Market and regulatory changes such as the Affordable Care Act are fueling a historic period of consolidation in the healthcare market. Independent health systems are struggling to survive on their own due to reduced payouts, driving mergers, acquisitions…

Several forces are combining to create a historic period of consolidation in the healthcare industry.

Increased competition, a shift to outcomes-based reimbursement models, and an overall need to widen the scope of care while reducing costs are driving…

Step 4: Control and simplify Group Policy management.

Using GPOADmin, you can be very granular with who is allowed to do what with a particular Group Policy. Much like Active Roles, GPOAdmin allows you to grant specific rights to your Administrators and…

In my previous post, I touched on how you can identify users in AD with elevated rights. Now we need to determine if they're really necessary.

Step 2: Identifying what rights are needed for the job.

I can't begin to tell you how many companies that…

Storage Groups: Your Next Data Protection Bullet

OK – so you may now have an awesome data deduplication appliance in your environment.  Using it gives you the peace of mind that data can be quickly backed up and recovered.  But what about going further…

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Howdy, y’all! Ron Colson here from the KACE training team.

I’ve been running the KACE Backyard Boot Kamps (also known as BBK) for a few years now with my awesome colleague Andrew Lubchansky and let…

Co-Authored by Matt Nelson

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YES! It’s October, and while most of you are using your in-laws’ wardrobe to decorate the front yard for Halloween and scare off (youth) intruders, we thought we’d let you know it is also National…

As with any piece of commercial software, consumers at some point ask the question, what value-add does this product bring to the table and, will the juice be worth the squeeze? Because if time is money, then I can only assume that money is also money…

As the 50^th anniversary of the Star Trek TV series looms, it’s interesting to think of the wisdom that can be shared from the many voyages of starship Enterprise as it went “where no man has gone before.” Remember “The Trouble with Tribbles” episode…

Let me start with this – I am not “piling on.” This kind of outage could happen to anyone. I remember when I first heard that Delta had to cancel many flights over the last few days, I assumed that their systems had been hacked. I guess I’m relieved…

Enterprise Reporter provides a unified solution for data discovery and report generation. Using the Enterprise Reporter Configuration Manager, administrators can easily configure and deploy discoveries to collect and store data. Once the data has been…

In less than two months, we will be at Microsoft Ignite! We invite you to stop by booth #1210 and meet the staff. But not before getting to know a little more about a few members of our booth staff first. Have other questions for them? Ask in the comment…

Co-written with Priscilla Tenggara.

When it comes to Pokémon Go horror stories, we’ve heard it all - from trespassing, to injuries, to even robberies. It seems like the risk to users has no limit. Whether or not it’s intentional, users gaining access…

The cloud: the final frontier. These are the voyages of your enterprise. Its mission: to explore strange new technologies, to seek out innovation, to boldly go where your organization has never gone before.

I hope you’re as excited about the new Star…

The Association of Support Professionals (ASP) has announced the winners of its “Ten Best Web Support Sites” competition that showcases excellence in online service and support

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As you know, time is your…

New Windows 10 features are getting ink in the tech press, but it’s Windows 10 security that’s top of mind for most system administrators.

When we conducted a webcast called Under the Hood with Windows 10 Security, more than 2,300 sysadmins…

In my previous blog post, Our Communities Are Moving, you read about our plan to move our Systems and Information Management (SIM) communities starting with the Blog in July.  We are happy to announce that our new Community and Blog are now available…

Last year, the Quest team arrived in Chicago for Microsoft Ignite. While most folks on my team attended a few Microsoft events in the past, I did not know what to expect. Once I arrived to the event, I quickly submitted to the excitement of it all.