Adoption planning for Lync. Learning to love your users.

IT Project work can generally be split into two categories, user facing and behind the scenes stuff. With either type it is important to properly plan everything that you need to do along the way.

You don’t always need to see it, to believe it.

Both Lewis and Andy are visually impaired engineers who have mastered the use of Windows Server 2012 R2 using voice synthesizers and a Braille Display to work quicker and smarter...

SharePoint and the Internet of Things

The conundrum which is the Internet of Things and the many innovations coming from its emergence. How does SharePoint fit in? Does it fit?

July, 2013

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Installing SQL Server in a Virtual World

Posted over 1 year ago

by Andrew.Fryer
I do get occasional feedback that SQL Server is hard to install, all those screens all those checkboxes etc. etc. This is simply a reflection that there is so much in SQL Server aside form the database engine, however if you know what you want and...
SharePoint Champions are Vital Roles

Posted over 1 year ago

by Steven Mullaghan
By Geoff Evelyn , SharePoint MVP and owner of SharePointGeoff.com. SharePoint has a multitude of diverse roles which relate to: A SharePoint solution being delivered A SharePoint solution being supported A SharePoint solution being...
Bi Products

Posted over 1 year ago

by Andrew.Fryer
I have just read Paul Gregory’s guest post for the TechNet Flash , and the tow things that caught my eye was you own case I think of two ways this works: I am pretty good on SQL Server especially BI, such that I could still have that on my cv with some...
The evolution of Rovnix: Private TCP/IP stacks

Posted over 1 year ago

by Alex Guy
We recently discovered a new breed of the bootkit Rovnix that introduces a private TCP/IP stack. It seems this is becoming a new trend for this type of malware. The implementation of the private stack is based on an open-source TCP/IP project and it...
Enabling Management of Open Source Software in System Center Using Standards

Posted over 1 year ago

by Alex Guy
This post is a part of the nine-part “ What’s New in Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2 ” series that is featured on Brad Anderson’s In the Cloud blog. Today’s blog post covers standards-based management of open source...
Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 is now available

Posted over 1 year ago

by Alex Guy
Update Rollup 3 (UR3) for System Center 2012 SP1 has been released and is now available for download. This update rollup contains fixes for System Center App Controller, Data Protection Manager, Operations Manager, Virtual Machine Manager and more. You...
Virtualizing Tier 1 SQL Server

Posted over 1 year ago

by Andrew.Fryer
A while back I published a couple of posts on virtualizing SQL Server, and in the light of developments in both the virtualization platform out there and SQL Server itself I feel the need to do a complete rewrite. The traditional approach to implementing...
The 4 Key Skills You Need to Get Ahead in IT

Posted over 1 year ago

by Steven Mullaghan
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By Paul Gregory – Principal Technologist and Trainer at QA – www.qa.com I have been training IT professionals for over 15 years. During this time, I have had the privilege to work with some of the world’s leading IT organizations...
Yammer - the Missing Link

Posted over 1 year ago

by Steven Mullaghan
- 1 Comment
B y Alexander Jethwa from Firebrand Training With the recent 1st anniversary since Microsoft purchased Yammer there have been huge changes & improvements of the Enterprise Social Networking platform, with one of its key benefits being team...
Microsoft Server Virtualisation

Posted over 1 year ago

by Steven Mullaghan
By Alan Richards, Senior Consultant at Foundation SP and SharePoint MVP. Overview All businesses are constantly looking at ways to save more or become more efficient and one of the largest drains on funds is normally the IT department, a necessary...