29Sep2016
26Sep2016
Mobility as a Lifestyle
Last year I took a few months off from my job. As an engineer, I believe that planning is everything. So I figured I'd schedule my mid-life crises in advance and try to have it out of the way early, before I even hit middle-age. During this time I did quite a...
22Sep2016
Redirection no more?
I had recently published an article about setting up NTFS security for roaming profiles and redirected folders, when a co-worker and I got into an interesting discussion. So I had to share some of these thoughts while they were still bouncing around in my brain. The question is this: does...
19Sep2016
The Measure of Success
How do you measure success? In the world of consulting, we live and die by the billable hour. Utilization. But I haven't watched that metric for myself--ever. I've been told to, of course. But as with many conventions, I generally ignore it. These days, I'm lucky enough to work for a company that...
15Sep2016
How-to get started with Microsoft Intune
In previous posts, I have described MDM for Office 365, as well as some key differences between that product and Microsoft's full-blown MDM solution, Intune. Today we're going to begin the Intune set up and configuration process. If you haven't yet, go obtain a free trial of Intune (or EMS). It...
12Sep2016
So you CAN use Office 365 click-to-run with volume licensing Project/Visio after all
Came across this little gem today: Use the Office Deployment Tool to install volume licensed editions of Visio 2016 and Project 2016. This has been an annoyance for years now. If you had installed the "Click-to-Run" versions of Office 365, then you would be blocked from installing the "traditional" flavors of Project...
08Sep2016
2016 Essentials Integration: Azure Virtual Network, part 2
In the previous post, we enabled the Windows Server Essentials integration with Azure Virtual Network, and configured a virtual network in the cloud with a Site-to-site VPN right from our Dashboard. While we wait for the connection to become active, we can deploy a virtual machine into that network. Step 5:...
06Sep2016
2016 Essentials Integration: Azure Virtual Network, part 1
This is one of the new features I am most excited about in Windows Server 2016 Essentials Experience. Today we are going to setup a connection to an Azure Virtual Network. With this technology, we have the ability to extend our on-premises server and domain infrastructure into the Microsoft Azure cloud, and run...
01Sep2016