Author: Brian

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Systems Engineer, Papa, and eccentric individual.

I am constantly conflicted with building my LinkedIn and online persona, and my desire for privacy and anonymity.

Watched Glass

Need to put movie plug in back

Hey I’m watching Unbreakable. Check it out now on Prime Video!
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2 stars. Don’t watch a third time. Second time was a mistake

VMworld 2021

I am floored that I will be presenting an on-demand session at VMworld 2021. This is an incredible honor and I am very encouraged that I having something to offer the wider mobility world.

 

Device as a Service – Taking Modern Management Beyond Windows [EUS1928]

Managing Device-as-a-Service requires approaching the WS1 console OG design with an eye towards maximizing automation and leveraging the API as much as possible. This presentation will explore lessons-learned when designing Workspace ONE from a notable Device-as-a-Service deployment. Successfully deploying 600,000 iOS devices and 100,000 Windows laptops using Modern Management approaches was enabled through up-front time working with VMware PSO, the customer, and maximizing available automations. An introduction to Device-as-a-Service will be provide by Jack Nichols, the Chief Technology Officer of CDWG.

Brian Deyo, Senior Consultant, VMware

Topic: Embrace Unified Endpoint Management
Track : End User Services
Primary Product: VMware Workspace ONE
Primary Audience: Platform/System Architect
Session Type: Breakout Session
Level: Technical 200
Pass Type: General and Tech+ Passes

Rule #1 of “Time to Restore from Backups” Club is Do Not Panic

Oh the lovely “Restore from Backup” dread that will only open pit in your stomach.

I received a panicked call from a friend recently who had the mistaken fortune of running a bad robocopy job that literally wiped out everything on their file server. When I say everything, I mean everything.

They had their Client backups on that server. Their file history on that server, folder redirection on that server. EVERYTHING.

When was their last reliable backup? Three months previous.

What had they done between panic and calling me? They did a rush job of buying recovery software and restoring from one drive with the live data. Unfortunately they restored to a drive that had only two weeks previous had everything on it. Using restore software on that drive and restoring to a different drive would have put their recovery point objective (RPO) only two weeks back.

Turns out its rather difficult to use recovery software on SSDs and get reliable data. This was something I wasn’t prepared for.