Fellow colleague and MVP Jason Sandy’s has written a great post on Software Updates in ConfigMgr. Read his post here. Here’s a quick intro: As many folks know, there is a known issue with Software Updates in Windows 7 Task Sequences: http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2011/01/28/known-issue-install-software-updates-action-hangs-on-windows-7.aspx. There is no official word of a fix for this issue which by…
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It appears there are going to be some changes to the Microsoft Core CALs. It appears Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection will be included in the Microsoft Core CAL suite planned August of 2011. Notice how the word appears is my disclaimer word since I can’t speak for Microsoft. Screenshot below from: http://bit.ly/edekmi
In Part 1 of this post, we introduced ADFS 2.0 in relation to Office 365 and discussed environmental requirements in implement. Part 2 will actually cover the configuration and validation steps needed to implement ADFS 2.0 with Office 365. Note: this post is based on the Office 365 Beta for Enterprises. Assumptions: Domain has been…
As many folks know, there is a known issue with Software Updates in Windows 7 Task Sequences: http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2011/01/28/known-issue-install-software-updates-action-hangs-on-windows-7.aspx. There is no official word of a fix for this issue which by most accounts happens for a number of seemingly different reasons once the number of updates to be applied gets “large” – although bafflingly…
I was brought in to assist with a ConfigMgr project. In their task sequence there was a task to install the ConfigMgr client along with 3 hotfixes during OSD. There was problems and it turned out none of the hotfixes were being installed during the task sequence. You can’t verify the hotfixes were installed by…
The Exchange Team pulled the initial release of Update Rollup 3 for Exchange 2010 SP1 very soon after its release. Today they have rereleased Update Rollup 3. Update Rollup 3 can be downloaded HERE. This will bring your Exchange version to 14.1.289.007. For a description of the update and all of the included fixes, see…
So what exactly do each of these options do in an advertisement? The TechNet documentation is actually pretty sketchy and thus this post (inspired by MVP extraordinaire, Torsten Meringer). Note that everything below is specific to mandatory advertisements; i.e., those with a schedule. If the advertisement is not mandatory or is executed manually, the…
Workflows demand that your task list be based directly off of the Tasks content type. To trigger this message, I created a content type called “Review Tasks” that inherited from the “Tasks” content type and then based my task list on “Review Tasks”: Instead of recreating my list definition, I tried simply modified the schema.xml…
We’re finishing up a couple of deployments of Project Server 2010 wherein we did a number of custom workflows for the clients, and I thought I’d pass along some lessons we learned, some the hard way. First, a bit of clarification: I’m talking about “Demand Management” workflows, not document approvals or anything else you might…
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