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TechEd Australia video featuring Michael Niehaus. System Center Configuration Manager 2012 is a significant upgrade. Learn how this new version affects the OS deployment process, and explore the new OS deployment capabilities provided in this release. Watch or download the video here.
The 2012 versions of the System Center family of products are due to be released by Microsoft Q4 of 2011. With these upcoming System Center releases many of us are focussing on Microsoft Private Cloud technologies. This post is part 1 of hopefully many posts this upcoming fall season 2012 where we will walk through…
Fantastic post over on The Deployment Guys blog about using USMT in a Replace scenario. Read the full post here. While USMT 4.0 in a Refresh Scenario provides some great advance by using Hardlinking in a Replace Scenario customers still face multiple operational challenges and potential capital costs during large scale deployments because user data…
Great post over on The Deployment Guys. Read the full post here. One of the great features of MDT 2010/2012 is the ability to create a media based deployment – this media based deployment can be placed on a USB based memory device (HDD or Fob) or onto a DVD. This allows the MDT based…
Microsoft has done a good job of publishing Service Descriptors for Office 365 here, http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=13602. These documents have become a valuable resource when I need concrete information about the various Office 365 services, settings, limits and configuration requirements whether I am doing pre-sales engineering or during a deployment. One such instance came up recently that…
As Bill Hicks, the late, great, Texas comedian used to often say “Is it me…?”. We all get upset about something, but as UX practitioner, I think the things that really get my goat are sometimes different than the things that work others up into a lather, a couple of my pet peeves….. Why oh why don’t…
Yes, so no one really likes warning messages/prompts! Speaking of browser windows… we all have our personal preferences on what works best for us. What browser makes you feel the most productive? Is it really easy to use? Being an avid Googler I lean more towards “Chrome”. It’s fast, it’s easy and I simply get…
Here’s a link to the replay for my recent appearance on Talk TechNet: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/mseventsbmo/view?id=1032490798&role=attend&pw=4F839DB8. We discussed a lot things including private clouds, System Center, Elmo, and of course Configuration Manager 2012.
Here’s a quick synopsis of two issues I had at my recent customer installing some “packaged” applications during OSD. The first was error code 0x80042000 from an InstallShield installation package. This is neither a standard Windows error code or a custom ConfigMgr error code. After some web searches, I stumbled on a blog post by…
