by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 28, 2016 | Whitepaper
What is Desired State Configuration? How is it related to Group Policy? This paper is authored to start a conversation to answer these questions. On the surface they may seem simple, but the ability to answer the question thoughtfully takes some knowledge of what this...
by Kevin Sullivan | Apr 23, 2026 | Cloud, General, PowerShell
Check the beginning of the story here. By 2005, things were changing quickly. DesktopStandard was acquired by Microsoft, and I went from watching the future unfold from the outside to helping build it from the inside. Walking into Microsoft felt like stepping onto a...
by Kevin Sullivan | Apr 15, 2026 | General
In the early 2000s, Windows administration was a patchwork of tools that never quite agreed with each other. MMC snap‑ins behaved like they were built by different teams on different planets. VBScript was powerful but brittle. Command‑line tools spoke in wildly...
by Kevin Sullivan | Dec 11, 2025 | Cloud, General Stuff, Microsoft-Related
Microsoft recently announced plans to include Intune Suite capabilities in Microsoft 365 E3 and E5 licenses. This is really big news that customers have been asking for and about since the Intune Suite was announced a few years ago. It is a statement that the company...
by Leo Storozhev | Nov 22, 2025
