During a presentation in Florida I was asked a question about the upcoming scheduled Maintenance Mode functionality in Operations Manager vNext. This blog post will cover the following topics related to the new Scheduled Maintenance mode functionality: Where are maintenance schedules defined? Is it possible to create a schedule for the 3rd Tuesday of every…
In a new ConfigMgr 2012 R2 SP1 environment the Reporting Services point was proving a bit challenging to install. After setting all of the required permission it was finally happy. Required Permissions On the SQL Server Reporting Services server, an account (in this case a domain user “functional” or “service” account) needed the following: Membership…
Last week, I wrote a blog post about how to sell an intranet to your organization and I quickly talked about who the customer of the Intranet should be. The quick definition of customer is someone that buys or pays, for a product or service. So, with that in mind, lets explore who the customer is…
Are you a user group coordinator looking to find speakers or sponsors for your event? Are you a trying to find a user group focused on the Cloud or System Center? Are you a speaker looking to present to user group communities around the world? Are you a vendor who makes products which augment System…
On August 6th and 7th 2015 I had the honor of attending the Global Leadership Summit in the primary auditorium for the event. I attended for two primary purposes: To learn more about leadership and become better as a leader. To learn how the GLS has taken the concept of a two day event on…
First, Why Should We Care About Employee Engagement? According to Rachele Williams, SPHR and Advisory Services lead for APQC, one of the world’s leading business benchmarking, best practices, and knowledge management research consultancies, “Employee engagement is to HR what customer loyalty is to marketing and sales. It is that often elusive frame of mind that…
You may have seen the viral meme “There is no cloud, it’s just someone else’s computer” posted on social media or forwarded in an email (or even on a mug). It’s only funny because it is true—but that’s kind of the whole point. It is someone else’s computer. But it isn’t really the computer that…
Veeam has released an updated version of a white paper that was originally created by Alec King, Pete Zerger and myself. This updated version has been change to reflect technology advances which have occurred since it was originally written including for monitoring VMware with Veeam v8 and cloud. This also includes updated information about VMware…
I am very excited to say that I will be speaking at my first Dev Connections this year! I have heard a lot of good things about this event and from the lineup of speakers it looks like this year will not disappoint. As part of the prep for this event I have put together…
If you are like most companies looking to secure your data, and you happen to be on Office 365, it’s a pretty no-brainer to enable Azure RMS for item level protect (encryption + usage rights + user controls). If you have an E3 license, you already have rights to use RMS and I’ve covered how…
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