Storage Spaces Direct

What is it? Storage Spaces Direct, or S2D, is a feature introduced by Microsoft in Windows Server 2016 that makes it possible to easily enable the creation of highly-available (HA) storage systems with local storage.  The primary goals of S2D are to help simplify the deployment and management of software-defined storage systems as well as to open the use of…
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The Amazing Adobe Acrobat

The Amazing Adobe Acrobat Kelly Cummings I’ve worked in technology since before the days of GUIs, so Adobe Acrobat has been nothing new to me over the past 20 years or so. We have all used it. Even the most computer illiterate person in your office has more than likely read a file in PDF…
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The NIST Framework Has Become A Leading Standard For Cybersecurity Policy

I read an article today that is relevant to any company doing business with the Federal government titled “Cybersecurity in the First Year of the Trump Administration”.
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Nano Server – The Good, the Bad, and the Future

Nano Server – What is it (the Good)?

How Many Days Since Previous/First Order?

Some of the most popular courses we teach are the ones dealing with writing SQL queries against SQL Server. Recently I had some students ask how, for each order, can I see the number of days since the customer’s most recent order, as well as the number of days since the customer’s first order. Actually, these students were working in the healthcare industry, and they wanted to know the number of days since a patient’s most recent appointment and the number of days since the same patient’s first appointment, but we’ll adopt the question to order data to make it easy to practice with the many variations of SQL Server sample databases. How to solve the problem? SQL Server Window Functions to the rescue.

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Master Amazon Web Services Training!

I’m excited that the relationship LRS Education Services has with our EPIC Learning Network partners allows us to bring new topics of training to our clients!

Introduction to Windows Server 2016 Containers

Introduction to Windows Server 2016 Containers

Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 – Dashboard Capabilities

Are you ready to learn more about the dashboard capabilities in Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015? Check out the video blog by our own MCT Jeff Cargill…these 10 minutes will be worth your while!

Your Windows 10 PC may soon lock itself when you walk away!

Microsoft served up some major feature teasers on Monday when they released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15002!