AWS Control Tower: How to Manage Cloud Sprawl
Ask any Atlanta driver about the traffic and they’ll agree: uncontrolled growth can really be a hassle. The same is true for cloud infrastructure. Many organizations move to the cloud and embrace...
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Dan Newton
Dan has been consulting, focusing on Microsoft infrastructure technologies, for over 15 years. He has worked with many of Atlanta’s fortune 500 companies and other enterprise customers throughout the US. Recent project highlights include: Server virtualization design and deployment to support over 300 servers across 10 server Hyper-V cluster Design, develop and deployment of migration from SMS 2003 to SCCM 2007 for SMS hierarchy comprised of over 350 SMS server support over 70,000 clients; Design of a global SCCM 202 hierarchy to support over 100,000 systems and internet-based clients
Mergers and Acquisitions and Asset Management, Oh My!
Mergers and acquisitions are a part of every business sector. As companies grow and change, ownership is bound to change hands and organizations will continue to find themselves struggling to...
Pass the Hash, I’m Hungry
I started a GPO cleanup project implementing security recommendations. One recommendation was listed as “Implement Client-Side Pass-The-Hash...
Sleepless and Seattle
Much has been reported about the Surface Pro 4 and power management issues …and the Surface Pro 3 and sleep has had similar issues early...
The One Super Easy Security Thing You’re Not Doing
Securing your network can be a crazy and scary proposition….and it’s one of the IT tasks that is never completed. With the advent of cloud computing, the security landscape has expanded and with...
Windows Nano Server – Early Learnings in Deployment
With Microsoft’s announcement and release of Windows Server 2016 (official name) Technical Preview 2, they have also released Nano Server. Ever since the early announcement of Nano Server I’ve...
Why I left my Windows Phone for iPhone
My family, friends and coworkers know that I have been a big proponent (often call fan boy) of many of Microsoft’s products. I’ve been a Windows mobile user sense my days with a Motorola Q and...
SCCM Software Updates GPO conflict
As we all know details matter… in SCCM this can be painfully true. And today I find yet another little item that bears this...
Skype for Business = Window dressing
Microsoft pushed out an update that converts/upgrades Lync to “Skype for...
SCCM and Patching Internet Clients
We had a customer recently that needed to setup a second Software Update Point (SUP) to support internet clients. We ran into a strange issue after the SUP role was installed. The WSUSCrtl.log was...
Functional Levels and PowerShell
We were prepping a global enterprise to raise their forest and domain functional levels to Windows Server 2012 R2. We wanted to know that ALL the DCs were seeing/registering the new level. So in...
Rube Goldberg & Patching the Enterprise with SCCM (Part 2)
When patching (servers in particular) we recommend the use of Maintenance Windows (MWs). In SCCM Maintenance Windows are configuration “timers” that control the deployment of software and...