Changes to the blog.

So to say I’ve not been a very prolific blogger is pretty obvious just by looking at the content of my blog.  But it is something I want to recommit myself to going forward.  Like anyone else, I’ve got thoughts and opinions on many topics that I’d like an opportunity to express.  Hopefully in a way that others are interested in tuning into. That being said, the content of my blog will change focus and move away from technology topics.  I made a career change late last year and now work for Microsoft as a Premier Field Engineer. ...

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New Long View Blog Post: Lync Enterprise Voice in Your Organization

My first post on the Long View blog.  Go check it out!  Lync Enterprise Voice in Your Organizat...

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User Enabling in a Lync Resource Forest Deployment

Lync Server 2010 can be used in a Resource Forest configuration, similar to Exchange 2010.  There is plenty of information on TechNet regarding the configuration for Exchange and Lync in a Resource Forest scenario. Exchange 2010 Resource Forest Deployment Lync 2010 Resource Forest Deployment I won’t get into those details here as I think they are well covered.  However, I would like to delve into the differences between enabling cross-forest users for Lync versus Exchange.  In Exchange the process for enabling users for Linked...

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Enthusiasm for Knowledge and its Ability to Inspire.

It is a very basic tenet of my worldview that the pursuit of knowledge is one of the greatest abilities of the human condition.  That our brains ability to experience reality around us, and through the leveraging crane of consciousness to ponder, question and build mental scenarios beyond the present is what most clearly raises us above the rest of our animal cousins. But the brain is tricky.  Consciousness is slippery.  As vast as our ability is to soak in all the information around us, our senses are of course hopelessly outmatched. ...

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So THIS is the Interwebs.

I traditionally subscribed to the attitude or practice of being comfortably behind the curve in adopting new technology.  A curious stance for an IT professional I know, but there you have it.  I think it mainly had to do with my general disdain for jumping on that good old bandwagon, as well as my general opinion that things very rarely live up to the hype that we as social creatures tend to assign to them. However, over the past few years I've worked to reverse that trend.  I tend to be very cautious when commenting on most anything. ...

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