Hyperbole, Embellishment, and Systems Administration Blog

The Microsoft world is eagerly awaiting announcements around the next version of Windows. As is always the case around the time that the next version of the product is announced, I’m asked by people who are interested in certification...

One of the truisms of security is that a chain is only a strong as its weakest link. Just over a week ago I presented a session at TechEd New Zealand titled "20 things you can do right now to secure your Windows Client and Server...

Last week at TechEd New Zealand in Auckland I presented the session "30 common tasks you perform using the GUI that you can do faster in Windows PowerShell" where I went through common tasks such IP address configuration, domain join, computer...

An IT Wire story published on the 8th of September is suggesting that Android may be becoming the target of choice for malware authors over Windows...

The lifespan of the traditional desktop computer is expanding. 15 years ago the pace of change was so fast you have 5 years between deploying a desktop computer and it being so out of date you wrote it off as junk. While a computer first unboxed...

I was teaching a desktop OS deployment course a few weeks back to students from some large organizations. Each organization still had a large number of XP desktops that they were intending to migrate away from. Even though the deadline for support...

Data is expensive. We usually don’t think of it that way because it seems so ephemeral. If a laptop is stolen or lost, we worry about the replacement value. We don’t think as much about the cost of replacing the data. You can’t...