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Adrian Amos

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Perspectives

2017 Tech Year In Review

It seems just yesterday we were preparing for our trek to the Microsoft Tech Summit in D.C., but the calendar assures ...

January 4, 2018
IT Strategy

Automation Redux

I promised last week to publish some of my favorite automations, & I got some great feedback on automations & workflows ...

December 19, 2017
IT Strategy

MS Flow

Office 365 includes Microsoft Flow, which is kinda similar to IFTTT, except with a lot more hooks into the Microsoft ...

November 10, 2017
IT Strategy

Windows Defender ATP Redux!

Windows Defender ATP protects your mobile workforce, & has been added as a native component of ECS SPE Microsoft 365 & ...

September 26, 2017
Perspectives

Expiring Office 365 groups

As a systems admin, the challenge about coming into a new environment used to be the challenge for staying in an ...

August 23, 2017
Perspectives

Is Your Phone Wearing It's Shoes?

One of the main selling points of Intune: sure, we can manage your devices, but we can also use it to govern access ...

August 8, 2017
Perspectives

MS Office On a Resume

When was the last time you had “MS Office” listed in the skills section of your resume?

July 13, 2017
IT Strategy

Permissions and Compliance Controls in SharePoint and Teams

How do I use retention policies & legal hold to prevent users from deleting corporate files in SharePoint / Teams / ...

May 31, 2017
IT Strategy

A Security-in-depth approach to limiting mal- & ransom-ware attacks

Vendors can only protect against known attack vectors. New approaches take time to build & unfortunately that often ...

May 18, 2017
IT Strategy

Password Write-back & Firewall Rules

Microsoft has supported password write-back in Azure AD Connect for just over a year, & we were super excited, but a ...

May 11, 2017
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