{"id":8,"date":"2011-04-03T15:06:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T22:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebeagle.itgroove.net\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2011-04-03T15:06:08","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T22:06:08","slug":"robert-dick-so-who-is-this-guy-and-why-is-he-blogging","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/archive\/robert-dick-so-who-is-this-guy-and-why-is-he-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Dick &#8211; Office 365 MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A note from your friendly neighbourhood itgroove Blog admin:<\/p>\n<p>Our friend and former colleague Robert Dick has started up a new blog:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thebeagle.beagledom.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/thebeagle.beagledom.ca\/ <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay current with his latest posts there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Robert Dick and I am a Microsoft Office 365 MVP and an IT Technology Consultant with <strong>itgroove Professional Services Ltd <\/strong>in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itgroove.net\">www.itgroove.net<\/a>).\u00a0 My actual title is <strong>SMB Team Lead\/Senior Consultant<\/strong> and considering the fact that I have been in this business for over 30 years the &#8220;Senior&#8221; title has been <em>earned<\/em>!\u00a0 I have worked for small and large companies in BC, Alberta and Ontario and I have been on both sides of the consulting fence &#8212; I&#8217;ve been an &#8220;end user&#8221; and I&#8217;ve been a Consultant.\u00a0 The latest &#8220;consulting&#8221; run has lasted about 14 years now so I&#8217;m probably in it to stay.\u00a0 I cut my teeth in the first real wave of accesible IT technology (IBM PC&#8217;s, MS-DOS, SCO Xenix and Unix, &#8220;green screens&#8221; and modems, the list goes on &#8230;) and I believe I&#8217;m now working in the second big wave (iPad&#8217;s, SharePoint, iPhone&#8217;s and Android&#8217;s, the &#8220;Cloud&#8221; and virtualization, the list goes on &#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>This blog will be eclectic by necessity; I&#8217;ll be writing about Office 365, Virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V), security (things like anti-virus software and firewalls), backup (Veeam, baby!), storage and many other things.\u00a0 In many ways this will be a chronicle of what we at itgroove do for our SMB customers as well as a chronicle of my ongoing IT education. \u00a0As I learn, I&#8217;ll share as that is what it&#8217;s all about. \u00a0Hopefully, the sharing will be of use to you in your own knowledge quest.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, you may be wondering why the blog is called &#8220;The Beagle&#8221;?\u00a0 There are a number of reasons but two that come to mind are, 1) It&#8217;s all about &#8220;discovery&#8221;.\u00a0 HMS Beagle made numerous voyages of &#8220;discovery&#8221;, its second voyage took Charles Darwin on his voyage of discovery that, in turn ultimately led to Darwin publishing &#8220;On the Origin of Species&#8221; 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