Visualizing My Former Life in Tableau: Survey Data
However strange it may seem at the surface, converting from a higher-education music instructor to a data geek was fairly seamless. Consider this: For as many years as I was teaching, I was gathering data. Tons of data. This included student attendance, grades, rubrics, advisement, evaluations, concert reviews and music analysis. With Tableau, I […]
PowerShell: Get Last Logon for All Users Across All Domain Controllers
Here is a quick PowerShell script to help you query the last logon time for all of your users across all of your domain controllers. It will also save the output to a .csv file specified in the $exportFilePath string. I was surprised not to find many examples of this across the web already. Either […]
How I Went from Casino Operations Manager to InterWorks Tableau Consultant
Recently, we shared a blog post entitled, “Life as an InterWorks Consultant: Oh, the Places You Will Go.” In that post, we announced that we would be doing a follow-up series outlining the varied backgrounds which InterWorks consultants come from. Here’s my story. Life in Casino Operations Shortly after I finished school with an Accounting […]
Transferring FSMO Roles to Another Active Directory Controller
With virtualization continuing to grow into the small and medium business marketplace, it is now affordable for many IT administrators to implement many common best practices such as having a minimum of two domain controllers. Virtualization also has many transitioning/upgrading to operating much easier. When considering doing an upgrade for Active Directory for small to […]
Life as an InterWorks Consultant: Oh, the Places You Will Go
In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past two decades, tech companies have become some of the most powerful entities in the world today. Think of the most successful companies that come to mind. Odds are that half of the names you think up are tech companies. Thanks to massive leaps in […]
InterWorks, Inc. Announces US Tableau Your Data! Book Tour
Our sister company, InterWorks Inc, the premier provider of Tableau Software services in the United States, is collaborating with Tableau User Groups (TUGs) across the country to promote acclaimed Tableau guidebook, “Tableau Your Data! – Fast and Easy Visual Analysis with Tableau Software.” InterWorks’ Director of Business Intelligence Services and book author, Dan Murray will be present at several […]
Fresh Windows 8 Pro OEM install failing due to “Missing Drivers…”
When freshly installing Windows 8 pro OEM on a wiped laptop, I received an error message: “A media driver your computer needs is missing. This could be a DVD, USB, or Hard Disk driver. . . .” I found it was not even a driver issue, at least this time. 1. Boot to BIOS setup. […]
InterWorks Announces ‘Tableau Your Data!’ Book Tour with Author, Dan Murray
Stillwater, Okla. – InterWorks, the premier provider of Tableau Software services, is collaborating with Tableau User Groups (TUGs) across the U.S. to promote acclaimed Tableau guidebook, “Tableau Your Data! – Fast and Easy Visual Analysis with Tableau Software.” InterWorks’ Director of Business Intelligence Services and book author, Dan Murray will be present at several TUG […]
Promoting a Windows 2012R2 Server to Domain Controller
Once a Windows 2012 or Windows 2012R2 has had the Active Directory Domain Services role installed, the domain controller must be promoted to a domain controller. This article outlines the steps needed to add a domain controller to an existing environment. This article is the second part of a series: Creating a Windows 2012 or […]
Three Seasons of Man vs. Food Visualized in Tableau 8.1
I recently upgraded my version of Tableau Desktop to 8.1. While on holiday, I decided to play with the program a bit to mess with some of the new features. In lieu of any ground-breaking analysis, I decided to have fun. I submit for you a dashboard of three years of the reality television show, […]