Understanding and Implementing Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines
For organizations looking to "go to the cloud", as much as Microsoft has had Azure Services that allows orgs to rewrite their apps and host them in the cloud, this new Azure Virtual Machines actually...
View ArticleVirtual Networks in Windows 2012 and Azure VMs
This article addresses a key function built-in to Windows 2012 that on first blush may seem like a complex technical networking feature, but that functionality has GREAT implications when extending...
View ArticleImprovements to Microsoft's Skydrive
This past week Microsoft added a function that allows SkyDrive users to share documents for EDITING that does NOT require the recipient to have to login with a LiveID. Effectively, as long as you...
View ArticleChoosing Office 365 for the Enterprise
Office 365 is Microsoft’s cloud-hosted service that effectively provides Microsoft Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, OneDrive Pro and Yammer on a monthly fee basis. Instead of organizations having to setup,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Exchange Calendaring Problems - A Current Perspective (Mar/2014)
Over the years, I've written what have become the authoratative guides on addressing calendar corruption, calendar delegate, missing appointment problems in Microsoft Exchange. I've gotten a flurry of...
View ArticleThe New World of IT: Cloud, BYOD, Social Media's Impact on Corporate Networking
Over the past few years, the tech industry, that for the previous two to three decades was operated in organizations as the Management Information System (MIS) department or Information Technology...
View ArticleMicrosoft's Hybrid Cloud - Extending the Datacenter to Windows Azure in the...
For more than two decades, organizations built datacenters and hosted their own servers and systems within their datacenters. The role of the Information Technology (I.T.) department was to keep these...
View ArticleTop initiatives in IT operations for 2014-2015
In conversations with I.T. executives over the past couple months, I found the I.T. “projects” and initiatives that seemed to float to the top of all of the organizations fell into a handful of core...
View ArticleParallels Mac Management for Microsoft SCCM
For organizations that are already managing their Windows systems using Microsoft’s System Center Configuration Manager (2012, 2012R2) that have Apple Macs in their environment, the company Parallels...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Runbook for System Center Orchestrator 2012R2
This content is the documented script that we will be demonstrating at Microsoft TechEd in Houston on May 13, 2014 in session DCIM-B330 "Best Practices Integrating On-Premise Datacenters with Azure...
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