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Very first post on my new hugo site!

Find out what kind of content is coming to this site in the coming months.

Hello World! I’m happy to welcome you to my new blog!

It’s been MANY years since I’ve maintained and published content to my own platform. 10+ years ago I started syrewiczeit.com, and eventually took it down due to lack of time and focus. I’m happy to see that it can still be found on the wayback machine.

I’ve spent the better part of the last 10 years in a content creation role for technology companies, a few of which you may be familiar with. This includes Altaro Software, and more recently Hornetsecurity, whom I provide Security Evangelism services for.

While I greatly enjoy my day job working with an AWESOME team to build content aimed at helping security professionals worldwide, I’ve gotten the content creation itch again lately, and wanted to start up my own project once again. While I love talking about Cybersecurity through the context of my current role, there are many topics that I’d like to discuss that don’t fit neatly into my day work and the cybersecurity category. Hence, the creation of andyontech.com and the Anxious Techie SubStack.

What type of content will be posted here?

While the below topics have been listed on the about page, they’re included here for completeness.

You’ll find written content, published videos, and podcast episodes centered around the below technical topics:

As I work as a content creator for a cybersecurity vendor and my Microsoft MVP status is in Security, I’m sure I’ll be posting some interesting security content here from time to time. Some of it will be a security topic outside of the scope of my employer. Othertimes I’ll be cross-posting some content from the day job (mainly podcasts). That said, I’ll only be posting the educational content here. No product pitches in this space!

Yes, it’s a bit of a buzzword right now, and has been since ChatGPT hit the scene nearly two years ago (as of the time of this writing). I’m highly interested in the capabilities of Microsoft Copilot, and how people can use it for real-world, tangible outcomes. I plan on having some interesting howtos, quick prompting tips, and a deep dive on how large language models work. Additionally, I think there are some interesting use-cases for Copilot centered around mental health and as a result I’m planning some content in that area as well.

I’ve always been a big fan of Microsoft’s cloud play. Microsoft Azure is IMMENSELY powerful and highly useful for businesses today. That said, I’m still amazed at the number of organizations that fail to use it effectively. Many businesses simply “lift and shift” virtual machines to the cloud and call it good. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) in Azure is a solid and dependable deployment model, but there is a better (and more modern) way for many workloads. With this in mind, You may see some content in this area as well.

To say that the technology and configuration sprawl in Microsoft 365 is vast, would be an understatement. Look at the amount of features and products contained within just the Microsoft 365 Business Premium licensing SKU, not to mention Microsoft M365 E5! It’s nearly impossible for anyone to understand how to deploy, configure, and use them all. I’ll be the first to admit that while I know a lot about M365, I certainly have some knowledge gaps in some of it’s extensive offerings. Therefore, one of the design goals of this blog will be to share the M365 knowledge I have in an effort to help contribute to the larger IT community.

Windows Server and I go way back. I’m old enough to remember creating new user accounts on Active Directory running on Windows Server 2000. I’ve even touched a few NT Servers in my day and I’ve loved every iteration of Windows Server since then (maybe not Small Business Server, but that’s a different story). While I’ve been very cloud focused over the last several years, I recognize that the cloud does not fix all things, nor is it the magic solution that fixes everything. I’m a firm believer in the best solution for the problem at hand regardless of whether that’s on-prem, in the cloud, or otherwise.

With this in mind, I’m looking forward to talking about Windows Server again extensively, because there are a TON of cool features in new versions of Windows Server to cover here!

Yes, I know that Hyper-V is an official “role” on Windows Server, and as such is “technically included in the above category, but I have a very special place in my heart for Hyper-V. I’ve been a Microsoft MVP for 11 years now. Currently I’m a Microsoft Security MVP, but if I go back to my early years in the program, I was a Hyper-V MVP. Hyper-V is still a product I get excited about just because virtualization technologies are so cool. Time to start writing about it again. Enough said.

I’ll say this. PowerShell is likely one of my favorite technologies on the planet today. As a scripting language you can do SO much with PowerShell. One of my favorite things is that it enables you to interact with nearly everything in Microsoft’s ecosystem in a uniform and stadardized manner. In fact, I recently presented at PowerShell DevOps Summit about the secure management of secrets during automated processes with PowerShell. How was the conference? To quote Bill and Ted…. “it was most excellent” - like PowerShell is, and continues to be all these years later.

The occasional Linux / FOSS article

I’ve built my career on the Microsoft stack and I am deeply passionate about all of the above topics. That said, Linux / Free Open Source Software (FOSS) has long been something that I’ve felt strongly about as well. In fact, in some of my earliest IT roles, you could consider me a Linux admin at times. I remember working on Debian boxes as far back as Debian “Woody”, “Sarge”, and “Etch”. So, you’ll likely see the odd howto, or commentary post about FOSS as well from time to time.

At some point I’ll be putting a post together that discusses the hosting of this site along with a howto on how to build one yourself. That said, I’ve put together a quick summary below.

This site is:

I’m looking forward to crafting content for the community once again, and as I move forward I’ll be building some mechanisms on this site to better interact with readers as well, including a feedback form in case you have thoughts of your own!

Thanks for reading!

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