by Steve Bowman | Mar 20, 2019 | Endpoint Management
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutesWe all work hard. We wake up in the morning. We drink a pot of coffee. We say hello to Nina in Corporate Accounts Payable. We sit down and open our inbox, only to see 50 “server down” alerts with a smattering of...
by Jason Rutherford | Mar 6, 2019 | Azure, DirectAccess, Microsoft Intune, Windows 10
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutesWondering how to manage a remote workforce? There’s no question that we’re seeing more and more organizations turning to using a remote workforce. A 2017 Gallup survey found 43 percent of employed Americans claiming they...
by Steve Bowman | Feb 27, 2019 | Cyber Security, Endpoint Management
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes“Most people are starting to realize that there are only two different types of companies in the world: those that have been breached and know it and those that have been breached and don’t know it. Therefore, prevention is not...
by Nick Taylor | Feb 20, 2019 | Azure
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutestl;dr Managing disaster recovery is tough, but especially for a growing business, because of DR tech lag. Using Azure Site Recovery helps you avoid DR tech lag, not to mention reduce on-prem data center costs and hardware costs. It’s...
by Steve Bowman | Feb 6, 2019 | Endpoint Management
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutesToday’s enterprise infrastructure looks a lot different than it did 10 years ago, and IT departments need to adapt. According to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Unified Endpoint Management (UEM), which came out this past July, technology...
by Jason Rutherford | Jan 23, 2019 | Patch Management
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutesNeed to patch your servers for security and compliance while guaranteeing the most uptime of services possible? It helps to have a patch management checklist. In my previous two posts, I reviewed what you need to do to initially plan...
by Nick Taylor | Jan 9, 2019 | Azure
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat Microsoft Azure does is not a mystery, but the set of things that it can do can be a little overwhelming. We frequently field questions about what Azure can do, how to get started with it, and how to make the business case for...
by Jason Rutherford | Dec 21, 2018 | Patch Management
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutesIn my last post, I discussed the need that every large organization’s IT department has: The need for a patch management checklist. Much of that checklist involves planning for thorough and efficient patch management. (For example, you...
by Steve Bowman | Dec 19, 2018 | PowerShell, SCCM, Uncategorized
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutesI’m going to show you a new approach to getting deployment status out of SCCM. Most of our readers are familiar with using SCCM Reports, or the SCCM console, to get deployment status when asked. Usually, when asked, I turn to...
by Jason Rutherford | Dec 10, 2018 | Endpoint Management, Patch Management
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutesPatch management is something every organization has to do. But keeping every system patched and secured against every vulnerability can become a tedious, never-ending task in itself. And we know what happens when a task gets...
