We’ve touched before on a trend where we’re seeing customers doubling down or going all in on their Microsoft licensing by using using more of the products within it than ever before. This, whilst driving down technical debt, trying to reduce the sprawl of vendor solutions – and ultimately reducing moving parts through integrations is […]
Restricting USB access with Intune
A customer asked for us to implement a total USB drive block on a newly deployed Intune environment, as opposed to the usual blocking of ‘write access’ or ‘ensure everything is bitlockered’. Using ASR within Intune the experience was a bit flakey, in allowing read access regardless of configuration. Lots of blog posts suggesting it […]
UK Weather & Disaster Avoidance
The UK (infrastructure) has a tendency to fall apart when it rains, is too windy, too cold, or too warm. We as a people seem to cope best with a moderately cool climate and without any surprises. In the last couple of weeks we’ve been unfortunate to receive a lot of inclement weather; cold, wind, […]
Microsoft Global Secure Access
I stumbled upon this little treat of a solution when looking for options to replace an aging VPN solution for a client with laptop users across the country all connecting back to shared resources within a datacentre. The customer use case is pretty simple: We’d already worked on making internal websites externally accessible through the […]
What’s next? A plague of locusts?
The world we live in it is fair to say, develops and changes at a moments notice, at breakneck speed, in directions nobody predicted until 5 minutes after it happened. Sure, of course some things are predictable, some things do meander along a well-defined path, without being ‘the kind that blindside you at 4 PM […]