Michael Niehaus has a great post over his blog discussing the new SP1/WAIK release. Read the full post here. Some of you probably noticed a new download showed up today: The Windows® Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows® 7 SP1 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=696dd665-9f76-4177-a811-39c26d3b3b34 Be sure to read the “readme” that goes along with this at: Windows Automated…
Hello and welcome to the first entry to my blog at Catapult Systems! If you find the information that I share in this blog useful, please bookmark me, or subscribe to my feed. I’ll TRY to cover topics dealing with Microsoft System Center products, specifically Configuration Manager 2007 and Operations Manager 2007. Stay tuned…
The Lync Server 2010 Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) has just released and can be downloaded here. The Lync BPA is only designed to scan Lync components and not OCS components. You will need to use the OCS BPA if you need to scan OCS infrastructure.
This post ties in directly with the last one, regarding Holds. As you know the concept of applying a hold is to suspend a record’s normal disposition because it may be part of an investigation or lawsuit. In the last post I demonstrated that applying a hold in SharePoint 2010 can be done in a…
When Mozy came out a few years ago I was thrilled that I could install a client on my computer, pay a low price of about $50 a year, and have my important files encrypted and backed up off-site. I also got: Unlimited data backed up Encryption using my own key Versioning Open and locked…
Great article over The Configuration Manager Team Blog. Read the original post here. If a Configuration Manager client has received and started an advertised operating system deployment task sequence, attempting to start another operating system deployment advertisement within a certain period of time might result in the deployment being ignored and failed to start. In…
Great new post over on the Configuration Manager Team Blog. Read the full post here. [Today’s post is provided by Chaohao Xu.] If Windows hotfix KB974571 is installed on a Windows 7 reference image, then it is highly likely that you would see the following log entries in smsts.log when deploying this image to an…
This post describes the new Exchange Processor Query Tool, plus how and when to use it. The tool can be downloaded here. The Mailbox Storage Calculator is a key tool when designing an Exchange storage infrastructure. On the Input Tab, in the Role Requirements section, the processor configuration needs to be entered. The Old Way…
Should Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) be supported? Despite the fact that most developers think that the only reason why I would want to support IE6 is to torture them, the fact is that IE6 is still widely used. It is true that consumers should upgrade to a newer browser for a number of reasons, but…
When I am interviewing Senior .Net developers if they don’t know what Reflector is and what it does I assume they really aren’t that "Senior". I use Reflector in two ways. First and most important to disassemble code, especially Microsoft code, so I can avoid reading often inadequate documentation on how an API can…
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