Garth Jones at myITforum.com : SCVMM

MyITforum donation for 2012

Garth Jones — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:21:58 GMT

With the start of a new year, it is that time again to support the System Center Community, with that in mind I have made my yearly donation of $250 USD to MyITForum (MIF). http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/aboutus/donations/ MIF is truly a community...(read more)

Challenge aka 70-659

Garth Jones — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:15:21 GMT

On Thursday night at the User Group event, I was challenged to write 70-659 exam before Dec 31 2011. There are high stakes at risk here, bragging rights and more importantly beer! Over the next few weeks you will see a few blogs post...(read more)

Canadian Microsoft Management Summit 2011

Garth Jones — Mon, 02 May 2011 12:58:15 GMT

Did you miss MMS this year? Well here is you change to see the highlight! (aka Put your head in the cloud) When: Friday, May 6 Where: Microsoft Canada Headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario Registration Details: http://www.microsoft.com/canada/events...(read more)

2011 myITforum.com Donation

Garth Jones — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 20:47:12 GMT

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). Have you made a donation to your community yet? http://www.myitforum.com/donations...(read more)

Have you Voted?

Garth Jones — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:24:38 GMT

There is a poll on myITforum that talks about Certification and System Center. Basically what it wants to know is What SC certs do you hold and if you have any Windows 2008 MCITPs http://www.myitforum.com/absolutenm/templates/site.aspx?articleid=19149&zoneid...(read more)

VM Heaven aka 24TB

Garth Jones — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:06:51 GMT

So, my test lab has been running lean and mean for a while. A few weeks back I decided that in order to test ConfigMgr v.Next. I needed to update my lab. In the past I had a few discussion about Hyper-v and getting more performance out of it. The...(read more)

SMSUG.ca Forums

Garth Jones — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:44:41 GMT

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...(read more)

2010 myITforum Donation

Garth Jones — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:39:34 GMT

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...(read more)

How many certified System Center people are there? (Aug 2009)

Garth Jones — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:32:07 GMT

With all the talk about 70-401 exam this week and with at least 3 new MCTS. I thought that I would update the stats on my blog. Here are the old stats from April 2009, if you want to compare them. http://smsug.ca/blogs/garth_jones/archive/2009/06/05/how...(read more)

More System Center Training

Garth Jones — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:38:38 GMT

I’m a little behind in reading some of my RSS feeds, anyways here are few more “free” training / “On Demand Web Seminar” that might interest you. TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft does IT: Using Virtualization with Hyper-V to Deploy System Center Configuration...(read more)

$300,000 worth of training

Garth Jones — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:36:24 GMT

CTE Solutions , (Yes, the same training center that helps out with both the User & Study Groups) will donate $300,000 worth of training to recently laid off tech workers in Ottawa, equating to around 150 participants to be instructed over the coming...(read more)

Harrah’s short cut

Garth Jones — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:00:08 GMT

There is a short cut from Harrah’s to the Sands expo. 1. Starting at the Reception desk , exit Harrah’s Turn left 2. Go to the Bus area 3. Near the end of the Bus area, look for the ramp to the Sands Expo (there is a sign) 4. Like this 5. Walk through...(read more)

myITForum Donation

Garth Jones — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:23:24 GMT

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...(read more)

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Configuration

Garth Jones — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:09:14 GMT

This morning checking my email and I saw the following email. -----Original Message----- From: mswwprog@microsoft.com [mailto:mswwprog@microsoft.com] Sent: December-18-08 12:26 AM To: Garth Subject: Congratulations on Your Microsoft Certification! Access...(read more)

1st Anniversary

Garth Jones — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:30:37 GMT

Well today is 1 st anniversary of me taking steps to upgrade my certifications to Windows 2003 / Windows 2008. As many of you know I have blog about my experiences with all the exams. So this blog post is designed to talk about a few things. Which exam...(read more)