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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Deploying Azure Files

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 …

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