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Michael Niehaus has a new post up over on his blog. Read the full post here. I’ve always been a fan of the thinnest image possible. Taking that to an extreme, that means using the original image straight off the Microsoft media. But over time if you did this you’d find that the time required…
In my last post, I promised that I would discuss problems with specific Quality Assurance metrics. Lately, I’ve been in a lot of situations where people have focused on the metric of 100% Code Coverage. There seems to be a trend of people trying to write automated tests that cover 100% of code. 100% Code…
The Deployment Bunny has put up a new post with some great links to finding drivers for Dell/HP systems. Read his original post here. When deploying Windows OS for clients you need drivers, and you can of course go to the vendors home page and find them and download them one by one, but that…
John Marcum has created a nice blog post for how to get started creating your own SQL based web reports. Read his full post here. There are often questions on the forums about writing reports and SQL queries for SCCM. These are often people who have no SQL experience at all. There’s no easy way…
Just read an excellent post by Alex the Aussie over at epmsource.com. Alex has been working the the Nintex Workflow for Project Server 2010 tool, and is trying to get task-level data, in this case milestone and stage info, out of the schedule and into the workflow. We’ve used the Nintex tool a couple…
In addition the KB article, I wanted to just post a few things to show what you can look for to verify that the update has been successfully installed on your clients. Once the update is installed, you will see an additional hotfix located in your client source files. Once the update is installed on…
If you haven’t been over to TechNet in a while, you should pay a visit. The amount of technical and functional documentation, videos, how-tos, etc to found on the pages of TechNet is nothing short of remarkable. New content includes everything you ever wanted to know about time-tracking and task-statusing. EVERYONE uses this functionality,…
From the friendly folks at Microsoft’s Office Sustained Engineering group: Official word that SP1 for all Office servers and apps, which includes Project Server 2010 and Project Professional 2010, will be released at the end of June. There are sure to be a ton of small bug fixes, along with some relatively major improvements.…
I use VirtualBox for my virtualization platform on my laptop (sorry Microsoft). This allows me to have on-the-go servers for demo and lab purposes easier than any other product. One of the main products that I use is my lab is Lync server. VirtualBox has no issues when installing audio drivers for Windows XP clients,…
The new advanced format drives are coming and there has been a lot of confusion on what steps are needed to support them. I’m going to try and present the information available in the simplest way possible. I will also update the resources on the bottom of the post as new information is presented or…