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Microsoft Workstation Logs – Configuration

02/22/18 Over the last three posts, we’ve looked at Microsoft event logging use cases and identified a set of must-have event IDs. Now we’re ready to put our security policy in pla…

Datadog is in the AWS Serverless Application Repository

This article details how to use remote instrumentation to gain deeper insights into AWS Lambda function performance *without* modifying application code. By leveraging tools like P…

3 Reasons Technology Consolidation Begins With ITSM

02/20/18 Businesses use so many tools and applications that it can be difficult to communicate and track data. The IT service desk can help by giving employees one platform that in…

Digital Experience Monitoring’s Role in Government

02/20/18 As a result, about 30% of global enterprises will implement DEM technologies or services by 2020—up from fewer than 5% today, according to market research firm Gartner®. W…

A Sysadmin’s Guide to Spaghetti Cabling: Bridging the Gap between IT Operations and Business

02/20/18 No, it’s not the latest culinary invention from a famous Italian chef: spaghetti cabling (a nice wording for cabling inferno) is a sour dish we’d rather not eat. Beyond th…

Business Continuity – DR Is Really just a Piece of a Much Bigger Cake!

02/20/18 All too often, especially if disaster recovery (DR) is driven and pushed by the IT department, organizations can fall into the common mistake of assuming that they are “go…

Communication: The Network Engineer’s Secret Weapon

02/16/18 Most network engineers enter the profession because we enjoy fixing things. We like to understand how technology works. We thrive when digging into a subject matter with f…

The Single Thing You’ll Never Be Able To Outsource

02/15/18 It’s a common story. Your team has many times more work than you have man hours to accomplish. Complexity is increasing, demands are rising, acceptable delivery times are …

Modern ITSM Practices: Service Portal

02/15/18 Once you've built a service catalog and a powerful knowledge base, you need a place to make these services accessible. The service portal will bring all of your employee s…

Scale up, speed up: Join us at Dash in July!

Please provide me with the article "A look back at DASH 2025"! I need the text of the article to be able to summarize it for you. Just paste the article content here, and I'll ha…

T-SQL Tuesday #99: Missing Indexes and Index Key Order

02/13/18 Welcome to the 99th edition of T-SQL Tuesday, hosted this month by friend (and coworker) Aaron Bertrand. We were given a choice and I decided to dive into Aaron’s Index of…

The Path to Hybrid IT Success

02/13/18 There may still be a few skeptics out there, but cloud adoption is getting commonplace. Here’s an interesting article from my colleague Joe Kim, where he offers suggestion…