within the last month with more that half of them for Microsoft! Read More...
Tip of the Day!!! How to make CHM files readable!
Monday, October 20, 2008 1:46 PM
How to fix the font issue with CHM files!!!! This has been bugging me for a while so much so that I begged one of the docs team member to help me fix the issue!!! Notice that the text above is unreadable!!!! Fix: 1. From the CHM Menu click Options 2. Click Internet Options 3. From Internet Options window click Accessibility button 4. Check box Ignore font size... Read More...
Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool Executive Overview
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:39 PM
Darwin Sanoy post this tidbit, to quote from his blog . Virtual machines can be a security risk because they don't get updated when you push critical security or virus updates and then they are fired up six months after that... Microsoft has a solution for their virtual machine environment. The Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool turns on VMs, updates... Read More...
Other RunAs Radio Podcast
Friday, April 25, 2008 9:23 PM
About RunAs Radio RunAs Radio is a weekly Internet Audio Talk Show for IT Professionals working with Microsoft products. The full range of IT topics is covered from a Microsoft-centric viewpoint. RunAs Radio was launched on April 11, 2007 with a nod from its sister show, .NET Rocks! , which started as a weekly downloadable mp3 in August, 2002! Coincidentally... Read More...
Blog Statistic – Part 2
Sunday, January 20, 2008 9:03 PM
Just after posting the blog stats, I remember that I also want to check out that number of ping backs and comments. Since April 1 2007 there have been 181 ping backs and 22 comments select count(*) as '# of Comments' from cs_Posts cs_Posts, cs_Sections SEC where cs_Posts.SectionID = Sec.SectionID and Groupid = 3 and cs_Posts.SectionID = 20 and postdate... Read More...
Blog Statistic
Sunday, January 20, 2008 8:41 PM
Recently I was asked about stats for my blog, so instead of guessing what the stats are I created a SQL query to figure it out. So with out further ado here are the stats from April 1 2007 until this just before this post. Number of post 325 Total # of web views 49042 Average # of web views 150 Total # of Agg views 96404 Average # of Agg Views 296 I wonder what... Read More...
Happy New Year!!!
Tuesday, January 01, 2008 4:57 PM
Ellen and I would like wish you all the best in the New Year. Read More...
Hourly posting status.
Monday, December 31, 2007 7:21 AM
Why am I posting this information well, 2 reasons. 1) Someone asked me how I could ensure that I posted once per day and the answer is I pre-posted lots of posts. As you can tell I used hour between 6-7 am (7-8 EST) for pre-posted blogs. Just because… 2) Ever so often I would miss posting on time so I would back post blogs J I used the 10-11 pm (11 pm-Midnight... Read More...
Top 50 posts for 2007
Sunday, December 30, 2007 3:01 PM
Total Title Web Views RSS Views 1117 One more reason to use v_GS_Computer_System vs v_R_System 748 369 989 SMS Log files 572 417 928 Number of Microsoft Certified Professionals Worldwide 611 317 872 What are my top 25 post? 256 616 859 Ottawa Windows Server User Group Newsletter 512 347 846 What is the average number or items within the Add/Remove Per PC? 431... Read More...
365 posts
Sunday, December 02, 2007 7:42 AM
Well, with this post I have now officially met my goal of one blog post per day for a year, sort of. J The year actually will end on Jan 2 2008. There have been few things that I have noticed while doing this. Each post is not the same as the next, and what I mean by that is there are some quality post and some that are not! So I will most likely after Jan 2... Read More...
Bump Rant
Wednesday, August 15, 2007 8:38 AM
Lately I have been seeing a lot more of the “bump” being used within the mailing list, forums, and newsgroups! What “bump” tells me is that the person doing it couldn’t be bothered to re-read their issue and re-write it to provide more details and so that it piques someone’s interest. Don’t get me wrong I don’t mind it when someone’s re-posting a message with... Read More...
Top 25 Site blog posts
Wednesday, May 02, 2007 8:43 AM
Yesterday I posted the top 25 for my Blog well today I will post the top 25 for the site. Hopefully I can overcome Community Servers incessant need to reformat Blog and remove what it believes’s are unneeded spaces. Total Title Web Views RSS Views Author Blog 398 Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 Desired Configuration Monitoring 374 24 Mark sms_user_group... Read More...
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