Mick's IT Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2018

We have started the Windows 10 upgrades and part of this process is installing applications for users that are not included in the standard build. I wrote this PowerShell script that can be executed as a package in SCCM against machines to generate an application report. The problem with that is it is a blanket report.

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CTOvision

JUNE 12, 2014

We’ve migrated to a userid-password society; as we’ve added layers of security, we password-protect each layer: PC (and now device), network, enclave, application, database, and storage (encryption). It’s much easier to use biometrics or a SmartCard to identify yourself to a system or application.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Today about 75% of mobile apps fail the most basic security tests, and that number is probably going up not down. 57% of mobile device users are not aware of the security solutions that exist on their devices. billion of mobile devices will have security applications installed. In 2018, 1.3

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 29, 2017

This brings him to reviewing VMware’s vision: any cloud, any application, any device. Digging in a bit deeper into VMware’s any cloud-any application-any device vision, Gelsinger talks about VMware’s goal to support any application across any modality of access, and this leads him to a mention of Workspace ONE.

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Phil Windley

APRIL 12, 2022

Wifi has limited range and, outside the home environment, usually needs a separate device-only network because of different authentication requirements. Wifi is also power hungry, making it a poor choice for battery-powered applications. Photo Credit: Helium discharge tube from Alchemist-hp ( CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 ).

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Poonen uses an example of a rooftop infinity pool in Singapore as a metaphor for the “three foundations” of EUC: SDDC, workspace services (authentication and content collaboration, for example), and then the desktop/mobile/cloud experience. Horizon delivers a unified application publishing and VDI solution.

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