Time and time again we hear stories about user account information being leaked online. In June, 6.4 million LinkedIn passwords were made public and yesterday thousands of Yahoo account passwords…
In the past few years, it has appeared that Microsoft has been on the defensive. They have defended against the financial analysts, the legal attacks, their relevancy in the market…
2013 IT Budget Planning It is almost November, which means the holidays and budgeting for 2013 are right around the corner. What a daunting task, right? Lucky for you, you…
Being a Colorado native the past few months have been very hard for me. Between the fires in Ft. Collins, Boulder and Colorado Springs, I’ve seen some of the natural…
If there is one thing I have learned about project management in the past six months that I have been managing projects on my own, I think it’d be how…
Lync Edge and Replication When setting up Lync, one question that is commonly heard is how does the Edge server get updates from the Central Management store? This is a…
Patching VM Hosts without Update Manager In the unfortunate event that you have been tasked with updating VMware hosts without having or using Update Manager, here are the necessary steps…
How to Backup Lync (Part 3) Over the past two posts, I’ve explained how to backup the core pieces of Lync such as the topology, location services and Response Groups….
Change Management As Project Managers know, an important part of the most projects is the concept of change management. Although there are numerous definitions and derivations of change management, two…
Here is a snapshot of the products that Microsoft will be rolling out at the end of 2012 and beginning of 2013. We will try to keep this up to…