There are two lucrative federal tax incentives that will be expiring at the end of this year. If you’re planning to buy needed equipment, you may want to consider making…
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As part of a recent Lync 2013 deployment, I ran into some issues successfully integrating the Office Web App server. Using Lync 2013 clients, we were seeing connectivity related issues…
When deploying the Archiving and Monitoring role, it asks for a user account and password. Many clients don’t have a service account for this and just put in the username…
Since Windows Server 2003, Microsoft has made the installation of Active Directory Certificate Services increasingly straightforward. After a few clicks and an appropriate wait, your Certificate Authority (CA) should be…
PEI’s IT Mega Trends – “Mega” Game Changers in Business Segment Trend 1: Explosive Growth in Data/Use of Big Data in business decision making Evidence The data created daily (2.5…
This is the second in a series of blogs about meetings that are led by project managers. This series is intended to provide guidance and tips to ensure that these…
I’m going to write a series of blogs that provide guidance for three of the most critical meetings project managers lead. The first of these meetings is the kickoff meeting….
There’s a great whitepaper out from Storage Strategies NOW (December 2012) that discusses the storage systems requirements for mid-sized and enterprise datacenters. As we’re working with customers on storage strategies,…
At PEI, we work with all sorts of technologies, from IP phones to virtualized infrastructures. Sometimes, during an onsite visit, clients ask us if we can help out on something…
We hear it so often when it comes to working with clients and their network and infrastructure refresh discussions. “We’re going to wait till next quarter to do that work”…
