CLOUDY MUSINGS

You'd be surprised by the kinds of questions I get from customers these days. A lot of them start in places that feel familiar enough. Someone wants to understand Microsoft's decision to deprecate WSUS. Someone else is trying to figure out whether Azure Update Manager makes sense for their environment. Another customer is looking at Linux for the first time after spending most of their career in Windows-centric shops. On the surface, those sound like completely different conv

a.k.a. How to migrate file data without breaking apps, users, or your weekends! All code for this blog can be found here ! In my time of supporting customers embracing a "digital transformation", every file migration starts the same way: “We just need to move our file shares to the cloud.” That sentence hides an enormous amount of complexity. Files are not just bytes on disk (I wish they were...life would be easier!). They encode how people collaborate, how applications behav