I’ve always been fascinated by networking and how all these computers, services and devices can talk to each other. It’s really the single most important component to, well, everything. Without […]
Periodic Update – May 19th, 2023
Am still working on my time management skills – would definitely like to write here more often. Been listening, via Audible, to the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and […]
Back to Basics – Windows Activation
When was the last time you had to think about activating Windows? Yea, it’s been awhile for me to. Three years ago I helped write a server provisioning process to […]
Automagical Backups with Azure Policy
This is a bit of a hasty post. Been a shortened week for me, and I’m heading out of town tomorrow for my brother’s wedding. But in conversation late today, […]
Troubleshooting – ASR and VSS
I was once asked in an interview years ago the following question: “User calls and says their printer isn’t working. How would you troubleshoot this?” It’s a silly question at […]
Week Ending April 14th, 2023
Couple weeks have gone by – my wife had a successful spinal surgery done last week, so not a lot of activity on my part as I made sure she […]
Week ending March 31st, 2023
End of the month, end of the quarter. This week I found myself in one of those situations where I couldn’t let a problem go. Numerous teams have Azure Site […]
What’s a Resource Group?
What is a Resource Group? What’s it used for? And what are the recommendations for usage? The first two questions are really rather easy. A Resource Group is merely a […]
Tinkering with Resilient Servers
This past week there were a few conversations about disaster recovery that I was involved in, and one of the interesting things I see all over is a lack of […]
Week Ending March 24th, 2023
Rocky week in the news cycle – I’m trying not to follow or worry about that too much. It’s always mostly negative news. First day of Spring occurred, we had […]