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With the holidays fast approaching, and my family travel schedule starting to blend into my work travel schedule, it’s been a bit hard to maintain momentum with my blog posts. Hence, with all due respect to my loyal readers, I am forgoing the brilliant, creative insights you’re used to, and instead mining some of my…
For the past few days I’ve been at a client’s site doing a Forefront Client Security health check. They had a lot of great question about FCS and FEP. I explained the last version of FEP I looked at was the beta version but that I’ll look at the RC version over the weekend. In…
http://powerevents.codeplex.com/ What is PowerEvents? PowerEvents is a Windows PowerShell v2.0 module designed to facilitate the ease of creating, updating, and deleting WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) permanent event registrations. PowerEvents makes it easy to create WMI event filters (define the events you want to capture) and event consumers (responders to events), and then bind them together…
Read the original post on TechNet here. Please review all of the information in this post specific to your systems for any antivirus scan issues and workarounds. Important: Some of the steps defined herein may increase your security risk. These steps may also make your computer or your network more vulnerable to attack by malicious…
For the latest version of the article see the link below: KB2269650 – A System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 Task Sequence may fail if the computer has multiple drives or partitions and USMT 4 with hardlinking is being used Just a heads up on a new ConfigMgr 2007 Knowledge Base article we published this…
Read the original post here. When running a User Driven Installation (UDI) Task Sequence on an x64 (64-bit or AMD64) Windows 7 machine, it shows the following warning under User Data and Settings: No valid Windows directory found, data and settings will not be captured Cause This can occur when your 64-bit image is configured…
Introducing Microsoft Codename "Atlanta" Today, database administrators (DBAs) have to spend a great deal of time and effort dealing with problems related to misconfiguration of Microsoft SQL Server. Microsoft Codename "Atlanta" is a configuration-monitoring cloud service that will help customers to reduce downtime and improve the performance of Microsoft SQL server deployments. This secure cloud…
Johan has a nice blog post over his blog I just noticed today, it’s back from October, so shame on me for not reading it until now . Here is a snippet and you can read the rest of the post here. First If your goal is to very quickly have a nice fully automated…
Wally tells us about SCCM 2012 changes compared to SCCM 2007 in UI and SQL Replication, but also changes related to Application Deployment and Operating System Deployment. Watch the video here.
This post is based on Exchange 2010 SP1 with Update Rollup 1 and Outlook 2010 with latest updates. Let’s consider that we would like the name of the Personal Archive to be more descriptive for our users. We can change the Display Name for the archive to display whatever we want. There appears to be…