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$ ls 2025/ (10)

  1. Service Portfolios & Productization: Defining, marketing, and managing IT services
  2. Service Knowledge & Configuration: Building a system of record that helps
  3. Change Enablement in a DevOps World: Replacing fear of change with velocity and trust
  4. Infrastructure as a Product: Treating core systems with the same rigor as software
  5. Modern Service Desk Operations: From ticket takers to business enablers
  6. Guiding Principles as Decision Filters: Making faster, more intelligent choices across teams
  7. The Service Value Chain: Using Engage, Plan, Build, and Support to run your ops
  8. Governance Without Gridlock: Balancing agility and accountability in service delivery
  9. The Service Value System: How to connect strategy to execution through value streams
  10. Why ITSM Still Matters in a Cloud-Native, Agile, Multi-Framework World

$ ls 2024/ (12)

  1. Customer-Centric Innovation: Leveraging Feedback for Product Development
  2. The Unsung Heroes: Recognizing the Backbone of Your Organization
  3. Developing a Tech Roadmap: Aligning IT Strategy with Business Goals
  4. Part 3: The Strengths of In-House Teams and Strategic In-Housing
  5. Part 2: Implementing and Managing Outsourcing Relationships
  6. Newsletter Series: Navigating the Outsourcing vs. Internal Resource Dilemma
  7. Living in the Moment: The Power of Adaptive Project Management
  8. Leveraging API Gateways for Microservices Orchestration: A Strategic Guide
  9. Driving Innovation from the Top: CTOs and the Culture of Experimentation
  10. Decision-Making in High-Stakes Tech Environments: Balancing Data and Intuition
  11. The Power of Feedback: Building Effective Communication Channels within Tech Teams
  12. Aligning Visions: Crafting Mission Statements for Team and Company Synergy

$ ls 2023/ (4)

  1. Fostering Growth: Cultivating Continuous Learning and Setting Personal Leadership Goals
  2. Setting the Stage for Success: Strategic Planning and Vision for the Future
  3. Insights at the Intersection: Leadership and Technology in Focus
  4. The Remote Work Revolution: Adapting to the New Norm

$ ls 2022/ (1)

  1. PowerShell: Autotask – Enable Client Portal for All Users

$ ls 2021/ (1)

  1. PowerShell: Get Exchange Mailboxes Over XXGB

$ ls 2019/ (1)

  1. PowerShell: ConnectWise Documents API, Uploading a Document or Attachment to a Ticket

$ ls 2018/ (2)

  1. PowerShell: ConnectWise REST API Query Contacts by Email Address
  2. First post in a long time — changing hosting providers

$ ls 2016/ (1)

  1. PowerShell: Connect to LogicMonitor’s REST API

$ ls 2015/ (1)

  1. PowerShell: Autotask – Get Picklist Values

$ ls 2014/ (4)

  1. PowerShell: NetApp – Gather Volume Information
  2. PowerShell: OnCommand Core – Delete All Information Events
  3. PowerShell: NetApp – Gather Snapshot Details
  4. cisco WS-C4900M: Set SSH

$ ls 2013/ (13)

  1. PowerShell: Download VMX File, Rename, Upload, Add to Inventory
  2. PowerShell: List All VMs with Datastore
  3. Windows Folder Locations
  4. Create bootable USB from ISO – Rufus
  5. PowerShell: Find Installed NetApp Products
  6. vol maxfiles
  7. NetApp: cli vol create – match SM2.2 vols
  8. Android: Push file to sdcard with adb
  9. VMware dump collector and remote syslog
  10. Update Disk Label
  11. Unown Disks – Remove Disk Ownership
  12. SnapManager for Exchange: Backup Tasks
  13. Check for queued autosupports

$ ls 2012/ (5)

  1. VMware 5.x, set drives to SSD
  2. 300k IOPS – NetApp Flash Pools
  3. NetApp DS4486 Shelf Released in June
  4. OnCommand Core – Changing default http port and report images not working
  5. NetApp Disk Shelf Model Breakdown

$ ls 2011/ (3)

  1. Update: New Job! Systems Engineer at CDW
  2. More to come… but a new job is on the horizon
  3. New hosting provider

$ ls 2010/ (8)

  1. SCOM: Alert Generating Rules vs Collection Rules
  2. ISY Python Script for controlling media lights via xbmc
  3. PowerShell: Schedule a URL into Maintenance Mode
  4. First iphone 4 post
  5. Designing Disaster Recovery … on a budget
  6. OpsMgr 2007 – No graphs in emailed reports
  7. OpsMgr 2007 – Author Privileges
  8. NetApp OnTap 8.0rc2 Filerview

$ ls 2009/ (11)

  1. Remotely reboot a server
  2. Greyed out Domain Controllers
  3. NetApp DS4243 Disk Shelves
  4. Mint.com
  5. Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode RC released
  6. NetApp VFM Email Alerts
  7. Script: Check for Orphaned HomeDirs
  8. New Theme
  9. NetApp OnTap 8.0
  10. backup and restore dfs structure
  11. NetApp GX Monitoring and Cacti

$ ls 2008/ (18)

  1. OnTap GX Monitoring: Update
  2. Photos – yea, not storage related, but still cool
  3. Cacti – NetApp OnTap GX Monitoring
  4. New Camera – CANON EOS 50D
  5. My first Cacti Template – UptimeDevices SH2/Pro Templates
  6. Easy OnTap Upgrades (NDU)
  7. HOW TO: Use DFS on a Server Cluster to Maintain a Single Namespace
  8. NetApp OnTap 7.3 Released
  9. Blog Change in Direction
  10. Storage resource management (SRM) – Products
  11. Upgraded internet.
  12. blog error
  13. Datacenter Storage
  14. Preparing for SCCM – enabling Secure Key Exchange
  15. datacenter build
  16. ratemynetworkdiagram.com
  17. Theft at home
  18. Fun at work

$ ls 2007/ (17)

  1. Microsoft System Center Acronyms
  2. picasa plugin for windows live writer
  3. Using Windows Live Writer
  4. Change SMS Cache Size
  5. Left brain/right brain optical illusion
  6. Extents and the Mystery
  7. All collections for specific machine
  8. List all databases and their files on MS SQL
  9. error code is 80070005
  10. Check for reboot
  11. Response Buffer Limit Exceeded
  12. Ping a list of machines from txt
  13. WinZip count with version
  14. VMware / MS VM / Real / Total Count
  15. SMS Site Status
  16. # of updates per month
  17. Site