Authors Concurrency Authors Nathan Lasnoski 416 Concurrency Blog 264 Shannon Fritz 88 James Savage 71 Drew Madelung 70 Kim Claditis 59 Mitchell Grande 55 Christopher Mank 49 Duncan Lindquist 45 Stephanie Siewert 32 Hozafa Motiwala 31 Matt Herman 30 John Adali 29 Andrew Bronstad 25 Michael Epping 25 Seth Bauer 25 Mike Carlo 23 Frank Gill 23 Randy Steinberg 21 Matt Sims 21 Pete Hurth 18 Dan Fink 18 Steve Borgwardt 17 Nick Adams 16 Damon Sanchez 16 Bill Topel 14 Rob Plank 13 Mark Rentmeester 13 Lee Berg 12 Christian Urena 12 Michael Dugan 11 Brett Janzen 11 John Hennen 11 Eric Franz 11 Bill Hughes 10 Matt Boudro 9 Tim Gabrhel 9 Carl Schweitzer 9 Matt Engibous 8 Paul Harris 8 Lwin Maung 7 Matt Smith 7 Chiyo Odika 7 Kate Weiland 7 Jeff Lipkowitz 6 Jaime Velez 5 Steve Lazzara 5 Megan Dehn 5 Ajay Ravi 5 Giamo Rivera 5 Hannah Ignacio 5 Leo Ling 5 Scott Poling 5 Zavier Sanders 5 Salvatore Montini 5 David Grooms 5 Kirk Poser 4 Amy Cousland 4 Chris Blackburn 4 Brian Goodwin, PhD 4 Siddharth Bhola 4 Jack Bumgarner 4 Trevor Suarez 4 Jasmin Cox 4 Sonny Darji 4 Leon Harmon 4 Megan Stoffel 4 Nick Rustad 4 Amber Manzo 4 Elizabeth Fleming 4 Akashdeep Kaur 3 Tom Lu 3 Joseph Dutton 3 Kianna DeByle 3 Zed Dietrich 3 Heather LaPorte 3 Sam Figie 3 Bryan Schrippe 3 Tyler Plesetz 3 Arthur Savage 3 Edidiong Odiong 2 Marcus Musial 2 Dalton Smith 2 Steve Seibold 2 Alex Fowle 2 Chris Chance 2 Tony Jagemann 2 Matt Sidwell 2 jschantz 2 Nicole Williams 2 Drew Johnson 2 Ben Lockwood 2 Christos Konstantakis 1 Scott Kauffman 1 Jeremy Solsaa 1 Eli Rodriguez 1 Meghan Focht 1 Laura Spence 1 Jacob Hays 1 Adam Clifford 1 Nick Woods 1 Ralph Babusci 1 Reem Alzubeidi 1 Charles Bates 1 Andrew Jordan 1 Karsten Huttelmaier 1 Chance Alexander 1 Devyani Singh 1 Emma Hurth 1 Swaminathan Venkatesh 1 Nathan Stachowiak 1 Jack Stabile 1 Steve Campbell 1 Alex Zhang 1 Matthew Harrison 1 Lubna Quraishi 1 Thomas Driscoll 1 Chad Alexander 1 Jesse Garcia 1 Ratanjit Gupta 1 Joe Anich 1 Joseph Mautino 1 Josh Kasombo 1 Dan Vogt 1 Jim Sauerbrei 1 Tracie Parent 1 Bill Becker 1 Tayo Adegoke 1 Kurt Spitzner 1 Catherine Franklin 1 Steve 1 Matt Gutierrez 1 Ofer Gal 1 Nathan Lasnoski nlasnoski Nathan Lasnoski Nathan Lasnoski is Concurrency's Chief Technology Officer, a Datacenter MVP and a recognized leader in Core Infrastructure Design, SharePoint Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Unified Communications technologies. Contributions by Nathan Lasnoski A Lap Around Microsoft Sustainability Manager Microsoft released the Manufacturing Sustainability Manager for the holidays and I couldn’t be more excited for the impact this can have in business in the new year. I got a chance to play with this for a bit and it’s very interesting. A few things at first glance that were interesting to me: The decomposition […] by Nathan Lasnoski Dec 14, 2022 Modern Workplace in Three “Easy” Steps You run an enterprise organization but the technology feels like it is still left over from the stone age. We’re still taking about VPN with endpoints, your employees still use file shares, and your CEO can’t work from a Mac. Why are we still sitting in this situation in 2022 when we just went through […] by Nathan Lasnoski Sep 27, 2022 Blocking Spam Calls in Microsoft Teams I seem to be getting an enormous number of unsolicited calls from spam sales people at my Microsoft Teams account at work. This is really annoying because it interrupts the meeting I’m on with simultaneous calls to both my laptop and mobile device, pulling the bluetooth headset between both. Well… although I can’t fix that […] by Nathan Lasnoski Aug 31, 2022 How Orbitz Implemented an Excellent Chatbot Experience (and why you should too) I recently had a challenging hotel situation I needed to resolve. I had booked a hotel in Minnesota for a customer visit and had mistakenly selected the wrong date. This oddly enough happens to me more often than I’d want to admit. In any case… I showed up to the hotel, asked to check in, […] by Nathan Lasnoski Aug 24, 2022 Five Recent Cloud Refactor Scenarios I’ve been seeing an acceleration of refactor scenarios that I’m seeing as companies are adopting cloud capabilities. In terms of scenarios with high value, I’ve often doubted refactor as a serious investment area. The reason is that it takes time, effort, and the monetary pay-off can be minimal. There are however scenarios that has immense […] by Nathan Lasnoski