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Ouch.

Gosh she even looks creepy.

Maxwell Smart was a man before his time (also showing my age). Security is a BIG question for sure, as much as the Google. Microsoft and Amazon all want to reassure us of that fear .. I mean, risk.

It's incredible the difference a great team can make, for sure. Looks like you've found a great one!

We get into ethics in AI in a future article - watch this space!

.. except when it doesn't work I must confess, my PC crashed yesterday .. told me it was running low on memory .. turns out I had less than 500Mb free disk space on a 120GB drive. Oops. But hey, at least I knew how to fix it. And what not to delete.

Thanks, I'm glad you liked them.

Thanks for commenting. The new stuff is nice, but is it going to change how big companies use technology? Or are we back to just managing Office & Windows updates again?

Oh absolutely! And thanks for sharing your story rharland2012‌ In a previous post we were talking about all of the great internet resources for learning and how we find time with information overload. I certainly appreciate webinars, forum posts and blogs as tools these days. I just hope that people new to the industry are…

They say ‘the more things change, the more they stay the same’. It’s interesting to see what still remains true in tech (eg DNS). Of course, the mainframe ops of old are laughing about Cloud computing when, in essence, they had that running all those years ago .. just not commercially available or affordable for the…

I love it when people see change as an opportunity!

It's very much an intersection of old versus new. Traditionally we're used to long delays between updates and managing multiple different products in an infrastructure in the hopes they don't break each other. In a pure Cloud world, you're on the same platform as everyone else (to an extent), so when Microsoft pushes out…

Any idea why that is? Easier/quicker to use the GUI than modify the script, connect powershell to the tenant and run it? Or is it just a comfort thing?

Totally depends on the size of the church and the skills of the pastors/admins. I've volunteered IT time at a smaller church just whenever they got stuck. Our local large church handles everything themselves and use GSuite, tithe.ly plus goodness know what else.

Absolutely. We're in trouble when the bots start talking to each other. I'll cover ethics in a future post.

Great tactics! It does depend on having a manager who is open to learning or having their mind changed. Often managers new to the org are set on what they've used in the past, which was sooo much better. Of course.

I think you're right, for now. Solar panels could go some way to making the machines more self-sufficient. But as far as ultimate survival and ongoing longevity go (minus us humans), machines are still based on hardware componentry which fails and needs replacing by a human. Yes, we can go a long way coding self-repairing…

A very common story! Another challenge for Microsoft is the huge variety of hardware is has to be happy on, that they have no control over. So if there are any device driver updates or hardware compatibility issues in general, Microsoft look bad because Windows 10 'failed'. Personal experience:It upgraded happily on my…

Hey it's advancing, but not quite THAT fast

That's a great comment and I totally agree. The Manages Services platform I use has an Office 365 module but it just reads into the Service Health of the customer's Office 365 tenant.

Absolutely agree. Having used Sway to present, I think it's more suited to purely onscreen publications rather than supporting a live presentation (primarily because it doesn't seem support a clicker for 'next slide' navigation), but it's an interesting tool to play with. On my to do list is making a public version of a…

Security for the win!!

Bring on fingerprint recognition for all the things! Interesting that you mention service accounts. I take it those are changed regularly in your organization?

Thanks for your comments everyone and apologies for the delay in my response as I've been busy with Interop commitments. I've just presented on how I.T. can be a 'protective enabler' not a gatekeeper. As a techie I totally understand the horror of someone stepping outside of the policies and controls that we have in place.…

Another great quote from Interop relates to "how can we make IT part of the Business, instead of it being a part of a business." That doesn't just require the I.T. department to change, as some of the comments have mentioned, but also the attitudes and processes of the C-level execs and the Business.

Cheaper yes. But Microsoft would argue Open Office has far less functionality, especially when you take the new Cloud features into account. Even without, there's handy stuff like Flashfill in Excel (FlashFill - Excel 2013). But I've found it usually comes down to what the user needs/will actually use as we know they only…

I see your point. My "we have to" was more a nod to that "half-in" approach that some people want to take with SaaS. If you decide SaaS is for you, then you have to trust their infrastructure guys because you will not have access to that stuff. You're quite right in that you can stick with the approach of just saying No.

You're not the only one wondering that.

See my comment to Mike above.

When do you think you will upgrade from Office 2007? It is in extended support until Oct 2017.