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...
29Aug2016
2016 Essentials Integration: Microsoft Intune
Today we're going to enable the Microsoft Intune integration service from the Essentials Dashboard and discuss what it means a little bit. Intune is another cloud offering by Microsoft. It's purpose is to enable more robust Mobile Device Management. You can obtain an Intune subscription separately, which is what this process is basically leading...
23Jun2016
Migrating File Shares from SBS to Office 365 SharePoint Online
When it comes to file shares, you have a choice to make. Whether you are coming from Windows Small Business Server, or one of the other releases (Essentials, Standard, Datacenter, etc.), you must decide: Do you want to continue to use traditional file shares, or are you going to use SharePoint...
02May2016
Get Rid of My Servers!
If the cloud is supposed to be so great, then why do so many small businesses still have servers? It is a fair question. The truth is, you probably do not need to maintain servers on-premises, but that doesn't mean you won't still want to. The majority of small businesses (the "S" in...
25Apr2016
Knowledge is Power: What does it mean?
Knowledge is Power. Everyone knows that. But not all forms of knowledge were created equally. The same is true of the corresponding power. There are many different shades of knowledge in life, and we do not always distinguish among them in common everyday discourse. However, in most real-life working environments, these various...
31Mar2016
Comparing Costs: Azure IaaS vs. On-Premises Server Hardware
Most people do not compare costs of running infrastructure in Azure to traditional on-premises deployments appropriately. To begin with, it is almost impossible to compare them apples-to-apples. For example: as soon as you deploy a VM in Azure, all of your data will be written into 3 different storage locations by default. If you select...
21Mar2016