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2010 myITforum Donation

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...

Posted to Garth Jones (Weblog) by Garth on 01-07-2010
Making the World Safer

Yesterday, I receive the typical spam message and every so often I go to the website just checking out the phishing site and to see how bad their really are! Yesterday I went off to the SPAMMER website and was surprised that I found that the site was not blocked but IE! It look like the normal...

Posted to Garth Jones (Weblog) by Garth on 11-27-2009
Flash vs Silverlight

I am working on an idea to be used by the community. While researching this idea, I ran into a problem with Flash. After some time I found out that this issue is Flash does not work on Internet Explorer 64Bit. Well I thought that if Flash will not do it then Silverlight it is! To my surprise, I got the...

Posted to Garth Jones (Weblog) by Garth on 08-01-2009
Ottawa IT Community Awards Night (2008/2009) – Press Release

On Tuesday June 30th 2009, over 100 technology professionals were present at Yuk-Yuk’s downtown location for an end-of-season party and awards ceremony, hosted by four organizations that specialize in Microsoft technology: The Ottawa Code Camp , The Ottawa .NET Community (ODNC), The Ottawa SQL.net Professional...

Posted to Garth Jones (Weblog) by Garth on 07-19-2009
TechDays 2009 Discount Code

This fall, TechDays returns with more deep technical training on the very latest Microsoft technologies, and I’m excited to be able to offer you a special VIP price of just $249 until July 1. After July 1st the early bird price will be $299. Don’t miss this chance to build your skills and share — Reference...

Posted to Garth Jones (Weblog) by Garth on 06-20-2009
More System Center Training

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 Manager 2007 (Level 300) On Demand Web Seminar...

Posted to Garth Jones (Weblog) by Garth on 06-04-2009
Training : How Microsoft does IT: Using Local Policies to Solve Complex System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Client Challenges

I saw this note come from “ Microsoft Canada Technology Partner Training ” RSS Feed. Since I have not seen anyone else post a not about this training I thought that I would. “Any organization can have special-case scenarios where some clients must be managed differently. For example, software...

Posted to Garth Jones (Weblog) by Garth on 06-04-2009
Forum / Mailing list / Newsgroup Etiquette

Since I have not seen anyone else post this to their blog I will. There is some good advices listed within these links for everyone. How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 How to answer a question http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/freebsd-questions/x218.html I will also...

Posted to Garth Jones (Weblog) by Garth on 06-01-2009
$300,000 worth of training

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 summer months. CTE Solutions was founded seven...

Posted to Garth Jones (Weblog) by Garth on 05-12-2009
June 3rd 2009 User Group Meeting

Topic: Windows 7 Security Tidbits & Understanding and Preventing Insider Threat Description: Windows 7 Security Tidbits - Windows 7 is coming and the boss is asking you about all those new security features. Perhaps you've heard some buzz about AppLocker? What’s this about DirectAccess connecting...

Posted to Garth Jones (Weblog) by Garth on 05-12-2009

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