Why migrate to Office 365? A view from management’s perspective

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In this article we’ll go over some of the benefits of moving to Office 365 that will interest management. Not only are there great reasons to move to Office 365 from a user standpoint, but there are great business and financial reasons to move as well. 1. No Server Hardware or Maintenance Worries How many of us have ever truly …

Enterprise IT Consulting and Solutions for Small and Medium Businesses

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Fortune 500 and other large companies around the world spend vast amounts of money every year on Information Technology. Money is spent on hardware, software licensing, network connectivity, consulting, implementation and an assortment of other goods. As large as that number is, you still need to add on the cost of IT staff to plan, upgrade and manage those solutions …

Installing a SQL Server Cluster in a Hardened Environment

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The process of installing most applications, even in a hardened environment, is generally rather straight forward and there usually aren’t too many issues. Installing SQL Server in a cluster configuration, or any other use of a Windows Failover Cluster, is a bit harder in any environment needing to meet Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guideline (STIG) requirements. …

How to create Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSAs)

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When Managed Service Accounts (MSAs) were introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2, lots of us got excited. Especially those of us in security conscious environments, like the DoD, where service accounts passwords needed to be changed at least once every year. So we diligently read up on how to use them and quickly realized there weren’t going to be too …

DISA STIG’s and SRG’s – Part III (Deploying GPO’s)

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The way I like to deploy these is rather simple once you get the hang of it, but this method can cause some headaches and confusion the first time or two you run through it. Since many of the STIG settings are the same from one GPO to the next, there’s tons of overlap. This is one of the reasons …

DISA STIG’s and SRG’s – Part II (GPO’s)

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In this post we’ll discuss some of the ways to use the GPO’s and which one I prefer to go with and why. You can download the DISA GPO templates here. The download is a ZIP file that’s usually updated quarterly. There are GPO’s for Windows, Office, Chrome and others. It also comes with a change log, so you can …

DISA STIGs and SRGs – Part I

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In part one of this three part series, we’ll cover some term and meaning as they relate to STIGs and SRGs DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency) is a Department of Defense Combat Support Agency charged with providing information technology and communication support to the President and Vice President of the United States, all the different US military services and other …