I have a new favourite toy at work. It hasn’t quite overtaken ConfigMgr as my absolute favourite but it’s close. I’m having fun with it though, and that’s the main thing. Apart from, you know, its entire business function, but that’s minor, right? My new toy is called PRTG which is written by a company called …
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So, um…
Yet again, I’m going to give this thing another go. I rather stupidly let my hosting package expire a while ago and didn’t get around to archiving my site properly. I therefore lost my site and the host didn’t have a backup which isn’t unreasonable considering I wasn’t paying them any more. I’ve been a …
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Dell 13″ UltraBooks
The first few drafts of my last article touched on this but in the end, I edited it out because it was off topic. Nevertheless, this subject is worth a few words I think. As I mentioned in that article, not long after I joined my current workplace we standardised on Dell for our mobile …
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Dell Business Docking Stations
There are a few posts on this site called “The Grand(ish) Experiment” where I talk about using Dell Venue tablets with their respective docking stations, exploring their potential to replace desktop machines. The idea was that every office desk and classroom would have a docking station, teachers would have their own tablets with the software …
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Basic User Editing Script
Let’s start with a little history, it will hopefully put this script into a bit of context. When I started in my job, one of my first large projects was a change to our Office 365 tenant. When I started there, it was being managed by a system called OpenHive. The vendor that looked after …
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Parallels Mac Management – What’s Been Happening?
Yet another post about the Parallels Mac Management plugin for Configuration Manager. Anyone would think they pay to write this crap! Well, unfortunately for me, they don’t. I have to admit, this post has been an embarrassingly long time in the making; in between work, parenting and being absolutely cream crackered all the time, I …
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Almost Two Years In…
This is bad. I’m paying money each year to host this blog and for the domain name. OK, I’m not paying much but even so, I’m basically ignoring my blog. I said two years ago that this couldn’t stand yet here we are. I must do better. So what’s been happening in my job? Well, …
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Almost Two Weeks In…
Well, I’m almost two weeks into my new job. It feels good to be back in a school again. It feels even better to be back in a job with a wider range of responsibilities. It feels brilliant to be in a job where I feel like I actually have something to do. My new …
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SCOM – SQL Management Pack Configuration
SCOM is a bastard of a product, isn’t it? It’s even more so when you’re trying to monitor a SQL instance or two. It’s also quite amusing that Chrome doesn’t recognise SCOM as a word in its dictionary and that it suggests SCAM as a possible word 🙂 My major project at work for the past …
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OMG! It’s Been a Year!
I have really been neglecting this blog. Considering that I’m paying to have the damn thing hosted, this can’t stand. So what has happened in the last year? Quite a lot really. First of all, the new job mentioned in the last post. If I’m honest, I’m not happy in that job. I’m not going …
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