The People Benefit of the Cloud: Retain Your Talent!
The People Benefit of the Cloud: Retain Your Talent! In recent posts, I have written about how the cloud benefitted my former organizations (in general and financially). The most important asset I had as an IT leader, though, was our people. Keeping them happy was paramount, and especially so in today’s technology job market. Here, […]
MFA is (Unconditionally) Not Enough
MFA is (Unconditionally) Not Enough Microsoft has seen a trending number of instances whereby an Office 365 user is phished and has their O365 session hijacked. The adversary uses the victim’s token to sidestep Multifactor Authentication (MFA), allowing the attacker into the victim’s email where they can impersonate and ask for bogus wire transfers. This […]
The Cost Benefit of the Cloud: Less Dollars, Less Opportunity Cost and Less Time
Benefit of the Cloud: Less Dollars, Less Opportunity Cost and Less Time One of the conversations I have had many times as a technology leader does not have much to do with actual technology at all, but how you pay for it – what does it really mean to move from a capital expenditure-centric and […]
Zerto Linux Zerto Virtual Manager – Finally!
Zerto Linux- Zerto Virtual Manager is finally here! -Mike Dent’s take on the latest release of ZVM- Finally, Zerto has released a Linux based appliance for the Zerto Virtual Manager (ZVM) role! Now to be clear, I don’t mean to use the term “finally” in a negative sense with Zerto, more of a sense of happiness […]
10 Consecutive Years! eGroup Recognized by CRN’s 2022 SP 500 List
10 Consecutive Years!eGroup Recognized by CRN’s 2022 SP 500 List Charleston, South Carolina, June 1st, 2022 — Today eGroup announces that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named eGroup to its 2022 Solution Provider 500 list for the TENTH year in a row. CRN’s annual Solution Provider 500 ranks North America’s largest solution […]
A Maturity Model for Collaboration
A Maturity Model for Collaboration The Impetus for a Model There’s no shortage of productivity tools, but there is little means of judging their efficacy. Despite spending time and money on tools and technology, IT leaders still aren’t sure how well their organization is collaborating. While most modern tools generate utilization statistics, are people any […]
Charleston ENT & Allergy enlists eGroup for a Technology Portfolio Optimization Assessment (TPOA)
Charleston ENT & Allergy enlists eGroup for a Technology Portfolio Optimization Assessment (TPOA) Since 1997, Charleston ENT & Allergy’s mission has been to serve the people and families of South Carolina with superior, comprehensive, and convenient care. Their commitment to these core values has allowed Charleston ENT & Allergy to expand from one to seventeen […]
FCC Rule requiring support for dialing 988 to reach the National Suicide Prevention Hotline
FCC Rule Requiring Support for Dialing 988 to Reach the National Suicide Prevention Hotline Introduction On July 16, 2020 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed rules that established 988 as a nationwide 3-digit dialing code for Americans in crisis to connect with suicide prevention and mental health crisis counselors on the National Suicide Prevention Hotline. The rule applies […]
Lessons from a Data-Driven Organization
Lessons from a Data-Driven Organization I joined eGroup | Enabling’s team after retiring as CIO for a top ENR Architecture & Engineering firm. Since then, I have had time to step back and reflect. After my former organization successfully replaced all our business applications with SaaS solutions, our data resided in the cloud. We consolidated […]
Synced accounts showing “AttributeValueMustBeUnique” in Entra Connect
Synced accounts showing “AttributeValueMustBeUnique” in Entra Connect Recently I was asked to troubleshoot an Entra (fka Azure AD) Connect Sync issue. There were about 50 users account that were not syncing with a “AttributeValueMustBeUnique” error. Looking into the error the user ObjectID was conflicting with a device ObjectID. The user account was syncing from Active […]
