TechNet UK Blog

  • What every IT Pro wants for Christmas.

     IT Pros are, as a rule, rather fond of free stuff (known in the industry as SWAG) they are also fond of Gadgets (known in the industry as Gadgets) but above all IT Pros are fond of peace and quiet, being left alone by management and users alike to get on with more important stuff

  • Roll up, roll up get your FREE Microsoft Azure BETA Exam code here.

     Within the last month, I have taken all three Microsoft Azure Certification Exams, two of them have been BETA tests. Read on and you can get you own code to take a FREE Azure BETA Exam (only 500 codes available – first come – first served)

  • Computer Security and The Holidays: Things Are Not Always Merry and Bright

     The holidays are always so rushed. We can barely enjoy one before we start seeing ads and have to start preparing for the next. Halloween decorations go up in September, and before the witches, goblins and candy are removed from one aisle, we can hear Christmas music just a few aisles away.

  • Endpoint Zone Episode 4

     In this months edition of The Endpoint Zone with Brad Anderson you’ll hear directly from Corporate Vice President, Brad Anderson (that means he runs engineering) about the biggest month yet in Microsoft Intune releases. You’ll hear about the Intune Secure Browser, about Exchange On-Prem and Office 365 conditional access and other groundbreaking new features.

  • IT Services at Christmas

     Ed and I have been doing quite a few events in the run up to Christmas and we often need to explain the different kinds of cloud service. So imagine you wanted to move Christmas to the cloud.

  • SharePoint Workflow: Service Delivery options - Part 1

     Let’s take a service delivery examination concerning workflow provisions around SharePoint, Office365, Windows Azure and what implications there are for organisations needing to improve business process automation, collaboration and productivity through workflow adoption. 

  • Early Christmas present for Azure RemoteApp fans.

    Yesterday Microsoft announced that Azure RemoteApp would be generally available from Thursday 11th December. Anyone who reads this blog will know that I rate this service very highly indeed. The ability to run Windows applications from any platform without having to run the infrastructure on your own premises is of huge benefit. 

  • Sample of custom PowerShell cmdlets to manage Azure ServiceBus queues

     A customer I’m working with these days is investing in automating the provisioning and de-provisioning a fairly complex solution on Azure using PowerShell and Azure Automation to help lower their running costs and provide increased agility and resiliency.

  • Meeting the Demands IoT Solutions will have of IT

     Whatever your focus as an IT professional the interconnected world of the Internet of Things, will bring more innovation to a world that’s already providing new technical capabilities on a regular basis. A world where IoT sensors will produce new sources of data that allows automated judgement and artificial intelligence to come one step nearer to our daily lives.

  • What are the best IT Pro Tools for automation – and why?

    Each month here in the @TechnetUk #ITPro office there is a mad scramble (bunfight / race / polite debate) to bid for the best blog topics for the month. Each quarter has a theme, this quarter it is ‘the right tools for the job’. I was lucky enough to see the email early and our editor Charlotte accepted my bids for my post last week on Windows Server Technical Preview and for this one on automation tools.