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Jan 12 2012
I came home recently to find my lovely, tech-challenged wife had a new slate computer. My wife is smart — a teacher, a former business owner and a school board member. But she does not go out and buy technology.
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Oct 07 2011
Wednesday at the SharePoint conference I attended a packed session presented by a very competent Bill Baer.
Sep 28 2011
There we all were, at a board meeting of a well-known and highly regarded nonprofit on which I serve. We were all happy that we were going to watch the spectacular LipDub video the facility made with film students from Grand Valley State University.
The tech guy hit “play.” We all smiled — we couldn’t help ourselves, because the video was just too funny. But just two or three minutes in, the media player locked up and rebooted.
Crickets.
Aug 15 2011
A surprising number of clients are still managing their Active Directory Forests and Domains with Domain Controllers that run Windows 2003 R2 or older. To take full advantage of Windows 2008 R2 features including Group Policy Preferences and the Active Directory Recycle Bin, existing Domain Controllers need to be upgraded or replaced. This process takes careful planning and thought as existing Domain Controllers typically run critical services such as DHCP which need to be migrated with a minimum impact to production systems.
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Aug 09 2011
I spoke with a small business owner recently whose new employee was trying to convince her to throw away her legal pad and get a smart phone and a slate. This woman also didn’t know anything about the cloud.