The large state government agency I work for is often under phishing attacks as well as other penetration attacks. We've got a good security team (kudos to them!) who work...

Those are good points, Steve. And perhaps I'm being too harsh on the network folks. With networking a major portion of it is out of our control. We use CenturyLink...

Great topic, Steve. I'm with you, I'd had to develop a monitoring system, because I now know the system being monitored would likely change. Who wants to constantly upgrading your...

I'm sorry, I wasn't clear. I'm not proposing storing the connection information in TFS. Rather I'm asking how can I switch which connection I use? Specifically, in this case, because...

Good article. And as others have said, I want to thank those who are Microsoft MVPs, and those who weren't "bronze level" and above, for your help on the numerous...

Thank you very much, Peter. Now, I'm concerned about SSRS and how we're trying to go to it. I work for a large state agency, so reporting is a huge...

Since we use SSRS then Azure SQL Server is out the door immediately. Typically I'd love for us to be using the latest and greatest SQL Server but our...

Too many issues here to give a blatant Yes or No to. Progress inevitably means impact to people's jobs. Sometimes whole segments of jobs are powerfully impacted. I'm sure that...

Andrey, I've gotta admit, I didn't see that comin'. OK then, thank you!

I'm very ambivalent about this issue. I certainly don't think that an address, by itself, identifies anyone. At my old job the clients we served were almost guaranteed to never...

Good article and the linked to blog post was good as well. I'm reasonably confident that we've got good security protections in place. Our security team seems vigilant at finding...

This is an exceptional article, Steve! I really like that blog post you linked to by Paul Cunningham!! Without realizing it, I've been an "IT Hero" more often than not....

I completely agree with you, the cloud is where things are heading. Probably not everything. Or if it is everything, it won't be all at once. But its...

I completely agree with you, the cloud is where things are heading. Probably not everything. Or if it is everything, it won't be all at once. But its definitely coming....

At my previous job we did some logging. We could tell who access what, when. But even so, it could have been better.

In my current job I am very impressed...