Houston… We have a Problem… Have you ever noticed there is an awful lot of educational workshops and deliveries that teach you about all these amazing features, but ultimately leave you wondering how to actually implement them in your environment? ... continue reading

Introduction – As a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft, I run into numerous instances where our customers have raised the need for them to have greater control and flexibility in using the Microsoft Premier Services. More and more customers are ... continue reading

Heya folks, Ned here again. We have a quick survey for all our customers who use NetApp FAS. Https://aka.ms/NASurvey It will take just a minute and is completely anonymous. We hope you can provide a little info on how you ... continue reading

Heya folks, Ned here again. We have a quick survey for all our customers who use NetApp FAS. Https://aka.ms/NASurvey It will take just a minute and is completely anonymous. We hope you can provide a little info on how you ... continue reading

Introduction As SCCM Engineers we have all been asked at some stage about custom dashboards and reports that are available or that can be created to monitor the SCCM environment, check the status of client activity, client health, deployments or ... continue reading

Let me answer the question from the title before we get started, nothing is ever as simple as you think it is going to be. In a large organization there are usually lots of different environmental factors that can impact ... continue reading

Background Flash back to the late 80's...mullets for all, Polo drenched teens, big hair, and RC4 in all it's glory. Life was good. Flash forward to now and all of these things are out of style. In the case of ... continue reading

I've been doing system administration since roughly 1994 and in that time I've come to realize one thing: making changes to established environments always causes a ripple effect. The impact of changes usually doesn't surface right away, so associating the ... continue reading

The Problem "The internet is down!" This is how I am greeted after a long day at work. My teenage son, who plays virtually every game known to mankind, could not join the majority of game servers for his favorite ... continue reading

Remember the good old days, when there was a simple text file that you could look at to see what was going on with your Windows Update processes? Yep...the good old days...life was so simple. Starting with Windows 10 and ... continue reading