Michael Simmons

Listen up! Michael Simmons can give you 5 good reasons why you should replace Task Manager with Sysinternals Process Explorer.

Monkeying around with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012? Michael Simmons takes you though the overview and installation process of MDT 2012 Update 1.

Don’t get lazy! Michael Simmons shows you how to backup Sharepoint 2010 data in three easy steps.

Microsoft’s Volume Activation Management Toolkit version 3 (VAMT 3) is chock-full of new features. Michael Simmons walks you through the improvements.

If the promise of “explicit” and “wildcard” wasn’t alluring enough, Michael Simmons gently guides you through understanding managed paths in SharePoint 2010.

Microsoft is using a web application called pointers to streamline users’ Windows 8 deployment experience. Michael Simmons discusses its advantages for Microsoft – and for you.

Microsoft’s Forefront Identity Manager 2010, or FIM 2010, is an identity management solution which can handle every aspect of managing identities.

If you’ve ever needed to quickly create diagrams of your Active Directory structure and wanted to automate the process, this article will help. In this post, IT veteran Michael Simmons shows you a utility that is going to do it.

The consumerization of IT is here and doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. This article by Michael Simmons discusses some of the advances made that allows Windows 8 on ARM (WOA) installations that your users bring into your organizations to not only be useful, but safe.

Are you looking to learn SharePoint but don’t know where to start? In this post, IT veteran Michael Simmons lists some great resources — both free and paid — to help get you started, from instructor-led and online courses, to books and blogs.