Active Directory is the backbone to so many things that run your business. But recent years have brought significant change to this once predictable and reliable tool. As your infrastructure…
Who Moved My Active Directory?
2012 Upgrade Grief Therapy
Every now and then engineers get excited – giddy even – by the words “time to upgrade.” Who doesn’t love new features, better performance, and bug fixes? But too often…
CSAM: Don’t Miss These Commonly Overlooked Areas of Cybersecurity
Security isn’t just about the latest technical controls or the newest threat. Rani Johnson talks about two areas of security she thinks should get more emphasis. If you walk the…
Why the Service Desk Has Become the Center for Employee Engagement
What is Employee Engagement? What’s the best place you’ve ever worked? Why did you like it so much? Great manager and coworkers? Flexible work schedule? Nice paycheck? These are the…
Don’t Shut Your Pi-Hole, Monitor It! (part 2 of 2)
In my last post I gave some background on one of my recent side projects: setting up and then monitoring a Raspberry Pi running Pi-Hole. In this post, I’m going to…
How the IT Service Desk Can Better Engage with Remote Employees
According to a report based on statistics from the U.S. Census and the U.S. Bureau of Labor, remote work has increased nearly 160% since 2005. It’s no secret that the…
Traditional Infrastructure vs. Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Perhaps the title of this post should be “To Hyperconverge or Not to Hyperconverge,” since it’s the question at hand. Understanding whether HCI is a good idea requires a hard…
SolarWinds at Microsoft Ignite 2019
Microsoft Ignite is taking place November 4 – 8 in Orlando, and SolarWinds will be there to share the latest in IT management, from IT operations to outsourced IT and…
The Do’s and Don’ts of Edge Computing
Edge computing is here to stay and it’s no wonder. Edge computing provides federal IT pros with a range of advantages they simply don’t have with more traditional computing environments.…