Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard to bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone, across every device Legendary games, immersive interactive entertainment and publishing expertise accelerate growth in Microsoft’s Gaming business across mobile, PC, console and cloud. REDMOND, Wash. and Santa Monica, Calif. – Jan. 18, 2022 – With three billion Read more…
Jose here once again: Phoenix Project is available for free (digitally) on most platforms.. I wont pretend that I’ve read it. But its now on my list of things to do before the end of the year. Enjoy! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078Y98RG8/ “A must-read for anyone wanting to transform their IT to enable Read more…
Howdy Folks, Jose here again.. Seems Microsoft had a little hiccup when attempting to deploy updates for Microsoft Office version(s) 1910 if deployed via Configuration Manager: See more details and the fix here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=100778
Whats up gang – Jose here again.. What’s everyone’s thoughts on Visual Studio Code? Personally I liked to use the PowerShell ISE, but then I noticed a few of my twitter colleagues switched over to the Visual Studio Code platform. I vastly prefer it.. It is very clean, the Dark Read more…
Hey gang Jose back, once again to discuss some interview questions from the technology field. This can be related to Physical Hardware (Dell, HPe, Cisco etc.) or Virtual Software (VMware, EMC storage – so on and so on).. Some thoughts below: High availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) are often Read more…
What’s up gang.. Jose here with some news from Microsoft: Move from alerts to incidents Interesting to see Microsoft move to a more “Automated Threat Response”. It appears that they want to enable more and more organizations, who may not have a cyber security team, to off load some of this investigative Read more…
Hello Once again! Today I had a good friend at past company (Southern Glazers Wine and Spirits) reached out to me in regards to a project I was leading / executing before moving on. The project consisted of our mid level managers / directors deciding on the direction of our Read more…
Donna Ryan – has updated “WIMWitch” to version 1.3.0: Wim Witch is a utility that can be used to update and modify WIM files for Windows deployment scenarios. It allows the WIM to be patched, drivers to be applied, in-box applications to be removed, and .Net 3.5 binaries to be Read more…
This is the post that got me the SCCM Technical Guru Award (Gold): https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/33317.system-center-configuration-manager-sccm-device-collection-query-by-kb-number.aspx Attached is a WMI query that is very helpful to determine machines that have a certain KB article installed on them. It’s useful when you need to apply additional modifications or install certain programs to these Read more…
Little background on my accomplishment: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Wiki-Ninjas-Blog/The-TechNet-Guru-Awards-January-2016/ba-p/947452 We have picked the top three highest scored contributions for each category to bestow our awards upon. The awards are in gold, silver and bronze, the gold obviously being the top winner of the category. The last column is just a few of the comments judges Read more…