When I arrived at Kountry Wood Products, the computer deployment process was manual, time-consuming, and inconsistent. Each new computer or reimaged machine required a technician to sit with it for approximately three days – installing Windows, applying updates, installing applications one by one, configuring settings, joining the domain, and testing everything. With a rapidly growing…
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Connecting “Impossibly” Disconnected Data – Full Story
WSM International had won a contract to migrate an entire state’s technology infrastructure to the cloud, and the project was drowning in its own data. We had nearly 11 different large datasets tracking various aspects of the migration: computer inventories from different departments, network configurations by building, server migration status, service dependencies, backup schedules, licensing…
PHM Website Rescue During Snow Day – Full Story
Snow was flying by my vehicle as I drove to work during the 2015 snow storm and every school district had closed. I had just finished moving all of my school districts websites to our new platform a few weeks prior, during the Christmas break, which turned out to be a blessing and a curse.…