The Magic of Kubernetes

Kubernetes or k8s is one of those things we always hear about but does not always come into our daily work. In theory it sounds great, build some containers and deploy or run your applications in them. So why not just use a container service or just a virtual machine to accomplish the same thing? …

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Device Management in the new normal

Since we have seen a massive change in the number of people that are working remotely in today's world, let's look at how we are going to deal with that. Since Covid-19 has pushed more and more people into a remote working situation a lot of companies have had to scramble to find a way …

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File sharing for remote workers

Recently I have seen more and more people looking at ways to operate in this new normal of having everyone working from different locations. It does present an interesting challenge from the sysadmin perspective. How will you provide updates to users and computers when you cannot use GPO to reliable push those updates? In a …

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What really happens when you logon

We are all familiar with the windows login process, but do we really understand it? Or is just one of those things that you know how to do? Let’s review the process and see what we can learn.  Logon Process  We press CTRL + ALT + DELETE and enter our username and password. This sends …

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How to understand an email header

Email headers and what you can learn from them Have you gotten someone asking if an email is real? More and more lately, users are receiving phishing or spam emails. As scammers get more sophisticated the phishing attempts get harder and harder to catch. It used to be, you would catch the email by looking …

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Security in the Microsoft Cloud

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. …

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Power Tools for the System Admin

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 …

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