How often have you had the infamous "my computer is slow" complaint from a user? We all have experienced it, when your computer is running slow or someone calls and you just cannot seem to find what is causing it? How many times have we seen where a technician just runs a computer cleanup or …
There are a few things that are inevitable in this world. You always hear people say it is death and taxes. I think it is a little different than that though, I think it is Change, and that something will break at the worst possible time. Murphy’s law and all that. In either case, you …
In today's world, everything is focused on security. Every day we see more and more stories of companies or individuals getting compromised or having their information stolen. Personally, I have seen where companies have lost millions of dollars in a single day due to attacks. The ones I have seen could have easily been prevented. …
Microsoft has really changed the way we do business with some of the services available in Azure. I am in the Azure platform more than is probably healthy, but with that, I start to connect some of the services with tasks that I see done all the time. The power platform available on Azure really …
One of the most overlooked features in Office 365 seems to be Advanced Threat Protection. I am often confronted with environments that have it and do not use it or do not see the value in having it. This gets changed very quickly when something happens that could have been prevented with ATP. I think our …
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Azure files can be a great idea but can also cause a lot of problems if you implement them before you are ready. As with any project you want to make sure you do the right planning before you start doing anything. Let’s take a look at the various things we need to be aware …
Now that we have gone through the due diligence and planned out our Azure files deployment, we can get started on the deployment phase. Before we do that, let’s summarize what we are going to do 1. Setup Azure files (SMB) to replace an existing file server Sounds simple but remember we have already gone through …
Group Policy Object’s or GPO’s are a great way to control what can or cannot happen on a computer. They are really designed for an active directory environment. Although, there are local policies you can use if you are on a workgroup. They must be set on each machine though. For our purposes here we …
