PowerShell and scripting. It is supposed to make your everyday tasks easier! Yet if your script needs to have administrative rights to run, then you might as well sit there and run them one by one. How would you even schedule it to run as a task? Let’s look at some ways that can be [...]
According to Microsoft, most organizations are still using some combination of on-premises Windows Server Active Directory (AD) and System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) to manage their Windows devices. To simplify the transition to modern management, Microsoft designed a new feature called co-management. Co-management is a simple way to transition from ConfigMgr and AD to a [...]
In the final installment of our Modern Workplace webinar series we explore Office 365. Office 365 includes many helpful applications, but Word, Excel, Outlook, and OneDrive only scratch the surface of the potential value of Office 365. Discover how you can deploy, support, manage and use Microsoft’s Office platform to help empower your employees and [...]
In the second entry in our Modern Workplace webinar series, explore how we use Windows as a core part of your productivity platform to empower employees with digital workstyles and protect their data with built-in protections against modern threats. As one third of the Microsoft 365 offering, deploying Windows 10 is vital to boost both [...]
ADMT is Microsoft’s Active Directory Migration Tool. This is their free solution to perform Active Directory domain migrations, either for mergers or divestitures. It’s not the most robust, up-to-date, or simple to use tool. But, it’s free and it may be all you need in some cases. During migration, you may notice that the ADMT [...]
Maintaining today’s network environment is challenging. The maintenance routines known as “keeping the lights on” are taking up a majority of your IT cycles to get them done. There is a better and more COMPLETE way! For many years, our customers have trusted us to actively monitor and support them 24x7 for their server, infrastructure, [...]
Users expect to plug in and turn on their PC, tablet, or other device, and to be automatically connected. When a device doesn’t receive an IP address, users cannot connect to their resources. After checking settings on the device like Wi-Fi or verifying that the ethernet cable is secure plugged in, a network administrator may [...]
Perhaps you’ve created a cluster in your data center but still have the nagging concern - what if we lose the site? Windows Server 2016 can help with site-aware clustering and leveraging your witness in the cloud. What is site-aware clustering? Site-aware clustering allows for stretched clusters to be set by physical location. You can [...]
As people are moving beyond Sender Policy Framework (SPF) records to using Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM) and Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC), there is a special “trick” that may escape you when setting up the DNS records the first time. Say for example you have 3 domains: domain1.com domain2.com domain3.com You work [...]
A Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) includes the Citrix User Profile Management (UPM) service. If the UPM service is configured via Group Policy, you may find that your UPM profiles are no longer working after a VDA upgrade. This may occur on either a XenApp server or XenDesktop workstation. Identification of this issue can be [...]
