• References from Valued Customers

    Spending nearly my entire career working in Healthcare means I’ve been raised to be confidential. Whether we sign a confidentially agreement or not Steve and I treat each of our customers with the same confidentially a patient in a healthcare setting would not only expect but also has both a legal and moral right to get.…


  • Stuck Cisco Firepower Deployment = How to stop it

    Stuck Cisco Firepower Deployment = How to stop it

    One of my biggest frustrations with Cisco Firepower Threat Defense is when deployment gets stuck. Normally 1-3 minutes is all it takes to deploy change after making it but once you see it go back 5 or 10 you usually have a problem. Some screenshots online have hours and even hundreds of hours basically it…


  • Mobile devices quarantined in Exchange Online Office 365

    Mobile devices quarantined in Exchange Online Office 365

    If you have ever had Exchange Online quarantine one of your mobile devices it can be entirely frustrating. Recently I ran into a problem after enabling MFA for all users on an Office 365 tenant where no matter how many times I allowed the quarantined device from the Exchange Admin Center or from Power Shell…


  • Installing SQL from a mounted ISO

    I recently read an article by my good friend Randolph about not using a windows mounted ISO to install SQL server. This got my thinking, I have seen issues before. I’d say 98% of the time it works fine so the problem is rare but I have come across it before. Therefore I also don’t…


  • Its Always DNS!!!

    Wow never has there been a truer System Administrator Truth. I can’t tell you how many problems I’ve seen that end actually being caused by a DNS problem. Just last week the internet ground to a halt while I was at home on my iPad. After getting up and checking the cable modem and the…