Johan Arwidmark put up a nice how-to for getting ahold of Trace64, the 64-bit version of Trace32, our favorite log file viewer. We can’t all be like Wally and use Notepad Read the full post here. Trace64 is very useful to parse MDT and ConfigMgr log files… And until ConfigMgr 2012 Beta 2 was…
Johan Arwidmark has a new post discussing the Role and Features action inside MDT. Read the full post here. One of the most powerful features in MDT is the option of having the Task Sequence install all the Roles and Features needed, most often on servers, but also for clients. I use this feature heavily…
So I’ve gotten a chance really get a feel for Google+, and so far I think it’s a very creative and compelling product. But I think the question that seems to be on everyone’s mind is: Is this really going to stick around or is it going to be yet another internet fad? With 10 million new…
The purpose of this post is document a step by step method for automated Cross Platform System Center Operations Manager agent installation and discovery. While the Ops Manager GUI does provide a method for discovering and deploying multiple Cross Platform hosts by way of scanning an IP range, it may not be optimal to do…
In my last post, I discussed some techniques for making global Agile teams more effective. I also used that post as the basis for a discussion on the LinkedIn AgileAustin group. The responses to the discussion were excellent, and I recommend signing up for the group and reading the discussion if you have more interest…
This post explains a simple way to use Opalis to automate provisioning a virtual machine from System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). There are a few prerequisites that are necessary before your Opalis server comes into play. In this example we will be using a virtual machine template on our SCVMM server. The objects…
AUSTIN, Texas – July 6, 2011 – Catapult Systems, a Microsoft IT consulting firm, today announced it has won the “South Central District Managed Partner of the Year” award as part of Microsoft’s FY11 Central Region Managed Partner Awards Program. The company was chosen out of an extensive field of Microsoft partners for delivering market-leading…
When a team or organization decides to go agile, one of the key practices to follow is letting a backlog drive the rhythm and order of development tasks. You can read my previous posts on backlog management and sprint execution to get an overview of how some typical teams I’ve worked with have used it…
I saw Martin Fowler speak in Austin a couple years ago and one part of his talk was on continuous integration. He touched on feature branching, which is essentially where a main “trunk” of source for a project is branched several times, once per feature under active development. The management purpose behind this is typically…
Ben Hunter over on The Deployment Guys has put together a nice blog post with a list of various community Deployment experts and MVP’s. He’s got a nice list of the blogs to follow and twitter alias’s. When I started blogging five years ago there were not many great blogs out there and twitter was…
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