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 20, 2026 | Cloud, Windows Intune
Tattooing has been part of Windows configuration management for decades. In the Group Policy world, tattooing occurred when a policy wrote a value but didn’t remove it when the policy no longer applied. The result was familiar to anyone who has supported Windows...
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 Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 20, 2015 | AD, Azure, Cloud, Cool New Products, Group Policy
Darren Mar-Elia was kind enough to take some time to walk through and share his thoughts on the Azure AD Domain Services. Microsoft recently released a preview and Darren jumped right in there picking it apart and helping us make sense out of the new capabilities....
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 2, 2013 | Cloud, Presentations
Today I had the pleasure of presenting at the TechDays conference in San Francisco. I presented on a topic other than Group Policy! And it was fun. I gave a talk entitled, “10 Tips for Success with Private Cloud”, based on my experiences working with...
