I decided to write this post about Windows servicing based on many conversations I have with organisations of all kinds. Servicing of Microsoft Windows in many cases has been overlooked after that initial upgrade from earlier versions. Whilst many have engaged into the concept of servicing, many haven’t so I wanted to put an analogy…
Given the current situation many people face worldwide with the outbreak of Covid-19 at the time of writing this, it has led to an increase in people working from home. For many organisations this is not unusual but for lots of others it is and not everyone is geared up for this. As someone who…
I’m pleased to confirm that as part of my work with the Windows Management User Group we have now confirmed our latest event on August 21st at Microsoft Reactor in London. I will be speaking alongside other great speakers covering what’s new in Configuration Manager. I will have an accompanying blog post once I get…
I’m happy to confirm that I will speaking at the Microsoft Cloud User Group (MSCUG) in my local city of Manchester on Tuesday July 23rd 2019. This is an evening meetup organised by Martin Boam from MSCUG and will be located at the home of Microsoft in Manchester – Neo. During my session I will…
I recently received a confirmation email that I will be speaking at the Evolve conference in Birmingham, UK. This is a growing conference that has been running for a few years now and started out as UC Day originally. It’s organised by a great bunch of people some of whom I’ve worked with previously on…
I received a nice email earlier in amongst the lots of noise in my inbox, I will be speaking at Cloud Camp in Dublin on October 17th of this year! Cloud Camp is organised by MicroWarehouse over in Ireland and is fronted by the one and only Aidan Finn. Check out the conference website for…
You may have seen the good news I shared recently about being awarded a Microsoft MVP award. Needless to say I’m over the moon with this. I know this is an aspiration for a lot of people so I decided I would write a post to let them know exactly what changes after receiving that…
As many people know, I’ve been a WMUG community lead now for coming up to 5 years. As the resident Northerner it’s long been an ambition of mine to establish some kind of event in my region of the UK – Manchester. So here we are, it’s booked in for the evening of 16th January…
I’ve done IT community ‘stuff’ actively now for about 5 years. When ‘stuff’ I mean blogs, books, user groups, speaking, twittering (is that a word?) and so on about the stuff that I work on and the stuff that interests me. Across those 5 years I’ve worked with a lot of people both as colleagues…
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