What biz school didn’t teach you about lawyers
Every entrepreneur has a “love/hate” relationship with lawyers. You can read some of my thoughts and experiences with attorneys in my latest Austin Business Journal column.
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ConfigMgr Collections and Queries for Current OSes
A quick post to make available a couple of MOF files that can be quickly used to create four queries and four collections that are not included out of the box: All Windows Vista Systems All Windows 7 Systems All Windows Server 2008 Systems All Windows Server 2008 R2 Systems I end up creating these…
Lightswitch
Its finally here! Follow the announcement of Lightswitch. The public beta is going to be available on late August, I suggest you try it out. LightSwitch is the simplest way to build business applications for the cloud and the desktop.
ConfigMgr Program Scripts
I recently created two scripts (using a lot of copy and paste from the SDK) to help me work with ConfigMgr programs. The first is a copy and rename script. Unfortunately, program names are unique identifiers and thus you can’t just rename them. On a off basis, it’s not that big of a deal to…
Understanding Recording and Configuration Options in Lync 2010
The Lync client comes equipped with full recording capabilities for both peer to peer conversations and conferencing. This includes the ability to record audio, video, IM, and shared content. With this great functionality (and great power) comes the need to control it. Note that recording is not enabled by default. This post will be separated…
When Files aren’t replicating between ConfigMgr (SCCM) Distribution Points or to your clients
If you’re receiving error messages in your IIS logs and it seems your packages are sitting in “Install Pending” mode or why does some of your clients receive the files and others don’t. This is a sample error I was receiving with my client receiving the package from the Distribution Point. DTSJob {290A1AA5-8899-4394-B668-8BB66A38314C}…
Adding Custom Tasks To Task Sequences
I was discussing Task Sequence customizations with a colleague today and he sent me a link to and older post by the ever knowledgeable Michael Niehaus. Reading through it was a great reminder of the do’s and don’ts when working with Task Sequence’s. Read Michael’s full post here. Some key points from his post: Command…
Copy Multiple Software Packages at one time in ConfigMgr (SCCM)
There is a way to copy multiple packages in one single swoop to any Distribution Point in ConfigMgr (SCCM). Following these instructions and have fun! 1. Open ConfigMgr (SCCM) Console 2. Click on Site Database 3. Click on Computer Management 4. Click on Software Distribution 5. Right click on Packages 6. Click on Copy Packages…
SSRS – Passing Multi Value MDX Members to URL for Report Render
Background to Solution Many of us these days are utilizing SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) as our data source for many of our SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports. We have a lot of great tools for this like the MDX query builder in SSRS, however, the following combination of requirements presented a bit of…
Deploying Dell BIOS Updates with and without Bitlocker through ConfigMgr (SCCM)
The following steps are how to setup and configure Dell BIOS Updates. Prepare Dell CCTK 1. Create a folder on the ConfigMgr server for the Dell CCTK http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R286063&SystemID=LAT_E6500&servicetag=&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=19098&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=4&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=0&libid=36&typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&source=-1&fileid=424564 2. Extract to the newly created folder 3. In ConfigMgr (SCCM) Create a Package for Dell CCTK Prepare BIOS Updates and Script 1. Create a folder on…