C/D/H Talks Tech

This has been a very exciting conference for me (and the approximately 9000 others) because we are in a “wave” year!  In fact, they had a cool video of a surfer getting towed behind a wave runner to catch a tsunami size wave – that was a metaphor for the impact of the amount of new releases coming from MS this year.

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We all hear the term “best practices” thrown around in the technology world, but what really does “best practices” mean? All too often vendors throw it around as if their product defined the “industry accepted best practice”. Additionally, some experts get idealistic about the best practices they put forth. For example, security specialists/experts routinely define security best practices which can be incredibly difficult to implement or follow without great expense, time, and complexity. Likewise, identity management specialists/experts (such as myself) sometimes get too hung up on idealistic concepts like “every ID must represent a person” and others.

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Here are a few of my favorite keyboard shortcuts to help you keep those fingers on the home row.

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