Aug 23, 2022 Thoughts on the T-Shaped Career The T-Shaped Career analogy is a concept that much has been written on, often conveyed as a way to think about both the collaborative and the depth portions of a career. The idea of a T-Shaped career conveys a horizontal line (soft skills) and vertical line (hard skills). The diagram below describes this image of […] by Nathan Lasnoski Aug 5, 2022 M&A Strategy with Microsoft 365 / Office 365 I’ve been working with companies going through mergers and acquisitions for years. They are painful and take a lot of investment to get right. The better transitions are proactively managed on the tech side and include time and effort to improve the operational state of both organizations. As tech modernization has happened over recent years, […] by Nathan Lasnoski Jun 8, 2022 Product Development Maturity Curve We know that technology is becoming part of the fabric of every business. A successful company integrates technology into their core business, making it a irreplaceable component of how it goes to market. In this discussion we’ll break down the maturity levels of each company and how technology changes the way it engages its customers. […] by Nathan Lasnoski May 17, 2022 6 Levels of Maturing ITSM for a DevOps World What shape does IT Service Management take in a modern DevOps world? For your IT department, they might not even know to ask the question. They likely are stuck thinking of ITSM as ITIL and IT as a centralized function delivered to the business. How does IT Service Management evolve as IT, or tech, becomes […] by Nathan Lasnoski Apr 21, 2022 Is Purview the Picture of the Elephant? We’ve heard the story… five people wearing blindfolds walk up to an Elephant. Each interprets what they feel and experiences a part of the entirety of the elephant. “It’s a tree trunk!”… “it’s a rope”… “it’s a hose”… only when combined together do they arrive at the conclusion of what they are looking at. Most […] by Nathan Lasnoski Mar 21, 2022 12345678910 ... Concurrency Authors Nathan Lasnoski 416 Concurrency Blog 264 Shannon Fritz 88 James Savage 71 Drew Madelung 70 Kim Claditis 59 Mitchell Grande 55 Christopher Mank 49 Duncan Lindquist 45 Stephanie Siewert 32 Hozafa Motiwala 31 Matt Herman 30 John Adali 29 Andrew Bronstad 25 Michael Epping 25 Seth Bauer 25 Mike Carlo 23 Frank Gill 23 Randy Steinberg 21 Matt Sims 21 Pete Hurth 18 Dan Fink 18 Steve Borgwardt 17 Nick Adams 16 Damon Sanchez 16 Bill Topel 14 Rob Plank 13 Mark Rentmeester 13 Lee Berg 12 Christian Urena 12 Michael Dugan 11 Brett Janzen 11 John Hennen 11 Eric Franz 11 Bill Hughes 10 Matt Boudro 9 Tim Gabrhel 9 Carl Schweitzer 9 Matt Engibous 8 Paul Harris 8 Lwin Maung 7 Matt Smith 7 Chiyo Odika 7 Kate Weiland 7 Jeff Lipkowitz 6 Jaime Velez 5 Steve Lazzara 5 Megan Dehn 5 Ajay Ravi 5 Giamo Rivera 5 Hannah Ignacio 5 Leo Ling 5 Scott Poling 5 Zavier Sanders 5 Salvatore Montini 5 David Grooms 5 Kirk Poser 4 Amy Cousland 4 Chris Blackburn 4 Brian Goodwin, PhD 4 Siddharth Bhola 4 Jack Bumgarner 4 Trevor Suarez 4 Jasmin Cox 4 Sonny Darji 4 Leon Harmon 4 Megan Stoffel 4 Nick Rustad 4 Amber Manzo 4 Elizabeth Fleming 4 Akashdeep Kaur 3 Tom Lu 3 Joseph Dutton 3 Kianna DeByle 3 Zed Dietrich 3 Heather LaPorte 3 Sam Figie 3 Bryan Schrippe 3 Tyler Plesetz 3 Arthur Savage 3 Edidiong Odiong 2 Marcus Musial 2 Dalton Smith 2 Steve Seibold 2 Alex Fowle 2 Chris Chance 2 Tony Jagemann 2 Matt Sidwell 2 jschantz 2 Nicole Williams 2 Drew Johnson 2 Ben Lockwood 2 Christos Konstantakis 1 Scott Kauffman 1 Jeremy Solsaa 1 Eli Rodriguez 1 Meghan Focht 1 Laura Spence 1 Jacob Hays 1 Adam Clifford 1 Nick Woods 1 Ralph Babusci 1 Reem Alzubeidi 1 Charles Bates 1 Andrew Jordan 1 Karsten Huttelmaier 1 Chance Alexander 1 Devyani Singh 1 Emma Hurth 1 Swaminathan Venkatesh 1 Nathan Stachowiak 1 Jack Stabile 1 Steve Campbell 1 Alex Zhang 1 Matthew Harrison 1 Lubna Quraishi 1 Thomas Driscoll 1 Chad Alexander 1 Jesse Garcia 1 Ratanjit Gupta 1 Joe Anich 1 Joseph Mautino 1 Josh Kasombo 1 Dan Vogt 1 Jim Sauerbrei 1 Tracie Parent 1 Bill Becker 1 Tayo Adegoke 1 Kurt Spitzner 1 Catherine Franklin 1 Steve 1 Matt Gutierrez 1 Ofer Gal 1
Nathan Lasnoski nlasnoski Nathan Lasnoski Nathan Lasnoski is Concurrency's Chief Technology Officer, a Datacenter MVP and a recognized leader in Core Infrastructure Design, SharePoint Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Unified Communications technologies.
