Whilst working in my lab recently I realised the secret key for one of my Azure App registrations was expired. Incidentally I noticed this first in the Azure portal but then I don’t work in my lab all the time and it does show the expiry there too. Now, I have the option to renew…
I’ve been working recently with Windows Update for Business or WUfB and I wanted to share some hands on experience which I’ve had hanging around in my drafts for some months now pending some progression on specific areas. As a consultant, I travel around the UK working with customers from all sectors and industries so…
Great news! Yesterday I got confirmation that my session was accepted to speak at the Global Azure Bootcamp in Birmingham on April 21st. I will be speaking about Windows AutoPilot as this is something I have been working with recently and demonstrating at various user group sessions. Session details below. Flying with Windows AutoPilot Let’s…
Yes it’s here, it’s another one of those predictions for 2018 type of posts. Well kind of, but this one focusses a little more on what I think I’ll be getting into during 2018 and also what I think will prevail in related technologies. Here are my thoughts for 2018 based on what I’ve seen…
So last Thursday 16th November the guys at Microsoft released the next version of Configuration Manager Technical Preview. This was a slightly different release as they were assisted in pushing the big red button by a number of MVPs and special invite attendees who were in Redmond for the week for a mini-summit. I’m pleased…
I recently presented at WMUG on this in what was a fairly short session and I also talked about this at Experts Live Europe back in August. Things change frequently in the SCCM world nowadays so I’ve added a video as an accompaniment to my previous speaking sessions and blog posts. This takes you just…
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…
As detailed on the Microsoft EM+S blog yesterday, Microsoft have now added a new and improved troubleshooting feature to the Microsoft Intune portal. As you can see in the screenshot above you can get a ‘resultant set of policy’ type view for a specific Intune user. Also if you add a user that has no…
They say the only constant in IT is change. It’s fair to say it’s been a little while since I last did any significant writing or presenting and a lot has changed in my world since then but here I am alive and kicking and getting back into the swing of the IT community again.…
Well it’s been a little while now since I’ve done much blogging, particularly for WMUG as I’ve been a little pre-occupied the past 12 months or so writing a book with Packt Publishing. I’m very happy that my WMUG colleague Gerry Hampson agreed to co-author with me and he did a great job too. As…
More than patches 