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Jeff Pigott is a Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, specializing in Azure Infrastructure technologies including Azure Arc, Azure Update Manager, SQL DB, security, and storage. With over 29 years of experience in IT, development, and DevOps, Jeff has worked with a wide range of platforms, tools, and languages. Jeff is passionate about staying up-to-date with the latest Microsoft technologies and services, and holds multiple Azure certifications.
December 1, 2015

Microsoft Band 2 – Three weeks and it going back to the store

I enjoyed trying out the Microsoft Band 2 for three weeks. The wrist bands on the band are much more flexible and not rigid….

July 10, 2015

Microsoft Band with TalyorMade Golf App

Love this new app from TaylorMade and Microsoft for so many reasons. First it is free, just another bonus to having the Microsoft Band! Second…

April 10, 2015

Throw-Back-Thursday Reminder: Windows 8 Lock Screen Timeout hidden setting

Windows 8 display lock screen timeout setting. I needed to blog about this as this is a setting that should be exposed without registry…

March 22, 2015

Angry Birds Star Wars Achievements – how to backup/restore

I know a pretty interesting topic tag line. But after my children have spent millions of hours on Angry Birds Star Wars for some reason…

January 16, 2015

iMagnet – The best mount for your phone

I have purchased two of the iMagnet devices for both of our cars and it is a wonderful device. You don’t have to worry…

December 13, 2014

Pimp My Band – Windows Band Background Tool

Just discovered the Pimp My Band app for Windows Phone to change the background image of the Windows Band. The app offers a fully…

November 25, 2014

Windows 10 – 9879 loaded over after error 0x80248014

Recently Microsoft released the new Windows 10 9879 technical preview. I went to my test machine for Windows 10’s PC settings and changed the…

November 25, 2014

Nokia 1520 and SoftCard – Successful!!!

I upgraded to the Nokia 1520 on AT&T after finding out that my Windows Phone Lumia 920 I received at the Microsoft Build Conference would…

November 7, 2014

Does Nokia Wallet Now work on A&T with a Secure SIM? Doesn’t look like it.

After I have determined that SoftCard will not work on my Windows Developer Lumia 920 device. I am wondering if the Nokia Wallet option…

November 7, 2014

SoftCard doesn’t appear to work with unlocked phones

I stopped by an AT&T location today to get my secure SIM card. That part went perfect the AT&T rep was wonderful to work…

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