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Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals Are More Than Experts
Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals Are More Than ExpertsThis year’s Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Summit in Redmond, Washington was an excellent event that showcased over 50 technical sessions and brought together many influential people from around...
Quick Query to Find Devices without Forefront Endpoint Protection
The status of the endpoint protection agent is stored in SMS_G_System_EPDeploymentState view but the key to the query is filtering on the DeploymentState field. The query below will return any machine that is not fully managed via Configuration Manager.select...
Real World ClickOnce and App-V 5: AFE Navigator 7.5
IntroductionThe reason I thought it would be good to look at a ClickOnce applications and App-V 5. Out of the box App-V does not handle the packaging of ClickOnce applications without changing the Sequencer configuration and jumping through some hoops...
Where Can I Find App-V Training?
IntroductionApp-V training takes many forms and I recommend you take a look at the various offerings available to determine what best suits your needs from both a delivery and content perspective. Training for App-V is offered by Microsoft and a number of customized...
MVPDays is Back! 9 Canadian Microsoft MVP’s to Present Content!!! (and counting)
MVPDays is a community roadshow for Canadians that was co-founded in 2014 by Dave and Cristal Kawula of Tricon Elite consulting to give the Microsoft IT PRO community an in person event that they could attend and get real world advice from recognized experts in the...
Confirmed App-V 5.0 SP3 Masters Class LAX May 11-15, 2015
For those of you watching the schedule the LA class for GridmasterTraining's App-V 5.0 SP3 course has been 100% confirmed to run. The course will be taking place at the Best Western Course held at the Best Western Carriage Inn, 5525 Sepulveda Boulevard, Sherman Oaks,...
Briforum 2015 USA!
Well it's another year and we've decided to throw our names in the hat for speaking at this year's Briforum USA. This year, Nike Kallen and I will focus in more depth the management challenges that some customers are facing with one of the largest and most popular...
Microsoft Virtual Academy
I thought I would post a note over here. I did a quick piece on some of the new courses in the Microsoft Virtual Academy that you can take at your own pace online. I've gone through some of the courses and actually was surprised by the quality so I'm encouraging...
Configuration Manager 2012: Query for Machines without Client and Show Last Machine Logon Time with Operating System
The title is a mouthful but this is a quick way to get a list of machines that may be potential clients. This query assumes that Active Directory system discovery is enabled with the default attributes.select SMS_R_System.Name, SMS_R_System.LastLogonTimestamp,...
Streamline Your Helpdesk Workflows and Simplify Your IT

Kevin Kaminski
Founder
As an 10 time Microsoft MVP, Kevin works with leading organizations across North America to design and implement modern Microsoft ecosystems.
His most recent project is PortalFuse.io, which is a Windows management tool designed to streamline modern management tasks for helpdesk staff and IT support technicians.

Martins Kurtiss
Product Manager
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Emilio Gagliardi,MSc
Marketing & Web
Along the way, he completed a Masters of Science in Cognitive Psychology using computational methods to measure human language processing.

With the introduction of Azure infrastructure as a service we have decided to support the Microsoft stack as we believe it aligns to many customer’s needs as cloud architectures become more widely accepted and commonplace.
Azure is a rapidly developing set of offerings from Microsoft which we support at an infrastructure level. If you need cloud backup or moving parts of your data center to the cloud we have been there and we work closely with Microsoft to be on top of the latest developments.
