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Every year people struggle to attend MMS. Chris Stauffer has put together a couple really nice documents that help to explain why you should attend MMS and some alternatives for hotels to help reduce costs. Another reason why the myITforum community is so great! Hope to see you at MMS! Download: Chris Stauffer’s MMS 2012…
Johan Arwidmark posted a link on MDT 2012 Driver Management. There is lot of information regarding driver management in MDT, but there is this one gray area which I would like to lite touch on When implementing MDT in mixed environments you can have a situation when: You are experiencing driver conflicts Grouping computers using…
Nice to know: A simple branding kit for your Windows 7 deployment Mikael Nystrom Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:40:16 GMT Even if this is anything else but important, branding your OS could sometimes be needed for fun or for profit. The basic concept is to replace some of the images in Windows with your own…
Finding All References to MDT Variables in a Deployment Share: VariableDocumentor v1.0 Aly Shivji MDT is very flexible in the ability to define and use variables inline and in different locations. However, this also means that if you forget to assign a variable a value it may lead to unintended consequences that you might…
Johan Arwidmark has uploaded some great videos to his blog. Summaries are below, go to the following link to view the videos! 5 Deployment and Systems Management sessions from NIC 2012 in Oslo Creating Custom WinPE 4.0 boot images (54:59) This session gives an in-depth view of all the new features in WinPE 4.0 (Windows…
Hydration means a fully automated build of a complete Lab environment for Hyper-V or VMware. Here is a download for deploying a complete ConfigMgr 2012 RC2 infrastructure: One Domain Controller and one ConfigMgr 2012 RC2 member server – Including pre-requisites like .Net Framework, SQL 2008 R2 SP1 CU4 and IIS – All fully automated.…
The Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Capacity Planning Tool helps customers understand what hardware they need in order to support the number of users, wide area network bandwidth, features and protections enabled in their Forefront TMG 2010 deployment. Just download and open the Excel Spreadsheet to help figure out if what you have will…
Microsoft has a TechNet article that talks about TMG hardware recommendations. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff382651.aspx
Hybrid Deployment So part 3 of this blog series is all about the benefits of Exchange 2010 SP2 Hybrid wizard. To recap in Part 1 I setup my lap environment, in Part 2 (let’s just forget about Part 1.5) I documents my setting up Single Sign-On (SSO). As I mentioned in one of the…
For some reason I have a lot of people use non-valid certificates on backend servers they’re connecting to through UAG. This is because they don’t want to spend the money and/or time on a cert, it’s used for testing, work needs to continue with UAG while waiting for a valid cert, or whatever reason. It’s…