Read the original post here. … Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Any large sector disks, such as Advanced Format disks, are not supported by Microsoft for installation on systems that are running Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, or Windows XP. …. Over the next few years, the data storage industry will be…
If for some reason you don’t want to use Group Policy to disable the Windows 7 Action Center, then there is a registry key you can set to disable it. HKLMSOFTWAREMICROSOFTWINDOWSCURRENTVERSIONPOLICIESEXPLORER HIDESCAHEALTH=DWORD:00000001 Once the registry key is set to a value of “1”, certain items will be greyed out in the Action Center configuration,…
In a past role, I joined a test team that was in a User Acceptance Testing (UAT) "Death Spiral" that had caused the user base to lose confidence in the integration testing team. Based on conversations that I’ve had with others, I believe that the UAT Death Spiral is a common scenario that people encounter,…
Download here. Brief Description The Visio 2010 add-in for System Center provides a comprehensive list of alerts from System Center Operations Manager 2007 and system information, user group information and patch information from System Center Configuration Manager 2007. Overview The Visio 2010 add-in for System Center provides a comprehensive list of alerts from System Center…
Fellow MVP Kent Agerlund has a great post with a nice download for installing and configuring SCUP 2011. Read his original post here. The latest version of System Center Custom Updates Publisher 2011 is released and ready for download. SCUP 2011 is a freeware tool from Microsoft that can assist you in authoring and publishing…
Great post over on The Deployment Guys by Daniel Oxley. Read the full post here. This post was contributed by Daniel Oxley, a Senior Consultant with Microsoft Services UK Often the simplest tips are the best ones, so here is one I have been using pretty much ever since I started working with MDT. When…
Great Group Policy Preferences post over on the Ask the Directory Services Team Blog. Read the full post here. Hello again AskDS readers, Mike here again. This post reflects on Group Policy Preference targeting items, specifically targeting by security groups. Targeting preference items by security groups is a bad idea. There is a better way…
Read the original post here. Scenario 1 You have a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) site server. You install hotfix 2213600 on the site server. You use the Import New Driver Wizard to import a set of drivers on to the site server. You specify a category and a driver…
Michael Niehaus has a new post on ConfigMgr Driver Management. Read the original post here. After MMS 2010, I had posted a series of blog postings talking about different mechanisms for managing drivers with ConfigMgr 2007. You can read through that at http://blogs.technet.com/b/mniehaus/archive/2010/04/29/configmgr-2007-driver-management-the-novel-part-1.aspx. Then a hotfix was released that changed the way ConfigMgr 2007 handled…
Here is a presentation I’ve done for a few user groups covering MDT 2012 and ConfigMgr 2012 Beta products. This goes over the OSD changes in both products and what you can expect from the new releases. The information provided in this Power Point is provided as-is and the content is subject to change since…
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