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SEP Wins TechPoint’s 2024 Innovation Service Partner of the Year Mira Award

SEP Recognized as Indiana’s Top Innovation Service Partner, Winning TechPoint’s Prestigious Mira Award Westfield, Indiana - SEP has been named the Innovation Service Partner of the Year by TechPoint at the 25th annual Mira Awards. The Mira Awards, Indiana’s largest…
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SEP Ignite DevOps 2017

Last month at SEP, our DevOp guild hosted an internal meeting of Ignite Talks. The theme for the talks was Configuration Management. Below is a slide deck I used to kick off the meeting. Over the next several weeks we will post more slides for the talks on Chef, Salt-Stack, Puppet, Docker, Packer and Mac Automation. […]
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Updating TimeZone in SharePoint 2013 through Powershell

Configuring time zones in SharePoint gets overlooked. It happens. SharePoint was up and running for over a year and no one really noticed that every new site was created with a Pacific time zone, which is not good since we are in the Eastern time zone. It went unnoticed until one engineer realized that the […]
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Merging Contact Groups into Lync 2013 Clients across the Enterprise

While getting ready to deploy Lync 2013 at our company, I came across two problems: A. There is not an easy way to browse a company directory with Lync 2013 clients 2. There is not an easy way to push contact group lists to Lync 2013 clients Create distribution groups Although Lync can search for […]
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Every team needs a toolsmith

Every software project is different, and there are subtleties associated with each one.  Every project  requires unique and specific tools, and we need someone to build them, or each member of the team needs the freedom and responsibility to do it him/herself. I have very little (zero?) tolerance for waste when it comes to automatable […]
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