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Android: widgets not updating when managed by Intune

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And now for something completely different: a technical problem description. I’m learning to use Microsoft Intune to manage devices. So I added two laptops after reinstalling them with a brand new W10 installation. And I added my Samsung S8 mobile device. This was somewhere in december 2019. Some time later I found out I had…

NetApp Insight in London: understanding the Data Fabric

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Last Tuesday – just a few days after Brexit – around 15 members of the Cloud Architecture Alliance (CAA) had the chance to visit Netapp’s Insight congress in London and have a private session with Jonsi Stefansson, CTO & VP of Cloud at NetApp. Steffansson’s company Greenqloud was bought in 2017 by Netapp and now…

Three key elements of the Modern Workplace

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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Shopenhauer – German philosopher Hewlett Packard had one of the great corporate cultures of the 70s and 80s. When people talk about Silicon Valley at it’s best, they are talking about Hewlett…

De Moderne Werkplek in de praktijk

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De eindgebruikerswerkplek. Mijn schouders gingen al hangen bij alleen al de gedachte aan dat ik iets moest doen met de werkplek. Je wist van tevoren al dat heel veel gedoe je te wachten stond en je nooit tot een cool en gaaf product zou komen. Maar tijden zijn veranderd. De technologie is sinds een jaar…

Some inspiration and guidance when dealing with change

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Introduction In 20 years of working in IT I have also worked for non-profit organizations – most of the time pro-bono. Mostly they needed help with some simple technical issues, and other times on a strategic level: understanding what to do next and why. To help them for the longer-term I wrote something in 2016…

Goodbye And Thank You All @Simac

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After more than 6 educational years at Simac, I will leave the organization. I look back on a time in which together with inspired people great results were achieved and where we pushed the boundaries and made our customer happy. Thanks to everyone with whom I have worked with and achieved great things, and to…

Final thoughts on understanding how organizations respond to change (4/4)

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Cloud is fundamentally changing the game for many organizations and persons. A new set of rules asks for a new approach, and I’ve seen examples of organizations who block the discussion about taking new approaches to this changed game. In this 4th post I’ll be rounding up the conclusions of my earlier posts about this…

The three structures of every organization (3/4)

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December 2015 I went to Microsoft Seattle for a three day IT Enterprise Architects conference. Reflecting on the information we got and looking at it from our company’s perspective, we realized even more then before that we were driving an overweight truck trying to pass a railroad, while the train was coming right at us…

Characteristics of a shaper (2/4)

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An organization who wants to stay relevant over time needs to be able to deal with changes and reshape itself. To do this, every organization needs one or more shapers. A shaper is someone who comes up with unique and valuable visions and builds them out beautifully, typically over the doubts and opposition of others.…

The interesting reality of my surroundings (1/4)

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Usually every organization or department you work with tells you they are successful. “Yes, we are doing great! Our profit has grown, our customers are very happy with us and we take great care of our people.” Over time once you get to know them better, you are sometimes blown away by experiencing the complete…

Microsoft Ignite 2018 recap

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From September 24 to 28 I visited Microsoft Ignite in Orlando Florida with 5 colleagues – and 30,000 others from around the world. In the many sessions and conversations with specialists from Microsoft and partners I’ve been inspired, gained knowledge and made valuable connections. Here is a very concise summary of changes that I have…

Valuable lessons shared on how to start using Office 365 in your organization

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There is a lot of discussion on how to start using Office 365 in your organization before people are actually doing anything. Especially orgs older then 15 years tend to stall. They have file servers containing dozen of terabytes of data, created non-transparent work processes and have a relatively older workforce. And then there is…