Over the past 11 years, .NET technology, fueled by Microsoft’s ability to deliver sophisticated development tools, has arguably ruled the enterprise business software landscape. Intellisense, drag-and-drop UI design, XML configuration, dependency injection, unit testing, IDE extensibility APIs for third party controls, continuous integration, and more attempt to ease the use of Agile and SCRUM…
There is a new series on the TechNet forums that will be going through the R3 Power Management piece. Read the full post here. In this post series I will go through System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 Power Management showing general overview and prerequisites for the new SCCM 2007 R3 Power Management feature and…
When I’ve introduced Embedded Quality to the developers on a project, a common reaction is fear and loathing. They often have a visceral, negative reaction to the words "Quality Assurance," and the idea of working more closely with the Quality Assurance team instills a feeling of dread in them. As a reminder, I originally outlined…
Read the full post and request the hotfix here. Consider the following scenario: You enable Active Directory System Discovery or Active Directory User Discovery on a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) site server. You add a search path to the Active Directory OUslist. You add a second search path to the…
Nice by Jason Sandys for identifying stale systems in AD, read the full post and download the script here. Troubleshooting client agent health issues at my current customer, I wanted to eliminate all of the stale systems from AD so I didn’t waste my time on them (and of course the customer was no real…
My session for MMS has been accepted. I’ve always been very passionate about the BDD/MDT solutions and am very happy that I’ll have to opportunity to present at MMS 2011. Tim Mintner will be co-presenting with me, so I have no doubt this will be a great session! BE31 MDT 2010 Update 1 Integration with…
Recently at a client in production and in my home lab, I ran into the an issue where the Software Updates task in my Build and Capture TS for Windows 7 would just hang. It would get to the task and scan for updates correctly according to the log and the UI, then it…
Configuration Manager 2007 Maintenance Tasks Daily Maintenance Tasks Performing daily maintenance is important to ensure proper site operations. A daily maintenance log should be maintained to document dates that maintenance was conducted, by whom, and any maintenance-related comments about the task conducted. Common Daily Maintenance Tasks Some common daily maintenance tasks are listed below. Add…
Working at a client troubleshooting some weird ConfigMgr (not SCCM) client agent issues. Basically, there are a handful of systems, all laptops, that just dropped out of ConfigMgr. Reviewing the ExecMgr log shows that the last activity was the installation of Outlook 2010 via an advertisement that completed successfully requiring a reboot. After that, nada.…
Welcome to 2011! With the new year comes some changes here at the Catapult Systems EPM Team blog. As you may have surmised from Andrew’s most recent post, blogging responsibilities have shifted to little old me. My name is Peter Elkin. I have been with Catapult Systems for a little over four years, and have…
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