Tag Archives: Microsoft

The Curious Case of the Newly Defaulted Firmware Version (EFI Edition)

Let’s set the stage. It’s a few days before VMworld 2018 (US Version).  I’m frantically trying to get a demo to work for a vBrownBag session I’m giving in a couple of days.  I decided to make a last-ditch effort to … Continue reading

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Amplify: The Story of My 2017

End of the year recaps are about as clichéd as they come.  However, I do feel it’s important to see where we start the year and how we end the year.  Needless to say, 2017 has been a rather interesting … Continue reading

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An Azure Stack Primer for vSphere Folk

Over the last year, I’ve been involved in a journey that is changing my core competency in the technology industry.  My employer, a managed service provider, has been working with Microsoft in the Early Adopter Initiative in their hybrid cloud … Continue reading

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Using Invoke-WebRequest with the Cisco PowerShell Agent

I’ve had a major initiative at the Day Job to overhaul some of our existing Cisco UCS Director workflows and try to squeeze more efficiency and reduce the potential critical stopping points in them, as we’ve continued to evolve our … Continue reading

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Docker?  On Windows? Yep!

There’s starting to become a major timeline distinction between those of us in the IT industry.  There are those of us who grew up in the industry with Microsoft being the evil empire and those that are coming into IT … Continue reading

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Ready…or not.

I’m going to preface this blog post with the fact that I’ve only completed the 1st day of the Microsoft Ignite conference (2016 edition), so there might actually be more substance to some of the things that I was made … Continue reading

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