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Updating your Active Directory Schema is something that needs to be done from time to time whether we like it or not. It is done to either support a new version of the OS Domain controller or because an AD integrated application such as Exchange, Skype for Business or SCCM requires the update. Regardless of the reasons the…
Now that Microsoft Windows server 2016 is generally available as of October 12, 2016, everyone is ready to upgrade their servers right? With every new Operating system release there is obviously going to be a list of new features and improvements. However, are these worth it to be bleeding edge and upgrade before the next…
The “cloud” can mean so many things to different people. Depending on who you ask, it could mean SaaS ( software as a service ) running Salesforce in the cloud but another person may say it's running servers on AWS. The definition of cloud can be cloudy but the transition to cloud is the same regardless of what your…
Throughout my career I have worked on a number of projects where standards where minimal. You have seen this type of shop—the servers may be named after superheros or rock bands. When the company has ten servers and two employees it’s not that big of a deal. However, when you scale up and suddenly become even a small…
In the fifteen plus years that I have in worked in information technology organizations, there has been a lot of change. From Unix to Linux, the evolution of Windows based operating systems, and the move to virtualized servers which led to the advent of cloud computing, it’s been a time of massive change. One of the major…
We all have them lurking around in our data centers. Some virtual, some physical. Some small, some large. At times we find them consolidated onto one server, other times we see many of them scattered across multiple servers. There’s no getting away from it – I’m talking about the database. Whether its’ relational or…
Unlike most application support professionals, or even system administrators, as database professionals, you have the ability to look under the hood of nearly every application that you support. I know in my fifteen plus years of being a DBA, I have seen it all. I’ve seen bad practices, best practices, and worked with…
Career management is one of my favorite topics to write and or talk about, because I can directly help people. Something I notice as a consultant going into many organizations is that many IT professionals aren’t thinking proactively about their careers, especially those that work in support roles (supporting an underlying…
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