Authors Concurrency Authors Nathan Lasnoski 363 Concurrency Blog 261 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 Matt Sims 21 Pete Hurth 18 Dan Fink 18 Steve Borgwardt 17 Damon Sanchez 16 Nick Adams 16 Randy Steinberg 15 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 Matt Smith 7 Lwin Maung 7 Chiyo Odika 7 Kate Weiland 7 Scott Poling 5 Salvatore Montini 5 Zavier Sanders 5 David Grooms 5 Steve Lazzara 5 Megan Dehn 5 Giamo Rivera 5 Hannah Ignacio 5 Leo Ling 5 Jeff Lipkowitz 5 Siddharth Bhola 4 Trevor Suarez 4 Ajay Ravi 4 Jack Bumgarner 4 Amber Manzo 4 Nick Rustad 4 Jasmin Cox 4 Sonny Darji 4 Leon Harmon 4 Megan Stoffel 4 Kirk Poser 4 Amy Cousland 4 Brian Goodwin, PhD 4 Heather LaPorte 3 Sam Figie 3 Bryan Schrippe 3 Tyler Plesetz 3 Arthur Savage 3 Zed Dietrich 3 Kianna DeByle 3 Akashdeep Kaur 3 Tom Lu 3 Steve Seibold 2 Dalton Smith 2 Tony Jagemann 2 Matt Sidwell 2 Alex Fowle 2 Chris Chance 2 Nicole Williams 2 Edidiong Odiong 2 Marcus Musial 2 Matthew Harrison 1 Thomas Driscoll 1 Lubna Quraishi 1 Chad Alexander 1 Chris Blackburn 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 Laura Spence 1 Jacob Hays 1 Meghan Focht 1 Jaime Velez 1 Elizabeth Fleming 1 Andrew Jordan 1 Karsten Huttelmaier 1 Chance Alexander 1 Emma Hurth 1 Swaminathan Venkatesh 1 Nathan Stachowiak 1 Steve Campbell 1 Alex Zhang 1 Jack Stabile 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 It will happen to you… why Zero Trust MUST be a technology North Star for 2021 In the past month we’ve seen a tremendous increase in companies coming to us having been ransomware victims. This is in addition to the impact of Solar Winds incident and conversations about Nation State activity. These aren’t new problems we’re seeing. It’s the same general vulnerability we’ve been talking about for years, just increased in […] by Nathan Lasnoski Dec 18, 2020 Ways to Use Your Digital Pen to Increase Effectiveness The pen and the laptop… I’ve always had an interest in the idea of it working, but for many years it was a solution looking for a problem. Early on I wanted one of those spin around laptops from Acer so I could take digital notes on the clunky 10 pound laptop in class. It […] by Nathan Lasnoski Dec 8, 2020 2021 North Stars with Brian Willson I had a great opportunity to talk with Microsoft Vice President Brian Willson about the 2021 North Stars that every technology executive should be considering. We talked about each of these five North Stars: Create digital lines of business Deliver on new revenue or operational savings through AI Get out of the datacenter business Make […] by Nathan Lasnoski Dec 1, 2020 Windows Virtual Desktop De-Mystified I had a great conversation with Brian Voelz this week on Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD). We discussed “why” WVD, moving off Citrix, and lessons learned. Brian did a great job diving into the details of each. by Nathan Lasnoski Nov 6, 2020 Azure Function Published with Azure DevOps is missing .python_packages I was publishing an Azure Function with Azure DevOps vs. deploying with VS Code and was finding the function was failing because the .python_packages folder was missing. Reviewing the build code the standard python package was populated with “pip install -r requirements.txt”, which was working on my local client to ensure the published environment included the necessary packages. […] by Nathan Lasnoski Oct 29, 2020 Azure Function Published with Azure DevOps has Extra Folder at Root I was deploying an Azure Function with Azure DevOps and was running into a problem where an extra folder was created at the root of the Files directory when deploying. It looked like this: I discovered that in the deployment file the root directory was being included in the deployed zip file and needed to […] by Nathan Lasnoski Oct 29, 2020 Deploying a Python Azure Function in Azure DevOps Error: Directory ‘D:\a\1\a’ is empty. Nothing will be added to build artifact ‘drop’. I was having challenge with deploying an Azure Function through Azure DevOps where the default channel was failing to capture the output of the build and deploy it to the target. I wanted to post a template for this, as there were a lot of people trying to solve the same problem, but no clear […] by Nathan Lasnoski Oct 29, 2020 6 Transformations for Manufacturing for Change Agents This isn’t an easy time to be in business. Frankly, I think it is one of the most challenging times in recent memory due to the uncertainty that exists in the economic climate. However, it is during uncertainty that real leaders transform markets and bring about instrumental change. This is the time when bold manufacturers […] by Nathan Lasnoski Oct 23, 2020 Manufacturing Solutions Interview I had a great conversation with Michael Walton, Microsoft lead for Manufacturing solutions. We talked about 6 different manufacturing solutions based on AI technologies that influence the way manufacturers can engage their customers, partners, and employees. by Nathan Lasnoski Oct 23, 2020 Top Updates Artificial Intelligence Updates Microsoft Ignite 2020 This year at Ignite was a little different in that it was virtual, but it was the same in the increase in capabilities brought from a widely diverse set of areas. Not surprisingly, huge amounts of effort has been placed in advancing Artificial Intelligence capabilities both in commodity AI (Cognitive Services) and custom AL/ML (Azure […] by Nathan Lasnoski Oct 6, 2020 