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Recently, one of my clients had a need to automatically download a file from a public facing state government website. Normally this can easily be done in a manner of ways. Powershell is the first that comes to mind but you could also utilize scripting tools such as wget or […]
With the announcement of the recent security issues, namely Meltdown and Spectre, we at Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting have been focused on security awareness this entire week. To further underscore it, we are hosting a Security Webcast today, Friday January 19th, 2018 at 2:00PM EST (11:00 AM PST). Make […]
Recently, I got to work with a client on something interesting. We implemented transactional replication to send data to an Azure virtual machine. This was being done to perform some testing for a project. Given that the two machines were NOT within the same Active Directory domain, we wanted to […]
Last month in December, I posted an article about working from home. In it I mentioned a couple of tools that I use to help try to stay productive and on task, one being Trello. Trello is a free kanban tool that helps to visually organize projects, which are represents […]
In a few days the year 2017 will come to a close. The brand new year 2018 is on deck and raring to go. Out with the old, In with the New. This is the time of year where people reflect on the milestones of the previous year. Resolutions get […]
It’s now been one month since I’ve started to work for Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting. Working for DCAC now enables me to work from home. This was a substantial shift for me as I’ve never done this full time. Working from home offered a lot of flexibility that I […]
If you’ve never seen the movie “A Knights Tale” I recommend that you do. In the movie, the character William played by the late Heath Ledger mentions about the ability of one to change his stars. The movie is set in the olden days (think Knights of the Round Table […]
If you work in the Microsoft technology space you are probably aware of the mass of people who refresh their inboxes like a mad man on the first of the month. It used to be on the first of every quarter but that has since changed. I’ll admit that I […]