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The blogs stopped in 2014 when he was discouraged from blogging by Hitachi. Since James Avery passed away July 10, 2021 no updates will be forthcoming.  I keep this site up for him.  Because he made such an impact in life and wanted to share his knowledge.  Even if it is old it is his words that will live forever on this site.

Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft Azure HDInsight

Author: Ferglo Subject: Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft Azure HDInsight View article… Introducing Microsoft Azure HDInsightIntroduction (excerpt)Microsoft Azure HDInsight is Microsoft’s 100 percent compliant distribution of Apache Hadoop on Microsoft Azure. This means that standard Hadoop concepts and technologies apply, so learning the Hadoop stack helps you learn the HDInsight service. At the time of this […]

Series MDM – Part 1 – Preparing for Mobile Device Management

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From: Enterprise Mobility Teamhttps://blogs.technet.com/b/enterprisemobility/archive/2014/05/28/how-to-perform-device-enrollment-for-mobile-devices.aspx Over the next few days, I’ll be writing a series of blog posts about mobile device management (MDM). Microsoft’s focus is on providing best-in-class mobile and cloud services.Today, everyone has a mobile device, whether it’s a tablet, convertible, laptop, or smartphone. Users are never out of touch with one another and […]

New toys – Watch phones coming/already here.

Guys, watch phones are here. Just another device we’re going to have to manage. What brought me to thinking about this, I found out Samsung is bringing out their watch phone in June 2014 possibly. I don’t think you’ll want to look at Facebook or even watch a movie since the screens are so small. […]

Upgrade your SCCM 2012 SP1 to R2

Guys, Microsoft updated the TechNet documentation to upgrade your SCCM 2012 SP1 to R2.     http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj822981.aspx#BKMK_PlanningR2Upgrade         Configuration Manager supports installing System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager to upgrade a site that runs Configuration Manager SP1. You can run the upgrade on the site servers of central administration sites and primary sites. […]

Step-by-step for Storage Spaces Tiering in Windows Server 2012 R2

Step-by-step for Storage Spaces Tiering in Windows Server 2012 R2 This is a terrific blog written by Jose Barreto who’s a member of the File Server team at Microsoft.     https://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2013/08/24/step-by-step-for-storage-spaces-tiering-in-windows-server-2012-r2.aspx     1. Overview In this document, I am sharing all the steps I used to create a demo or test environment of […]

Steps to turn on DNS Scavenging 

I was at a customer a couple of months ago and they hadn’t turned on DNS Scavenging. To all of your Network Engineers and Network Administrators, I firmly believe this is one of those items which is a must if you utilize Windows DNS.     I created this document for my customer to turn […]

Exchange 2007 OWA not displaying 

I was onsite with a customer for a SCCM gig and the morning started out with a great Friday morning of Exchange 2007 OWA not functioning which is used by a majority of the company for email.     So, I halted the SCCM gig and helped the customer resolve the Exchange 2007 OWA issue. […]

Unable to remove SMS 2003 Device Management Feature Pack   

Today I’m at a customer upgrading their SMS 2003 to SCCM 2007 with an in place upgrade. You would think this should be simple, right? Wrong.     I started with the normal, make sure the SMS 2003 on SP2 or higher…which was on SP3. Then checked for Windows updates, and added other normal required […]

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