Group Policy is a tremendously powerful tool for managing and controlling your Windows environments. Unfortunately, when many of us venture into Group Policy Management, we have a particular task in…
Project Managers are continually task with both scheduling and conducting meetings. With this in mind I wanted to provide my advice on tips to make those meetings as effective as…
In today’s budget-conscious business world, many IT organizations are being forced to do more with less. Less money means running business critical applications on older hardware, and less man-power means…
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…