Part 1 - Active Directory
One of the most stable and well designed pieces of software to come out of Microsoft – ever – is Active Directory. While its development was riddled with twists and turns (and the occasional run
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The Coming Storm - Introduction
If ever there was a time when the technology of the world that enables millions of businesses and this new concept of the cloud converged on a single piece of software, it is
The Coming Storm - Windows 8
I am beginning a series on all that is amazing in Windows Server 8. There will be 55 posts in all. It’s a very exciting time! Look for them to start early
The State of Storage in 2012
There is a great article in Information Week this week about the 2012 State of Storage [http://bit.ly/wAy04n] that I wanted to comment on. If you don’t have a subscription,
Captain Thomas
I was en route the other day from Seattle to DFW. Home from a fun and thoroughly educational trip to Microsoft HQ for a super secret top classified semi-decoder ring style event. Had
Mass Updating Site Owners
In SharePoint, if you’re smart, you have written a custom footer to display the site owner (or primary site collection administrator) so people know who to talk to when something goes wrong.
Switching from Claims to Not Claims with SharePoint 2010
Working with a client the other day, I had the need to take a web application from one SP install to another. Normally, no big deal. This time, however, client has two different
More Tools for 2012
In addendum to my previous toolset count – I’ve decided that this year, I’m going to invest in a few more tools to make life grand. All of these are ostentatiously to
Tools for 2012
Given that these cloud things all seem to be coming together, I find myself looking at specific scenarios whereby me, myself and my family can live more fruitfully in the cloud. Here are
2012 - The Year of the Cloud
It may come as no surprise to anyone that I do in fact, heart the cloud. Having spent the passed few weeks reading the most excellent book ‘The Big Switch’ and generally reveling
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to everyone. Here’s hoping for another great year of crazy technology uses, random thoughts and some other stuff. Big posts coming soon on 2012 in Technology, The Proof of
More Thoughts on Messaging
So my original impression of iMessage turned out to be incorrect – kind of. If you have an iPhone, you know by now that iMessage and the SMS app are in fact, built in.