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Imagine Cup 2006 (India) Blog

The Imagine Cup 2006 competition has begun! I will be updating this Weblog with the latest on the next 24-hours of the head to head competition...Pre-competition: Well we started the competition with...

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Imagine Cup 2007 (Seoul Korea) Blog

Welcome to my Imagine Cup 2007 blog! This year's worldwide finals are being held in Seoul Korea! During the period from August 3rd thru August 10th, the Imagine Cup will spin up, challenge, and award...

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Imagine Cup 2008 (Paris) Blog

Welcome to my Imagine Cup 2008 blog! This year's worldwide finals are being held in Paris, France! This is my 4th year as head judge of this global competition that identifies the best college students...

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Imagine Cup (Cairo) 2009 Blog

Hey All, Welcome to my 2009 blog for the Microsoft Imagine Cup competition! From June 27th through July 8th (2009), I will be blogging this link to update you on the latest for the competition!Keep...

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Imagine Cup (Warsaw) 2010 Blog

Welcome everyone to my Blog of the 2010 Imagine Cup IT Challenge! Over a 40 continuous hour period, I blogged the final competition of the IT Challenge LIVE. The following is the account of the...

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Imagine Cup (New York) 2011 Blog

I just arrived into New York City for the Microsoft Imagine Cup worldwide competition finals in my 6th year as the IT Challenge competition head judge! This year’s competition started with over 100,000...

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Imagine Cup 2012 Final Competition

May 9, 2012 5:00pm California time (00:00am May 10th GMT):  IT Challenge 2012 is Done!!!We just finished 24 straight hours of the Imagine Cup 2012 IT Challenge competition!  We just wrapped up the...

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Windows Server 2016 Unleashed Book Released!

With the release of Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Server 2016, a new update to the Unleashed-series of books needed to be produced.This book is over 1500-pages long and covers all of the...

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Mapping SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams Folders to File Explorer Drive...

A common request organizations using Microsoft Office 365 have is being able to MAP their SharePoint Online and Microsoft Team folders to driver letters (F>, G>, K>) like users have used...

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Update on Microsoft's Matter Center (Office 365 Legal Industry Case...

I wrote an article on Microsoft's Matter Center software including a full blown video demo of the configuration and operation of Matter Center that has been a very popular read on my NetworkWorld...

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Rethinking Security and Network Management: A Case for Modernizing Strategies...

If your organization is serious about network security, your organization is almost certainly implementing networking and the security in your environment based on age-old proven best practices....

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Microsoft Expands Microsoft Teams with "Skype-like" Functionality!

At Microsoft's Ignite Conference in September 2017, Microsoft announced they will be merging Skype into the Microsoft Teams product.   Microsoft has now activated the functionality so that within Teams...

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Artificial Intelligence – Predictive Analytics, Chatbots, Image Recognition,...

When you hear the term “artificial intelligence (AI)”, you might conger up mental images of funky looking robots awkwardly walking around. But the modern usage of AI actually is something you live and...

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Is There a Need to Backup Office 365? (Exchange Online / SharePoint Online...

A couple times this past month, the question came up asking about the best practice to “backup” Office 365.The driver for this question is typically because:Old time hardware vendors are trying to sell...

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Mirroring Mobile Phones onto a Windows Screen

As I do demos at conferences or conventions on a regular basis, I have a need to show my phone screen (a mobile version of an app) on my projected desktop screen (ie: show how multifactor...

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Shared Knowledge and Skills Development in the New World of I.T.

I always find it fascinating when the stuff I do in my free time intersects with the stuff I do at CCO for my “day job”, the latest is around scientific evolutionary research as it may support success...

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New Security Models (Password-less, Win10 App Guard, ATP)

An awareness thing for security professionals to think about as the new Security Models that Microsoft is driving toward COMPLETELY changes the way organizations can/should be thinking about in terms...

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Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services (beyond just basic cloud services)

This past month we worked with an organization that wanted to replace an old Google Search appliance with something new (being that Google is ending their support for the search applicance this...

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Understanding the Value of Blockchain Technologies

With all of the hype and run-up on the value of Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies in 2017 (and the crash of said “currencies” in the first few weeks of 2018), the buzz in the marketplace for...

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“65% of Future Jobs Not Invented Yet” – A Claim with Unsupported Data

You may have heard someone throw out a quote like “By the time they graduate college, 65% of high school students will work in jobs that haven’t been invented yet” or “By the time they graduate high...

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