A Lap Around Microsoft Sustainability Manager Microsoft released the Manufacturing Sustainability Manager for the holidays and I couldn’t be more excited for the impact this can have in business in the new year. I got a chance to play with this for a bit and it’s very interesting. A few things at first glance that were interesting to me: The decomposition […] by Nathan Lasnoski Dec 14, 2022
Modern Workplace in Three “Easy” Steps You run an enterprise organization but the technology feels like it is still left over from the stone age. We’re still taking about VPN with endpoints, your employees still use file shares, and your CEO can’t work from a Mac. Why are we still sitting in this situation in 2022 when we just went through […] by Nathan Lasnoski Sep 27, 2022
Blocking Spam Calls in Microsoft Teams I seem to be getting an enormous number of unsolicited calls from spam sales people at my Microsoft Teams account at work. This is really annoying because it interrupts the meeting I’m on with simultaneous calls to both my laptop and mobile device, pulling the bluetooth headset between both. Well… although I can’t fix that […] by Nathan Lasnoski Aug 31, 2022
How Orbitz Implemented an Excellent Chatbot Experience (and why you should too) I recently had a challenging hotel situation I needed to resolve. I had booked a hotel in Minnesota for a customer visit and had mistakenly selected the wrong date. This oddly enough happens to me more often than I’d want to admit. In any case… I showed up to the hotel, asked to check in, […] by Nathan Lasnoski Aug 24, 2022
Five Recent Cloud Refactor Scenarios I’ve been seeing an acceleration of refactor scenarios that I’m seeing as companies are adopting cloud capabilities. In terms of scenarios with high value, I’ve often doubted refactor as a serious investment area. The reason is that it takes time, effort, and the monetary pay-off can be minimal. There are however scenarios that has immense […] by Nathan Lasnoski Aug 23, 2022
Thoughts on the T-Shaped Career The T-Shaped Career analogy is a concept that much has been written on, often conveyed as a way to think about both the collaborative and the depth portions of a career. The idea of a T-Shaped career conveys a horizontal line (soft skills) and vertical line (hard skills). The diagram below describes this image of […] by Nathan Lasnoski Aug 5, 2022
M&A Strategy with Microsoft 365 / Office 365 I’ve been working with companies going through mergers and acquisitions for years. They are painful and take a lot of investment to get right. The better transitions are proactively managed on the tech side and include time and effort to improve the operational state of both organizations. As tech modernization has happened over recent years, […] by Nathan Lasnoski Jun 8, 2022
Product Development Maturity Curve We know that technology is becoming part of the fabric of every business. A successful company integrates technology into their core business, making it a irreplaceable component of how it goes to market. In this discussion we’ll break down the maturity levels of each company and how technology changes the way it engages its customers. […] by Nathan Lasnoski May 17, 2022
6 Levels of Maturing ITSM for a DevOps World What shape does IT Service Management take in a modern DevOps world? For your IT department, they might not even know to ask the question. They likely are stuck thinking of ITSM as ITIL and IT as a centralized function delivered to the business. How does IT Service Management evolve as IT, or tech, becomes […] by Nathan Lasnoski Apr 21, 2022
Is Purview the Picture of the Elephant? We’ve heard the story… five people wearing blindfolds walk up to an Elephant. Each interprets what they feel and experiences a part of the entirety of the elephant. “It’s a tree trunk!”… “it’s a rope”… “it’s a hose”… only when combined together do they arrive at the conclusion of what they are looking at. Most […] by Nathan Lasnoski Mar 21, 2022