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MVPDays is Back! 9 Canadian Microsoft MVP's to Present Content!!! (and counting)

MVPDays is a community roadshow for Canadians that was co-founded in 2014 by Dave and Cristal Kawula of Tricon Elite consulting to give the Microsoft …

Confirmed App-V 5.0 SP3 Masters Class LAX May 11-15, 2015

For those of you watching the schedule the LA class for GridmasterTraining’s App-V 5.0 SP3 course has been 100% confirmed to run. The course …

Briforum 2015 USA!

Well it’s another year and we’ve decided to throw our names in the hat for speaking at this year’s Briforum USA. This year, Nike …

Microsoft Virtual Academy

I thought I would post a note over here. I did a quick piece on some of the new courses in the Microsoft Virtual Academy that you can take at your own …

Configuration Manager 2012: Query for Machines without Client and Show Last Machine Logon Time with Operating System

The title is a mouthful but this is a quick way to get a list of machines that may be potential clients. This query assumes that Active Directory …

PowerShell: Export Computer Accounts with Last Account Password Change

When looking for machines sometimes it is nice to know if they have even talked to the domain recently. Here is some quick PowerShell to get you on …

UE-V Throws an Exception on Install

Now that I’ve been using UE-V lately for customer environments I’ve noticed a very bizarre error that can pop up when installing the UE-V …

Summer Device Update

Here are some highlights from the summer device update from Kalvin Falconar at Microsoft.Surface Family Flyer PDFWindows Device Choices June …

Problem Starting SQL Server: Unable to Initialize SSL Support

Today I ran into a bit of a surprise trying to start a SQL server up from a reboot. The server was working before the reboot so I had a bad feeling …