Sam Akroyd

Remote Working: How to Avoid Micromanaging

July 15, 2020 / Sam Akroyd / 0 Comments

One of the big challenges facing many leaders within IT (and I’m sure other industries too) is adjusting their management styles to suit when you’re not ‘seeing’ your staff/colleagues on a day-to-day basis. Its very easy to assume they’re not working as hard just because you can’t see what they’re doing. So how do you avoid falling into this trap?

Workspace One: Windows 10 App Deployment

July 6, 2020 / Sam Akroyd / 0 Comments

This is the second of my posts around Workspace One following the factory deployment with Dell. This is one is more focused around the Windows 10 application deployment within WS1. As per my previous post, this is highly configurable but also time consuming – so I hope this post helps someone.

Apple WWDC 2020

June 23, 2020 / Sam Akroyd / 0 Comments

I have a feeling this could be the lowest hit post of this year – but I’m not bothered. Apple’s events always manage to wow even the most hardcore of IT geeks (me included) and my interest was peaked a little more with rumours around iPadOS and the potential of Apple switching from Intel to ARM-based processors.

VeeamOn 2020

June 22, 2020 / Sam Akroyd / 0 Comments

As a loyal Veeam customer, and a lucky attendee at VeeamOn 2019, it’d be a shame not spend some of my spare time watching their keynotes and breakout sessions this time round. So it’s time to don some green, and watch some Veeam*

*This is not Veeam’s slogan, but it totally should be!

Diversity and inclusivity in the workplace

June 16, 2020 / Sam Akroyd / 0 Comments

I have read a number of harrowing, horrifying and humbling articles over the past 3 weeks or so, since the terrible murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. I am, as a white British man, not the right person to sit here educating others on how to treat everyone equally and fairly. I can honestly say, the last few weeks have been an education and a real history lesson, not the ones I was taught as a youngster. It has however, given me time to reflect and realise how I’ve rarely worked in a properly diverse work environment, and how I’d like to change that in the future.

Dell & Workspace One – Factory Deployment

June 9, 2020 / Sam Akroyd / 0 Comments

So given I’m enjoying my work using Workspace One at the moment, I thought it be as well that I note down some of the processes that I’ve followed in preparation for factory provisioning of devices from Dell. This has been a pretty simple process, but its always good to write this stuff down – so here goes…

Unified Endpoint Management: Workspace One

June 1, 2020 / Sam Akroyd / 0 Comments

In my day job (yes I have one outside of blogging – thats why I’ve not blogged for a while!) I’ve been spending some of the lockdown time looking at various products for unified endpoint management, which is the new marketing term used for device management. In particular I’ve been really impressed with Workspace One. This post is going to serve two purposes, firstly as a brain dump for my thoughts, and secondly for you guys to understand a little bit about what it can do with no marketing bias.

VM that fails consolidation? Locked file? Here’s the fix!

May 6, 2020 / Sam Akroyd / 0 Comments

Had a problem recently where I had a VM with a lot of snapshots which somehow failed to get noticed, so following a vCenter upgrade it lit up like a Christmas Tree! So here is how it was fixed with the help from a very kind man at VMware Support