Oct 8, 2021 | Microsoft, Technology
Wouldn’t it be nice to increase security, reduce password reset calls to the help desk, reduce successful phishing attacks, and move to a password policy that requires a password change once a year? This is exactly what Microsoft IT has done. How is that even...
Feb 18, 2020 | Microsoft, Windows 10, Windows Security
Problem AppLocker is application whitelisting technology that has been around since Windows 7 launched. Whitelisting boils down to the locations users can write to. That may be oversimplifying it, but I really think if you understand user-writeable directories, you...
Oct 16, 2019 | Azure, Intune, Microsoft, SCCM, Windows 10
Device Analytics One of the biggest pain points when moving to a new operating system such as Windows 10 is application compatibility. Another is how to pilot the new OS with actual end users. Microsoft has had a service in Azure called Windows Analytics that helps...
Aug 7, 2019 | Hyper-V, Microsoft, Storage Spaces Direct, Virtualization
Recently we had a partner express interest in deploying a Microsoft Hyper-V cluster using a relatively new (and evolving) technology called Storage Spaces Direct, and I was tasked with making that happen. While I am well versed in many Microsoft technologies, this was...
Mar 29, 2018 | Intune, Microsoft, Windows 10
Remember how much you loved Windows 7—it was user friendly, it had great security and management features, it had arguably the best user interface Windows had introduced yet. Then Windows 8 came along. It became a running joke in the IT world—all you had to do was...
