In January, Catapult kicked off its first virtual training program around Azure, Microsoft’s highly secure, cloud platform for building, deploying, and managing applications. Over the course of eight weeks, close to 1,000 bootcamp members gained valuable skills in Azure ranging from Visual Studio Team Management to Azure Networking. On February 24th, our cloud guru instructors,…
I was thinking about a couple of my favorite quotes and how they might apply to employee engagement and productivity. “The main difference between an average adult and a high-level athlete isn’t a lack of talent or willpower but rather a lack of a system.” “Nothing will change unless you make a daily ritual that…
This year is shaping up to be a busy one for presentations covering a variety of technologies including: Operations Manager, OMS (from a what’s new, patch management, security and API perspectives), home automation, Microsoft Flow and Power BI! I have the honor of co-presenting with an incredibly talented set of presenters including: Wally Mead, Dieter…
This is, as they say, an oldie, but a goodie. Microsoft has told the story of the Connected Cow at multiple conferences over the past few years. I find it powerful because it clearly defines the power of digital transformation to every industry, even one of the oldest industries in the world. Farming. To summarize,…
Microsoft OMS recently added the “Update Solution” which provides analysis of the patch status for various operating systems and the solution and perform patch management for various operating systems. For more details on the “Update Solution” and how it compares with Configuration Manager see the recent webinar: “Battle of the Titans: Patching with ConfigMgr vs.…
One of the biggest struggles that organizations, and people have is seeing the plethora of collaboration options in Office 365 and SharePoint and trying to determine which to use. Be it email, SharePoint sites, Skype for Business, OneDrive for Business, Yammer, O365 Groups, or the incipient Teams there are a lot of ways to collaborate…
When you think about digital transformation, your mind immediately leaps to the enabling technologies. We think about all of the amazing new tools that enable us to work from wherever we want, whenever we want. We think about massive amounts of data and the amazing insights we can garner from now available, but we rarely…
Type “DevOps Best Practices” into your favorite search engine and behold the plethora of definitions, methodologies, best practices, tips, how-to guides, reports, tools, and of course services from hundreds of resources that go back 4-5 years. When I sat down to write this post I figured I would see what the “Internet” says it is to help…
Site sprawl. Do you have it? Are you spreading it? Do you even know what it is?! Well, here are the symptoms. If you’re constantly saying about your SharePoint, “I don’t know where to find things”, then you’re probably suffering from it. Other symptoms include an unwieldy number of irrelevant search results, and unusual confusion about…
Tell me if this story sounds familiar to you. You work on a project for a major new initiative at your organization. You approach it by gathering requirements from the Subject Matter Experts. Those requirements may, or may not, be documented. The new system is designed, built, tested, deployed and then…no one uses it. Technically…
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