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Blast from the Past – Article from January 2000

I was cleaning up some clutter in the house and it was time to get rid of some old paper.  I found an old article I wrote for a Magazine in Bermuda called “The Bottom Line”. This was shortly before the release of Windows 2000.  When it came out, it was a big deal and …

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I want the blues – Die Event ID 1111 Die!

What I’ve written about this before, in regards to having clear (anal retentive much?) event logs and the technique was different in Windows Server 2008 R2 and earlier. I just can’t stand having to ignore a bunch of red critical errors, especially when they aren’t critical – and more importantly, I don’t think people should …

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TECH TRENDS COME AND GO, ITGROOVE IS HERE TO STAY

Victoria, BC – This year marks the 10th anniversary for local Victoria technology firm, itgroove Professional Services Ltd. From its inception as a one-man home office business to its present status as a growing team of technology professionals, the one constant has been delivering technology support that works for its customers. With 20 years in …

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Buh-Bye Citrix, hello again QuickBooks on my iPad

Today I can happily announce that we retired our Citrix XenApp Terminal Server in favour of a simplified, all in, Windows Server 2012 R2 RDWeb Server solution. Previously, I was pretty excited about using Citrix and the Citrix Receiver app to view Remote Desktop connections and published apps on my iPad and other mobile devices. …

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TECH TRENDS COME AND GO, ITGROOVE IS HERE TO STAY

Victoria, BC – This year marks the 10th anniversary for local Victoria technology firm, itgroove Professional Services Ltd. From its inception as a one-man home office business to its present status as a growing team of technology professionals, the one constant has been delivering technology support that works for its customers. With 20 years in …

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itgroove – Check out our Case Studies

If you haven’t noticed our new website (we did a soft launch some 2 weeks ago or so), pop on by and have a look: www.itgroove.net On it, we have a number of Case Studies you can check out. They include (So far): BC Ferries: How we helped BC Ferries eliminate enough paper that would …

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Help Eliminate annoying 1111 System Event Log Entries

You know what I’m talking about. You are wading through Event Logs on a server and see a bunch of event logs you are going to ignore, but look critical. RED.  EXCLAMATION POINTS!  Ack! While there are ways to turn this off server side (though I’m still looking for the trick on 2012, must find …

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Head to head, Surface vs iPad

Great summary (below link) and captures my feelings as well, pretty much to a lowercase “t”. Surface is off to a great start but has some work to do. Surface Pro may be the one to watch (and I think had they been released together, it would have been a much better move). Link to …

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