12345678910 ... Concurrency Authors Nathan Lasnoski 363 Concurrency Blog 261 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 Matt Sims 21 Pete Hurth 18 Dan Fink 18 Steve Borgwardt 17 Damon Sanchez 16 Nick Adams 16 Randy Steinberg 15 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 Matt Smith 7 Lwin Maung 7 Chiyo Odika 7 Kate Weiland 7 Scott Poling 5 Salvatore Montini 5 Zavier Sanders 5 David Grooms 5 Steve Lazzara 5 Megan Dehn 5 Giamo Rivera 5 Hannah Ignacio 5 Leo Ling 5 Jeff Lipkowitz 5 Siddharth Bhola 4 Trevor Suarez 4 Ajay Ravi 4 Jack Bumgarner 4 Amber Manzo 4 Nick Rustad 4 Jasmin Cox 4 Sonny Darji 4 Leon Harmon 4 Megan Stoffel 4 Kirk Poser 4 Amy Cousland 4 Brian Goodwin, PhD 4 Heather LaPorte 3 Sam Figie 3 Bryan Schrippe 3 Tyler Plesetz 3 Arthur Savage 3 Zed Dietrich 3 Kianna DeByle 3 Akashdeep Kaur 3 Tom Lu 3 Steve Seibold 2 Dalton Smith 2 Tony Jagemann 2 Matt Sidwell 2 Alex Fowle 2 Chris Chance 2 Nicole Williams 2 Edidiong Odiong 2 Marcus Musial 2 Matthew Harrison 1 Thomas Driscoll 1 Lubna Quraishi 1 Chad Alexander 1 Chris Blackburn 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 Laura Spence 1 Jacob Hays 1 Meghan Focht 1 Jaime Velez 1 Elizabeth Fleming 1 Andrew Jordan 1 Karsten Huttelmaier 1 Chance Alexander 1 Emma Hurth 1 Swaminathan Venkatesh 1 Nathan Stachowiak 1 Steve Campbell 1 Alex Zhang 1 Jack Stabile 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.
It will happen to you… why Zero Trust MUST be a technology North Star for 2021 In the past month we’ve seen a tremendous increase in companies coming to us having been ransomware victims. This is in addition to the impact of Solar Winds incident and conversations about Nation State activity. These aren’t new problems we’re seeing. It’s the same general vulnerability we’ve been talking about for years, just increased in […] by Nathan Lasnoski Dec 18, 2020
Ways to Use Your Digital Pen to Increase Effectiveness The pen and the laptop… I’ve always had an interest in the idea of it working, but for many years it was a solution looking for a problem. Early on I wanted one of those spin around laptops from Acer so I could take digital notes on the clunky 10 pound laptop in class. It […] by Nathan Lasnoski Dec 8, 2020
2021 North Stars with Brian Willson I had a great opportunity to talk with Microsoft Vice President Brian Willson about the 2021 North Stars that every technology executive should be considering. We talked about each of these five North Stars: Create digital lines of business Deliver on new revenue or operational savings through AI Get out of the datacenter business Make […] by Nathan Lasnoski Dec 1, 2020
Windows Virtual Desktop De-Mystified I had a great conversation with Brian Voelz this week on Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD). We discussed “why” WVD, moving off Citrix, and lessons learned. Brian did a great job diving into the details of each. by Nathan Lasnoski Nov 6, 2020
Azure Function Published with Azure DevOps is missing .python_packages I was publishing an Azure Function with Azure DevOps vs. deploying with VS Code and was finding the function was failing because the .python_packages folder was missing. Reviewing the build code the standard python package was populated with “pip install -r requirements.txt”, which was working on my local client to ensure the published environment included the necessary packages. […] by Nathan Lasnoski Oct 29, 2020
Azure Function Published with Azure DevOps has Extra Folder at Root I was deploying an Azure Function with Azure DevOps and was running into a problem where an extra folder was created at the root of the Files directory when deploying. It looked like this: I discovered that in the deployment file the root directory was being included in the deployed zip file and needed to […] by Nathan Lasnoski Oct 29, 2020
Deploying a Python Azure Function in Azure DevOps Error: Directory ‘D:\a\1\a’ is empty. Nothing will be added to build artifact ‘drop’. I was having challenge with deploying an Azure Function through Azure DevOps where the default channel was failing to capture the output of the build and deploy it to the target. I wanted to post a template for this, as there were a lot of people trying to solve the same problem, but no clear […] by Nathan Lasnoski Oct 29, 2020
6 Transformations for Manufacturing for Change Agents This isn’t an easy time to be in business. Frankly, I think it is one of the most challenging times in recent memory due to the uncertainty that exists in the economic climate. However, it is during uncertainty that real leaders transform markets and bring about instrumental change. This is the time when bold manufacturers […] by Nathan Lasnoski Oct 23, 2020
Manufacturing Solutions Interview I had a great conversation with Michael Walton, Microsoft lead for Manufacturing solutions. We talked about 6 different manufacturing solutions based on AI technologies that influence the way manufacturers can engage their customers, partners, and employees. by Nathan Lasnoski Oct 23, 2020
Top Updates Artificial Intelligence Updates Microsoft Ignite 2020 This year at Ignite was a little different in that it was virtual, but it was the same in the increase in capabilities brought from a widely diverse set of areas. Not surprisingly, huge amounts of effort has been placed in advancing Artificial Intelligence capabilities both in commodity AI (Cognitive Services) and custom AL/ML (Azure […] by Nathan Lasnoski Oct 6, 2020