Welcome to the site, my name is Jeff and I have been working in the IT field since the early 90's. Most of what I post here is related to work that I do for the various companies that I have worked for over the years. Please feel free to look around ask questions or post comments (if available).

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Recent Posts


  • Week In Review: 05/25/2014

    Well it’s been forever since I’ve written anything interesting so now is as good a time as any. Recently we were informed we needed to start keeping track of time spent on projects and since this is something I did for a couple of years at the School of Engineering, it’s not too difficult for me to get back into the swing. Although this go around I went with more of a journal style, not sure I like it but we’ll see.

  • Showing off some DSC Resources

    Yesterday I wrote three articles (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 ) about Desired State Configuration. I thought I would post a slightly more complex Configuration. This configuration performs several actions on the target node.

  • DSC Part 3

    It’s been a busy day, I haven’t posted anything since July and today three posts!

  • DSC Part 2

    In my previous article I talked about Desired State Configuration in a more or less generic way. I provided a sample Configuration that installed the basic services needed for a web server. This Configuration could be applied locally and once applied you could manage it manually as needed.

  • DSC Part 1

    Desired State Configuration is a new feature of PowerShell 4.0 that is included out of the box with Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. This feature can be loaded on down-level clients by installing the Windows Management Framework 4.0.