Dell EMC Elect 2017: the list

Posted by on April 5, 2017 No comments
Dell EMC Elect

It’s been a while since my last post and there’s no good reason why I didn’t post this earlier, except that life’s been very very busy for me lately. But then again, so it is for all of us, right?

Anyway, last week, on March 29 to be precise, the judging was over and we presented the new list of Elect members. After the merger of Dell Rockstar and EMC Elect, we had to come up with a new program that would combine both groups and form a representative list of professionals who share their passion for the Dell EMC enterprise environment. Being a part of the founders, again, me and the other founders discussed the name of the new group and how we would judge the nominees. I wrote a post on that a little while ago actually. This new advocacy program will be know as the

Dell EMC Elect

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The king is dead, long live the king: Dell EMC Elect is born!

Posted by on February 28, 2017 1 comment
Dell EMC Elect

Now that Dell and EMC have merged, both advocacy programs have ended as well. No more Dell Rockstar and EMC Elect, but a brand “new” program has emerged!!

As an EMC Elect founder I loved being part of the EMC Elect from the very beginning in Q4 of 2012, but times are changing and a new era has started: I guess that’s how life changes as well and this time it was a good change! The advocacy program we’ve all been proud of, whether that was the Dell Rockstar or the EMC Elect, was booming! I can only speak of the Elect and being able to talk to people about it, as a real advocate should be doing, was great.

Michael Dell finally meets the Elect

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How to change a (domain) password on a Windows 2012 server

Posted by on January 5, 2017 No comments
Security

When logged on to a Windows 2012 server through an RDP through another RDP connection on an Apple laptop, changing the password can be a challenge, especially if the account on this 2012 machine is not the same as on the machine you used to connect to the 2012 machine (try saying that sentence 5 times in a row).

So you’re logged on to a Windows 2012 server and you need to change the password of the actual account you’re using at that moment.

Click on the windows flag in the lower left of the screen and type this Powershell command:

Powershell -noprofile -nologo -noninteractive -command “(new-object -ComObject shell.application).WindowsSecurity()”

It doesn’t look pretty, but since I cannot find any alternative, it’s the best I can do.

It works!

Using putty instead of the default ssh from Cisco device manager

Posted by on September 28, 2016 No comments
DCNM

How do I configure Cisco DCNM so Putty starts when I select to go to the command line of a switch?

right click on switch

If you right click on a switch in the overview section in DCNM, you can go to the command line of that switch, but how do you change the default CLI SSH into Putty (or another telnet / SSH capable tool)?

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Dell EMC World 2016 Austin, TX, USA

Posted by on September 14, 2016 No comments
Dell EMC World 2016

You’ve all heard the news last week (at least, I think you did): On September 7 the huge merger between Dell and EMC took place, making the Dell Technologies transaction the biggest technology company integration in history! So the digital transformation is really here, and Dell Technologies / Dell EMC is leading the way. From October 18 to 20, Dell EMC will host business and IT leaders from around the world for the biggest enterprise technology event of the year, Dell EMC World 2016 in Austin, Texas. And I received an invite to join the EMC Elect and Dell Rock Stars to report on the news that Michael Dell and others will bring us. Many thanks go to Mark Browne, who made sure EMC Elect people were invited to be present at this event. We’ll be in super secret influencer meetings, sneak peek preview breakfasts and we’ll be sitting in a reserved seat section to watch Michael Dell perform on stage! Yeah, I’m pretty excited! After being invited to the VNX2 launch in Milan in 2013, I’m once again present at a major event as part of the EMC Elect.

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